On January 23rd, Colorado river users received welcome news from 10thCircuit Court of Appeals by allowing a lawsuit to proceed between fisherman Roger Hill, landowner Mark Warsewa and the State of Colorado. The dispute between the angler and landowner has been in the courts since 2018, with the state moving to intervene based on 11thAmendment grounds. In 2019, the District Court ruled that Hill lacked standing, which precipitated the appeals process that led to this ruling. Roger Hill claims ...

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  For five nights in February, North Carolina hunters will have their best shot ever at moving the needle on Sunday hunting on publicly-owned lands in the state. Since 1869, these lands have been closed to hunting, despite the fact that hunters pay in large measure for their acquisition, upkeep, and management. Astonishingly, North Carolina is one of only four states in the entire nation that outright bans hunting on public lands on Sunday. The North Carolina chapter of Backcountry Hunters & ...

Wyoming native and star outdoor reporter, with nine years of writing the outdoors column for the Casper Star-Tribune, Christine Peterson has been immersed in Wyoming’s hunting and fishing, mountains, rivers, plains and wilderness in a way few people will ever match. She talks with Hal about that life – the deadlines, the adventures, the stress and the love of newspapers and reporting – and her decision to leave it behind after the birth of her daughter Miriam, to take up freelancing full ...