Eli Fournier

Under a light snow, an infrared-equipped drone buzzes a timbered property somewhere in the Midwest heartland. The operator, Mike Yoder, watches a screen on his controller, looking for the heat signatures of deer. As the light fades, he finally narrows in on a static target in a dense pocket of...

How much would you pay to hunt any season, any weapon, any species? Your dream hunt, dream unit, and all the time in the world to get it done. $10,000? $50,000? Try $370,000. That’s how much the state of Oregon received this year after a “governor’s” tag auction for a coveted sheep tag. Most western...

Last week, the US Fish and Wildlife Service published an annual Waterfowl Population Status Report, outlining declining duck and goose populations across North American flyways. This spring, American and Canadian federal biologists flew transects throughout the north-central US, Alaska, and Canada...

In early August, the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) reached a settlement with wildlife advocacy groups to reinstate a defunct red-wolf introduction program on North Carolina’s Albemarle Peninsula. The plaintiffs, collectively representing the Red Wolf Coalition, Defenders of Wildlife, and the...