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Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. One week after the closure of an unusually short comment period on drainage practices in the Prairie Pothole Region, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service acknowledged the sheer volume of public feedback around a decades-long policy that directly influences the health of critical duck breeding grounds. More than 219,000 comments were submitted to a Request for Information in just 14 days, prompting the USFWS to conclude in a Friday afternoon X post that “at this time, no further action is planned as we review the…

For veterans seeking treatment for PTSD, depression, anxiety or substance use disorders, the question sounds simple: If a treatment exists, why can’t I get it through the VA?The answer is more complicated than whether the Food and Drug Administration has approved it. Inside the Department of Veterans Affairs, a treatment can pass one scientific hurdle and still face others before it becomes routine care. VA says the process can involve research, clinical guidelines, medication reviews, patient-safety systems, ethics reviews and practical questions about whether the health system has the staff, space and equipment to deliver it.“VA moves new treatments into…

Airmen in two squadrons deployed to rescue five Navy personnel following an aircraft incident in California last week.Airmen from the 355th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, assigned to the 355th Wing but located at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, alongside the 88th Test and Evaluation Squadron, deployed two HH-60W Jolly Green II helicopters to rescue the Navy personnel near Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, California, according to a Monday release.The “aircraft mishap” occurred on Aug. 10, per the release. The 88th received initial notification regarding the Navy MH-60S Seahawk hard landing in mountainous terrain during a high-altitude training flight around 11:30…

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics Angler Tim Durheim was fishing with a bunch of law enforcement buddies aboard the “F/V Four Sea’Sons” on Aug. 15 when they landed a remarkable marlin — one that will likely break a 21-year-old record. Running the 50-foot charter boat were two captains, Capt. Robbie Norman and Capt. Danny Schenk, both from the town of Ilwaco, Washington. “We’d had a good morning trolling lures, with a couple of bluefin tuna and over a dozen albacore,” says Schenk, 59. “It was almost 1 p.m. when I saw…

Celebrities come and go in Middleburg, Virginia, a Piedmont hamlet of fewer than 1,000 people, where horses outnumber the residents ten to one and beagles and foxhounds abound.John and Jackie Kennedy, Sen. John Warner and his wife Elizabeth Taylor, Linda Tripp of Clinton-Lewinsky fame, and, as of last month, Vice President JD Vance and his family, all have resided without fanfare in this pastoral area an hour from Washington, D.C.But the region’s newest neighbors — the U.S. Army and 73 horses of the Old Guard’s Caisson Detachment — have divided a community that values the proper care of the horses…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. The Trump Administration today announced its intention to scrap a moratorium on road-building in remote, fire-prone backcountry areas. Rescinding the so-called Roadless Rule could result in road construction, road reconstruction, and timber harvesting across more than 44 million acres of America’s richest fish and wildlife habitat. In today’s announcement, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which manages the U.S. Forest Service, cited “rising wildfire risk” as the primary reason for proposing to rescind the 2001 rule. But a peer-reviewed study of fire ecology published in January…

Newly released bodycam footage shows a bloody-faced U.S. Marine Corps pilot encountering local authorities after ejecting from a F/A-18 Hornet in Washington state two months ago.On June 13, a pilot assigned to Marine Aircraft Group 11, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, safely ejected from the aircraft after an aviation mishap while conducting a routine training exercise.The incident occurred on the south side of Rimrock Lake near Bear Cove in Yakima County, Washington, where the aircraft crashed into the mountainside, sparking a wildfire in the area shortly after.The pilot emerged from a wooded area and approached a law enforcement officer from the…

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics It was a bright, calm morning off the coast of Mississippi on August 15  when my son Eric McNally and five buddies ran out of Biloxi for some daybreak spotted seatrout action. “It was so hot we didn’t want to run offshore, so we headed to an inshore place at dawn where we could fish for a couple hours,” Eric tells Outdoor Life. “We got to our spot just as the sun was rising above the Gulf. We all got into the water, because wading is…

A U.S. judge ordered on Monday the release of a Kentucky woman who was accused of vandalism at the World War II Memorial ‌in Washington last week, court records showed.U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, the top federal prosecutor in Washington, criticized the order that led to the release of the woman, Melissa Farris, 41, who was taken ​into custody last week and charged with two felony counts.Court documents showed Farris agreed to conditions of her release, including surrendering her passport and not leaving the continental U.S. unless approved by court.The Justice Department urged a reconsideration of Monday’s order and said the…

Both Silver and Gold Make Breakouts President Trump spoke at a Department of State roundtable announcing major new U.S. mining investments, framing them as restoring America as a “minerals superpower” and achieving economic independence after decades of decline. That should be all you need to know in order to understand what’s already started in the gold sector, after this massive consolidation we have been seeing since January 28th! Look at the leveraged gold miners index in the past few weeks! I love this index, because I can be very aggressive, when I believe in the thesis and I have. What…

China’s Unitree Robotics — among the world’s biggest producers of humanoid and quadruped robots — based designs for its most successful robot dogs on innovations funded by the U.S. military, according to a former U.S. defense technology official and three top researchers involved in the project.Unitree’s $1,600 Go2 model, launched in 2023, helped the company rapidly dominate the global quadruped robot market — its Shanghai IPO has drawn frenzied demand. Another Unitree robot has been shown on Chinese state television, armed and accompanying People’s Liberation Army (PLA) troops on an exercise. These robots draw on breakthroughs in quadruped movement financed…

He Wants That Gold… You should have seen it… Or maybe you have… Trump conducted the mining roundtable and one of the participants gifted the president with gold. Trump nearly drooled over it! Hosted by the State Department, the United States of America is going back to mining its own minerals and securing its sovereignty and its supply chains and cutting its reliance on China to the bare minimum. If you think that the dollar can maintain global reserve currency status, when the world’s two major powers are vying for the lead, each with its own way of viewing life,…

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) concluded its Lift Challenge last week, and although none of the participants achieved the desired goal of building a drone capable of lifting four times its weight, they came close. The agency announced that the company AVIDrone pushed the limits with its electric helicopter design that lifted an unprecedented payload-to-weight ratio of 3.84 to 1.In practical terms, that means the company’s Katana heavy-lift drone, weighing 29.3 pounds, lifted and carried a payload weight of 112.4 pounds across approximately five nautical miles. AVIDrone, a Canadian company with U.S. headquarters in Maryland, specializes in cargo…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks Regional Warden Supervisor Louis Kis from Kalispell has successfully relocated many grizzly bears over the years. There have been a couple of close calls, but none had resulted in injuries to bears or people, until June 24, 1987. On that day, Kis planned to release an adult male weighing approximately 500 pounds from a lightweight aluminum live-trap, but everything went terribly wrong. The grizzly had been caught on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, which borders Glacier National Park, by…

The Profit Machine: The S&P’s True Margin King Listen up, because the mainstream financial media is feeding you garbage while the smart money is orchestrating the trade of the century. We are standing at the epicenter of a historic valuation dislocation. While the herd is chasing tech stocks at nosebleed valuations, gold mining equities are trading at their cheapest levels in over 50 years! Let that sink in. Gold has broken out into uncharted territory, yet the producers of the metal are priced as if we are in a multi-decade depression. This is the definition of a generational mispricing—and the…

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics Have you ever noticed those bright and shiny kids’ kayaks stacked up outside of Walmart during warmer months? I bought one for my son, Jamie, when he turned five last year. They’re so inexpensive that I didn’t mind if it got a little beat up on the lawn while he was using it to pretend fish, but I also knew he’d want to get it on the water. Since the age of three he’d been marveling at and crawling all over daddy’s Old Town Bigwater in…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz issued an executive order Tuesday morning that effectively blocks a controversial mine plan that had been advancing near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.  In April Congress voted to roll back protections within the Rainy River Headwaters Watershed, which is the network of rivers and lakes that runs through the most popular wilderness area in the country. That rollback opened the door for a Chilean mining conglomerate, Antofagasta PLC, to advance its plan for a copper-nickel mine within the watershed. Outdoorsmen…

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With questions about stockpiles swirling, the U.S. Army is issuing a call to ramp up production of ground-launched rockets. The service sent out a request this week for manufacturing 133,014 Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System, or GMLRS, rockets by 2034, according to the Army’s Sources Sought notice. Contractors have until Sept. 1 to submit white papers on plans to meet that quota. The timeline calls for churning out 19,002 rockets per year from 2028 to 2034, with the first actual deliveries starting in February 2030. “The scope of the contract includes production, tooling, engineering change proposals, and supporting activities of…

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