Stories You Might Have Missed This Week
Big Sur becomes drivable, the EPA loosens coal ash rules, and Jane Goodall wants a hunting license she won't use.
Hunting
In Kotzebue, Alaska, Hunters Are Bringing Traditional Foods—and a Sense of Comfort—to Their Local Elders
In one tiny city in Alaska, hunters are working to provide the local elderly population with access to traditional foods. By making that effort, they have become a model for a person-centered approach to care.
Animal Rights Groups Sue the Department of the Interior Over Trophy Hunting
The lawsuit alleges that the DOI's decision to allow Americans to bring their hunting trophies back home violates the Endangered Species Act.
This Absolute Lust for Meat
What chimpanzees on the hunt can tell us about human behavior.
Fair Chase and the Fight Against Drones
A scrappy group of backcountry hunters wants to keep drones away from wildlife—and they're winning.
On Snake Smuggling, Lion Killing, and Fish Crimes
The Lacey Act, a 115-year-old law that seeks to protect threatened species, is still going strong.
So You Want to Talk About Lions...
If #CeciltheLion got you mad about big cat trophies, wait until you hear what they’re doing with the bones.
A Short History of Trophy Hunting in America
Since the mid-1800s, hunting trophies—taxidermied remains of wild animals—have served as symbolic proof of one’s "manliness."
Does the Internet Really Care About Cecil the Lion?
If online outrage is having any effect, it's unclear.
Lessons in Patriotism at a NASCAR Track in Virginia
Lessons from the Fourth of July at a NASCAR track.
Can Conservation Be Too Successful?
How to deal with the return of America's big native fauna.
Shooting a Mountain Lion
Until his illegal hunting business was shut down by authorities, you could have paid Christopher Loncarich $7,000 to bag a mountain lion.
Did Humans Train Dogs to Hunt Woolly Mammoths?
A new hypothesis suggests that our ancestors trained wolves to help them kill.
Writing From the Woods: Surveying the Literature of Opting Out
As part of our week-long series on people who opt out of society, Eva Holland traces the American tradition of examining the outdoors with loving precision, from Henry David Thoreau to Annie Dillard.
The Strange Mystery of the Alien Bears of Bulgaria
New genetic analysis suggests that a deranged Romanian dictator, who relished bear hunting, flew them there.
Getting the Lead Out of Both Dumps and Ammo
Can't control guns? Then how about the lead in bullets?