Recent Outdoors Articles

America's Waters, America's Fight: Inside Trump's All-Out Push to Reopen the Ocean to Commercial Fishing The scene inside the Oval Office on a crisp April morning in 2025 was equal parts ceremony and declaration of war — a war, at least, on decades of marine conservation policy. President Donald T

The 7 Biggest Mistakes Many Elk Hunters Make Every Year Image credit: Flux.1 Elk hunting is one of the most physically demanding and strategically c

The Most Consequential Gun Case in Years: Supreme Court Takes Up Semiautomatic Rifle Bans For hunters who run AR-platform rifles through brushy creek bottoms after hogs, for competitive shooters dialing in their 3-Gun setups, and for the millions of ordinary Americans who keep a semiautomatic rifl

Pennsylvania's 2026-27 Hunting Season Is Here: Everything You Need to Know Before Buying Your License The calendar is turning, and for Pennsylvania's hundreds of thousands of hunters, that means one thing: it's time to lock down your license before the competition does. The Pennsylvania Game Commi

Massachusetts' Centuries-Old Hunting Laws Are Finally on the Chopping Block — But the Fight Is Far From Over For generations, Massachusetts hunters have faced a restriction that no serious outdoorsman in 48 other states has had to live with: a complete, blanket ban on hunting any day of the week t

Specialized Reinvents the Levo With the S-Works Levo 4 X — And Launches an Entirely New Way to Ride The mountain bike world has spent the better part of a decade arguing about where e-MTBs belong. On trails, sure. At the trailhead parking lot, fine. But what about everywhere in between — the commu

Kemimoto Expands Its Off-Road Accessories Line as the UTV and ATV Market Hits Full Throttle The timing could not be sharper. As summer trail systems fill up from the Ozarks to the Mojave, and as side-by-side ownership in America reaches levels that would have seemed implausible a decade ago, Kemim

Is Northern Pike the Best Fish You've Never Eaten? Ask most guys what fish they want on their plate after a long day on the water, and you'll hear the same answer every single time: walleye. Maybe trout. Maybe bass if they're feeling adventurous. Northern pike? Nine times out of ten, it goes right

What to Do When a Mountain Lion Comes to Your Town Image credit: Flux.1 Mountain lion encounters in suburban and rural areas have become increasingl

For the better part of three years, conservation groups across America have been watching the Farm Bill situation with the kind of grinding anxiety usually reserved for a long drought season. The landmark legislation that governs nearly every dimension of American agriculture — from crop insurance