Tag: hunting

December 10, 2021

Hunting for new ways to fund conservation

Hunters and wildlife watchers have more in common than just a love of wildlife. Both groups appear to be open to a range of options to fund wildlife conservation. They...

December 7, 2021

Advocacy group challenges hunting, fishing on refuges

The Center for Biological Diversity challenged the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s 2020 decision to expand hunting and fishing on 2.3 million acres across 147 National Wildlife Refuges and National...

October 26, 2021

Students favor a range of conservation funding options

If college students were in charge of conservation policy, they’d be open to a wide range of options, from federal dollars coming from natural resource extraction to state sources, like...

September 8, 2021

Duck Stamp artwork doesn’t have to depict hunting

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has removed the requirement to depict hunting-related imagery on future duck stamps. This final rule reverses a controversial 2020 rule that made “Celebrating Waterfowl...

July 12, 2021

JWM: The new face of hunting

As the number of hunters wanes and agencies look to boost their ranks, they may be looking in the wrong places. The next generation of hunters in the U.S. may...

May 13, 2021

Hunting and fishing opportunities to be expanded at refuges

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to introduce or expand hunting and fishing opportunities across 2.1 million acres at 90 National Wildlife Refuges and one national fish hatchery. Last...

April 12, 2021

The April issue of Wildlife Monographs

Wildlife Monographs, single-topic, peer-reviewed studies on specific problems and issues in wildlife science, management and conservation, are a benefit of membership in The Wildlife Society. Join today for access to Wildlife...

March 29, 2021

Montana may amend wildlife management section of Constitution

The Montana legislature is considering a bill that would ask voters to designate hunting, fishing and trapping as the preferred methods of fish and wildlife management in the state’s constitution....

March 11, 2021

States increase wolf management actions

After gray wolves in the contiguous United States were removed from the list of threatened and endangered species under the Endangered Species Act earlier this year, the species is now being...

March 1, 2021

JWM: Hunting didn’t alter Wyoming mule deer migration timing

Hunting season in south-central Wyoming doesn’t seem to impact the timing of migration for mule deer, but it does seem to prompt bucks to seek areas away from roads used...