Conservation

sage grouse in flight

Sage Grouse: Bird of My Life

It’s been some time since I shot my first sage grouse at the age of 16. Fellow classmate Fred Woolett is responsible for this...

quail on a patch of grass

The Promise of Quail Guard

In May the leadership of the Rolling Plains Quail Research Foundation (RPQRF) and the Park Cities Quail Coalition—and, for that matter, the entire West...

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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...

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Armed Forces Afield

I sat up in my layout blind in an Arkansas mud field amidst a thousand snow goose decoys. Ray Penny, the CEO of G&H...

Wildlife on Working Lands

The central thesis of game management is this: Game can be restored by the creative use of the same tools which have heretofore destroyed...

Birds, Bees & Butterflies | Shooting Sportsman Magazine

Birds, Bees & Butterflies

Old food plots can be turned into pollinator, or “bugging,” plots by seeding them with native wildflowers.

Invasion of the Hogs

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.

Greater prairie chicken

Playing Chicken

Preventing prairie chickens from going the way of passenger pigeons