When Valerius Geist walked into a room, it didn't take long before everyone gravitated toward him.

​Modern-day bowhunting pioneer and Pope and Young Club Founder Glenn St. Charles normalized bowhunting and helped shape it into the sport it is today.

By PJ DelHomme, Photos Courtesy of T.J. Conrads at Traditional Bowhunter

As far as I know, I am the only white man who kills tigres with a spear.” —Sasha Siemel

As Euro-Americans spread across our continent, they cleared land for agriculture and consumed raw materials for industry. The “public domain,” land that belonged to the federal estate, was essentially without protection. By the 1880s, this misuse was no longer tolerable, and efforts began to maintain, protect, and manage these lands for the public welfare. One great American—Gifford Pinchot—…

One can summarize Frank M. Chapman’s achievements by saying that he not only influenced the populace to appreciate our feathered friends, but he was an early ecologist who appreciated nature as a balanced whole and its essential relationship to man. Chapman was the dean of American ornithologists. He continued his research and writing until six weeks before his death from kidney failure on…

Although the original intent of the Boone and Crockett Club was “to work for the preservation of the wild animal life of this country,” members have not confined themselves to America. Carl Akeley was an African adventurer, explorer, and conservationist who twice nearly lost his life battling African game. 

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

The Boone and Crockett Club's dedication to the conservation of North American wildlife spans 117 years.

Favored for decades, the lever-action rifle yielded to the turn-bolt. Is it hurtling down a perilous path?

After killing a respectable bull, a hunter worries his days hunting alone in the mountains are numbered. Then he drifts into the camp of a well-seasoned hunter who changes his perspective and his timeline.