Recent Public Lands Articles

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

The Battle for the Backcountry: Trump Wipes Out 50 Years of Off-Road Rules — and the Mojave Is Ground Zero On the evening of Friday, May 29, 2026, one of the most consequential shifts in federal land-use policy in a generation landed without fanfare. The White House quietly dropped a move that res

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

Trump Wipes Two Decades of Off-Road Restrictions off the Federal Books — Here's What It Means for Public Land Access On the evening of Friday, May 29, 2026, the White House quietly dropped one of the most significant shifts in federal land-use policy in a generation. President Trump rescinded two

The recent decision by the Trump Administration’s U.S. Department of Agriculture to revoke the Roadless Rule has sparked heated debate across the country. This move, which eliminates protections for 58.5 million acres of National Forest System lands, is being sold by some as a victory for outdoor