Sporting

A pair of hands holds a brook trout

Land & Conservation

The damage is still too great to sample for brook trout, mussels, and salamanders, but biologists weigh in on their hopes, fears, and plans for recovery

A collection of dried peppers

Land & Conservation

Farmers, gardeners, and seed collectives are rallying together to rebuild in the short term—and forge a more resilient future

Land & Conservation

North Carolina just debuted a Venus flytrap plate—the newest in a long line of important funding sources for the Southern wilds

An illustration of a dog sitting under a tree looking at a squirrel

Good Dog

Scottie was more intelligent than most canines—and not a few humans

A man casts his line on the Watauga River in the morning.

The Wild South

A new initiative offers direct support to guides and outfitters in the Southern Appalachians

A man stands with a dog

Sporting

From his time as a navy medical corpsman to working with bomb-sniffing dogs in Afghanistan, Grayson Guyer followed a winding path back to North Carolina and training companion gundogs

A woman walks across a plank over water toward her farm

Hurricane Helene

After Helene, farmers have been supporting one another, but food and fencing are still desperately needed in agricultural communities 

A woman taking a photo of a python wrapped around her leg

Land & Conservation

Donna Kalil has plunged into canals in the dead of night, straddled two-hundred-pound serpents, and been bitten more times than she can count—all in the name of killing a thing she loves and playing a game she can’t win

A woman hikes on a forested trail

Land & Conservation

The ultra-runner relives the highlights—and a few lowlights—of her epic trek

A brown pelican in flight

Land & Conservation

The release of two rehabilitated brown pelicans is the result of millions of years of evolution, cosmic coincidence, and the hard work of conservation-minded South Carolinians

A man holds three black and brown puppies

Sporting

They nurture the bond between outdoorsmen and their four-legged partners

People stand by a manatee in a puddle

hurricane helene

The aquatic mammals often end up in precarious positions after floods abate

Sporting

In the heart of Patagonia lies a land suspended in time, one teeming with some of the world’s richest—and most improbable—stretches for fly fishing

A close-up image of a quail's head.

Land & Conservation

Now approved by the FDA, a Texas scientist’s parasite-fighting feed could be a game changer for the South’s beloved game bird

An illustration of a dog chasing a duck

Southern Conundrum

One sportsman shares a few friendly approaches to take when that dog won’t hunt

A group of trees whose leaves have turned yellow

Land & Conservation

Seven striking species that put on a show in your own backyard

Dolphins approaching a platform while a drone flies over them.

Land & Conservation

Breath samples? Check. Body condition data? Check. Technology has taken off—literally

Two men cast from a small boat

Sporting Scene

A Florida company unveils a hybrid craft that will go where others can’t

A neighborhood street with large trees

Land & Conservation

How a group effort that includes, surprisingly, the power company conspires to protect the tree canopy

An illustration of a man taking aim at ducks in front of a larger bust of a boykin spaniel

Sporting

A hunter’s fitting send-off to a loyal, if sometimes hardheaded, Boykin spaniel