Idaho Hunter Gets $500 Reward for Busting Motorized Gate Crashers
BHA OHV Reward Fund rewards citizens whose reports of illegal OHV use result in a conviction BOISE (RELEASE) – A public land hunter in Idaho recently collected a $500 reward from Backcountry Hunters & Anglers after reporting illegal use of an off-road vehicle in the Third Fork drainage on the Emmett Ranger District of the […]
National Park Service Seeking Volunteers to Reduce Grand Canyon Bison Herd
If you pride yourself as someone who is physically able and proficient with a firearm, the National Park Service (NPS) wants your help reducing the budding bison population in Grand Canyon National Park. After months of planning, the National Park Service announced the upcoming cull earlier this month that would see the growing population of […]
Sec. Zinke Signs Order to Expand Access, Conservation and Wildlife Management
Making good on one of his earliest promises, Secretary of the Interior, Ryan Zinke signed Secretarial Order 3356 which will serve as an extension of Secretarial Order 3347, which he issued on his first day in office. The newest order sets out to support and expand outdoor recreation opportunities for all Americans, enhance conservation stewardship […]
Rare Case of Rabies in Whitetail Deer Found in North Carolina
With much of the disease-ridden news surrounding whitetail populations across the country focused on hemorrhagic disease (HD) and chronic wasting disease (CWD), some “highly unusual” news has surfaced in North Carolina. With warmer temperatures continuing in much of the east, cases of HD have been popping up in Tennesse, Kentucky and many other states as […]
University Researcher Suggests Hunting Would Help BC’s Ailing Caribou
University of Alberta researcher Robert Serrouya has a solution to restoring British Columbia’s ailing caribou populations, and it isn’t calling for the additional culling of wolves. While wolves remain plentiful on the BC landscape and their numbers require sound management, Serrouya has investigated additional conservation solutions to restore caribou populations. As the culling or hunting […]
Elk Hunter Survives Grizzly Attack
A man lay in a hospital bed recovering from his injuries Tuesday morning after bugling in more than a burly bull elk. Hunting near the Dry Gulch, Cascade Creek area in southwestern Montana, Tom Sommer and a friend were doing their best to call in a bull elk when they stumbled across a grizzly bear […]
Two Brothers from Kentucky Nailed with Over 200 Counts of Poaching
A pair of brazen brothers from Kentucky finally had their day in court, pleading guilty on hundreds of illegal hunting charges. In November 2016, an investigation was launched after one of the brothers, Larry Fryman, 69, was discovered by Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources officers to have been illegally hunting in Mason County. […]
EHD Rears Its Ugly Head in Virginia
A Virginia fisherman came across something in the water that he wasn’t about to catch with a line and hook. Catching his eye on the water’s edge, angler Luke Yates spotted a deceased deer without any noticeable physical injuries floating in the water. According to reports, he immediately suspected disease to be the culprit following […]
Historic Pheasant Hunt Returns to Pennsylvania
A program roughly 50 years in the making has finally come to fruition in the state of Pennsylvania – one that will see a historic hunt many thought would never again take place. Going back to the early 1970’s, ring-necked pheasant populations in the Keystone State were plentiful and hunting them over open agricultural fields […]
Officials Looking for Information Regarding Decapitated Black Bear
British Columbia conservation officers are asking the public for help in identifying those involved in the illegal killing of a black bear. Found on Haida Gwaii, a wildlife-rich archipelago off British Columbia’s western coast, a headless black bear lie dead on the beach. “The head was removed, but the rest of the bear was intact,” […]