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Can we conserve and restore half our lands and waters? We’re working on it.
It’s been a year since the America the Beautiful Initiative launched, which set the ambitious goal of preserving 30% of our land and waters by 2030. Trout Unlimited supported this goal and even pushed it a step further. Here at TU, we’ve been saying “30 by 30 plus 20” because the Global Deal for Nature…
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Where to fish and get outdoors if you live in a city
101 American cities have a National Wildlife Refuge open to explore There’s something beautiful about the silence that a fresh blanket of snow brings to a bustling city. However, winter blues can quickly set in once the snow turns to slush and ice covers the sidewalks. This is when city dwellers usually turn to saved…
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Get out and enjoy our national wildlife refuges
This lesser-known public land system is a hidden gem of conservation work and hunting and fishing access
Trumpeter swans in flight at Lower Red Rock Lake in Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge in Montana. Erin Clark/USFWS Chances are you are familiar with national parks, Bureau of Land Management lands, and national forests, but have you ever heard of, or been to, a wildlife refuge? If you answered no, you are not alone. This lesser-known public land system is…
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Red Rock Lakes shows off its fish and wildlife conservation values
Sometimes I wonder if it wouldn’t be easier if all public lands were just lumped together. I mean, who can keep straight national forests, wildlife refuges, national parks, national preserves, national monuments, national lakeshores, BLM lands—it can all be a bit much to keep track of! But then you experience a place like Red Rock…
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The Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge is a high-desert oasis vital to wildlife and wild trout
by Liz Rose The Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge is more than just a buffer zone around a river in an expanse of Wyoming sagebrush steppe. Like many national wildlife refuges managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, it is unique, wild and intended to stay that way. I’ve always had a soft spot for animals and a guilty conscience for reasons yet…
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Fishing and hunting on a refuge? You bet
The Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge, Wyoming. At first blush it may seem odd that hunting and fishing is allowed on wildlife refuges, let alone expanding these uses as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently proposed. After all, they are wildlife refuges, right? However, hunting and fishing on refuge lands goes back to earliest days of the refuge system…
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