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New York Just Rewrote the Rules for 750,000 Hunters — And the Clock Is Now Much Tighter For generations, deer hunters in New York State have operated under a familiar rhythm: tag the animal in the field, make it back to camp, maybe grab a hot meal, and report the harvest at your convenience within

Stranded, Scammed, and Out Thousands: The Dark Side of Alaska's Guided Hunt Industry For the kind of hunter who lies awake running the math — tallying up paid time off, flight costs, gear expenses, and outfitter fees — an Alaska moose hunt occupies a particular corner of the imagination. It is the

The Most Unforgiving Trails in the National Park System Image credit: Flux.1 The National Park System protects some of the most breathtaking — and b

Vermont Supreme Court Backs the Hunt: State's Coyote and Trapping Rules Survive Legal Challenge A years-long legal battle over Vermont's hunting and trapping regulations reached its conclusion this month when the Vermont Supreme Court sided with the state's Fish and Wildlife Department, allowing t

Pennsylvania Wants Its Hunters Back: Senate Bill 1313 and the Fight to Reclaim a Fading Tradition There is a particular kind of homesickness that doesn't announce itself until late October, when the maples go orange and the air turns sharp and someone back in Centre County texts you a photo of the

The Dunes Are Open — But the War Over Oceano Is Far From Over For anyone who has ever aired down their tires and pointed a truck toward the surf at Oceano Dunes, the scene is hard to forget: a wide, hard-packed beach stretching for miles along California's Central Coast, dunes rising to the east l

Louisiana's New Privacy Laws Are Changing Hunting License Applications Forever — What Every Hunter Needs to Know Before August 1 More than 442,000 hunters across Louisiana are about to see how they apply for licenses and special permits fundamentally change. A pair of bills signed into law by Gove

The Biggest Expansion of Hunting Access on Federal Land in American History Is Now on the Table For decades, hunters and anglers operating on federal public lands have navigated a minefield of overlapping restrictions, contradictory rules, and regulations that varied not just from state to state b

New York's Deer Problem Just Got a New Solution — And Hunters Are the Key For years, anyone who has driven the backroads of the Hudson Valley at dusk, or cut through the farm country stretching between Rochester and Buffalo, has noticed it: more deer, more often, seemingly everywhere. That observa

The Battle for the Backcountry: Trump Wipes Out 50 Years of Off-Road Rules — and the Mojave Is Ground Zero On the evening of Friday, May 29, 2026, one of the most consequential shifts in federal land-use policy in a generation landed without fanfare. The White House quietly dropped a move that res