Nearly devoid of wild game, North America’s landscape in the late-1800s was a very different place. Bison, elk, and even deer were nearly wiped from the continent to supply a growing demand for meat, hides, and heads. To provide feathers for fashionable hats of high-society ladies, migratory birds were annihilated—sometimes by the hundreds with one shot from a massive “punt” gun. Only a…

The Boone and Crockett Club and Foundation Board of Directors are selected at the Club's Annual Meeting of its membership, held the first weekend of December.

From wild turkeys to black bears, Boone and Crockett Fellow Hayden Walkush builds a career with passion, research, and conservation.

On a summer night in northern Wisconsin, Hayden Walkush crouched low in a boat, flashlight in one hand, muskie net in the other.