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Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. This story, “End of a Desert Bear,” appeared in the Sept. 1949 issue. The last Mexican grizzly bear reportedly died in the 1960s, and the subspecies is presumed extinct. ONE AFTERNOON in the spring of the year 1910, Ben Lilly with five of his dogs swung off the caboose of a freight train at the little Mexican town of Gallegos in the state of Chihuahua.  It had been an arduous ride and Lilly was sick of the train smells and the…

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Two MH-139A Grey Wolf helicopters completed their first operational mission Jan. 8, escorting a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile convoy, the U.S. Air Force announced Wednesday.Piloted by Capt. Michael White and Capt. Maxwell Turner, the aircraft from the 40th Helicopter Squadron at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana, shepherded a convoy of missile maintenance and armored security vehicles from the 341st Missile Security Operations Squadron to a remote launch facility more than 100 miles east of the base, according to a service release. The six-hour mission was completed without refueling.The MH-139A, a militarized variant of Boeing’s Leonardo AW139, offers significant upgrades…

National Guard troops will be on the streets of Washington, D.C., until the end of the year, according to a memo reviewed by The Associated Press.The memo, signed by Army Secretary Dan Driscoll and dated Wednesday, said “the conditions of the mission” warranted an extension past the end of next month to continue supporting President Donald Trump’s “ongoing efforts to restore law and order.”Meanwhile, Trump has at least temporarily dropped his push to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon, which had provoked legal challenges. He also backed off a bit Friday from his threat a…

The U.S. Coast Guard didn’t meet its drug interdiction goals for 10 years, in part because it redirected a bulk of its efforts toward migrant interdiction at sea, an independent government watchdog found.The Coast Guard failed to meet its metrics for drug interdiction efforts between 2015 and 2024 and missed its migrant interdiction goals for six of those years, despite funneling resources from drug seizure efforts to migrant interdiction, according to a Government Accountability Office report published Tuesday.Part of the reshuffling of Coast Guard assets was due to limited resources, including the dwindling availability of vessels and aircraft, delays in…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. Call it beginner’s luck, or just being in the right place with the right people. Either way, Chase Parker of Minnesota had one of the most exciting opening days an elk hunter could ask for in October, when he traveled to Alaska to chase Roosevelt elk. Hunting Afognak Island with a friend and his uncle, Parker killed a huge 6×6 bull on opening day that is now the state’s pending No. 1 elk in the Boone & Crockett book. The three…

This article was originally published by Zoey Sky at Natural News.  Yulia Timoshenko, a major opposition figure, is facing new criminal charges for allegedly organizing a scheme to buy parliamentary votes. This comes at a time when President Zelensky’s government is already unstable and struggling to pass legislation. The investigation is conducted by anti-corruption agencies (NABU and SAPO) that Timoshenko recently tried to weaken. Last year, she supported a bill to strip these agencies of their independence, which was only reversed after Western pressure. This makes the timing of the charges seem politically suspicious. Timoshenko denies wrongdoing, calling the raid a “publicity…

In the face of “concerning trends,” the Justice Department last month wrote to state occupational licensing authorities, reminding them of their responsibilities under the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to make it easier for spouses and service members to transfer occupational licenses when they move to another state. The SCRA provides for service members and their spouses to continue to use professional licenses or certificates in new states when they move because of military orders. It is an update of a 2023 law that allowed such license transfers.Twenty-eight percent of respondents in a 2024 Defense Department survey of active duty spouses…

The U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Navy have sealed a deal with L3Harris Technologies for 34 large T7 robots to support the services in explosive ordnance disposal missions.The multiyear contract award, announced Wednesday, will see robots delivered to the services this year. The details of the award amount are not being disclosed at this time, an L3Harris spokesperson told Defense News.The T7 is a robust robotic system with a highly maneuverable arm that can lift payloads weighing up to nearly 300 pounds and be fitted with a variety of interchangeable components that allow it to disarm bombs in diverse environments.…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. You might want to retire your binoculars. They’re about to be replaced by Swarovski’s remarkable new image-stabilized spotting scope, the AT/ST Balance. With a pair of these image-stabilized spotting scopes, 50mm and 65mm versions, Swarovski joins Sig Sauer’s OSCAR6 and Kite’s pioneering APC Stabilized 60 to deploy a vibration-reducing (VR) gyroscope inside a field-worthy spotter. The value proposition of all these field scopes is that they make tripods obsolete. But Swarovski, by nailing ergonomics, optical clarity, vibration reduction, and ease of…

U.S. President Donald Trump calls the vessel a new class of “battleship” graced by his own name, but China just calls the U.S. Navy’s latest concept a larger and “easier target” for its growing array of anti-ship drones and missiles. A day after Trump’s Dec. 22 announcement at Mar-a-Lago that he had ordered the construction of a “Trump class” of possibly 20 to 25 battleships, China’s Global Times, a state media outlet, carried an interview with naval researcher Zhang Junshe stating that the type of warship envisioned by Trump would be a ripe target for China’s anti-ship weapons, including the…

The White House insists all options remain “on the table” regarding Iran, with the Islamic Republic convulsed by nationwide protests. President Donald Trump has threatened to intervene if Tehran’s leadership unleashes greater brutality on demonstrators.Egypt, Oman, Saudi Arabia and Qatar have launched a diplomatic push since Tuesday to de-escalate tensions. The regional allies cautioned Washington that an attack on Tehran could trigger a cascade of volatile political and economic consequences across the Middle East. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with Trump on Wednesday to urge the president to forestall military action. Trump on Friday confirmed he held off on…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. Utah inked an agreement with the U.S. Forest Service last week that gives state officials a bigger say in how its roughly 8 million acres of national forests are managed. The deal is a step toward what U.S. Forest Service chief Tom Schultz called a new “role for the states” in managing public lands, and it’s one of several such agreements involving other states. “We’re trying to focus on wildfire prevention, forest health, recreation, grazing, watersheds and all those ways we…