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Gas prices are up and the stock market’s down. Most of us are on a tight budget, but want to find some good hunting close to home that won’t push the fuel tab into three digits and keep us away from family and other obligations for days on end.

Coyotes have inundated south Florida to such a level that Broward County Parks, along with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, held an online coyote seminar this spring on dealing with coyotes.

Admittedly, in the final analysis, cost and availability are not big factors in my deer hunting cartridge selection. But they are factored into the equation.

The bottom line is that African wildlife must pay its way in the modern world, and hunters provide that vital revenue.

Family recipes passed down from generation to generation are time-proven and generate a sense of pride that other recipes can’t hold a candle to for bragging rights.

Last week, the House of the United States Congress voted to end federal protections for grey wolves in the lower 48 states.

While hunting participation at the nationwide level is down, license sales in Western and Southeastern states are booming.

Since our beginnings as a species, we have relied directly upon wild creatures for our survival. To sustain our lives and communities, it was inescapable that, like all natural phenomena, human beings would engage directly in the life-and-death struggles that mark the essential and irreducible truth of existence.