Working Draft prepared by the White House Conference on North American Wildlife Policy

Hunter numbers have been on a slow and steady decline for the past thirty years. Numerous factors have contributed to this trend. Our nation has shifted from a rural to an urban culture.

The Boone and Crockett Club today praised passage of the Great American Outdoors Act by the U.S. House of Representatives as a monumental step for public lands conservation. The bipartisan bill, that passed by a resounding vote of 310-107, fully funds the Land and Water Conservation Fund and also provides funding to land management agencies, including the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land…

All 17 score charts are available as PDF files you can download directly to your desktop. Not sure how to take all the measurements? Good news, each score chart includes complete measuring instructions. 

Through Trailblazers in Conservation, YETI is backing the Club's work in promoting scientific wildlife management, balanced policies, hunter advocacy and broader public understanding of the applications and benefits of sustainable-use conservation.

The Boone and Crockett Club today thanked members of Congress for negotiating a final spending bill for federal agencies that includes a commitment to funding recreational access projects. The bill affirms the intent of the Great American Outdoors Act that was signed into law in early August. The GAOA committed to provide full and permanent funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund (…

Spend enough time outdoors, and you are bound to find something interesting. For some, those interesting things happen to be world record heads, horns, and antlers. Here are the stories behind the biggest “pick ups” ever found.

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…

The Boone and Crockett Club was founded by Theodore Roosevelt and George Bird Grinnell in 1887 making it the first organization to address wildlife population declines—especially in big game—on a national scale. To a large extent, the history of conservation in North America is the history of the Boone and Crockett Club.

February 07, 2024

 

The records department of the Boone and Crockett Club recently received a Roosevelt’s elk entry, which, if confirmed by a judges panel, will be crowned the new world’s record.