By BHA's 2016 Aldo Leopold Award Winner, Mark Heckert I am humbled and deeply appreciative of the honor of the Aldo Leopold Award you have given me for my actions in defense of our public lands during the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupation. I have always considered my identity as an American to be viscerally intertwined with our great open spaces, owned by every American, where each of us is lord of all we see and travel. These lands are not “revenue streams” or playgrounds ...

Oregon’s 82,500-acre Elliott State Forest is well known by sportsmen and women for the coveted public access it provides to high quality hunting and fishing. Roosevelt elk, blacktail deer and wild populations of salmon, steelhead and coastal cutthroat trout call the old growth timber and cold, clean waters home. Established in 1930 as Oregon’s first state forest, the Elliott was dedicated to provide a sustainable source of timber revenue to Oregon schools. Unfortunately, the Elliott stands ...