Hunters Plant Wildlife Trees on New York Public Land in Record Push
A volunteer push organized by deer hunters and backed by national hunting conservation groups planted thousands of soft-mast and hard-mast trees on New York public hunting land this spring. The work is part of a multi-year habitat improvement push on state-managed forest tracts — and it is the kind of project that quietly does more […]
New 3,600-Acre Wateree River WMA Opens to South Carolina Hunters
A newly designated Heritage Preserve Wildlife Management Area on more than 3,600 acres along the Wateree River opens this season to South Carolina hunters and anglers. The tract is a significant addition to the state’s public hunting land base — and for hunters within driving distance of the Midlands, it is the kind of opportunity […]
Federal Dollars Step Up the Fight Against Chronic Wasting Disease
Chronic Wasting Disease has been creeping across the whitetail range for more than two decades, and for most of that time the response has been chronically underfunded. That is finally changing. A new round of federal dollars is moving into state wildlife agencies and university research programs working on the front lines of CWD detection, […]
Aiken Gopher Tortoise Heritage Preserve: Longleaf-Sandhills Hunting at Its Finest
The Aiken Gopher Tortoise Heritage Preserve sits on 1,395 acres of rolling sandhills in southern Aiken County, anchored by one of the most intact stands of mature longleaf pine left in the upper coastal plain. The tract was set aside primarily to protect the northernmost natural population of the gopher tortoise, but it also opens […]
Crackerneck WMA: A Quality Deer Management Showcase in Aiken County
Tucked along the Savannah River in southern Aiken County, Crackerneck Wildlife Management Area covers more than 10,400 acres of pine flatwoods, hardwood bottoms, beaver swamps, and managed old-field openings. The tract sits inside the Savannah River Site security buffer and operates as one of the most carefully managed public hunting properties in the state. What […]