Listen to Steven Rinella’s Statement on the reduction of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments below:
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Some 800 acres of public land may soon go up for sale in the Blue Ridge Mountains of north Georgia. The land in Rabun County—known locally as Boggs Mountain—is an accessible section of the roughly 867,000-acre Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest. Many hunters local and afar are afraid of losing this federally-managed public land—ground owned by all Americans—and some people are doing something about it. I recently took a walk up through the...
This is the first article in the new MeatEater Trophy Country series. The Trophy Country column will showcase some of the best public land hunting and fishing locations in the United States. At MeatEater, the places we hunt and fish are as important to us as the fish and game we pursue. The search for Trophy Country leads us to some of America’s wildest places, where hunters and anglers can experience a true backcountry adventure on public land...
We’ve all heard that buying land is a good investment because nobody is making any more of it. Today, in the face of rapidly expanding human development (and rising housing prices), that seems truer than ever. But all this begs us to ask, who is buying land for conservation? Land trusts or land conservancies are nonprofit organizations that work to conserve land. They do that by buying all or part of specific parcels that fit within their mission...