Achieve Greater Results from an Improved ESA Program – Species conservation is principally governed by state authority. While states have primary authority for management of fish and wildlife, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and federal land management agencies have strong authorities as well. Two main areas of policy can ensure successful long-term species conservation. One is…

Support and Assist States in Addressing Chronic Wasting Disease and Wild Sheep Pneumonia – Two wildlife diseases have become priority problems for sportsmen and women. Chronic Wasting Disease is threatening the legacy achievement of restored deer, elk, and moose populations. Pneumonia is preventing restoration of bighorn sheep and threatening other wild sheep. Both diseases threaten…

Focus Climate Policy on Habitat Conservation and Restoration – America’s sportsmen and women are experiencing firsthand the consequences of increasing temperatures, prolonged droughts, record forest fires, more powerful hurricanes, inland flooding, spread of invasive species and wildlife diseases, and algal outbreaks. These cascading problems degrade habitat, threaten fish and wildlife, and…

Require Collaboration for Wildlife Conservation, Hunting, andd Recreational Shooting on Federal Lands – The future of our nation’s conservation and hunting heritage depends on dedicated attention to the sportsmen’s community in federal wildlife and resource management institutions. The essential objectives in maintaining this heritage are providing continued access to…

By Craig Boddington — It takes a lot of shooting to validate all the data and to gain confidence, skill, and speed. And guess what: all that hard-earned data is valid for only one load, and realistically, one set of atmospheric conditions! Change the load and you need to start over! But the tools we have today are amazing.

SCIENCE BLASTS

Throughout its 134-year history, much of what the Boone and Crockett Club has been able to accomplish has been the result of strategic partnerships. These partnerships have spanned across state and federal wildlife and land agencies, legislators and policy makers, other non-governmental hunter-conservationist organizations, universities, and business and industry. Trailblazers in Conservation…

For 25 years, the Rasmuson Wildlife Conservation Center and Anderson Conservation Education Program have traded traditional classroom desks for Montana’s Rocky Mountain Front, proving that the best way to understand the wild is to step right into it.

This year, the Elmer E.