Since 1903, the United States has established more than 580 National Wildlife Refuges, designating a diverse array of lands ...

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Calm days can be brutal for duck hunting. Without wind, ducks can approach the “X” from any angle they like. Plus your spread will appear still and lifeless — unless you’re rigged up with the ...

The Illinois Department of Natural Resources is considering changes to the waterfowl hunting season after receiving complaints that the 2026-2030 regulations did not allow for duck hunting during the ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Hunters will soon be allowed to kill mute swans as part of an effort to cull the “destructive, non-native” species ...

Hunting continues at the nation’s wildlife refuges despite the federal government shutdown, under a Trump administration’s policy that has drawn mixed reactions. The Interior Department casts the open ...

The US Fish and Wildlife Service has instructed staff to allow hunting to go forward in many of the roughly 600 National Wildlife Refuges, three agency employees said, despite the wider shutdown that ...

If it walks, waddles and quacks like a duck, it’s probably a mallard but might be a redhead, a scaup, a canvasback, a pintail or some similar pattern. Unlike most casual observers who suffer not if ...

Rated Red explains public duck hunting etiquette every hunter must know. Don’t expect correct change when paying with cash, some businesses warn Mike Johnson’s nightmare: Kevin Kiley is unhappy with ...

Duck hunters are traditional and proud of it. We’re also — how should I put this? — an opinionated lot. So by nature, we are susceptible to old myths. Certain ideas get passed around duck camps, ...