Recent Land Articles

In the sun-scorched corridors of the western Mojave Desert, where ancient lake beds give way to layered escarpments of red, white, and pink volcanic rock, a legal battle over who gets to use California's most dramatic landscapes has just reached a pivotal turning point. On September 29, 2026, the C

The Trail Ahead: How Trump's Push to Rewrite the Forest Service Travel Management Rule Could Reshape Outdoor Access in America For decades, the question of who truly owns the American wilderness has simmered beneath the surface of every camping trip, trail ride, and backcountry adventure. Now, the

Montana Just Locked Up 20,000 Acres of Prime Timber Country for Hunters — Forever In a corner of the American West where the stakes for public land access have never been higher, a $29.3 million conservation deal has quietly redrawn the map for hunters, anglers, and outdoorsmen across northwest Mo

The Push to Unprotect America's Wild Lands: Industry Groups Want WSAs Gone For decades, the Bureau of Land Management's wilderness system has operated on a tiered framework — a layered set of protections stretching from raw, congressionally designated Wilderness at the top, down through Wilderness

Polaris and the Foundation for America's Public Lands Just Committed $700,000 to Save the Trails You Ride There is a quiet crisis unfolding across the American West that doesn't make headlines the way wildfires or drought do, but its consequences are felt every time a rider pulls into a rutted-out

The Off-Roading Executive Order Is a Land Sell-Off in Disguise Late on a Friday evening — the preferred dumping ground for political moves nobody wants scrutinized — the Trump White House issued an executive order purporting to expand access to federal public lands for off-road vehicle users. The

Open Season: How the Trump Administration Is Reshaping Hunting on America's Public Lands For anyone who has spent a dawn in a duck blind, stalked elk through mountain brush, or simply kept a hunting license tucked in a wallet as a matter of personal identity, the news coming out of Washington this

Two conservation groups are suing to unlock nearly a million acres of public land that hunters can't legally reach In mid-May 2025, a lawsuit quietly filed in Lewis and Clark County District Court set off what could become one of the most consequential public land access battles in Montana history

The summer season is almost here, and millions of Americans are making plans to visit the national parks they grew up with — Yellowstone, Yosemite, the Grand Canyon. What most of them don't know is that the agency responsible for those parks is being quietly dismantled, even as billions of dollars

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