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Sam Lungren is MeatEater's Fishing Editor and a former freelance writer/photographer, commercial fisherman, and editor of BHA's Backcountry Journal. Though originally from Whidbey Island, Washington, he's been in Montana for almost a decade and probably isn't leaving—except during steelhead season. Follow him @samlungrenmedia.
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Public Lands & Waters
Legislation Would Protect the Boundary Waters from Sulfide Mining
Sam Lungren
Jan 17, 2020
This week, a bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced legislation in the House that would permanently protect the Boundary Waters Canoe Area from sulfide mines proposed to be sited upstream of the famed Northern Minnesota wilderness. If enacted, H.R. 5598, the Boundary Waters Wilderness Protection and Pollution Prevention Act, would withdraw more than 200,000 acres of the Superior National Forest within the Rainy River Watershed from current and...
Public Lands & Waters
Herrera v. Wyoming: Inside the Elk Hunting Case Before the Supreme Court
Sam Lungren
Feb 13, 2019
On Jan. 8, a former game warden for the Crow Tribe of southeastern Montana went before the United States Supreme Court. Clayvin Herrera was convicted by the State of Wyoming of killing a bull elk out of season, without a license in January 2014. Two of his companions, who also shot bulls after following the herd off the Crow Reservation across the state line into the Bighorn National Forest, both pleaded guilty to the same poaching charges and...
Policy & Legislation
What Does the Government Shutdown Mean for Hunting and Fishing?
Sam Lungren
Jan 21, 2019
On Saturday, Jan. 12, the partial federal government shutdown became the longest such closure in the nation’s history. As the stalemate between the President and the House of Representatives over funding for a $5 billion wall along the Mexican border spills into a fifth week, shuttered and unfunded public lands management agencies are starting to feel the pinch.
The Department of the Interior, which houses the National Park Service, Bureau of...
The Department of the Interior, which houses the National Park Service, Bureau of...
Public Lands & Waters
How You Can Help Reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund Right Now
Sam Lungren
Dec 19, 2018
The popular conservation program commonly known as LWCF could be reauthorized this week, says MeatEater Conservation Director Ryan Callaghan, if sportsmen and women call their representatives and throw their weight behind the agreement currently before Congress.
The Land and Water Conservation Fund was established in 1964 to invest royalties from offshore oil and gas drilling into America’s public lands and waters. From inner-city playgrounds...
The Land and Water Conservation Fund was established in 1964 to invest royalties from offshore oil and gas drilling into America’s public lands and waters. From inner-city playgrounds...