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Following President Trump’s public declaration of support last week for permanently funding the popular Land and Water Conservation Fund and addressing the public lands maintenance backlog, a bipartisan group of Senators submitted a bill to do just that. S. 3422, the Great American Outdoors Act, introduced March 9, would dedicate the full $900 million annually to LWCF, and provide nearly $2 billion annually to address massive maintenance backlogs...

President Trump publicly endorsed full and permanent funding for the popular Land and Water Conservation Fund on Tuesday. We can only assume this comes in the wake of the MeatEater crew attending a LWCF rally in Bozeman a few hours before. The LWCF takes royalties from offshore oil and gas drilling to invest in public parks, playgrounds, and access to public lands.
From the president’s Twitter feed: “I am calling on Congress to send me a Bill...

This article was originally published in September, 2019, and has been updated to reflected current events. 
On Jan. 23, the Trump Administration’s EPA and Army Corps announced new, weaker regulations regarding enforcement of the 1972 Clean Water Act. The federal agencies say it was necessary to repeal Obama-era rules that limited filling and pollution of wetlands and ephemeral streams, but the conservation community is gravely concerned about...

On Thursday, the Trump Administration announced new regulations that would remove penalties for construction, oil, gas, and other industries that incidentally kill birds listed under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918. If approved, the new set of rules would only punish companies that deliberately kill birds, making many in the conservation community wonder what purpose the century-old conservation law now serves.
The Deepwater Horizon oil...

Introducing Ask the Eagle, where I’ll be answering your questions about everything from hunting to butchering to marriage. This week, someone wants to know my thoughts on 2019’s trapping ban in California.
Have a question of your own? You can write to me asktheeagle@themeateater.com.

In our new series, Ask a Warden, we’ll be interviewing officers from across the country to learn about their role in protecting our game, fish, and other resources. In this edition, we asked officers from Minnesota, Arizona, and West Virginia about why reg books are so complicated.
This fall, I’ll be gun hunting deer in Montana, South Dakota, and Nebraska. In my research, I’ve learned that all three states have very different laws on...