Conservation

Spend some time in the Alaskan bush, and everyone’s got a wolf story: I’ve seen ’em grab salmon off waterfalls, or I watched a pack take down a brown bear. Now, researchers from the University of Oregon have published video evidence of something almost as surprising. In the summer of 2016, the...

Two Detroit-area men were likely bullshitting in November 1985 when telling friends and loved ones they were heading north to hunt the second weekend of Michigan’s deer season. Instead of driving northwest 200 miles to his family’s cabin near White Cloud in west-central Michigan, David Tyll and his...

MeatEater Trivia: The Board Game came out earlier this month. You can get your copy here. This game wouldn’t have been possible without the knowledgeable network of hunters and anglers who are our listeners. They flooded our inbox with great questions that covered a wide range of topics. Some of...

In early October, a landowner in central Montana photographed a grizzly bear near the Judith River—the first time in over a decade that the species has been confirmed on the prairie landscape. The landowner, American Prairie (AP), captured the image on a game camera about two miles upstream from the...

Editor's note: this article has been updated with information from the cougar's necropsy. Benjamin Karasch of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, is the bowhunter who killed a mountain lion on Nov. 11 in Buffalo County after it spotted him atop his ladder stand and stalked to within 13 yards. Fearing the cougar...

Tommy Eidson has seen the white underbelly of enough deer to know instantly when its private parts don’t match its skull cap. And so this western Washington (state) hunter stood in disbelief after rolling a mature black-tailed buck onto its back for field dressing and saw an adult doe’s...

Through your generous donations in the Auction House of Oddities, we raised $150,000 in support of the 2023 Land Access Initiative Project: Wildcat Bend North in Rosebud County, Montana. This property is 328 acres of high-quality riparian habitat that provides for a diverse array of huntable and non...

When Fred Koontz was a member of the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission, he would sometimes joke that they’d been assigned to the wrong department. “I used to joke that we ought to be part of the Agriculture Department,” he told Stateline. “What we do is produce animals for harvest, we plant...

There’s nothing sadder than the death of a river. Rivers are the very pulse of the earth, flowing like great veins that bring health and wealth to the wild places of the world. The flowing waters carry nutrients to plants and trees, provide water for countless animals, and of course, are the homes...

The audience packing the Grand Theatre in Wausau, Wisconsin, rose to its feet June 15, 2022, when Gordon Lightfoot took the stage at age 83. The loud, sustained ovation seemed only natural, even though such honors usually occur at a concert’s end, not its start. Then again, this was an older crowd...

Wisconsinites who scorn gray wolves often claim they see far more of them than deer in the state’s northern forests over the past 20 years. Those with trail cams—which are now as common as ravens and wood ticks in the Northwoods—often claim the same results, whether the cameras are monitoring bait...

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