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The deer hunting conservation space is changing in a big way this summer. Today the Quality Deer Management Association and National Deer Alliance announced their plans to merge into a new, combined organization. This is a group that will service all deer and deer hunters.
This represents the end of the QDMA, in name at least, which was founded 32 years ago and has arguably been the most influential whitetail deer conservation organization in U.S...

“Aren’t there any better options?” my wife demanded.
I told her no, this was just the way it had to be. Her question lingered with me the rest of the afternoon, though. The issue at hand was my use of herbicides in preparation of planting a food plot.
The logic of spraying a toxic chemical across a landscape in order to improve vegetation and wildlife habitat seemed counterintuitive to my wife. I couldn’t blame her. My goal with planting food...

By Mark Kenyon
As they do every year, the Quality Deer Management Association has released their annual whitetail report. It’s a free to download resource that is jam-packed with insights into deer and deer hunting related data, harvest trends and current events. As always, it’s a very interesting read.
Right out of the gate, one of the first things you’ll see is that in 2016 (the most current fully reported year of data...

By Mark Kenyon
We’ve had Mark Drury as a guest on the 100% Wild Podcast a number of times over the past year, but one of my favorite discussions we had was this summer when we discussed his detailed plan for managing and improving a new property he’d bought in Missouri. Now, lucky for us, the Drury’s have put out a comprehensive video documenting that very process for all of us to see. It’s really interesting to see, in...

By Mark Kenyon
“Hunting is conservation.” It’s a simple statement that many of us hold to be truth, and also the wisely selected slogan for the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. More recently though, the RMEF has launched an ambitious video project that fleshes out that slogan and the deep-rooted beliefs behind it. How exactly does hunting equate to conservation?
In this video project, by the same name, the RMEF and a wide slate of...