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Craig Springer

Santa Fe
As seen in: Albuquerque Journal, Texas Co-op Power, Fishing Tackle Retailer, Sporting Classics Daily, Shooting Industry Magazine, Field Ethos Journal, Ohio Cooperative Living
Covers:  Outdoors, nature, conservation, fishing, hunting, history, Americana, general interests.

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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 with my O/U .20 ga. If my wife and children are with me, all the better. I retired from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, a biologist, after 32 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. fishe…

Craig Springer’s Journalist Portfolio

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March is the Cruelest Month | Field Ethos

March is the Cruelest Month | Field Ethos

By Craig Springer So long as I have a mind that thinks, I will remember my brother Gary...

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Accountability demanded at Estancia Valley Classical Academy

Accountability demanded at Estancia Valley Classical Academy

Enrollment at Estancia Valley Classical Academy in Edgewood, a public charter school, has drastically decline…

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Indians, Hunting Dogs & The Rise of the NFL Halftime Show | Field Ethos

Indians, Hunting Dogs & The Rise of the NFL Halftime Show | Field Ethos

By Craig Springer Leather helmet football played in the driving snow on a muddy gridiron must have really...

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From winter-deep pools, Rio Grande cutthroat trout call

From winter-deep pools, Rio Grande cutthroat trout call

From the column: Neil Young's "Decade" album was among my first pieces of music on vinyl. Not until well into…

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Celebrating 75 Years of Anglers' Contributions to Conservation

Celebrating 75 Years of Anglers' Contributions to Conservation

Whether it's catch-and-release or hook-and-cook, fishing is conservation-and has been for 75 years-codified i…

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Winter Spirits

Winter Spirits

The colorful northern cardinal lives over the entirety of Ohio, and that alone is reason enough for the state…

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Articles

Wild Turkey Restoration and Management

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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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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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Drones and Whitetails - Shooting Industry Magazine

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By Craig Springer
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A pair of hunters reap the rewards of wildlife management Kerr WMA. Image courtesy TPWD. Interested people are interesting. It’s cliché, but true: enthusiasm is infectious. Spend time talking to wildlife and fisheries professionals and you will find that their occupation is not just a job. So it is with Deanna Pfeffer, a wildlife biologist with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, whose enthusiasm for conservation is readily apparent.
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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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