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Field & Stream's conservation coverage celebrates the people, organizations, and traditions dedicated to protecting wildlife, conserving habitat, and preserving the future of hunting, fishing, and outdoor recreation. Through in-depth reporting, expert perspectives, and compelling storytelling, we explore the challenges and successes shaping conservation across North America.

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Game Wardens Unearth Massive Whitetail Deer Smuggling Ring in Texas

By Travis Hall— March 3, 2025

An investigation by Texas Game Wardens led to more than 1,000 charges for illegal deer breeding, smuggling, poaching, and trapping of wild whitetails for release ahead of canned hunts

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Survey: Western Support for Public Land Conservation at All Time High

By Sage Marshall— February 28, 2025

The study’s results come amid mass firings of public land workers and mounting pressure to develop more lands for energy production

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Wolf running through snow while helicopter shadow looms overhead in winter landscape. Hunting Conservation

How Colorado Voters Could Bring an End to the State’s Controversial Wolf Reintroduction Program

By Travis Hall— February 27, 2025

A narrowly passed ballot initiative has brought 25 wolves from Oregon and Canada onto Colorado’s Western Slope. Now opponents of the fraught wolf program are crafting a ballot measure of their own

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Two firefighters in protective gear conducting a controlled burn in a smoky grassland field. Public Lands & Waters

Attempt to Reinstate Fired Public Land Employees Dies in Senate

By Travis Hall— February 26, 2025

The failed Senate amendment would have re-hired thousands of federal public land workers laid off during a mass firing on Valentine’s Day weekend

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Multiple Elk Die After Eating Poisonous Yard Plants in Montana

By Travis Hall— February 20, 2025

Japanese yew is an ornamental yard plant known for killing off deer and elk in winter

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Hunter in orange safety vest walks with dog through golden meadow near river and buttes. Public Lands & Waters

Are National Monuments Back on Chopping Block?

By Travis Hall— February 19, 2025

With an official order from the new Secretary of the Interior to review all National Monuments dating back to Theodore Roosevelt, we’re taking a fresh look at the 119-year-old public-land protection””and what it means for hunters and anglers

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Poachers Busted in Texas After Tripling Daily Duck Limit While Using Prohibited Lead Shot

By Travis Hall— February 6, 2025

“They kept coming, and we just couldn’t stop shooting.”

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Male mallard duck with iridescent green head standing on icy water surface. Wildlife Conservation

Mallard DNA Test Shows Farm Genetics

By Ryan Chelius— February 5, 2025

The author submitted a greenhead tissue sample to determine if the bird had any traces of farm-raised genetics. Here are the results

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Large herd of elk with antlers standing together in snowy winter landscape. Wildlife Conservation

Wyoming Rejects Senate Bill That Would Allow Large Landowners to Sell Big Game Hunting Tags for Profit

By Katie Hill— February 4, 2025

Conservation groups and wildlife managers say the bill would give wealthy non-residents a leg up over everyday hunters in Wyoming

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Wyoming Bill Proposes Year-Round Open Season on Mountain Lions

By Sage Marshall— February 3, 2025

The bill’s proponents claim it would help the state’s mule deer herds. Opponents in the hunting community say it’s “ballot-box biology” that gives ammunition to anti-hunting activists

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