Colorado’s San Luis Valley was a wildlife poacher’s paradise.
Then an undercover federal agent arrived.
“My Japanese-American grandma spent her final years on a hunting preserve in Alabama. She taught me how to be comfortable as an anomaly in the South.”
“Navigating an uncertain future by connecting to Mother Earth.”
“Trophy hunting is uncomfortable for some in the West but a lifeline for many locals.”
“For millennia Indigenous communities have relied on the far north’s caribou herds for sustenance. But as the herds dwindle, the future becomes difficult to predict.”
“Alligator snapping turtle populations in Texas were dwindling. One family of smugglers had been poaching them from the state for years.”
For generations, hunting and being deeply in tune with the land have been essential parts of Inuit culture in the Hudson Bay region of northernmost Canada. As the coastline changes, Inuit youth are combining next-generation tech and tools with the Indigenous wisdom of their elders to chart the evolving marine landscape — and make it […]
The question of who killed Takaya, British Columbia’s famous solitary wolf.
Is the conversation around guns in this country really about the right to bear arms?
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