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Resistance comes in many forms

by Johnny Carrol Sain - Saturday, Jun 28th, 2025

Photo: Johnny Carrol Sain.

“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to save the world and a desire to savor the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
— E.B. White

What is the Roadless Rule?

And why it matters to anglers and hunters

by Chris Hunt - Friday, Jun 27th, 2025

Anglers hike through the Tongass National Forest in southeast Alaska (photo: Earl Harper).

President Trump continued his assault on America’s wild, public lands this week, directing Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins to rescind the longstanding rule protecting the nation’s roadless backcountry.

Searching for a rainbow

Dry fly fishing often makes you feel like Charlie Brown

by Tim Schulz - Thursday, Jun 26th, 2025

Photo: Chad Shmukler.

It takes a long time to become young.
—Pablo Picasso

Land purchase halts controversial mine near the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge

The Conservation Fund purchase eliminates the largest threat to the refuge in decades

by Chris Hunt - Friday, Jun 20th, 2025

Photo: Chris Hunt.

A controversial heavy sands mining project proposed on the southern fringes of the Okefenokee National Wildlife refuge will not be developed, thanks to a $60 million land purchase agreement between The Conservation Fund and the Alabama-based mining company, Twin Pines Minerals. The purchase was finalized Friday.

The new fly shop

Same as the old fly shop?

by Todd Tanner - Thursday, Jun 19th, 2025

Photo: Christa McCabe.

Pat McCabe just opened a fly shop.

Sorry, that’s not quite right. Pat, along with his brother Pete and his brother-in-law Chuck — not to mention their families — just took the massive financial gamble to open a new fly shop.

Which got me thinking about fly shops in general, and Pat’s shop in particular … and which left me with a few questions.