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Man in camoflage shirt poses behind immobile deer.

Photo of Adam Johnson with his first deer taken during Field to Fork. Photo courtesy of QDMA.

Newcomers to ancient practice

Beginners learn how to hunt, put food on the table

Hunting has been a part of human life for thousands of years and was a necessity for early human survival. There were no grocery stores where meat could be purchased. Humans were completely self-sufficient. This tradition of self-sufficiency was part of the driving force that inspired Adam Johnson to begin exploring the sport of hunting. Johnson, 39, went hunting a few times on his own, but said those outings were little more than stumbling around, figuratively as well as literally, in the woods.

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December 14, 2020 | 2 minute readLouisiana Partners for Fish and Wildlife helps recover federally threatened Louisiana pearlshell mussel
December 10, 2020 | 3 minute readFish and Wildlife Service helps Alabama acquire wonderful habitat for rare salamander
November 30, 2020 | 3 minute readCoastal Program funds survey for Venus flytrap

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Purple and transluscent salamander on a forest floor

Red Hills salamander. Photo by Emmett Blankenship, USFWS

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources conserve salamander habitat

MONROEVILLE, ALABAMA – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources celebrated Thursday the acquisition of nearly 5,000 acres for the federally threatened Red Hills salamander. In all, 11,000 acres of prime salamander habitat in south Alabama will be protected and opened for recreation, including hunting. The Service awarded $9 million in endangered species recovery grants – the largest ever distributed in the Southeast – to Alabama for conservation at the Forever Wild Red Hills Complex.

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