Maine passed a constitutional right-to-food amendment last November, which guarantees the state’s residents the right to grow and harvest food for personal consumption. Thanks to an interesting interpretation of the amendment, a recent lawsuit is ...
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Arkansas Game and Fish Using Collars to Collect Bear Season Data
Thanks to the tireless conservation efforts of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, the black bear population's resurgence in the state represents one of the most successful reintroductions of a large carnivore ever achieved. State wildlife ...
California Black Bear Season Will Remain In Place, Anti-Hunters Denied
For the second year in a row, the California Fish and Game Commission has turned away anti-hunting interests and stood by its sportsmen and women. The commission voted 4–0 against a petition filed by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) to ...
New Wildlife Commissioners Kill Hope for Washington Spring Bear Season
During this period in our history where very little surprises us anymore, the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission has managed to find a way to do just that by serving up yet another shit sandwich to the hunting, conservation, and wildlife biology ...
Anti-Hunting Orgs Targeting Big Cat Seasons, Bear Seasons, and Trapping
Anti-hunting organizations are ramping up their game and could make headway in several states and possibly on the federal level in 2022. Their victories will be measured in the number of hunting and trapping seasons that can be banned or canceled, ...
Washington 2022 Spring Bear Hunting Season May Be Resurrected
Everyone thought Washington state’s 2022 spring bear season was dead for good, but now, it looks like the hunt has a chance at resurrection. The state fish and wildlife commission decided Friday, Jan. 22, to reconsider the cancellation, which ...
Activists Say Grizzly Delisting Will Create “Targets for Trophy Hunters”
Anti-hunting groups are pushing back against a petition to delist grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE) and open the doors for new hunting seasons, saying grizzly population numbers aren't what they appear to be. The process of ...
8-Year-Old’s Bear Dogs Saved After 100-Foot Fall Into WV Cave on Hunt
Bear dogs are known for being tenacious and tough — as you’d expect from any dog that’s willing to risk life and limb running down an animal three or four times its size. Sometimes, that drive can get a dog in trouble. On Thursday, Dec. 30, ...
Watch: Polar Bears Are Apparently Hunting Reindeer Now
Recent footage of a polar bear hunting down a reindeer off the coast of Norway is fueling debate over the effect of climate change on the threatened species. In August, scientists filmed the bear chasing the deer into the sea and dragging it ...
North Carolina Black Bear Hunting May Be Expanded to 3 Sanctuaries
While Washington state has canceled its spring bear hunting season for 2022, wildlife officials are considering opening three sanctuaries to North Carolina black bear hunting in the western part of the state this year to address an increasing number ...
Grizzly Steals Kill From Yellowstone Wolf Pack – Again
A grizzly stealing a kill from a Yellowstone wolf pack is not particularly new news. It’s actually a pretty common occurrence for a grizz to grab an easy meal from wolves after they’ve done the heavy lifting. The two apex predators have been at odds ...
The 8 Greatest Hunting Dog Breeds of All Time
When it comes to flushing birds, retrieving waterfowl, treeing big cats, or tracking wild game, every hunter has a dog in the fight. Many hunting dog breeds are absolute killers when it comes to the chase that’s coursed through their veins for ...
Fred Koontz, Controversial Washington Fish and Wildlife Official, Resigns
Less than 12 months after being appointed to a six-year term on the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission, Fred Koontz has resigned because he says the commission is “currently stuck in a politicized quagmire.” Gov. Jay Inslee ...
Yellowstone Grizzlies Closer to Delisting: WY, MT Approve Revised MOA
UPDATE – Dec. 15: The Montana Fish and Game Commission unanimously endorsed the revised tri-state Memorandum of Agreement for Yellowstone grizzlies at its Dec. 14 meeting. Montana has now joined Wyoming, which had already approved the agreement, in ...
Hunting Montana Grizzly Bears May Soon Be Allowed After 30-Year Ban
Yellowstone and Montana grizzly bears have been protected from hunting under the Endangered Species Act for more than three decades. US Fish and Wildlife (FWS) scientists recently reported that bears in the region have recovered biologically, and ...
Bart the Bear II, Actor and Cancer Spokesbear, Has Died
Everyone, raise a glass and pour one out. One of the greatest ursine actors to grace the silver screen — and there haven’t been many of those — has gone to the great beyond. Bart the Bear II, a highly acclaimed and extremely well-trained grizzly bear ...
A Loss for Bear Hunters in Washington State
Some say there is no evidence of a slow erosion of hunting in the United States. I’ve heard that sentiment on several occasions — from hunters. But if you look state-by-state, you can see how a thousand tiny cuts add up to reduced hunting ...
Russian Bear Attack: Boxer Shoots, Stabs Brown Bear to Death in Siberia
A Russian bear attack that killed one man has left champion boxer Ilya Medvedev in a coma after a fishing trip gone wrong. The wild story sounds like something out of a mountain man's repertoire of tall tales. The 23-year-old champion ...
Bear Attack: Killing a Charging Giant at 5 Yards in the Alaskan Backcountry
When Trevor Schneider and his sister, Tana Grenda, headed into the Alaskan backcountry with the hopes of killing a big bear, they didn't count on doing it at 5 yards with five shots from a revolver. Schneider flew up from Idaho with a bear tag to ...
Bear Bar Fight: All the World’s Bruins and Which Ones You Can Hunt
Eight bears walk into a bar, one representative from each of the eight species of bears found around the world: panda, brown, sun, spectacled, sloth, polar, and North American and Asian black bears. After they belly-up, the bartender asks the ...
Mountain Goat in British Columbia Says ‘Not Today,’ Kills Grizzly
The shortlist of animals that can survive a fight with a grizzly, let alone win, is short for a reason (spoiler alert: humans aren't on it, even though 6% of Americans think they kick a bear's ass). But mountain goat versus grizzly? C'mon, man. It's ...
Wyoming Petitioning Feds to Delist Yellowstone Grizzly Bears
Gov. Mark Gordon has announced Wyoming will petition the feds to remove grizzly bears in and around Yellowstone from protection under the Endangered Species Act — again. The state has tried to delist grizzlies twice before under both the ...
Watch: Grizzly Bear Chases Boat Driven by Total Asshat
No one: "Let’s motor our little aluminum Jon Boat over toward that swimming bear." Absolutely no one ever: "Let’s run by him again." This fucking guy: I don’t know where this video was shot, only that it was posted very recently. The ...
5 Ways To Avoid a Grizzly Bear Attack and How To Survive One
The sun warms your shoulders as you adjust your pack and make your way down a path strewn with pine needles. It’s only a bit wider than a well-used game trail, perfect for a solitary hike through the backcountry. As you crest the ridge, ready to rest ...
Alaska Woman Shoots Record Caribou on Solo Hunt 4 Months After Bear Attack
It’s said that when you get thrown by a horse, the only way to get past the fear of being thrown again is to get back on that same damn horse. But what do you do to get over fear after a bear has attacked you on a hunt in the Alaskan ...
6 Fatal North American Bear Attacks in 2021: Is This the New Normal?
After months of pandemic-enforced confinement, thousands of Americans and Canadians have sought relief this year in the outdoors, resulting in overcrowding at national parks and an increase in human encounters with wildlife. Some people walk away ...
Grizzly Bear Lured by Improper Food Storage, Camper Fined $6,000
Close encounters between campers and grizzly bears rarely end well, especially when food and garbage are involved. On July 20, an Idaho woman, Belinda J. Arvidson, was fined almost $6,000 after it was determined she “failed to properly store food and ...
How To Make Bear Brats
We sat under an old blue tarp trying to stay dry in a stout rain while glassing a narrow drainage in the Bitterroots. I had just killed a good bear in Idaho a few days before and pressed on into Montana hoping to tag No. 2. “What are you going to do ...
New Jersey Effectively Shuts Down Bear Hunting for 2021
Anti-hunting activists have won their long battle to ban bear hunting in New Jersey, at least for this coming 2021 season. New Jersey, known more for turnpikes and urban sprawl, has the densest black bear population in the country, according to ...
WATCH: Grizzly Bear Versus Wolves
As far as who-would-win fights go, a scrap between a big-ass grizzly bear and a pack of wolves rates right up there at the top. Except we know the answer to this one. Bears and wolves generally don’t mess with each other unless food forces their ...
