Tag Archives: backcountry

Sportsmen need roadless backcountry … some just don’t know it yet

Posted on June 27, 2012 by Chris Hunt

As an organization that understands the connection between intact fish and game habitat and the ability to hunt and fish on public lands, we think it’s important that the hunting and angling community understand why it’s so important to keep … Continue reading →

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Protecting roadless lands … or “Keep it like it is”

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Chris Hunt

In 2001, anglers and hunters all across America received perhaps their greatest gift since the Wilderness Act of 1964. The incredibly progressive–and, at least these days, infamous–Roadless Rule was officially put in place by the U. S. Department of Agriculture. … Continue reading →

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America’s roadless lands in peril

Posted on July 21, 2011 by Chris Hunt

Many in Congress are pushing a new bill that would release our country’s roadless backcountry lands from their present protections and open up some of the best fish and game habitat left in the United States to development. TU adamantly … Continue reading →

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