Quebec Caribou Hunt to Close, Research Continues

After the 2017-2018 fall season, the Quebec caribou hunt will close for an undetermined period of time. (Recreational hunting is closing – the subsistence hunt continues.) The provincial government has also called for the number of permits to be reduced by half for the upcoming final season. Before a hunt will be reinstated, officials want […]

DSC Applauds President Trump’s Signing of House Joint Resolution 69

  DSC is pleased with President Trump’s signing of House Joint Resolution 69 (H.J. Res. 69), which overturns the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (Service) final rule pertaining to the management of wildlife in Alaska’s National Wildlife Refuges. H.J. Res. 69 reinstates Alaska’s authority to set predator control regulations and other established means and methods […]

New Bill Introduced for Future of Hunting and Outdoor Recreation

This week, a group of Democrat and Republican Senators introduced an omnibus of legislation that will protect and enhance the future of outdoor activities such as hunting, fishing and recreational shooting. If passed, the Sportsmen’s Act (S. 733) will ultimately strengthen the hunter’s voice in future federal legislation, ease public land access for outdoor recreation […]

The Return of the Emperor Goose Hunt

For 30 years, Alaskans in the Yukon Kuskokwim Delta have allowed the emperor goose population to recover back to a number capable of sustaining a hunt again. Pending final federal approval, the subsistence season is set to open on April 2 with no bag or possession limit. Subsistence hunting is a lifestyle in this area […]

DSC Welcomes SIXSITE GEAR as Platinum Sponsor

SIXSITE GEAR is joining in the growing effort to promote conservation, educate youth and protect hunters’ rights with their platinum level sponsorship of DSC for the next three years. The high-end, camouflage gear company is now the official “Camo Clothing” for DSC and will be featured throughout DSC’s Convention and Expo in Dallas, Jan. 4-8, […]

Bycatch Today, Gone Tomorrow

In China, the wealthy will pay thousands of dollars to eat the swim bladder of the totoaba, a marine fish from the Gulf of California in Mexico. When poachers set out to illegally capture this fish, they are also pushing the vaquita, a marine mammal caught as bycatch, toward extinction. This recent New York Times […]

Can The World’s Rarest Antelope Be Saved?

Listed as Critically Endangered by the IUCN since 1996, the hirola, or Beatragus hunteri, is considered the world’s rarest antelope with fewer than 500 individuals remaining in the African wild. Until a recent study published in Journal of Applied Ecology, there was little understanding on the decline of the species, which led to futile conservation […]

DSC Adds Seventh Chapter – DSC Heartland

DSC welcomes the seventh group to join its chapter affiliate program – DSC Heartland. The new chapter has come together to join DSC in their vision of a society that values wildlife, engages in its conservation, and understands and supports the role of well-regulated hunting in the sustainable use of wild resources. “While DSC is […]