This year, 2023, marks the 50th Anniversary of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Having spent the last seven years studying the ESA, I’ve come up with two observations—but first, let me set some context.

By Charles J. Hogeland
23rd Big Game Awards Program| From Legendary Hunts

Over the last two decades, the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation has become a catch-all term for a conservation system built more than a century ago.

The celebrated 7x57 sired a clan now shadowed by 6.5mm cartridges. Fame can be fickle!

Excerpt from Fair Chase Magazine
By Wayne Van Zwoll, regular contributor, photos courtesy of author

By Ronald N. Franklin
25th Big Game Awards Program| From Legendary Hunts

By PJ DelHomme 

Alberta 1906

Bert Riggall was Alberta’s first Renaissance Man. He was a mountain guide, outfitter, hunter, trapper, rancher, naturalist, photographer, and writer—all wrapped up in one hell of a mustache.

Frederick Herbert (Bert) Riggall was a legendary Alberta outfitter.