Conservation

Boone and Crockett Club Initiatives

Where Hunting and Fishing Happen, Conservation Happens® For the past 133 years the Boone and Crockett Club has focused its efforts on key initiatives that led to the establishment of the North Amer...

The Wildlife Society and the Boone and Crockett Club: The Legacy Continues

SCIENCE BLASTS By John F. Organ, B&C Professional Member Excerpt from Spring 2020 issue of Fair Chase The story of the origin of wildlife conservation, including the pivotal role ...

Are Big Game Records Meaningful?

Much debate has occurred through the years over the value and purpose of maintaining records of “trophy” big game animals killed by hunters. This has become magnified in recent years with a focus on trophy hunting in general, spawned in part by the Cecil the Lion episode, and in conflicting reports on the genetic impacts of trophy hunting to big game populations in particular.

Fair Chase Hunting Equals Happiness

SCIENCE BLASTS By John F. Organ, B&C Professional Member Excerpt from Fall 2019 issue of Fair Chase In the last issue of Fair Chase, I wrote about how we may transform the way...

Communicating the Hunt

SCIENCE BLASTS By John F. Organ, B&C Professional Member Excerpt from Summer 2019 issue of Fair Chase It was the next-to-last day of black powder rifle season this past Decemb...

Discovering Ungulate Migrations

Dr. Kevin Monteith of the University of Wyoming and the Wyoming Migration Initiative uses ultrasound to check the pregnancy status of a mule deer doe after affixing it with a GPS collar to document it...

Assessing the Science Behind Opposition to Mountain Lion Hunting

SCIENCE BLASTSBy John F. Organ, B&C Professional MemberExcerpt from Winter 2018 issue of Fair ChaseIn 2017, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) released a report titled “State of the Mo...

Understanding the Decline in Elk Recruitment in the West

SCIENCE BLASTS By John F. Organ, B&C Professional Member Excerpt from Fall 2018 issue of Fair Chase In the Spring 2015 issue of Fair Chase (“A Little Help From Our Friends”), I wr...

Is Wildlife Management Science-Based?

SCIENCE BLASTS By John F. Organ, B&C Professional Member Excerpt from Summer 2018 issue of Fair Chase A pillar of wildlife management in North America is the notion that it is science...

Wolves, Cougars, Elk, and Deer in Oregon

SCIENCE BLASTS By John F. Organ, B&C Professional Member Excerpt from Spring 2018 issue of Fair Chase Wildlife managers and hunter-conservationists have long been interested in un...