Eli Fournier

One of America’s most iconic fish species is in continued decline, new data shows. In the Chesapeake Bay, biologists are reporting that this year’s striped bass spawn was dismal—for the sixth straight year in a row. The Bay is the largest spawning area for stripers on the entire East Coast, and it’s...

Last week, researchers in Russia published a paper on a rare find: a mummified cub, from about 30,000 years ago. The mummy—complete with head, fur, paws, and the upper half of its body—is the first glimpse ever at the external morphology of an extinct cat with no present-day analogs. It was...

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...