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While searching for a big buck’s discarded headgear this spring, you can accomplish other missions in your deer-hunting woods. Shed hunts can also be used for trail-cam updates, treestand maintenance, herd and habitat inventory and even a “bedroom check” of the deer population’s most tight-knit haunts.

Here’s a look at three tools you should always have with you in the backcountry and how you can put each to use in almost any outdoor circumstance.

The organizations agree to cooperate on hunter recruitment, firearm training, wildlife conservation during 10-year agreement.

If you’ve been considering booking a once-in-a-lifetime hunt, there’s never been a better time than the present. Here’s why.

U.S. Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt announces the historic opening and expansion of over 850 hunting and fishing opportunities across more than 2.3 million acres.

For the hunter with courage, resourcefulness and a bit of skill, opportunities for hunting the West abound. Here’s how to begin turning your dreams into reality.

More than half of the Tongass—9.2 million acres—is managed under the direction of the 2001 Roadless Rule. This management plan works to safeguard vital habitat for important fish and wildlife species, including Sitka black-tailed deer, black and brown bear, moose, and even Roosevelt elk. Now, the US Forest Service plans to lift the Roadless Rule in Alaska.

To prevent the future decay of our sport, we need to be open and honest about what it is we do. We need to encourage new and prospective hunters with the unbiased, unapologetic and totally exciting truth: Hunting is just plain cool.

Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt announced major changes to regulations pertaining to the private sector and its role in dealing with endangered species.