Pittman-Robertson Funds New Florida Range
Trap, skeet, sporting clays—and soon, an archery park—made possible by excise taxes paid by industry.
Elena Campbell
Eastern Elk Herds Thrive with WSFR Funds
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.
Exploring Aquatic Education Through Microfishing in Texas
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.
Federal Excise Taxes and California Golden Trout Conservation
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.
Pittman-Robertson Excise Tax Dollars – Protecting the Health of Wildlife in the United States
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.
Excitement Surrounds Upgraded Excise Tax-Funded Shooting Range Near Fairbanks, AK.
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.
From League to Life: Impact of Life Skills and Wildlife Restoration Funds for Shooting Sports Participants
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.
The Transient Boater Windfall
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.
Research on the Rapidan WMA: Brook and Brown Trout Interactions Revealed
To learn more about how brook trout fare over a long span of time in the presence of brown trout, biologists John Odenkirk and Mike Isel with the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources (VDWR) examined a large amount of data—nearly 25 years’ worth of information—on brook and brown trout in the Rapidan and Conway rivers of northern Virginia.
Hawai‘i’s State Bird Recovering With Support From U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Grants
The nēnē, sometimes called the Hawaiian goose, is an endemic species found only on the Hawaiian Islands and is the official state bird. Once common, the species declined to only 30 individuals by 1957 due primarily to habitat destruction, introduction of predators, and historic hunting pressure.
Turning a Trout Stream Right Side Up: Colorado’s Swan River
The same source of conservation funding—excise taxes paid by tackle manufacturers via the Sport Fish Restoration Act—that pays for scientific fisheries research and management, boat ramps, aquatic education, and fish population surveys has righted an upside down trout stream.
New Hampshire moose study will use drones, cameras to monitor declining population
To get a more accurate count of the state’s moose population, researchers, along with state officials, will use drones and trail cams as part of a new moose surveillance program, which started last week and will continue for three years.