Celebrating Sharptails
Observations on habits & habitat Lewis and Clark were barely underway when they camped along the Missouri River in what is now South Dakota...
Conflict on the Plains
In 2018 Montana’s Environmental Control Council (ECC), a temporary-but-official committee of the state legislature, addressed regulations governing bird dog training in response to requests...
Desert Bounty
Gambel’s & scaled quail in our Southwestern sands As dawn spilled over the crest of Arizona’s Pinaleño Mountains, I understood why modern artists from...
New Mexico Adds Public Lands
54,000 acres of prime wildlife habitat has been added to New Mexico public land after the State acquired L Bar Ranch, near Laguna.
Avian Flu
The principal reservoir for avian influenza viruses appears to be wild waterfowl
Invasion of the Hogs
Feral hogs continue to expand their range—and as they do, bird hunters had better brace for the invasion and become part of the conversation about how to manage them.
The Mallard Mystery
Researchers remain stumped as to why mallard numbers in the Atlantic Flyway have fallen 45 percent in the past 20 years.
Playing Chicken
Preventing prairie chickens from going the way of passenger pigeons
Hail, Columbia
Chukars and Huns in the Columbia River breaks
Snowed Under
The original goals of the Light Goose Conservation Order were to reduce the mid-continental population of light geese by 50 percent. Results have been mixed.
Texas’s Laguna Madre
Waterfowling in Texas’s Laguna Madre.
Landlocked
The issue of landlocked public lands.