Recent Public Lands Articles

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

On the evening of September 17, 2026, the White House Rose Garden filled with a crowd that doesn't usually make the Washington power circuit: duck hunters and deer scouts, saltwater charter captains and big game outfitters, archery instructors and conservation executives. President Donald Trump hos

Trump's "Reinvigorating America's Hunting Heritage" Order Is the Most Sweeping Pro-Hunter Move in Years On a warm September evening in Washington, the White House Rose Garden looked more like a field camp gathering than a formal government ceremony. President Trump hosted more than 100 hunters, an

Trump Opens the White House to Hunters and Anglers, Signing Orders That Rewrite the Rules on Public Land Access On the evening of September 17, 2026, the South Lawn of the White House smelled more like the high country than Capitol Hill. More than a hundred hunters, anglers, fishing guides, gear m

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

The Rule That Kept the Engines Out — And Why Washington Wants to Change It For two decades, a single federal regulation has quietly determined whether a dirt bike can rip through a pine draw in the Cascades, whether a side-by-side can idle past a bedding elk in the Blue Mountains, or whether a sno

The Roadless Rule Is Gone — But Don't Expect New Trails Here's the headline that certain off-road advocacy groups don't want you to sit with too long: the Trump administration's push to repeal the 2001 Roadless Rule is not a win for dirt bike riders, ATV enthusiasts, or anyone who charges through

onX's Public Land Comment Hub Is the Tool Every Off-Roader Needed Yesterday There are two types of guys who lose access to trails they've run for a decade. The first never saw it coming — he showed up one spring and found a locked gate where an open road used to be. The second got wind of the prop

The Biggest Opening Day in American Conservation History For the tens of millions of hunters and anglers who have spent years butting up against the bureaucratic walls surrounding federally managed land, August 2026 delivered something genuinely rare in Washington: good news, and a lot of it. The

The Public Lands Reckoning: How Trump's Federal Policies Are Upending Hunting, Habitat, and the Western Outdoors For generations, the American hunter has occupied a peculiar political position — culturally conservative, yet dependent on the kind of robust federal land stewardship that runs counter