Tag: public lands

More Americans are recreating outdoors than 10 years ago, according to a recent report, and that trend is expected to continue its decades-long climb. Nature viewing activities are among the...

On Jan. 13, the State of Alaska filed a lawsuit to challenge new federal rules banning several methods of hunting on national wildlife refuges and national preserves located within the...

Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Natural Resources, and Rep. Patrick Meehan (R-PA) introduced H.R.502 on Jan. 12 to permanently reauthorize the Land and...

On Dec. 16, President-elect Donald Trump announced his intent to nominate Montana Congressman Ryan Zinke for Secretary of the Interior. A hunter and fisherman, Zinke has often supported sportsmen issues...

The Bureau of Land Management has finalized a strategy, known as Planning 2.0, with the goal of making land-use planning more efficient, more accessible to the public, and more adaptive...

Transfer of federal public lands to state ownership is a hot-button issue in states like Arizona. Last year, Gov. Doug Ducey vetoed two bills that required the federal government to...

TWS, along with 10 other sportsmen and conservation organizations, submitted a letter to the Senate Armed Services Committee on the Fiscal Year 2016 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), urging the...