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...

My home state of Colorado is quickly becoming a hotbed of arguments over the subject of wolves even though we don’t even have an established population yet. Two decades after the reintroduction of gray wolves into Yellowstone National Park and Idaho’s Frank Church Wilderness, the controversy surrounding the management of this predator continues without any signs of letting up. The battle rages wherever wolves are found in the Lower 48, especially...

The other day I was doing a radio interview about hunting on an NPR show called On Point. During our discussion, the host played a clip from another interview in which Ted Nugent said that hunters who discuss hunting ethics are actually feeling “guilty” about being hunters. While I happen to be a huge fan of Nugent’s music (Stranglehold is pure genius, and I’ve even attended Nugent’s Whiplash Bash), I couldn’t help but wonder what the hell he was...