Wildlife Management

Wildlife officers in Colorado had to get creative when they were called in to rescue a young bull moose trapped in a canal. The daring operation went down in Estes Park, a resort town northwest of Denver. It’s unclear how the moose managed to get stuck in the fast-moving current, but a spokesperson...

One year after four dams were removed on the Klamath River spanning the Oregon-California border, fall Chinook salmon have made it into previously inaccessible spawning grounds. Earlier this month, biologists confirmed that multiple Chinook have made it past the old dam sites and into tributaries of...

According to new research conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) this year, the COVID-19 pandemic may have given invasive lamprey populations a nearly tenfold boost in the Great Lakes. The species, sea lamprey (not to be confused with Pacific lamprey, which are native to the Pacific...

With hunting season out West comes a slew of grizzly attacks every fall. In the latest incident on October 2, an elk hunter was mauled by a sow with cubs about 60 miles north of the Montana border near Fort Steele, British Columbia. Details released by the Canadian Conservation Officer Service...

Hunters in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas have killed a bear likely responsible for fatally mauling a 60-year-old camper at the Sam’s Throne Recreation Area in Newton County last week. MeatEater’s Clay Newcomb was closely involved with the attack investigation as well as the hunt for the bear, and...

Much of the Wyoming rangeland could soon be inhospitable to deer, according to new research from ecologists at the University of Wyoming. The culprit: an invasive Eurasian prairie grass species called cheatgrass. The fast-growing, ever-thirsty species poses multiple problems for deer. Not only does...

Robert Donovan, of Ear Falls, Ontario, works in the lumber industry. He was on his way to work on September 23, 2023, when his boss radioed him about a group of archery hunters from Wisconsin who said that one of them had shot “the biggest bull moose he’d ever seen with points going everywhere on it...

A Florida bowfishing guide has developed an unusual partnership with the aquatic life of the Gulf of Mexico. For more than a decade, Crystal Bay charter captain Justin Dymond has been attracting pods of dolphins with the underwater flood lights he uses to locate fish for his bowfishing clients. As...

Anti-hunting organizations have launched a campaign to ruin Florida’s black bear hunt by flooding the lottery with entries in the hopes of winning a permit and sitting out the hunt. But state officials tell MeatEater that their efforts may well backfire: if this year’s harvest goals aren’t met, bear...

A new study quantifies the impact of poaching in the United States— the results show that an eye-popping number of wildlife crimes are not being detected, let alone successfully prosecuted. The research comes from the Boone and Crockett Club, which is both a big game record-keeping group and the...

Editor's Note: This article was previously published stating that Patton died from his injuries, however, he is currently still alive. Apologies for the error. On September 3, 72-year-old Vernon Patton suffered serious injuries after being attacked by a black bear in Franklin County. According to...

A hunting influencer has been charged with two felonies and six misdemeanors for, among other things, lying about where he killed a wolf in Idaho and then pocketing the extra reimbursement money. Ryan Lampers, who was known as the StHealthyHunter on now-deleted social media feeds, has been charged...