00:00:01 Speaker 1: Welcome to Backwoods University, a place where we focus on wildlife, wild places and the people who dedicate their lives to conserving both. Big shout out to onex Hunt for their support of this podcast. 00:00:14 Speaker 2: I’m your host, Lake Pickle, and. 00:00:16 Speaker 1:…

HONOLULU—In China, the United States is facing “a strategic competitor that offers a new level of challenge,” and must move quickly to close gaps in manufacturing and secure access to critical minerals, the assistant defense secretary for industrial base policy said.“When you look at China, they have 30 percent of…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has narrowed the U.S.’s objectives in Iran to three, scrapping President Donald Trump’s recent calls for “unconditional surrender” and a “great and acceptable leader” to replace the assassinated Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The U.S. military is entering day 11 of its campaign to destroy Iranian missile capabilities, destroy…

00:00:01 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundations podcast, your guide to the fundamentals of better deer hunting, presented by first Light, creating proven versatile hunting apparel for the stand, saddle or blind. First Light, Go Farther, Stay Longer, and now your host Tony Peterson. 00:00:20 Speaker 2:…

00:00:01 Speaker 1: In the first half of the twentieth century, America came very close to destroying its wolves, which were saved by the insights of a new science that changed the country’s understanding of predators. I’m Dan Flores and this is the American West, brought to you by Velvet…

The Defense Department is reupping its search for civilian employees to deploy to the southwest border to participate in immigration-enforcement operations—and asking supervisors to solicit volunteers. The Pentagon first asked its civilian workers to consider volunteering for assignments to the Homeland Security Department last year. On Monday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth upped the…

Anthropic is suing more than a dozen federal agencies and government leaders such as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, claiming that the federal government’s blacklist is illegal retaliation.In a March 9 court filing with the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California, Anthropic claims that defendants named in the lawsuit are illegally…

On Wednesday, after a day of impassioned public comment and sometimes baffling deliberations, the Colorado Parks & Wildlife Commission voted 6-4 to advance a citizen’s petition to prohibit the lawful sale, barter, and trade of wildlife fur. This vote is a win for animal rights groups, but it’s far from…

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