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The Utah Wildlife Board approved a new 10-year Utah Statewide Elk Management Plan, which includes several changes to elk hunting along with a few other items, during Thursday's public meeting at the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources’ Eccles Wildlife Education Center.

A century ago the founding members of this nationwide group joined forces with other conservationists to help pass valuable measures including our Duck Stamp and the Pittman-Robertson Act. Today, more than 40,000 “Ikes” in 200-plus chapters nationwide value their decades of work on behalf of conservation with diverse groups and common goals.

Most state departments of natural resources investigate hunting-related shootings, and boating and OHV deaths, but they do not investigate treestand deaths; local police personnel do. Consequently, up to 73 percent of all reports of treestand falls do not list whether the victim was wearing a fall-restraint device.

The National Rifle Association’s award-winning free NRA Hunter Education online course is now available in Alabama, the latest addition as NRA works to make the course available to hunters in all 50 states.

The National Rifle Association of America was pleased to present a donation of $173,911 to the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency for their residents’ use of NRA’s award-winning, free online hunter education course.

In support of America’s military veterans, Henry Repeating Arms President Andy Wickstrom presented a $50,000 check to The American Legion at the organization’s national convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Silencer Central has made the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in America.

The surge in gun sales and shooting sports participation in recent years has fueled the need for ever-more places to shoot. Here’s an in-depth look at how state fish-and-game agencies use funds collected from excise taxes paid by gun and ammo buyers to build public shooting ranges.

Deer hunting has indeed become safer over time, primarily because hunters have become safer. It all began decades ago with the advent of first voluntary then mandatory hunter safety training, and blaze-orange requirements in the deer woods and upland fields.