Elena Campbell
Come April, white-tailed deer in the northern states have gone through their worst hard time. Prolonged severe winter weather is the most taxing time in a whitetail’s life, particularly at the edges of their northernmost range. Does will soon give birth—if they haven’t starved.
A 700-year-old petroglyph portends the future of a new wildlife management area. If you need a reminder that the world is held together by stone and story, then consider the Marquez Wildlife Management Area and its recent addition, the L-Bar Ranch, with its rocks and rills and temple hills near Laguna, New Mexico.
Winter ticks, also known as moose ticks, typically feed on the blood of large mammals and cause stress and mortality for moose populations across the U.S. and Canada. A single moose can carry over 40,000 ticks and winter ticks have caused over 90 percent of moose calf mortalities in Vermont in recent years.
Coastal wetlands are among the most productive ecosystems in the world providing resting, feeding, and breeding habitat for waterfowl and other migratory birds, and creating habitat for endangered and threatened species that are dependent on coastal areas.
Trap, skeet, sporting clays—and soon, an archery park—made possible by excise taxes paid by industry.
Elk—an iconic species whose bugle inspires hunters and wildlife watchers alike—is a symbol of conservation success. Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky are four eastern states that have recovered elk populations successfully in the last few decades.
Each year, Aquatic Resource Education grants support education opportunities for nearly 1.5 million people including the hundreds of students learning through microfishing clinics hosted by Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) and their partners.
One look at a golden trout and you will be captured by its beauty. General Chuck Yeager caught golden trout—or should we say this colorful fish, native only to the high southern Sierra Nevada Mountains, caught him.
Indiana, Idaho, and Oregon are vastly different places, yet they must deal with wildlife diseases in common… State fish and wildlife agencies also have in common the reliable and consistent funding available to them via Pittman-Robertson dollars to see the work through.
To play baseball you need a field. To practice or compete with a firearm, you need a locally accessible shooting range and state wildlife agencies, including the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G), are stepping up to the plate and addressing this necessity.
What is the value of a dollar spent or an experienced lived? Sometimes stories and reports quantify and convey the tangible, beneficial value generated when state fish and wildlife agencies put dollars on the ground through the Wildlife Sport Fish Restoration (WSFR) program.
Onancock, Va., has been welcoming every kind of boater, from steamship crews and watermen to cruisers, since its founding in 1680. The place is only about a square mile in size and home to around 400 families, but it’s a great location, a couple of miles from Chesapeake Bay by way of Onancock Creek.
