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May 21, 2025

Commentary: Backcountry Hunters and Anglers sounds alarm amid push to sell half a million public-land acres

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Backcountry Hunters and Anglers, North America’s leading public lands advocacy group, announced May 12 that it’s sounding the alarm and mobilizing its nationwide grassroots network in response to a last-minute amendment to the U.S. House budget reconciliation bill that would authorize the sale of nearly 500,000 acres of public lands in Utah and Nevada.
Introduced without public input, conservation safeguards, or reinvestment in access or habitat, the amendment represents a sweeping assault on the future of America’s public lands.

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What will become of measures that affect Minnesota’s outdoors during special session?

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The state Legislature adjourned late Monday without budget resolution, meaning an expected special session likely will be upcoming. It was yet to be announced at Outdoor News press deadline on Tuesday.
While the budget debate between Minnesota Republicans and DFLers revolves around matters beyond the outdoors and the state DNR – think education, health and human services, etc. – a DNR official said certain policy issues that would affect hunters and anglers also remain in limbo.

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Importance of CRP ‘can’t be overstated’ as Feds offer new signup opportunity

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency recently announced a new general and continuous sign-up period for the Conservation Reserve Program running through June 6.

“With 1.8 million acres available for all CRP enrollment this fiscal year, we are very aware that we are bumping up against the statutory 27-million-acre statutory cap,” said Bill Beam, of the Farm Service Agency. “Now more than ever, it’s important that the acres offered by landowners and those approved by USDA address our most critical natural resource concerns.”

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Commentary: Has the Michigan Wildlife Council simply lost its way?

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At a recent sportsmen’s breakfast in Lansing, I was surprised (and a little encouraged) when the event’s speaker asked hunters to stand together and demand better from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.
It’s no secret that the always fragile partnership between hunters, anglers, trappers and the DNR seems to have broken. In no small part, this is because the agency increasingly has displayed a careless disregard towards the essential economic and management importance of hunting, fishing, and trapping. Nowhere is this more evident than in its approach to shareholder engagement.

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Bobcats spring back to life with a boost from Ohio wildlife center

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For the fourteenth time thus far, Lake Metroparks’ wildlife rehabilitation experts successfully saw to it that another bobcat got a second chance of life in Ohio’s wildlands.
The Lake County-based Lake Metroparks’ Penitentiary Glen Reservation/Kevin P. Clinton Wildlife Center in Kirtland released on May 8 a male bobcat on public land in Jefferson County. This effort was done with the partnership of the Ohio DNR’s Division of Wildlife.

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Outdoor Observations: Bob Knoop, Jr. a worthy recipient of Michigan’s Person of the Year Award

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A shout out goes to the family of the late Bob Knoop, Jr. Bob is the recipient of the 2025 Michigan Outdoor News Person of the Year award.
A true conservationist with a huge heart, Bob passed away last November at the age of 67. He was a past president and founding member of the Passing Along the Heritage Foundation (PATH), which provides cost-free hunting and fishing trips to individuals with disabilities that would otherwise make it difficult for them to participate.

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