Recent Land Articles

There's a version of this story that almost sounds reasonable. Move a federal agency out of Washington D.C., get it closer to the land it actually manages, cut through the bureaucratic fog that builds up when you're 2,000 miles from the forests you're supposed to be overseeing. On the surface, the

There's an old saying among serious hunters and anglers — the best spots are always a few miles past where the last guy quit walking. Turns out, the data agrees. A recently released report from Trout Unlimited has put hard numbers behind something outdoorsmen have known for generations: when it com

One of America's Most Unique Wild Places Gets a Major Win for Hunters, Anglers, and Anyone Who Values What's Left of the Wild South The Okefenokee Swamp has survived a lot over the centuries. Hurricanes, drought, wildfire. But the biggest threat it faced in recent memory didn't come from nature —

The man President Trump wants running the Bureau of Land Management just moved one step closer to confirmation, and the fight over his nomination says a lot about where things are headed for America's public lands. Former New Mexico congressman Stevan Pearce cleared the Senate Energy and Natura

For more than half a century, a quiet but powerful law has stood between America's wild places and the industries that want to profit from them. That law is the National Environmental Policy Act — NEPA — and as of this week, it looks very different than it did before. The Department of the Inte

In a state as big as Texas, where private ranches stretch for miles and public access has always been slim, something big is shifting. For years, folks have griped about how little land is open to everyone—just four percent of the whole state, and out of that, only about a million acres where you c

Every fall, when the aspens turn gold and the elk start bugling down in the canyons, a lot of us head out with a rifle or a fly rod and figure the mountains will always be there. Lately, though, the smoke from summer fires hangs longer, the creeks run thinner, and the deer just don’t seem as thick