Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Involvement Due to a rapidly changing landscape, old laws, confused record keeping and difficult politics, sportsmen and women are losing access to Louisiana’s tidally influenced water at an alarming rate. This is fast becoming the largest water-based public access issue in North America. There are a lot of factors at play driving the complexity of coastal access, including landowner conflicts with the state, culturally nuanced property rights, a rapidly ...

Last week was a wild ride through south and central Florida covering Miami, Jupiter, Tampa and Orlando. The trip illuminated not just the diversity of Florida’s landscape but more importantly the people and sportsmen that make up the state.  I met with traditional archery hunters, Gladesmen, offshore and inshore anglers, surfers and adult onset hunters trying to wrap their heads around their new pursuit.We were there with the primary goal to raise awareness for the Land and Water ...

Earlier in the month of February, Representative Tuggle brought back to life HB 362, a bill introduced in 2012 that aimed to defund Forever Wild by taxing the principle fund.  Forever Wild is an organization that purchases land from willing sellers and hands that property to the state of Alabama for public use and recreation.  Forever Wild is funded by tax royalties from off shore oil drilling.On Monday the 26th, HB 362 failed to pass the House, however as a last-ditch effort, representative ...