Recent Land Articles

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

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