Policy & Legislation (Page 2)

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

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Idaho Bans Cellular Trail Cameras on Public Land, Hunting Deer and Elk with Thermals, and More

By Natalie Krebs

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The President’s Budget Proposal Slashes BLM Staff, Refuge and Migratory Bird Funding, and Much More

By Christine Peterson

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Another New PAC Is Targeting Anti-Public-Land Lawmakers. This One’s in Idaho

By Christine Peterson

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If You Want to Vote Out Anti-Public-Land Politicians, Pay Attention to What This Wyoming PAC Just Did

By Christine Peterson

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It’s a Dark Day for the Boundary Waters and the Future of Public Lands. Here’s How We Got Here

By Dac Collins

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The USDA Just Finalized Faster Environmental Reviews for Public-Land Projects

By Christine Peterson

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Online Retail Giant Bows to Activists by Banning Fur Sales. It’s Hurting Conservation and American Trappers

By Natalie Krebs

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‘A Total Threat to My Way of Life.’ New Wyoming PAC Aims to Oust Anti-Public-Land Politicians

By Natalie Krebs

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Kentucky Wildlife Officials Want to Restrict Wakeboats. State Lawmakers Won’t Let Them

By Dac Collins

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Roadless Areas Provide 10 Times Better Elk Hunting and Support the Best Trout Streams in the West, Study Shows

By Dac Collins

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Podcast: We Lived in the Boundary Waters for an Entire Year

By Dac Collins

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Colorado Advances Fur Ban, Contradicting Public Opinion and Biologist Recommendations

By Dac Collins

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High-Fence Ranches in Idaho Promised Biosecurity. Then Elk Started Escaping, and Wild Deer and Moose Broke in

By Christine Peterson

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Podcast: Randy Newberg’s Forecast for Our Public Lands Has Some Surprising Good News

By Natalie Krebs

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The Interior Just Gutted a Bedrock Conservation Law That Will Affect Public Lands Everywhere

By Christine Peterson

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What’s So Bad About Stevan Pearce, Trump’s Pick to Run the BLM? For Starters, His Public-Land Track Record

By Andrew McKean

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Trump Administration Defends the Pebble Mine Veto in a Win for Wild Salmon

By Dac Collins

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The Forest Service Wants to ‘Streamline’ How Your Public Lands Are Managed by Giving You Less Opportunity to Comment

By Dac Collins

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Indiana Lawmakers Move to Abolish Natural Resources Commission, Allowing Regulations to Be Made Without Oversight

By Andrew McKean

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‘Affirmative Action for Cattle.’ Tribes Challenge Fed’s Plan to Revoke Bison-Grazing Leases on Public Land

By Dac Collins

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‘These Are Billionaire Executives Looking to Silence Public Criticism.’ Proposed Florida Law Would Limit Conservationists from Disparaging the Sugarcane Industry 

By Dac Collins

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Animal-Rights Activists Are Attempting a Ban So Absurd That It Would Affect ‘Every Oregonian’

By Natalie Krebs

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South Dakota Is Preparing for Suppressor Deregulation. These 16 States Should Follow Suit

By Natalie Krebs

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BLM Says American Prairie’s Bison Can No Longer Graze on Public Lands

By Dac Collins

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House Votes to Strip Critical Boundary Waters Protections in a Blow to Sportsmen and Public Lands

By Christine Peterson

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Feds Announce Plan to Overhaul the Endangered Species Act. It Throws Out Science and Adds (More) Red Tape

By Christine Peterson

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The EPA Is Gutting the Clean Water Act, Which Has Protected Fish and Game for 53 Years

By Christine Peterson

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This Mind-Boggling Commercial Fishing Practice Is Robbing Alaska’s Anglers

By Dac Collins

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Outdoor Life Podcast: Is Ryan Callaghan the Optimist Our Public Lands Need?

By Natalie Krebs

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Congress Throws 166 Million Acres of BLM into Limbo by Upending Decades of Local Compromise

By Christine Peterson

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Senator Lee Is Back with His Attack on Public Lands. This Time He Wants to Butcher the Wilderness Act Under the Guise of Border Security

By Christine Peterson

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More Than 99 Percent of Americans Disapprove of Roadless Rule Rollbacks, According to New Analysis

By Dac Collins

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Why the Roadless Rule Is Important for Hunters and Anglers

By Bjorn Dihle

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

By Andrew McKean

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

By Dac Collins

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Podcast: Are Conservation Groups Spending Our Money Wisely?

By Natalie Krebs

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Pennsylvania Officially Repeals Its Centuries-Old Ban on Sunday Hunting

By Dac Collins

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

By Dac Collins

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

By Natalie Krebs

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

By Andrew McKean

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Silencer Deregulation Plan Fails in the Senate

By Natalie Krebs

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USDA Revokes Roadless Rule Nationwide to Increase Logging Efforts

By Natalie Krebs

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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

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

By Andrew McKean

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

By Dac Collins

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

By Andrew McKean

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

By Natalie Krebs

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

By Andrew McKean

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House Republicans Kill Provision to Sell Public Lands

By Andrew McKean

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

By Andrew McKean

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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

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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

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

By Andrew McKean

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

By Andrew McKean

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

By Dac Collins

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

By Alice Jones Webb

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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

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

By Andrew McKean

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

By Dac Collins

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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