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Craig Springer

Santa Fe
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Craig Springer’s Biography

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Words have a way with me. I enjoy catching native trout, or walking behind my Lab the color of a biscuit in the blue grouse woods of northern New Mexico. If my wife and children are with me, all the better. I retired from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, a biologist, after 33 years. Authored and co-authored three books. America's Bountiful Waters (Stackpole) is my favorite; Education: Hocking College, A.A.S., recreation and wildlife; New Mexico State University, B.S. fisheries science; Unive…

Craig Springer’s Journalist Portfolio

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Jurassic Pork

Jurassic Pork

Sport Fish Restoration dollars fund the conservation of America's oddest fish.

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Drones and Whitetails - Partner with a Payer

Drones and Whitetails - Partner with a Payer

The leading-edge conservation work was an intersection science, technology, know-how, and reliable Pittman-Ro…

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Cross-state Cooperation Expands Brook Trout Angling - Partner with a Payer

Cross-state Cooperation Expands Brook Trout Angling - Partner with a Payer

There's a quality in the quantity of brook trout populations on the rise, thanks to Sport Fish Restoration.

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Sharing the Wild Harvest - Partner with a Payer

Sharing the Wild Harvest - Partner with a Payer

Beyond gestures, real or perceived, this is fact: hunters commonly share the bounty of the harvest; it's a cu…

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Jefferson's townships

Jefferson's townships

In 1774, the Ohio Country was a vast land populated by a host of Native American tribes, and the British Crow…

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10 Fish and 95,000 Clues About Striped Bass Movement in the Great Pee Dee River - Fishing Tackle ...

10 Fish and 95,000 Clues About Striped Bass Movement in the Great Pee Dee River - Fishing Tackle ...

We now have a better understanding of striper habitat use and movements in the Great Pee Dee River thanks to …

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Articles

Don’t Fence Me In

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By Craig Springer
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A helicopter gains on a herd of pronghorn bounding over western Oklahoma grasslands. A net gunner visible on the starboard side of the aircraft will corral the speedsters so that researchers can fit them with radios and collect other biological data. Credit Dr. Levi Heffelfinger Texas A&M - Kingsville. A state highway that reels off into the distance looks like a sun-scorched gray-black ribbon laid over tawny grassy hills.
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Wild Turkey Restoration and Management

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By Craig Springer
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Image courtesy Craig Springer Regulated hunting has never caused the local extinction of any wildlife species. In fact, quite the opposite is true. Hunting regulations informed by science, created under the aegis of the firearms and archery industries through the reliable and steady funding under Pittman-Robertson, are responsible for the unparalleled restoration of birds and mammals in America from a nadir a century ago. Ample examples exist, but case in point here, let’s consider the wild turkey.
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Sharing the Wild Harvest

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By Craig Springer
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Via Pittman-Robertson dollars a West Virginia wildlife biologist prepared vaccine for a bull elk. Image courtesy Elena Cambell USFWS My freezer has a generous portion of a back strap from a Kansas whitetail in the meat drawer. It’s wrapped in white butcher paper, rather nondescript save for the black ink that tells what is swaddled within. The venison was a gift, a gesture of goodwill from a dear neighbor who had the good fortune to harvest a nice buck with his child.
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Have you ever used a typewriter?

Used to could.

What tools and software do you use to do your job?

MacBook's Pages, iPhone 14's camera, and a lexicon I started writing 20 years ago.

Who do you wish followed you?

Dead men who live on: Robert Barnwell Roosevelt, and Dr. O. Eugene Maughan, fisheries professor.

Awards

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Association for Conservation Information

Book

New Mexico State University, Alum of the Year, College of Agriculture

Service

American Fisheries Society

Outreach

Recognized for excellent in communicating science to non-scientists.

Outdoor Writers Association of America

Magazine--All About the Common Carp

Excellence in Craft.

Statewide Editors Association

2024 - Short feature

Nature’s Fireworks: Fireflies

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