Sporting

grid of sports images, including a football stadium, a formula 1 racecar, a speedboat, and a jumping dog

Sporting Scene

From SEC football to Formula 1 racing, action-packed reasons to plan a last-minute fall trip

A man fishing

Editor's Letter

Saying goodbye to a one-of-
a-kind author and angler

A collage of foxes

Land

After two devoted gray fox parents and their six kits moved into our backyard, we became obsessed with watching them grow, play, learn, and finally, move on

A collage of people in the water

Conservation

From mountain streams to the open ocean, this year’s honorees are fighting in both the field and the lab for the species that rely on the South’s freshwater and saltwater habitats—including us.

A prothonotary warbler in the swamp.

Conservation

Photographer Mac Stone has spent years documenting ancient cypress forests and the hidden life within them. Step inside that secret world and his stunning new compilation.

An illustration of a dog on a skateboard

Good Dog

Inside a spiritual animal reading, with one eyebrow lifted

Hunting products staged in a tree

Southern Style

Field goods never looked so sharp

An up-close of an ocelot

Conservation

Ocelots nearly vanished from the United States. Now, scientists are combining decades of research with a pioneering breeding program to restore one of America’s rarest species to the ranchlands of the Lone Star State.

A man drives a boat

Sporting

North Carolina businessman and philanthropist Eddie Smith has always put integrity over profit. He’s done so again in the most dramatic way yet.

a mkc knife

Sporting

The American-made blade gets another limited drop on July 30

A man with a dog in the field

Editor's Letter

Eyeing the dove opener and the seasons to come

An illustration of a small dog under a bigger dog with the shadow of a deer

Good Dog

Following in the footsteps of giants, little Kleos leaves her own mark on the heart

An illustration of fish under water

Sporting

David Joy on the elemental pleasures of bluegill days

An indigo snake

Conservation

Among the longleaf pines of Alabama’s Conecuh National Forest, biologists have spent decades trying to save the inky, elegant, and elusive “emperor of the forest”

An illustration of a family knife against memorabilia

Traditions

An unearthed blade from the attic sharpens a son’s connection to his late father

A man with a turkey

Sporting Scene

A Mississippi camouflage empire says goodbye to a family hero

People in a boat catch a fish

Sporting

The late famed angler’s daughter, Krissy, carries on his love of the water and drive to help others

An illustration of a dog with a hat playing with a hose

Good Dog

How one pup showed her family how to cherish life in all its seasons

A ruin at nighttime

Conservation

Photographer David Wright is fresh off his annual sojourn to the Georgia barrier island where bobcats, shorebirds, and dolphins roam and John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette tied the knot

Two men walk in a scrubby landscape

Sporting

After decades of hunting wild turkeys through the Southeast’s bottomland swamps and hardwood forests, the author heads deep into the Lone Star State’s sandy, mesquite-strewn heart