Gaining access to private ground is tough no matter where you hunt. Here in Montana, many private landowners allow public access for hunting through the state’s Block Management Access program (BMA). By enrolling in BMA, landowners let folks like you and me hunt their property at no cost to the...

I recently caused quite a stir among our audience with an op-ed published to our website. The piece, titled “The Case Against Hunter Recruitment,” was written by my brother Matt Rinella. It focuses on Matt’s distrust with what is known in the hunting industry as R3. While it sounds like a droid from...

You’ve got questions. We’ve got answers (and if we don’t, we’ll make them up). Every day fellow MeatEaters send us more than 100 emails and direct messages. There’s a lot of excellent questions, and we have to think real hard or get real creative to answer them. So, we decided to publish a series...

We are here to give all Americans what they deserve: more places to hunt and fish. There are about 15 million acres of landlocked public land in the United States, places we all own but can’t get to. There thousands of miles of streams that we can’t get to or can’t legally wade. Here’s how we’re...

Fellow Americans, Wouldn’t it be great if a presidential candidate solely focused on hunting and fishing? If someone prioritized the hunting and fishing public and provided more outdoor opportunities and better habitat for wildlife? These are the real issues that matter to the sportsmen and women of...

Listen to Steven Rinella’s Statement on the reduction of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments below: document.createElement('audio'); https://wp.themeateater.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/steve-read.mp3 Learn more about Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase...

Last week, we all witnessed the beauty of democracy in a vivid way when Utah congressman Jason Chaffetz withdrew a piece of proposed legislation called H.R. 621. If passed, this bill would have instructed the Secretary of the Interior to begin disposing of your federally managed public-land hunting...