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Public lands & waters are key to hunting and fishing in America. This is the latest news that you need to know.

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Ryan Callaghan behind a spotting scope

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

By Natalie Krebs

The Organ Mountains National Monument in New Mexico.

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Former New Mexico Congressman (and Supporter of Public-Land Transfers) Picked to Lead the BLM

By Andrew McKean

Ryan Callaghan has been named the new president and CEO of BHA.

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Ryan ‘Cal’ Callaghan Named the New CEO of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers

By Natalie Krebs, Alex Robinson

ANWR coastal plain

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Trump Administration Opens the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to Drilling

By Natalie Krebs

Federal hatchery workers load fish into a truck.

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2,000 Federal Public-Land Employees Could Lose Jobs Amid Shutdown

By Christine Peterson

A screenshot of iron bar holdings and corner parcels

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Supreme Court Declines to Hear Corner-Crossing Case

By Christine Peterson

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

By Christine Peterson

mike lee just introduced a bad border bill

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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

hunting southeast alaska

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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 drake mallard on the water at a wildlife refuge in Wyoming.

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Feds to Expand Hunting and Fishing Access on 87,000 Acres in 11 States

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

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 government contractor in Arizona whose been threatened and targeted by wild horse advocates.

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This Cowgirl Is Tackling Our Wild Horse Problem. Activists Want Her Dead

A free-ranging horse walks across a forest road in Arizona.

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Podcast: Sued, Sabotaged, and Threatened. Meet the Cowboys Caught in the Middle of the West’s Wild Horse Problem

A waterfowl production area sign.

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Podcast: Are Conservation Groups Spending Our Money Wisely?

By Natalie Krebs

Public land advocates rallied against mike lee's provisions to sell public land

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Breaking: Mike Lee’s Public Land Sale Plan Is Dead

By Andrew McKean

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

Your public lands sign

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Public Land Advocates: Mike Lee’s New Land Sale Plan Is ‘Just a Different Pile of Dog Sh*t’

By Andrew McKean

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

Senator Mike Lee on senate land sale

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Hunters Now Have a Real Chance to Defeat the Public Land Sales Bill. Here’s Why

By Andrew McKean

A tent set up in a Colorado campground.

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Colorado Campground Bans Tents After Black Bear Swats One with Kids Inside

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

Your public lands sign

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Senate Proposes Selling Up to 3 Million Acres of Public Land

By Andrew McKean

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

A red fox dives head-first into a snow bank.

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11 Incredible Wildlife Photos from Yellowstone National Park

By Natalie Krebs

A look at the destruction caused by the 2025 Ice Storm in Michigan.

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A Massive Ice Storm in the Midwest Destroyed Millions of Acres of Public Forest. Here’s What Happens Next

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

A vintage black and white photo of a man darting a bear from a helicopter.

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16 Incredible Vintage Hunting and Fishing Photos from an Alaska Wildlife Refuge

By Natalie Krebs

Houses with mountains in background.

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

By Andrew McKean

A composite image of Bruce Westerman and Melonie Stansbury

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Here’s Why the Federal Land Sale Bill Is a Bad Idea, and Horrible Legislation

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

Two hunters walk into the foothills.

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Too Much Public Land Is ‘Landlocked’ by Private Property. This New Program Is Helping Hunters and Anglers Access It

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 national wildlife refuge sign

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Oklahoma Is Making Nonresidents Get Permission, Pay $100 to Hunt Public Land

By Alice Jones Webb

Land Tawney with a strap of ducks and mountains behind him.

Public Lands & Waters

Podcast: Land Tawney, America’s Great Public Lands Agitator, Is Back and Ready for a Fight

By Alex Robinson

A skull on public land.

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The BLM Public Lands Rule Has Been ‘Marked for Death’

A hiker looks over a lush forest in Oregon.

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Most Americans Want More Public Land, Not Less, Poll Shows

Kathleen Sgamma testifies in a public hearing.

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Oil-Industry Pick to Lead the BLM Withdraws Amid Revelations She Once Criticized the President

Black hills utah

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

By Andrew McKean

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

An illustration of a kid holding up a big bass

Public Lands & Waters

The Unmaking of an Ozark Stream, and One Last, Giant Bass with My Grandpa

By Larry Dablemont

Two workers look over an open-pit mine.

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New Executive Order Aims to Make Mining the Primary Use of Public Lands at ‘As Many Sites As Possible’

A tract of public land in the Pahrump Valley in Nevada.

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Plan to Sell Off ‘Underutilized’ Federal Land for Affordable Housing Is Ineffective and Inefficient, Experts Say

Corner crossing ruled legal in Wyoming.

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Appeals Court Rules That Corner Crossing Is Legal in at Least Six States

By Andrew McKean

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 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 public land sign with a pumpjack in the background.

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How Seriously Should We Take the Sale of Federal Lands? Very Seriously, Experts Say

By Andrew McKean

Poll: 65 Percent of Westerners Oppose Giving States Control of Federal Land

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Poll: 65 Percent of Westerners Oppose Giving States Control of Federal Land

By Christine Peterson

An illustration of a bedded pronghorn with president teddy Roosevelt lying in the brush behind it

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President Teddy Roosevelt Conserved Millions of Acres of Federal Lands. It Was His Greatest Legacy

By Jim McCafferty

A USFS firefighter.

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Feds Fire 4,400+ Public-Land Employees, Including Forest Service Workers, National Park Staff

By Christine Peterson

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 road with public land BLM sign

Public Lands & Waters

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

By Andrew McKean

A canyon in the Chuckwalla Mountains.

Public Lands & Waters

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

By Natalie Krebs

A red rock canyon on Utah's BLM land.

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Supreme Court Declines to Hear Utah’s Public-Lands Lawsuit

By Andrew McKean