President Trump Tweets Support for Fully Funding Land and Water Conservation Fund

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...

President Trump Signs the Great American Outdoors Act into Law

With a stroke of his pen, President Donald Trump handed the conservation community one of their greatest achievements in recent memory. The Great American Outdoors Act became law on Tuesday, August 4, ending a decade-long battle to reauthorize and fully and permanently fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund. “It’s a big win for bipartisanship. Perhaps it’s only fitting it took public lands to bring a divided government together,” said Sen...

2020 EHD Report

Epizootic hemorrhagic disease is the most common ailment among whitetail deer. It’s transmitted by biting midges and typically kills the host within a week. In the final days of an infected deer’s life, they’ll experience high fever, ulcers, difficulty breathing, loss of awareness, and swelling in the head, neck, tongue, and eyes. Those uncomfortable symptoms explain why EHD-afflicted deer often seek out water and shade before death. It’s a lack...