Sporting

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

A raccoon sitting on a cat scratching post.

Land & Conservation

No, we couldn’t let her stay in the contest. Yes, we fell for her anyway.

A man holds a fish in a marsh setting

The Wild South

From redfish to wild hog, the avid hunter and fisherman’s new series showcases game-cooking outdoors and the region’s bounty

A woman stands in a greenhouse

Champions of Conservation

Consider this advocate the Johnny Appleseed of one of the South’s most imperiled trees

A man stands in a field

Champions of Conservation

A young tribal leader and environmental scientist defends his people’s disappearing bayou

A man crouches in a field

Champions of Conservation

Native plants and grasses go viral in the hands of a social-media-savvy forester

A woman stands in a field of flowers

Champions of Conservation

One entomologist’s buzzy idea inspires an army of citizen scientists