A Replacement for What Timber  Management Has Taken
by Joe Mac Hudspeth Jr.
Photos by Joe Mac Hudspeth Jr. 

The wood duck was my main target when I started photographing wildlife some 20 years ago. Toward the end of deer season, I would sit on a stand on the edge of old beaver dams and cypress sloughs and watch wood ducks pairing up for the breeding season. As a part of their ritual, they would fly up and investigate old woodpecker holes as potential nesting sites. As a photographer, much like a hunter, I learned that a well-placed blind near these areas would put me close to my subject.

Managing 40 Acres or Less for Trophy Bucks
by Todd Amenrud  

The author’s brother-in-law, Mike Berggren, owns 20 acres in Minnesota and he consistently produces and harvests mature bucks off of the parcel.

Create Your Own Unique Fishery
by Don C. Keller
Photos by Barry W. Smith

You can grow smallmouth bass like this one in your pond. Proper preparation and stocking can produce unique fishing in ponds even in the southeast.

Will Wolves Destroy Big Game Hunting in America?
by Toby Bridges 

By the end of the 20th Century the numbers of deer and elk in the United States were either at, or approaching, record population levels just about everywhere. Likewise, overall numbers of other big game species, such as the pronghorn, mountain goat and bighorn sheep were also growing rapidly.  And these remarkable conservation success stories were all due entirely to the past hundred years of dedicated conservation programs which saved our wildlife from the brink of oblivion thanks to the billions of dollars that sportsmen provided to fund such work.