Too Many Moose? Just Add Wolves!
Four Canadian wolves were recently captured and transported by helicopter from Ontario to Michigan’s Isle Royale National Park. covering an 894-square-mile island in the US Great Lakes, to deal with the burgeoning moose population. Scientists also hope to bolster a...
RMEF works with landowner to provide access to huge National Grassland in North Dakota.
Covering more than one million acres, the Little Missouri National Grassland in western North Dakota is the largest such grassland in the United States. However, getting to it is a real challenge in places because of surrounding pieces of checkerboard private lands....
Dawn of American Deer Hunting Volume II
A fascinating new book featuring 400 vintage photos of whitetail hunters from yesteryear. Whitetail hunting is truly a unique American tradition plied first by early settlers, immigrants, pioneers and later American patriots who often died for their nation when...
Reflections
A brisk northerly, cooling breeze carried blood-red and sun-yellow leaves to an already leaf-littered forest floor. The aroma of fresh earth turned by a black bear melted with sweet scent of pines, but also with the faint odor of a musky rutting whitetail wafting...
Borrowing Gator Eggs
One day while in high school, my daughter suggested she was considering a major in wildlife biology in college. Since college majors are something one should try on for size before buying, I suggested we spend a day in the field with Walt. She agreed. Walt Rhodes and...
Sportsmen’s Bills Pass Senate
MISSOULA, Mont. (February 13, 2019) - The Boone and Crockett Club, the oldest wildlife conservation group in the U.S., today praised the Senate's passage of the Natural Resources Management Act (S. 47), a bipartisan package of bills that includes several key pieces of...
Going Back to Our Outdoor Roots
When I was a youngster growing up in northeast Texas, we fished strictly with cane poles that we cut from a stand of switch cane that grew near the back of our little farm. We usually kept a 12-foot Calcutta pole or two for when we needed to really reach out from the...
Outdoor Opportunities Boost Wyoming Economy
WYOMING – Hunters, anglers and wildlife watchers in Wyoming contributed more than $1 billion to Wyoming’s economy during 2017, according to a new analysis by the University of Wyoming. It’s a 2.3 percent increase from 2016, attributed to more people heading outdoors....
Behind the High Fence
I hadn’t stepped inside a high fence since 1980. That’s when I had the chance to hunt Blue Mountain Forest, aka Corbin Park, in New Hampshire. The boars, whitetails and elk inside the enclosure had close to 27,000 acres of totally wild terrain. I actually went up...
ALERT: National Wildlife Federation needs help to protect Boundary Waters
Moose depend on healthy lakes and wetlands for survival, like the vast and unspoiled Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and Superior National Forest in Minnesota. Just over two years ago, wildlife supporters helped block the opening of a massive sulfide ore mine in...