Trump Backs New Hunting Access to 92 million acres

[Fever Buck]

https://www.newsmax.com/us/hunting-fishing-trump/2026/05/27/id/1257693/

Seems like some good news from our President Donny T. Not a ton of info on what lands will open up. Hoping to hear more about this soon.

 

[Ozarkansas]

I read the full language, it opens up a lot of refuges in california and the Midwest, and revises the regs in a ton more. It’s worth a read and also open for comment. I’m sure a lot of anti-hunters will be dropping comments so we all should as well.

Edit: I have no idea if the regulation changes are all good across the board or not. The ones I cared about were refuges in my neck of the woods, and those changes were either so minor as to be irrelevant or were a step towards commonality with state regs (which I support). So don’t assume y’all will like the changes in your area as much as I did.

 

[MTtrout]

I’m all for opening up more ‘meaningful’ refuge lands to hunting. Hope a lot of folks on here benefit.

The article says 92 million acres, 95% of NWR, will be available for hunting. The biggest of its kind, they say. Does anyone know the actual acreage of land that now will allow hunting that was previously not allowed?

Hard to get too excited about this article with all the negative things this administration has done for conservation and public lands. But I like being surprised.

 

[2buffalo]

I’m all for opening up more ‘meaningful’ refuge lands to hunting. Hope a lot of folks on here benefit.

The article says 92 million acres, 95% of NWR, will be available for hunting. The biggest of its kind, they say. Does anyone know the actual acreage of land that now will allow hunting that was previously not allowed?

Hard to get too excited about this article with all the negative things this administration has done for conservation and public lands. But I like being surprised.

Which negative things?