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The 7 Best Waters to Catch a Trophy Muskie Image credit: OpenAI The muskellunge — or muskie — has earned its reputation as the fish of ten thousand

For years, hunters and farmers in Michigan's Upper Peninsula have watched a slow-motion disaster play out in their backyards. Wolf packs have grown. Deer numbers have dropped. Moose are struggling. And the people who live and work on that land have had little say in what happens next. That may

Signs an Animal Has Been Following You on the Trail Image credit: OpenAI Spending time on the trail means entering a world that operates largely out

Glacier National Park is dealing with its first fatal bear attack in nearly three decades, and the details are grim. A male hiker was found dead on May 6, his remains located just a couple miles up Mt. Brown Trail, about 50 feet off the path in what officials described as a densely wooded area fill

A new hunting policy is taking shape as elk push into unfamiliar territory Elk have long been creatures of the west. They belong to the Black Hills, to rugged ridgelines and pine-covered slopes where the terrain suits them. But something has been shifting quietly across South Dakota — elk are show

For generations, American men have passed down the same fishing spots from father to son. The same lake where your grandfather pulled out a stringer of yellow perch. The same stretch of river where you caught your first trout. But something is changing out there, and it's not just the weather. The

Mention fly fishing and most people picture Montana's Madison River, a sun-drenched stream in the Rockies, or maybe a remote stretch of water deep in the wilderness. Very few picture Cleveland, Ohio. But that's exactly where one of the finest fly fishing rivers in the entire country quietly flows —

The federal government has officially locked in new recreational fishing rules for summer flounder, scup, and black sea bass for the next two years, and there's a new process in place that changes how these rules will be set going forward. NOAA Fisheries made the announcements on April 28, 2026, an

The numbers coming out of the American West this spring are hard to ignore. Snowpack levels have cratered to historic lows, drought is spreading across the region, and the people who study fish and wildlife for a living are using words like "historic" and "abysmal" to describe what they're seeing.

A Global Crisis Hiding in Plain Sight Something is dying in the world's great rivers, and most people have no idea it's happening. The fish that have spent millions of years making some of the most remarkable journeys on the planet — crossing borders, navigating entire continents, traveling thousa