Yes, you can make a life out of it. Find a good Wildlife management / biology program at a university and attend college there. Do a minor in English or journalism if you want to pursue writing as well.

From here the doors are open to what you make of it. Working for a private firm as a consultant to state and local wildlife management programs is an option. Working for the state department of conservation is another, teaching at a college level about the field, there are many options in this realm.

Find a handful of people in any of the hunting magazines that write articles and look up what their past was. Many of them were Biologists of some sort as well as life long outdoors men.

This might not be exactly what you want to hear but I hope its enough to get your gears turning.




Here's an Idea of what can be done on a professional level.

Dr. Larkin Powell-Associate Professor of Conservation Biology and Animal Ecology
Dr. Larkin Powell is an associate professor of conservation biology and animal ecology at the School of Natural Resources. He teaches courses in the school’s fisheries and wildlife program, including field courses to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and Puerto Rico. He has an active research lab for M.S. or Ph.D. students and postdoctoral associates. Larkin’s areas of study attempt to explain how management of landscapes affects wildlife populations, and he has worked on projects involving forest and grassland songbirds, upland game birds, sandhill cranes, quail-doves, waterfowl, small mammals, mesopredators, painted turtles, and raptors.