Model 1892 Western Airgun for 2025

The Winchester Air Rifle Model 1892 Western is a lever action with features that make it the best of the West. It starts with the large loop lever artistically wrapped in leather for comfort and look. Sights are adjustable with a bright fiber optic front, but it also comes with a picatinny rail for mounting optics. Buttstock and forearm are handsome wood and the big BB reservoir holds enough ammo for an all-day adventure. If you’re looking for a lever action that harkens back to the Old West, you’ve got it with the new Winchester Air Rifles Model 1892 Western. Read more

Firearms

NOAA Announces Final Rule to Implement Gulf of America Name Change

NOAA announces a final rule to amend existing regulations to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America and other related edits, consistent with Executive Order (E.O.) 14172, “Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness”. NOAA can make name changes in its own regulations consistent with existing law, but cannot modify the text of statutes enacted by Congress. There will remain limited statutory references to the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council and Gulf of Mexico until or unless legislation is enacted to update statutes to reflect the Gulf of America name. Read more

General

Maine Game Wardens Recover the Bodies of Two Anglers On Grand Falls Flowage

Maine Game Wardens recovered the bodies of two anglers on Grand Falls Flowage in Baileyville.

At approximately 3:45 yesterday (August 8, 2025), game wardens were notified of an unoccupied boat drifting on Grand Falls Flowage. Several game wardens responded to the scene and found the 2010 19’ Bass Tracker drifting with the trolling motor and fishing lines in the water but no one in the boat.

Game Wardens and volunteers began searching the area, and a volunteer found the body of Charlotte Evans, age 67, of Cibolo, Texas, approximately 100 yards from shore yesterday a little after 4:30 p.m. Game wardens soon learned that there were two people in the boat, and began to search for the second person, but were unable to locate anyone else last night. Read more

Fishing

Reclaiming resilient Michigan streams: Over 140 miles of streams reconnected so far in grant project

Spring Creek starts to refill and flow area after removal of Spring Creek Trout Pond Dam in September 2024

Aug. 8, 2025
Contact: Kesiree O’Brien (DNR), 517-388-4536

With America’s Ecosystem Restoration Initiative funding, the DNR and partners have removed seven stream barriers

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources, with help from many conservation partners, is halfway through completion of a $5 million grant project to remove 27 stream barriers, including 16 DNR-managed dams. Efforts to date have reconnected more than 140 miles of streams.

Funding for this work was awarded by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s America’s Ecosystem Restoration Initiative (formerly the America the Beautiful Challenge), which seeks to conserve and restore aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, improve resilience to flooding and other threats, and expand community access to nature.

What’s been accomplished so far Read more

Fishing

Bond Arms Honors Veterans with the 30th VET

One of the most important things we can do as Americans is to thank those who have served our country in the military. From those who served and came home to the ones who made the ultimate sacrifice, it’s our job and duty to honor and thank those who remind us daily that freedom is not free. The price is paid in time spent in our nation’s service, and in many cases, it can be measured in lives.

For the folks at Bond Arms, the Granbury, Texas, firearm manufacturer who is proudly American Tough and American Made, honoring those who served and protected our rights and freedoms is a supreme honor they have taken pride in for the past three decades. As Bond Arms celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, the company is proud to share its latest offering, not only in honor of its milestone year but also in honor of veterans across the country with its stunning 30th VET piece.

The 30th VET is stylized with special engraving that pays a specific tribute to the brave Veterans who have served our fine nation, with a special thank-you message to Veterans on one side, the stars and stripes on the other, and the Bond Arms 30th anniversary logo. Chambered in 45/410, the 30th VET features a 4.25″ barrel for added accuracy with Bond’s rough series hand-cannon frame. Constructed from stainless steel, the 30th VET uses the extended B6 Resin grips that have done extraordinarily well on every model Bond Arms has tested. With fixed sights and a 7-pound trigger pull weight, the 30th VET is the perfect way to honor the troops and stay within the family budget. Read more

Firearms

RMEF Appeals Northern Rockies’ Wolf Ruling, Calls for ESA Reform

RMEF Appeals Northern Rockies’ Wolf Ruling, Calls for ESA Reform

The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation filed an immediate appeal to a decision by a federal judge that orders the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to reconsider Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections for gray wolves in the West.

RMEF Appeals Northern Rockies’ Wolf Ruling, Calls for ESA Reform

The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation filed an immediate appeal to a decision by a federal judge that orders the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to reconsider Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections for gray wolves in the West.

Environmental groups filed two petitions in 2024, challenging an earlier USFWS decision that gray wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains and Western United States did not warrant ESA listing.

Not counting those born this spring, the minimum population in the West is at least 3,200 wolves. That number continues to grow with expanded range, including populations in Idaho and Montana that are respectively 700 percent and 600 percent above federal minimum recovery levels. Wyoming’s population met minimum recovery criteria the last 22 years, and wolf numbers are expanding in California, Colorado, Oregon and Washington. Read more

Animal Rights, Wildlife

A Novel Approach to Estimating and Studying Wild Turkey Populations

Ongoing research in Mississippi is developing new ways to gauge turkey populations.

One of the most important elements of wild turkey management is estimating turkey populations, and gauging whether these are stable, increasing, or decreasing. That said, this is no simple task, and many of the methods long used are less effective than researchers would like. Simply, we need better population estimation techniques.

As such, TFT is excited to report on an ongoing research effort that it and other partners are supporting. A new turkey research technique is being tested to determine the efficacy of its deployment in wild turkey science and management. The preliminary results showcase great success.

Currently, a significant effort is being conducted across eight research sites in Mississippi, including a mix of private and public lands. These include Chickasaw WMA, Choctaw WMA, Little Biloxi WMA, Wolf River WMA, as well as private lands in Hancock, Jefferson, Kemper, and Marshall Counties.

“The goal is to see if this technique will allow us to know exactly how many turkeys are using particular properties,” said Adam B. Butler, CWB, director of conservation development with the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks. “One of the shortcomings in the science and management of turkeys is that they’re so difficult to count. It’s difficult to compare certain things against other things, such as certain management practices against other management practices, certain habitats against other habitats, etc.” Read more

Wildlife

Sportsmen’s Alliance Foundation Appeals Montana Court’s Wolf Ruling

The Sportsmen’s Alliance Foundation and its partners, Safari Club International and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, appealed a court judgment vacating the Fish and Wildlife Service’s (FWS) decision declining to relist gray wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountain region to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

The coalition of sportsmen’s groups have filed a notice of appeal and will continue to fight for sound wildlife management. This latest ruling in support of the activists’ petitions would seem to demand that until wolves are recovered across the entirety of the Lower 48, including active, protective, management throughout its historic range, that all wolves everywhere should remain protected under the Endangered Species Act.

Congress declared the wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountain region (Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, eastern Oregon and Washington, and north-central Utah) recovered in 2011. Since then, the wolves have thrived, and expanded into surrounding areas, including northern California, western Washington and Oregon, and Colorado. That wasn’t good enough for several animal-rights organizations who asked FWS to combine the recovered Northern Rocky Mountain wolves with wolves in the neighboring western states and list them as an endangered species.

“They asked FWS to use the wolf’s recovery against it,” said Michael Jean, Litigation Counsel for Sportsmen’s Alliance Foundation. “They want to push the boundaries of the recovered population to include the areas where it is currently expanding to dilute the overall recovery.” Read more

Hunting, Wildlife

Michigan Bear Forum, Furtaker User Group Meetings Set for August in St. Ignace

Hunting and trapping are time-honored traditions in Michigan. Whether you’re an experienced hunter or trapper, just getting started, or simply curious about how the Michigan Department of Natural Resources manages wildlife, you’re invited to two upcoming events in St. Ignace: the Michigan Furbearer Forum (Aug. 22) and the Michigan Bear Forum (Aug. 23). These forums are open to the public and provide a chance to listen in on conversations with stakeholder groups about wildlife population, hunting and trapping regulations and current research. Keep reading for details about each event. Read more

Hunting

Parkwest Arms Take-Down Rifle System

Parkwest Arms, a premier American firearms manufacturer known for its legacy of precision, performance, and hand craftsmanship, is proud to announce their SD-76 Take-Down Rifle System—a compact, modular evolution of the acclaimed Model 76 platform, designed specifically for the traveling hunter or professional marksman.

Every Parkwest Arms rifle is a statement of excellence, blending traditional techniques like hand-checkered stocks and precision-blueprinted actions with modern, state-of-the-art manufacturing. From carefully selected walnut blanks to field-proven mechanical systems, Parkwest rifles reflect a standard rarely seen in today’s world.

Their Take-Down Rifle System is a continuation of that philosophy. Originally designed in 1986 by master gunsmiths Don Allen and Pete Grisel, the Model 76 became a modern classic. Today, Parkwest Arms proudly carries that torch forward with the SD-76 Dark Continent—one of the world’s most trusted rifles for dangerous game. Now, with the Take-Down System, Parkwest expands the SD-76’s versatility even further, allowing users to break the rifle into two compact components for easy travel—without compromising reliability or accuracy. Read more

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