by Chris Dorsey | Sep 9, 2026
Washington is full of people willing to tell a sportsman what he wants to hear. Finding someone who will tell him what he needs to know takes more insight. That is one reason the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation stays near the top of my call list. I’ve served on...
by Chris Dorsey | Sep 9, 2026
The incomparable electricity of driven grouse. Some sporting destinations allow success to be manufactured to some degree. Pheasants and red-legged partridges can be reared and released. Fish can be stocked. Habitat can be improved, predators controlled, and...
by Chris Dorsey | Aug 31, 2026
Kevin Cramer is threatening to gum up the federal government because compensated wetland easements are still being treated like contracts. The ducks, hunters and arithmetic would like a word. North Dakota is one of those rare places where a political movement could be...
by Chris Dorsey | Aug 24, 2026
There may be no more elegant conservation program in America than a cashier asking a customer a ridiculously simple question: Would you like to round up for conservation? It takes only a few seconds. The answer might cost 17 cents, 43 cents, or 86 cents. Yet what...
by Chris Dorsey | Aug 21, 2026
Conservation has a communication problem, and pretending otherwise may be one of the greatest threats to its future. We have extraordinary scientists, experienced land managers, passionate philanthropists, dedicated hunters and anglers, conservation organizations,...
by Chris Dorsey | Aug 17, 2026
America’s wildlife agencies have spent years developing an ambitious program called R3—Recruitment, Retention and Reactivation—designed to persuade more ordinary citizens to hunt and fish. The theory is that agencies should recruit newcomers, retain current sportsmen...
by Chris Dorsey | Aug 12, 2026
Congratulations are apparently due to Argentina, where politicians have discovered a revolutionary new principle of wildlife conservation: If an animal has economic value, make sure it doesn’t. In 2022, Argentina’s Environment Ministry adopted Resolution 133/2022,...
by Chris Dorsey | Jul 31, 2026
The federal government has once again fired up its most reliable engine of public policy: if it ain’t broke, form a working group to figure out whether it can be broken more equitably. This time it’s the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which has opened a...
by Chris Dorsey | Jul 29, 2026
Somewhere off the coast of Florida right now, a mako is doing to a sailfish what a wood chipper does to a Christmas tree, and someone in the boat is filming it in vertical video for maximum emotional impact. This has become a genre unto itself. Scroll for ten minutes...
by Chris Dorsey | Jul 22, 2026
If someone asked me which conservation organization I would want standing beside hunters when the next political assault arrives, my answer would be immediate: Safari Club International. That isn’t because SCI is the largest hunting organization or because it...
