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On protecting prime fishing spots, a balancing act
The Catch 22 of conservation: Can we love sensitive places to death? On a cloudy June day, a buddy and I found ourselves on a remote wildlife refuge in southwest Montana. This year, Montana has seen plenty of spring rain, and it had been raining hard before the trip. (Though, as the saying goes, we…
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It’s time: Congress must fund America’s wildlife refuges
Hunters and anglers are coming together to urge Congress to increase funding for the Wildlife Refuge System. Some of the nation’s best angling and hunting opportunities exist on U.S. National Wildlife Refuges, a system of federal public lands tasked with conserving fish, wildlife, and habitat. There are over 340 wildlife refuges open for fishing. From…
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Funding the public lands in your backyard
National Wildlife Refuges are overlooked (and underfunded) gems of America's public lands system. We're working to change that. The U.S. National Wildlife Refuge System offers some of our country’s most accessible recreation, including fishing. While this system of federal public lands received a slight increase in funding this year and the President's budget requests an…
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