Mid-day break here. Asked two very senior staffers what actions people can take that will help your Senators/Reps hear you on public lands.
Answer - Continue to be involved in the discussions, no matter where it takes place; online, in town hall meetings, Letters to Editor, public land...
It has been an interesting two days here in DC, with two more to go. Meeting with people who are actually here, working on bills, working on budgets, and talking to staffers and members of Congress who serve on the committees is helpful, as much as this place is like being subjected to some sort...
This topic has been discussed in a few threads on Hunt Talk - carry a live round in the chamber when it is not necessary. I've read the past HT threads. I read the comments on a YouTube video Michael posted. I've went and read/re-read what is currently being taught in Hunter Ed.
Accidents...
This thread was started in response to the notion that changes will/won't impact public lands and conservation. Keep it to those topics and take the other issues to your FB pages.
It's almost as if some of you want this thread closed, so you continue to interject points unrelated to public...
As a follow up to the post I started earlier this week on the effort to sell land for supposedly lower housing costs, Marcus and I did this deeper dive segment for Fresh Tracks Weekly.
That Hunt Talk thread discussion is here -...
And on the same note, I'm not sure what can be used to discourage the Dems who see tapping into the sales proceeds as some free pork for their local patrons, with patron being a better term than constituent when there is "gubment cheese" being doled out.
I expect all who are disconnected from...
What you just posted has nothing to do with this thread. It’s more of the hyper partisan stuff that detracts from discussion on important topics. Take the derailing partisan bullshit somewhere else.
It is not as far fetched as I once thought it to be. Given the lands already identified as "suitable for disposal" under the FLTFA, those are low hanging fruit. And I suspect the FLTFA idea to use any proceeds for reinvestment in other lands could easily be tossed aside and the sale proceeds...
This is not just Trump and his ideas, even though he has established a committee comprised of Department of Interior and Housing and Urban Development to identify DOI lands suitable for housing.
The infatuation with labeling everything we like/dislike as Trump's idea is a strange phenomena. The...
I hesitate to post this, as I know how much folks want to frame public land topics around the teams they support/oppose.
This article hit the Wall Street Journal this morning and the title is rather misleading, though I suspect titling it with Trump makes for better headlines at WSJ. This title...
Being from Montana, I can't really complain about what I have to pay in other states as a non-resident, in this case, Utah. My home state has the highest ratio of NR fees-to-R fees of any western state.
Trying to get resident fees bumped in any state is harder than changing the rotation of the...
One of the most common questions I get is about how access is created or improved. On the Federal level, most of that gets funded with the Land and Water Access Fund (LWCF), a program that's been around since 1965 and was recently fully funded and permanently extended with the Great American...
About a half dozen longtime members asked to have their accounts deleted in the last month. Too bad, as all them contributed value to the forum.
Pretty much all had the same reason- tired of the continuous rancor that seems to have occupied too much of the forum lately.
I’ll admit, when some...
I unlocked this thread, hoping we can have a sane discussion about public land agencies, funding, and that "everything is going to be okay."
If we can't, I guess I'll lock it again, maybe even delete it.