Boone and Crockett Club Fellow Wesley Sarmento has spent two decades sleeping on the ground—from Montana’s backcountry to the Gobi Desert and back again. Today, he’s working with the Blackfeet Tribe on the edge of Glacier National Park to study bison reintroduction on their ancestral lands.

Wesley Sarmento isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty.

John Olin was a business titan who understood that if there was no game left to hunt, consumers would have little use for his company’s Winchester firearms, or Western ammunition.

The Boone and Crockett Fellows Program provides the funding and mentorship necessary for college students and postdoctoral associates to excel in wildlife conservation and related fields.

Who is a Boone and Crockett Fellow?

A Fellow is an undergraduate, graduate, or postdoctoral associate supported by program funding and/or mentored by a Boone and Crockett Professor or Profe

First Adopted December 6, 2014 - Revised: November 30, 2022

The Boone and Crockett Club thanks the U.S. House Committee on Agriculture for the bipartisan vote last week that moves the Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026 (H.R. 7567) out of committee and to the full House for consideration.

Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a highly contagious, always-fatal disease that affects cervids such as deer, elk, and moose. It is difficult to detect CWD in live animals because it can take more than two years after infection for an animal to exhibit observable behavioral or physical signs of illness. Additionally, the diagnostic tests currently available are not as accurate when samples…