Conservation

Studying Mule Deer in Oregon

SCIENCE BLASTS By John F. Organ, B&C Professional Member Excerpt from Winter 2017 issue of Fair Chase Wildlife managers, hunters, and other conservationists have long been concerned a...

Understanding Bear Predation

SCIENCE BLASTS By John F. Organ, B&C Professional Member Excerpt from Fall 2017 issue of Fair Chase It’s pretty common knowledge these days that black and grizzly bears are very effic...

Who Really Does Fund Conservation

SCIENCE BLASTS By John F. Organ, B&C Professional Member Excerpt from Summer 2017 issue of Fair Chase Those of us in the hunting community take great pride in the fact the dollars...

The Whitetail Rut in Pennsylvania

In 2001 Craig Kirkman took this 163-1/8 typical whitetail deer in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. A legal antlered deer at that time had to have one antler longer than three inches, or had at l...

Managing Whitetail Deer in the 21st Century: Can We Adapt to the Challenge

SCIENCE BLASTS By John F. Organ, B&C Professional Member Excerpt from Spring 2017 issue of Fair Chase Whitetail deer management in eastern North America has had its share of controver...

Wildlife Governance

SCIENCE BLASTS By John F. Organ, B&C Professional Member Excerpt from Winter 2016 issue of Fair Chase Steve Williams, in his “Capitol Comments” article titled “Relevancy of Conservati...

Studying Hunters Like We Study Deer: Using Wildlife Science to Increase the Hunter Population

SCIENCE BLASTS By John F. Organ, B&C Professional Member Excerpt from Fall 2016 issue of Fair Chase My column in the Summer 2016 issue of Fair Chase talked about the importance of the...

Why Numbers Matter: The Boone and Crockett Quantitative Wildlife Center at Michigan State University

SCIENCE BLASTS By John F. Organ, B&C Professional Member Excerpt from Summer 2016 issue of Fair Chase Occasionally I go to my bookcase and pick an issue from the first volume of the J...

Moose in Southern New England

SCIENCE BLASTS By John F. Organ, B&C Professional Member Drs. Dave Wattles and Steve DeStefano of the Massachusetts Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit attach a GPS collar to...

Iowa's Wildlife Science Legacy

SCIENCE BLASTS By John F. Organ, B&C Professional Member Excerpt from Winter 2015 issue of Fair Chase The state of Iowa has had a pivotal role in the origins and evolution of wildlife...