Policy & Legislation (Page 2)

The latest news on policy & legislation that is most important to hunters, anglers, and conservationists.

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Policy & Legislation

Why the Roadless Rule Is Important for Hunters and Anglers

A cow grazes on BLM rangeland.

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Just a Year After It Was Implemented, the BLM Plans to Rescind the Public Lands Rule

By Andrew McKean

A photo of pronghorn on BLM land with oil and gas infrastructure.

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Americans Already Agreed How to Balance Energy Development on Public Land in Their States. The House Just Voted to Undo It

By Andrew McKean

Grading a road in the wilderness.

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You Have Just 3 Weeks to Object to the Roadless Rule Rollback, Which Will Affect 45 Million Wild Acres Across the U.S.

By Andrew McKean

A land for sale sign in the Western U.S.

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A Sneaky Way Lawmakers Can Sell Your Public Land, and 3 Other Things Insiders Won’t Say on the Record

By Christine Peterson

boundary waters canoe area wilderness

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Podcast: “This Type of Mine Has Not Been Done Without Polluting.” Why the Boundary Waters Mine Is a Bad Trade

By Alex Robinson

A meandering river flowing through a meadow.

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Robbing the LWCF Would Hurt America’s Public Lands. Maybe That’s the Point

A waterfowl production area sign.

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Podcast: Are Conservation Groups Spending Our Money Wisely?

By Natalie Krebs

A large white-tailed deer in the woods

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Pennsylvania Officially Repeals Its Centuries-Old Ban on Sunday Hunting

A pair of whitetail deer stand in front of a farm in Pennsylvania.

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Pennsylvania Is Finally About to Legalize Sunday Hunting. Here’s Why Some Lawmakers Are Still Opposed

Take me fishing programs are canceled

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DOGE Cancels ‘Take Me Fishing,’ Even Though It Was Funded by Anglers

By Natalie Krebs

Mike Lee is still trying to sell public land

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Mike Lee Shoves Another Bad Land Sale Provision into the Senate’s Final Budget Bill

By Andrew McKean

Suppressors on rifles. The Hearing Protection Act was stripped from the senate budget bill

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Silencer Deregulation Plan Fails in the Senate

By Natalie Krebs

A big old tree in Tongass NF.

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USDA Revokes Roadless Rule Nationwide to Increase Logging Efforts

By Natalie Krebs

Senator Mike Lee public land sales

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Breaking: Mike Lee’s Plan to Sell Public Lands Fails to Pass Budget Rules. He Promises to Try Again

By Alex Robinson, Andrew McKean

A bull elk looks across grassy plains.

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More Details Emerge Around the Public Land Sale Bill — and It’s Worse Than You Think

By Andrew McKean

BOUNDARY WATERS CANOE AREA WILDERNESS, MINNESOTA- SEPTEMBER: Outdoor enthusiasts travel by canoe through several of the hundreds of fresh water lakes that make up the Boundary Waters in September of 2019 in the northern woods of Minnesota. Motor boats are banned in this protected area of the Superior National Forest wilderness. Environmentalists are worried that recent permits given to mines on the edge of the Boundary Waters might threaten the pristine waters of the region. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Trump Administration Moves to Kill Boundary Waters Protections, Make Way for Proposed Mine

Senator Mike Lee on senate land sale

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The Senate Is Considering Selling Public Land. It Could Be About 2 Million Acres

By Andrew McKean

Boundary Waters lake

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The House Kills Its Plan to Open Mining Near the Boundary Waters

By Natalie Krebs

The arctic national wildlife refuge

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While Public Land Advocates Celebrate House Bill Victory, Several Troubling Provisions Were Passed

By Andrew McKean

A composite image of Ryan Zinke and some quotes about the public land sale

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House Republicans Kill Provision to Sell Public Lands

By Andrew McKean

Houses with mountains in background.

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Public Land Sales Proposal Could Advance at 1 A.M. Tomorrow

By Andrew McKean

A house bill has earmarked federal public land for sale

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An Amendment to Sell Thousands of Acres of Public Land in Nevada and Utah Just Slipped into a House Budget Bill

By Andrew McKean

The sun sets on a perfect September day of paddling and fishing in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area.

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House Committee Weighs Budget Bill That Would Allow Boundary Waters Mine, Approve Ambler Road, and Mandate Massive Coal Leases

By Andrew McKean

A bull elk stands on a hill side

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Idaho Hunters Want Restrictions on Drones, Thermals, and Cellular Trail Cams

By Andrew McKean

Black hills utah

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Congress Is Seriously Considering Public Land Sales as Part of Its New Budget

By Andrew McKean

A USFWS employee runs an airboat across Tule Lake.

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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to Rehire Fired Employees with Backpay

A sweeping view of the Grand Canyon

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Hundreds of Elected Officials Out West Urge Feds to Protect Public Lands

By Alice Jones Webb

A barred owl flies through the trees.

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Lawmakers Ask Trump to Stop the $1.3 Billion Plan to Shoot 450,000 Non-Native Barred Owls

By Alice Jones Webb

national wildlife refuge USFWS employee

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As Trump Attempts to Reform Federal Government, Hunters and Anglers Face ‘Unintended Consequences’

By Andrew McKean

A hunter glasses for game from atop a snowy ridge.

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Utah Wants to Prevent Anti-Hunter Takeover by Requiring All Wildlife Board Members to Have a Hunting License

A grizzly bear walking through the woods in the snow.

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The Endangered Species Act Has Been ‘Warped by Decades of Radical Environmental Litigation,’ Says Lawmaker Who Wants to Overhaul It

By Natalie Krebs

A BLM firefighter works a line.

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Federal Judge Rules Firing Public-Land Workers Was Illegal, Agrees It ‘Will Inflict Immediate, Foreseeable Harm’ to Habitat and Wildlife

A mountain lion feeding on a dead deer.

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Wyoming Lawmakers Tried to Declare Open Season on Mountain Lions. Local Houndsmen Shut It Down

By Christine Peterson

A wolf in the snow in Wyoming

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A Bill That Would’ve Outlawed Running Over Wolves, Coyotes with Snowmachines Failed in Wyoming

By Christine Peterson

Great Lakes wolves

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Wisconsin, Colorado Lawmakers Move to Delist Gray Wolves Across the Lower 48

By Natalie Krebs

Two hunters walk up a canyon trail.

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Wyoming Senators Demand 50 Million Acres of Federal Land. It’s Part of a Coordinated Land-Grab by Western States

Doug Burgum is sworn in as DOI secretary

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North Dakota Governor and Retired Software Exec Doug Burgum Confirmed as Interior Secretary

By Andrew McKean

Caribou with antlers feeding on snow-covered tundra with oilfield pipeline in background

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Trump Orders Resource Development on Alaska Public Lands ‘to the Fullest Extent Possible,’ But May Also Restore Hunting Opportunities

By Natalie Krebs

A herd of mule deer, likely about to bolt.

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Trump’s Order to Pause Federal Grants Causes Chaos in the Conservation World

By Andrew McKean, Natalie Krebs

A road with public land BLM sign

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Here’s What Hunting and Conservation Groups Are Asking of the Trump Administration

By Andrew McKean

A canyon in the Chuckwalla Mountains.

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A New Bill Would Strip the President’s Power to Designate National Monuments

By Natalie Krebs

south dakota rooster

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The Federal Walk-In Hunting Access Program Won’t Be Funded in 2025. An Even Bigger Budget Battle Looms in the Next Farm Bill

By Alex Robinson

Four deer lit up with a thermal on a prairie.

Policy & Legislation

Survey: Idaho Big-Game Hunters Would Ban Drones and Thermals, But Keep Most Other Tech

By Andrew McKean

Snowy Alaska range

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Congress Passes Two Outdoor Bills That Include Better Shooting Range Access, Implications for Lead Tackle

By Andrew McKean

A monarch butterfly on thistle.

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Feds Propose Listing the Monarch Butterfly Under the Endangered Species Act

By Andrew McKean

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Here’s What a Second Donald Trump Presidential Term Could Mean for Outdoorsmen, Gun Owners, and Conservationists

By Andrew McKean

Policy & Legislation

Here’s What a Harris-Walz Administration Might Mean for Outdoorsmen, Conservationists, and Gun Owners

By Andrew McKean

A hunter and his dog kneel behind a crowd.

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Colorado’s Prop 127 Is an Attack on Modern Wildlife Management and the Science that Guides It

A trout being held in a net.

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Denver’s Proposed Fur Ban Could Be a Serious Problem for Fly Shops and Fishermen

By Cameron Evans

tim walz hunting

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How (and Why) We Cover Politics at Outdoor Life

By Alex Robinson

MANKATO, MN. - OCTOBER 2015: Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Commissioner Tom Landwehr and U.S. House Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) party First District Congressman Tim Walz posed for a group photo at the dedication of the newly enlarged O.A. Vee Memorial State Wildlife Management Area near Mankato, Minn., as part of the Governor's Pheasant Opener, Friday, October 10, 2015. (Photo by Glen Stubbe/Minnesota Star Tribune via Getty Images)

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Harris-Walz Campaign Launches Coalition of Hunters and Anglers as It Tries to Appeal to Rural Men

By Andrew McKean

A buck pronghorn is an animal that would benefit from the National Grasslands Act.

Policy & Legislation

The Long-Awaited Grasslands Conservation Act Is Finally Introduced in Congress

By Andrew McKean

Bears Ears National Monument

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Final Bears Ears National Monument Plan Bans All Recreational Shooting on 1.3 Million Acres of Federal Land

By Andrew McKean

A bull elk raises his head near a feeding cow.

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Should Idaho Restrict Hi-Tech Hunting Gear? State Officials Want to Know

By Andrew McKean

A backyard view of a lake in Pennsylvania.

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Lawsuit Accuses Pennsylvania Officer of Snooping on Private Property, Seeks to Limit Powers of the Fish and Boat Commission

Game wardens wearing body cameras.

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Should All Game Wardens Wear Body Cams? Washington State Thinks So

A whitetail buck in the woods.

Policy & Legislation

Instead of Banning Lead Outright, Feds to Try Paying Hunters to Use Non-Toxic Ammo on Certain Wildlife Refuges

HSUS's Maine state director, Katie Hansberry, hands out pamphlets at farmers market in the state in 2013, urging a referendum to be put on the ballot to ban bear hunting by baiting, with hounds or by trapping.

Policy & Legislation

Podcast: Here’s How Hunting Gets Banned

By Alex Robinson

Caribou in Alaska

Policy & Legislation

The Federal Government Is Increasing Hunting Restrictions and Limiting Access on Millions of Acres of Public Land in Alaska with These 4 Measures

A mountain lion in the trees.

Policy & Legislation

Anti-Hunting Group Gets Enough Signatures to Put a Cougar Hunting Ban on the Colorado Ballot This Fall

By Natalie Krebs

A pair of caribou with antlers face off on a tundra hillock.

Policy & Legislation

BLM Officially Blocks the Ambler Road, a 211-Mile Industrial Corridor Through Alaska’s Iconic Brooks Range

By Natalie Krebs

William shatner flips off the camera.

Policy & Legislation

First Nations Group Demands Apology After William Shatner Tells Salmon Farmers to ‘F*ck Off’

Georgia landowner confronts kayak fisherman.

Policy & Legislation

Watch: Landowner Tells Kayaker There’s No Fishing Allowed on ‘His’ Side of the River