THE WILDLIFE NEWS • February 26, 2026
A look through almost any hunting equipment catalog reveals a plethora of tools available to the modern hunter: trail cameras that photograph and record animal movements; game scanners; hearing enhancers; night-vision goggles; thermal and infrared scopes; rangefinders; variable-power riflescopes; latex calls; animal scents; how-to books and videos; state-by-state hunting statistics; ATVs with gun mounts; drones; GPS-based mapping systems — thousands of gadgets designed to increase a hunter’s chance of finding and killing wildlife. Technology has saturated the world of hunting. Opening day — D-Day — the assault begins. At least hunters aren’t calling in air strikes on elk, although they probably would if they could. There is, indeed, a war underway against wildlife.