As true historically as it is today, sportsmen have been America’s foremost conservationists. Pumping billions of dollars into conservation projects through taxes and license fees; keeping game populations in balance; improving habitat for the benefit of all wildlife; when it comes to conservation of wildlife, America’s hunters and fishermen don’t just talk, they act. But the future of conservation is in question, as fewer and fewer Americans take to the water and woods. T

In a recent policy about face and a major blow to the anti-hunting organizations such as the Humane Society of the Untied States, US Fish & Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe announced wild and wild-managed lions from South Africa will once again be granted US import permits. However the prohibition of captive bred lions from South Africa will continue to be banned from importation. The change in the lions status is due to the Fish & Wildlife’s determination that scientifica

Differences in perspective lead to differences of opinion. Just look at our highly contested elections in this democratic society illustrate that people are different. That reasonable people can look at the same issue and come to radically different conclusions is a matter of perspective and those varying perspectives are a big part of what has made our democracy the greatest ever known to Man. But there are differences of opinion, and then there is propaganda; facts spun b

Since the dawn of time, Man has been a hunter, but until very recently, Woman stayed home and cleaned the fish and sewed quilts; but that’s a societal norm we don’t see much anymore. Today, in most every area of our society, women are de jure, if not de facto, equal to men in every way. But equality in the hunting sports has not been attained. Hunting is an activity that has been dominated by men, but the trend is changing, and that is a good thing. One of the results of s

Just about every time I travel, I seem to wind up in a conversation with an anti-hunter, or someone who doesn’t think hunting is “politically correct”. And that’s OK. It’s a free country, and people are entitled to their opinions. So let’s step back for a moment, take the emotion out of the issue, and analyze the validity of just one area of hunting on a purely economic basis. The whitetail deer; the most prevalent big game species in the North America. Everyone agrees we

The recent killing of Cecil the lion created an unusually virulent outrage. As a television producer who has traveled to Africa over forty times to shoot our television series, Safari Hunter’s Journal for Sportsman Channel, I have a unique insight as to how this hunt ultimately went wrong and why so many are so upset about it. First, the facts: A lion was shot and wounded on private property in Zimbabwe. It was lured from the adjacent National Park by bait(s) set out by the