Recent Wildlife Conservation Articles

Pennsylvania Just Killed Its 123-Year-Old Deputy Game Warden Program — And Almost Nobody Saw It Coming In the middle of August 2026, more than a hundred Pennsylvanians who had spent years — some of them decades — patrolling the state's forests, enforcing its wildlife laws, and teaching its hunters

The Origins Foundation's 100 Proofs Initiative Is Changing How the World Talks About Hunting For decades, the public debate over hunting has been dominated by a loud but narrow set of voices — activists with cameras at airports, social media firestorms over photographs, and cable news segments tha

North Carolina's Elk Are Back — And Now the Hunt Begins For more than two centuries, the mountains of western North Carolina stood silent of one of the most commanding animals that ever walked the Appalachians. Elk, native to Southern Appalachia, had disappeared from Western North Carolina due to

Bear Spray vs. Bullets: The Fight Over What Montana Hunters Must Carry Into Grizzly Country It's a debate that cuts right to the heart of how the American West manages its most powerful and controversial predator. On one side, a coalition of wildlife advocates armed with mortality statistics and e

Wisconsin Puts Real Money Behind the Hunter Decline Problem There is a quiet crisis unfolding in the American outdoors, one that doesn't make the front page but has wildlife managers, conservation economists, and sporting traditions advocates deeply concerned. Across the country, hunting participa

The Last Pack Standing: Mollie's Wolves Have Left Yellowstone, and the Clock Is Ticking There is a trail camera strapped to a tree deep in the Sunlight Basin of northwest Wyoming, and it holds footage that has rattled the scientific community, inflamed the ongoing American wolf debate, and sent sh

A Coalition Targets Colorado's Lead Ammunition Tradition — And It's Not Backing Down For hunters who chase elk through Colorado's high country or draw coveted pronghorn tags on the Eastern Plains, the bullet they chamber has always been a personal choice governed by physics, budget, and ballistic

Wisconsin's Sharp-Tailed Grouse Is Disappearing — And This Fall, Hunters Will Have to Stay Home Again There is a bird in the sandy, fire-sculpted barrens of northwestern Wisconsin that most Americans have never seen and that a growing number of wildlife professionals fear could vanish from the sta