“recovery”

Two landowners were picking mushrooms about a mile north of Choteau, Mont. in late May when they were charged by an adult female grizzly bear. The men shot and killed the bear at close range, and fortunately, they were uninjured during the encounter.

Of bayed bears and broken branches—a week with dogs and houndsmen in western Idaho is a “paws-on” experience.

Wildlife, shooting, fraternal and nonprofit civic organizations can submit an application for the Encouraging Tomorrow’s Hunters program, a North Dakota Game and Fish Department grant program developed to assist in the recruitment, retention and reactivation of hunters. Application deadline is May 1 and the maximum grant allowed is $3,000.

On Friday, March 7, the Sportsmen’s Alliance Foundation (SAF), along with Safari Club International (SCI) and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation (RMEF), filed for summary judgment in a trio of lawsuits brought by animal-extremist groups to relist wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountain region under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

Hunters suffering from debilitating physical conditions have limited options when it comes to center-fire rifles. Here we detail some of the best.

There seems these days to be a “race to the bottom” among hunters who like to hunt and shoot long with smaller and smaller cartridges at greater and greater range. The practice ignores sage advice.

In 2015, members of the Schmitt family, working as contracted salvage operators for 1715 Fleet-Queens Jewels, LLC, uncovered a treasure trove of 101 gold coins from the wrecks off Florida’s Treasure Coast.

Grizzly bears in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem and Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem have populations of bears that have surpassed recovery goals. Is this a step toward delisting?

A federally protected Mexican wolf was found dead northwest of Flagstaff, Ariz., on Nov. 7. The incident is under investigation, and a reward of up to $103,500 is available for information that leads to successful prosecution in the case.