Open Country

Join the fight to access your public lands

What’s Next for Citizen Conservation?
By Andrew McKeanJanuary 21, 2020
Conservation organizations are changing tactics in order to recruit and retain hunters
Elk Hunting a Secret Public-Land Spot in the Utah Backcountry
By Natalie KrebsAram Von BenediktJanuary 17, 2020
Public land is owned by everyone, but wilderness only truly belongs to those who are willing to brave it
Founding a Local Conservation Club is Harder Than it Seems
By Andrew McKeanJanuary 16, 2020
The highs and lows of the go-it-alone conservation model.
New Legislation Aimed at Protecting Minnesota’s Boundary Waters
By Ben LongJanuary 16, 2020
Congress introduced a bipartisan bill that would protect the Boundary Waters against the threat of pollution forever
How National Critter Groups Replaced Local Conservation Clubs
By Andrew McKeanJanuary 15, 2020
The local conservation club is not a new idea. In fact, it’s an idea nearly as old as America’s citizen conservation movement.
Goodbye to a Critter Group, and the Birth of the Hi-Line Sportsmen
By Andrew McKeanJanuary 14, 2020
Fueled by disappointment and cheap beer, a group of Montana outdoorsmen and women decide to start their own local conservation organization

WHAT WE DO

In order to hunt or fish, you need a place to do it, and Open Country is committed to sportsmen's access—getting it, keeping it, defending it, and celebrating it—so that you always have that place.