Recent Wildlife Management Articles

Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Commission Calls Emergency Meeting for October 14 — What Sportsmen Need to Know For hunters and anglers across the Commonwealth of Kentucky, mid-October is prime time — rifle season is closing in, waterfowl migrations are kicking into gear, and the woods smell like spent

Snow Geese, Population Goals, and a Historic Pause: What Maryland's 2026-27 Waterfowl Season Means for Hunters Every October, waterfowl hunters across the Mid-Atlantic coast check their calendars, oil their decoys, and square away their licenses before the season swings open. This fall, however, M

Colorado's Amendment 83: The Battle Over a "Right to Hunt and Fish" Is About Far More Than the Ballot Come November 3, Colorado voters will face one of the most consequential — and most deceptively framed — wildlife questions the state has seen in decades. Amendment 83 asks voters to make hunting

Vermont's Bear Problem Is Now Too Big to Ignore — And the State Is Finally Doing Something About It Vermont has a bear problem. Not the kind you read about in the abstract — the kind where a black bear breaks into a home in Jamaica, Vermont while the owners are away, ransacks the kitchen, empties

Victor Garcia, Washington's Newest Fish and Wildlife Commissioner, Dies After 17 Months of Service Victor Garcia — a retired schoolteacher, lifelong fisherman, and dedicated hunter from Skagit County — brought exactly the kind of real-world, boots-on-the-ground perspective that conservation bodies

Three Million Gators and a Lottery: Louisiana Opens Its First Recreational Alligator Hunt in Over Half a Century For the first time in more than 50 years, Louisiana is allowing everyday hunters — not just commercial operators — to legally pursue the American alligator. This October, up to 5,000 lu

Behind Bars and Into the Field: Montana's Prison Pheasant Program Is Growing — and So Is the Debate On a stretch of fenced agricultural land at the Montana State Penitentiary in Deer Lodge, a couple dozen ring-necked pheasants pace the wire walls of a flight pen, their iridescent feathers catching

Louisiana Opens the Swamp to Sportsmen: Inside the State's First-Ever Recreational Alligator Hunting Season For the first time in the history of Louisiana's storied outdoor tradition, the ancient, armor-plated residents of its bayous and marshes are fair game for the average sportsman — not just c

Who's Really Killing Deer Management? Let's be straight with each other for a minute. Every fall, millions of American hunters pull on their boots, grab their gear, and head into the woods with the best intentions — take more deer, help manage the herd, maybe donate some meat to people who need it

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