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House Passes Boone and Crockett Club Supported Chronic Wasting Disease Bill

Dec. 9, 2021 - MISSOULA, Mont. – The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation last night that will provide funding for research and management to help fight chronic wasting disease (CWD), an always fatal neurological disease affecting members of the deer family. The CWD Research and Management Act (H.R. 5608) is sponsored by Representatives Ron Kind (D-WI) and GT Thompson (R-…

B&C Member Spotlight - C. Hart Merriam

The United States Fish and Wildlife Service was created in 1940 by merging the Bureau of Biological Survey with the Bureau of Fisheries.

B&C Member Spotlight - Madison Grant

Six years after George Bird Grinnell and Theodore Roosevelt founded the Boone and Crockett Club, Grinnell sponsored for membership a young, assertive New Yorker named Madison Grant. The year was 1893. Grant had many successful years representing the Club, but he also became one of America’s most controversial figures.

Madison Grant was born on November 19, 1865.

Equal Access to Justice Act Findings

Two separate studies from the Government Accountability Offices (GAO) and the Notre Dame Law School confirm that legal fee reimbursements going to environmental groups suing the government, contrary to intent of Congress and without accountability for costs.

B&C Member Spotlight - Belmore Browne

Artist, Explorer, Hunter, Writer, Mountaineer – “The game’s up: we’ve got to get down.” With these words to his two companions, Belmore Browne conceded defeat only 125 feet from the summit of Mount McKinley, North America’s highest peak at 20,335 feet. A fierce gale, 55 miles per hour, along with blinding visibility and the temperature at –15° made it impossible to continue. They came so…

B&C Member Spotlight - John B. Burnham

One of the few books ever issued "With the Approval of the Boone and Crockett Club is "The Rim of Mystery: A Hunter's Wanderings in Unknown Siberian Asia", by John Bird Burnham. Burnham, a Boone and Crockett Club member, along with a companion, Andrew M. Taylor, embarked on a five-month expedition to the remote Chukotsk Peninsula of Northeastern Siberia to determine whether wild…

Time Well Spent - New Colorado State Record

Family, friends, persistence, and do-it-yourself public land: The story behind what could be the new Colorado state record moose and number six All-time Shiras’ moose. 

New World's Record Mountain Goat

A Rocky Mountain goat taken by a hunter in 2011 in British Columbia is the largest of its species ever recorded, according to the Boone and Crockett Club.

Wildlife Caught on Camera - Volume 3

Much of North America is currently in the depths of winter, but that doesn’t mean you have to dwell on it. After sifting through thousands of trail camera photos and videos from the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Ranch from last spring and summer, Boone and Crockett Fellow Chris Hansen pulled the very best to share.