Field & Stream
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Field & Stream (F&S for short, originally published as Forest and Stream) is a magazine featuring hunting, fishing, and other outdoor activities in the United States. As of 2005, the magazine has been in circulation for over 130 years and has a readership of approximately 10 million. Depending on the season and the availability of information, the magazine may offer advice on deer, bass, birds, trout, shotguns, and rifles. The magazine also offers tricks, survival tips, miscellaneous facts, and sometimes a recipe. In addition to those departments, each issue contains a few featured articles. Field & Stream once worked with Sierra On-Line and Dynamix to create hunting and fishing simulation games.
Founded in New York City by Charles Hallock in 1873 as Forest and Stream in newspaper format measuring 16" x 11", it published many articles by George W. Sears in the 1880s that helped to popularize canoeing, the Adirondack lakes, self-guided canoe camping tours, and what we today call environmentalism. The magazine merged with Field and Stream in 1930.
Some readers consider Outdoor Life its sister magazine.
Recent issues of this and other magazines have criticized "anti-hunting" groups, such as PeTA.
