Memorial Day 2026 Public-Land Prep: 9 Checks Before You Pull Out of the Driveway
Memorial Day 2026 falls May 25. Here are the 9 public-land checks — fire bans, road status, water, permits — that decide whether your weekend works.
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Winter Road Status Checks Before You Access Public Land
Winter road status determines whether you can legally reach a trailhead or get back to your vehicle. On public land, winter road status can change within hours. In addition, public land road closures, USFS road conditions, BLM travel management, and NPS alerts closures all affect how and when roads are locked. Because of that, checking…
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UPDATE: BLM Reopens Bears Ears to Shooters
Well, well, well … what do you know? Sportsmen’s votes and voices count again! Isn’t it strange how, all of a sudden, the voices of reason and freedom are being respected again? The latest example: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and U.S. Forest Service have reversed their proposed closure of 100% of the Bears…
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BLM Kicks Recreational Shooters Out of Bears Ears National Monument
Ever got so mad that Donald Trump exists that you deleted a million acres? Me neither! But the Biden/Harris administration did. And no, I’m really not exaggerating about the reasoning behind this latest development; there were no studies done to justify closing down 1.36 million acres to recreational shooting. We learned this back in June,…
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Mixed Messages: Hunting to Expand on National Wildlife Refuges
As outdoorsmen, we’re getting some mixed messages from D.C. here … Just a couple of months ago, we learned that the Bureau of Land Management had–perhaps somewhat prematurely–announced that it intends to end recreational shooting at the Sonoran Desert National Monument. What was particularly strange about this event was that there really wasn’t any justification…
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Recreational Shooting on Public Lands at Risk
This land is your land, this land is my land … partisan paybacks are getting out of hand. Whether you pull the lever for a pol with an R or a D after their names, one thing we should all be able to agree on is that public lands are meant for, well, the public….
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Thus Spake Zarathustra: Mystery Monolith Found and Lost in Utah
My God, it’s full of stars… Stanley Kubrick would be proud: On November 18, 2020, the Utah Department of Public Safety Aero Bureau found a mysterious monolith deep within the worst of southeastern Utah’s badlands. The metallic plinth, which looks just like the one in 2001: Space Odyssey, appeared in an area so remote that…
