A California ban on the use of hounds in bear hunting had a dramatic impact this past year -- the number of bears killed fell sharply. This follows a heated battle in the state legislature between ...

Boomer, an 8-year-old treeing walker coonhound, is one of Tennessee hunter James Tyree’s 13 hounds. And in late August, while tracking black bears in northwestern Ontario, Boomer fell off a cliff and ...

In the early December light, the Arizona Game and Fish Commission meeting room filled with people wearing camouflage clothing and cowboy hats. Hunters from all over the region had traveled to north ...

A Wahkiakum County District Court judge sentenced a Battle Ground man earlier this month for illegally hunting black bear with dogs in a case that began with a tip from a trail camera, according to ...

Imagine a dog breed so loyal and hardworking for centuries that it became a symbol of an entire state. The Plott Hound, the official North Carolina state dog, is more than just a breed, as it's a ...

After two weeks of searching, the community rallied to help bring a missing dog home to her owner. David Ingram’s walker hound dog, Koa, ran away on May 5 in Hot Sulphur Springs. On May 18, she was ...

Sportsmen who use hounds to pursue bears can make a case for being the most misunderstood group in the hunting fraternity. When people see their 4-wheel drives rumbling down back roads, CB antennas ...

This story, “A Lean and Angry Bear,” appeared in the May 1971 issue of Outdoor Life. We trailed the sheep killer that morning with some of the best dogs on earth, a pack brought to north-central ...