S1-E04: This Roux's for You

After a late night of good times, venison chili, and some old school roux the crew heads out for another day of hunting ducks. Adaptability is critical, and after a couple of quick adjustments the team finds themselves back in the ducks.

Wildlife Management

You Won’t Believe This Mountain Lion’s Diet

Spencer Neuharth

The Santa Ana Pueblo covers 73,000 acres along the Rio Grande River in New Mexico. It’s an area bereft of humans, but rich with game. Recently, the Pueblo of Santa Ana Department of Natural Resources collected data on a collared mountain lion. They named the cougar Brokenleg because it had a noticeable bulbous calcification on its right rear leg, the result of an old break. Their primary goal with tracking the big male cat was to better...

Manage

You Won’t Believe How Far this Buck Traveled

Jordan Sillars

It’s that time of year again. From Texas to Maine, whitetail hunters are feverishly pulling trail cam photos to take a first look at the bucks in their area. For those disappointed with their results, a new paper published in “Ecology and Evolution” might offer some hope. Researchers in Missouri tracked what appears to be the farthest journey ever recorded by a whitetail buck. Over 22 days in November of 2017, this whitetail—who I’ve decided to...

Freshwater

You Won't Believe How Far this Muskie Traveled

Maggie Hudlow

This article comes from the Bent Fishing Podcast’s “Fish News” segment, where hosts Joe Cermele and Miles Nolte go head-to-head to find and report the most interesting and amusing fishy stories across sources far and wide—from respected scientific journals to trashy tabloids. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources tagged a muskellunge in the Detroit River in May 2016 with tag number 007. Understandably, the muskie acquired a name to match...