THIS LAND.

Photographs by CHRISTINA HOLMES HOW IMPORTANT IS CONSERVATION to FIELD & STREAM? 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. 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. [Extracted from the article]