The reasons why hunters don’t list their trophy in the records are many. Yet there are perhaps just as many reasons why a hunter should enter their animal. 

Backed by a Boone and Crockett Club University Programs fellowship, Jamshid Parchizadeh traveled from the bustling streets of Tehran to the rugged coast of Alaska, driven by a singular mission: to serve wildlife through science.

For Parchizadeh, the road to becoming a wildlife biologist was anything but a straight line.

Texas Game Department, 1957-1966

With an estimated 34 million whitetail deer running around the U.S. today, it's hard to imagine that their numbers were down to around 500,000 in the early 1900s. With proper management, numbers rebounded, and hunting seasons followed. Many hunters were happy to snap a few field photos along the way.

The Conservation Reader bundle is built for the hunter who wants to understand not just the trophy on the wall, but the century of tradition, science, and stewardship that made it possible. These two titles — together for the first time at a special price — tell that story from beginning to present day.

Guesswork or fieldwork? Barstool biology or science? Rhetoric or research? How managers shape hunting seasons and set regulations affects every hunter. 

For nearly a century, hunters have relied on science-backed research to ensure that when they head into the field or woods, there’s actually something there to hunt.

The federal law known generally as the Farm Bill is slated to be reauthorized again in 2023, and this process is one of the Boone and Crockett Club’s top legislative priorities. But why? The fact is that the Farm Bill supports significant voluntary conservation efforts on our nation’s private lands. This incentive-based, non-regulatory approach benefits agricultural producers but also benefits…

The Boone and Crockett Club University Programs is designed to provide science-based knowledge from seasoned wildlife professionals and educators to college graduates in the wildlife field to better prepare them for the responsible and wise management of wildlife in the future.