Recent Land Articles

The National Parks That Are Worth Skipping and What to Do Instead Image credit: Flux.1 America's national parks represent some of the most breathtak

For anyone who's spent time behind the wheel on federal land — whether that's a dusty trail through Nevada or a rocky path in Utah — a quiet but important policy shift just happened in Washington, and it matters more than most people realize. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management, known as the BLM

The Lawsuit That Could Open Nearly a Million Acres Two of the country's most respected public land organizations have taken Montana's government to court over a question that hunters and outdoorsmen across the West have been wrestling with for years: Is it legal to step from one piece of federal p

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

The Trump administration has quietly issued orders that are reshaping how millions of acres of federally managed land operate for hunters and trappers across the country. Internal documents from the Interior Department, reviewed by the New York Times, reveal that roughly 76 federal lands — includin

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 Mojave Desert has long been one of the most popular off-roading destinations in the country. Vast stretches of open land, rugged terrain, and the kind of wide-open freedom that draws drivers from across the West. But a federal judge just changed the game in a major way, and the off-roading comm

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