Eli Fournier

On a Forest Service all-employee phone call in mid-September, it was clear that bad news was imminent as agency chief Randy Moore rambled on about recent budget challenges and the employee-first mentality of the Forest Service. Then he dropped the bombshell: the agency wouldn’t be bringing on any...

On October 15, Brian Melvin arrowed a massive 770-pound black bear in New Jersey. It was just the third hunting season since the bear hunt was restored in the state (the hunt was canceled by Governor Phil Murphy in 2018 but reinstated in 2022 after the Fish and Game Council declared an “emergency...

Let’s face it: hunting can be a relatively inexpensive sport, but for most of us, it isn’t. Once you factor in guns, ammo, binoculars, clothing, gas, truck maintenance, and the whole slew of other bells and whistles, all the spending really adds up. A new economic report released by the Sportsmen’s...

*Editor’s note: The man in this article—Andrew Johnson—called MeatEater a week after this story was originally published to clarify several points. The mountain lion attacked his 11-year-old dog, not the other way around, as the CPW press release implied. The “campground” the incident occurred in...