This week, Acting Secretary David Bernhardt begins confirmation hearings to officially take over the top job at the Department of the Interior, the agency responsible for stewarding our country’s wild public lands. This week also marks the two year anniversary of the short-sighted policy he champions to prioritize energy development  on public lands. Polar bears […]

Women are the fastest growing demographic in hunting and fishing. They enter the field with a deep appreciation of our heritage and a passion to care for the wildlife and habitat of which we all are a part. Artemis, named after the Greek Goddess of the hunt and wild animals, is a National Wildlife Federation […]

Many of our country’s best remaining wild public lands were recently protected when the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management and Recreation Act was signed into law. Of particular personal note for me are the Utah provisions. Utah now has more than 600,000 acres of new Wilderness and more than 100 miles of new Wild […]

Oregon’s Coast Range is home to what many consider the single most remote wilderness in the entire state. Located about eight miles within the dense old-growth forest which runs south from the Washington border, the Devil’s Staircase and its surrounding watershed are incredibly inaccessible. No designated trail, no route, no cell reception, no GPS, nothing. […]

This week the President signed the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act. Aptly named for the late Congressman and conservation champion John D. Dingell, Jr., this bill marks the biggest public lands package to be signed into law in decades. The bill passed with overwhelming support (85% in the House and 92% […]