News on the homefront this morning is that a new pack of wolves has been recorded in Wyoming where only the occasional wolf passed through before. A central Wyoming outfitter has shared footage he took while hunting the Medicine Bow National Forest last fall. If this is a trend that …
Read More »Wyoming Lowers Minimum Age To Hunt Big Game!
Both the Wyoming House and Senate overwhelmingly voted to reduce the legal age to hunt big game in Wyoming to 11 if the youth in question will turn 12 before the end of the calendar year in which the hunt occurs. For example, if one of my children wanted to …
Read More »Hunter Numbers Up! But Can We Keep Them? – Todd Helms
2020 and Covid 19 saw hunting participation increase by a significant percentage. While the woods, mountains and plains were more crowded last fall that’s good news for the future of hunting. IF we can hold onto those new recruits. Sure, tags are harder to draw and yes, there are strangers …
Read More »POACHING PUNISHMENTS: Does The Species Make A Difference?
If you’ve been paying attention to my many rants on poachers over the years you know that I’m all for stiff punishments in deliberate and heinous poaching cases. I’m talking about the deliberate theft of wildlife from the public trust, not about the hunter who accidentally kills a …
Read More »Mexican Wolf Population Doubles
PC: Jim Clark USFWS Love it or hate it, the Mexican Gray Wolf continues to grow and be a priority for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the states of Arizona and New Mexico. In a study spanning 2020 and 2021 thus far, an interagency team has accounted for …
Read More »Technology, Hunting and Fair Chase
Guest Author: Travis Hobbs Technology. When you stop and think about it, it will blow your mind how much all of our lives have changed recently, thanks to technology. How we communicate, how we travel, work, recreate, even something as simple as me putting this to “paper” so to speak. …
Read More »HB 122 – Funding Public Access
Below you’ll find the breakdown of HB 122 by The Wyoming Wildlife Federation. I’m not going to attempt to reiterate what WWF has done a marvelous job doing but I am going to opine on HB 122. Personally, I think a bill like this is long overdue! Who …
Read More »Self Defense From A Lion
GUEST AUTHOR: Jake Leonard I want to share this story in the hopes that it may potentially save someone’s life. I want to bring awareness as this now can literally happen anywhere at any time so if my experience helps any fellow hunter, fisherman, hiker, trail runner, or anyone else in …
Read More »YETI Roadie 24
So how do you make a great product, which has garnered acclaim and helped put your company on the map even better? Well, if you’re YETI you step back, roll the dice and completely redesign it, to the extent that the product is unrecognizable. That is exactly what YETI did …
Read More »2021 Arizona Application Deadline Reminder
Be sure to get your applications in before February 9th, 2020 for Arizona elk and pronghorn! TagHub has every stat you need to make a decision on a unit!!
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