East to West Hunting Podcast Episode 36: Farm Bill & Rural Land Conservation with Bryce Oates Listen to journalist, blogger and rural land policy guru Bryce Oates as we talk through what you should know about important conservation funding tools like the 2018 Farm Bill and Land & Water Conservation Read more…
Chasing the Public Land SUPER Slam: The Green Mountain State By John L. Barone Thanksgiving. One of the few times during the deer season that I can get away with talking turkey! Autumn in the northeast is a great time to be in the woods for hunters, anglers, hikers and Read more…
This week, we have the pleasure of speaking with long-time Oregon-based conservationist and public lands strategist Andy Kerr, Czar of the Larch Company, who has been at the forefront of the public lands debate for over four decades. Andy is a public lands strategist who has been involved with creating Read more…
America’s 400 million acres of working forests provide immeasurable benefits to our society – ecosystem services, fresh air, clean water, habitat, open space, and sustainable forest products. Working forests protected by conservation easements are privately-owned forests that offer great public benefit. Since its inception in 1985, The Conservation Fund has Read more…
As hunter-conservationists, we talk a lot about being a voice for future generations of Americans who can’t speak for themselves. Do you ever think about these people – what type of world they will live in and how they might relate to the natural world and the outdoors? Will the Read more…
“There are two kinds of conservationists, and two systems of thought on the subject. One kind feels a primary interest in some one aspect of land – such as soil, forestry, game or fish with an incidental interest in the land as a whole. The other feels a primary interest Read more…
Many of us have experienced it first hand. Any hunter who has endured a bone-chilling late muzzle-loader afternoon on their favorite mountain in mid-December, struggling through calf-high snow as the early winter sun all too quickly disappears into a clear, star-dappled indigo sky, knows that everything is in a constant Read more…