A look at 125 years of conservation victories, starting with Field & Stream’s initial pleas for fish and wildlife protections.
How important is conservation to Field & Stream? Probably the best measure is how many people we have pissed off by taking the stands we have, and how long we have been willing to do it.
In the 1920s, when waterfowlers believed it was their God-given right to shoot every duck and goose they saw, editor Ray Holland had the gall to suggest that we’d better impose some kind of limit on ourselves.
In the 1970s, shooting editor Bob Brister angered a great many people, lots of them in the gun industry, when he argued that it was time to switch to steel shot.
Conservation editor George Reiger was hated by everyone from commercial fishermen to oil companies to James G. Watt, Ronald Reagan’s secretary of the interior, but it didn’t stop Reiger from writing, or the magazine from publishing what he wrote.
There are some fights that you can’t walk away from. —D.E.P. read more
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