Recent Wildlife Conservation Articles

Washington Puts Hunters and Shooters at the Table: Inside the New Federal Advisory Council That Could Shape America's Outdoor Future For the millions of American men who spend their weekends chasing elk through alpine timber, patterning turkeys in the pre-dawn dark, or running steel targets at the

Yellowstone's Last Original Wolf Pack Survives Wyoming's 2026 Hunt Season — But the Fight Over America's Wolves Is Far From Over It lasted five days. That's all the time it took for hunters in northwest Wyoming to fill a four-wolf quota in the Shoshone National Forest hunt areas this September, cl

Is Hunting & Fishing a Right Worth Protecting? There's a moment every serious hunter knows. You're up before the sun, coffee in hand, boots laced, and the world is still quiet. It doesn't matter if you're in a blind in Georgia, a river valley in Montana, or the high country of Colorado — that

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