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3 weeks ago | 
themeateater.com | Ryan Callaghan |Andrew McKean |David A. Dippold |Eli Fournier
Subscribe In this episode In this week's interview episode, Cal talks with Ed Arnett, the CEO of The Wildlife Society, about what TWS is and how changes to the federal workforce are impacting the biologists who help manage the critters we love to hunt and fish. Connect with Cal and MeatEaterCal on Instagram and TwitterMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, and Youtube Clips Presented By
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1 month ago | 
themeateater.com | Eli Fournier |Travis Hall |Sarah Keller
“Federal Land Can Be Home Sweet Home,” at least according to some of the country’s top brass. Earlier this week, Secretary of Interior Doug Burgum and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Scott Turner wrote an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal announcing a new partnership to develop select federal lands for affordable housing.
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1 month ago | 
themeateater.com | Eli Fournier |Jordan Sillars |Travis Hall
From a public lands perspective, the new administration is tough to keep up with. Notably this week, Secretary of Interior Doug Burgum has opted not to release the agency’s plan for cutting regulations and scaling up energy production on 500 million acres of land. Senators Martin Heinrich and Jared Huffman on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee have pressed him for answers but are yet to receive anything in return.
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1 month ago | 
themeateater.com | Patrick Durkin |Eli Fournier |Charlie Booher
Few of us can imagine any world besides our own after enjoying a lifetime in the most comfortable society ever created by hard work, sound science, free speech, and democratically elected leadership. Even those who grew up in the 1960s and early ’70s often forget how beginning hunters mostly learned on squirrels and rabbits before graduating to deer. Whitetails weren’t universally common across the eastern United States, and seldom rendered the first game meat we ate.
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1 month ago | 
themeateater.com | Jordan Sillars |Eli Fournier
Colorado is poised to become the first state in the nation to ban entire categories of rifles, pistols, and shotguns based solely on their operating systems and without regard for cosmetic features like collapsible stocks or pistol grips. However, recent amendments to the legislation have created loopholes that would make it easier for hunters to continue owning these now-banned types of firearms.
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1 month ago | 
themeateater.com | Christopher Bancroft |Maggie Hudlow |Travis Hall |Eli Fournier
A healthy dose of arrogance combined with social media is the predominant downfall of many poachers these days. But now and then, good old-fashioned bragging makes a comeback. In 2023, while flying back to California from the East Coast, a couple attempted to smuggle a federally protected green turtle skull by concealing it within a jacket—another illicit trophy added to their collection.
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1 month ago | 
themeateater.com | Katie Hill |Charlie Booher |Eli Fournier |Jordan Sillars
A proposed ballot initiative to sunset Colorado’s wolf reintroduction by Dec. 31, 2026, cleared the Colorado Secretary of State’s Title Board on Feb. 19, paving the way once again for voters to decide the future of gray wolves across the state — a practice that the hunting community has widely criticized as “ballot box biology.”The proposed initiative would amend a current Colorado statute formalizing the start date of the reintroduction by tacking on a formal end date.
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2 months ago | 
themeateater.com | Eli Fournier |Aaron Agosto |Katie Hill
Last week, the Trump Administration fired 3,400 Forest Service employees across the country. The firings targeted employees in probationary periods regardless of their length of service with the agency. Positions terminated included new hires and mid- and upper-level employees who recently took new positions that were subject to probationary periods. The firings gutted the recreation, trails, forestry, range, and biology departments of forests nationwide.
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2 months ago | 
themeateater.com | Eli Fournier |Jordan Sillars |Travis Hall |Maggie Hudlow
Poaching busts take a lot of time and effort from game wardens, and a recent conviction in central Montana was no exception. An affidavit filed in a Montana district court outlines the efforts Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks wardens took to track down two men who poached multiple bull elk and stabbed trophy rainbow trout at a hatchery pond near the town of Great Falls.
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2 months ago | 
themeateater.com | Eli Fournier |Ben Long |Jordan Sillars
When it comes to public lands, there aren’t many people with more influence than the Secretary of Interior. Under his or her leadership, the Department of Interior oversees 11 federal bureaus, offices, and land-management agencies, including the Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, and US Fish & Wildlife Service. Collectively, those agencies manage 425 million acres of land—an area larger than all of Alaska. So, who’s leading the department under President Trump?
