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  • Public Lands

    This Land is Your Land: Growing up on public lands…and sharing that with others

    It’s a warm, sunny, southern evening and Zoe Mihalas is in her element, knee-deep in the Davidson River with a fly rod in hand.

    Our public lands are the foundation of healthy watersheds and strong communities. From remote trout streams to working forests and rangelands, these places provide clean water, vital trout habitat and public access for all Americans. But pressures like efforts to sell off and privatize public land threaten what makes them so valuable. This blog series…

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    Thanks Antiquities Act for a great hunting season

    After a final trip to hunt Gambel’s quail in Arizona’s Tonto National Forest in February, another hunting season ends. Once shotguns and rifles are given a final cleaning all that remains is storytelling with family and friends. This is often done around backyard barbeques and the dinner table over delicious meals of wild duck, quail,…

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    Public lands: key to America’s sporting legacy 

    There is no opportunity for productive fishing or hunting if there are no productive lands and waters in which to sling a line, spot and stalk or swing an over-under. Bottom line.  This basic fact has been a part of the American sporting consciousness since Theordore Roosevelt inscribed it, if not before. It’s a cornerstone…

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    A gem worth saving

    “Special places bring people together.”

    “Special places bring people together.” In 2019, Trout Unlimited’s Nevada field coordinator Pam Harrington wrote those words in a blog post highlighting TU’s campaign to protect the Ruby Mountains from speculative oil and gas leasing. In 2025, this sentiment rings truer than ever as a broad coalition of stakeholders and decisionmakers have rallied behind the…

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    Of Sticks and Strings

    An outdoor rack holding four archery bows

    Public Lands support the underlying spirit of traditional bowhunting and fly fishing    As trout season draws to a close in Michigan, the leaves change hues and, for many of us, our attention turns to antlered pursuits with the opening of archery deer season. Out West, hunter-anglers have been pursuing elk for almost a month…