The 2018 Farm Bill is a Win for Outdoorsmen

  Hunters and anglers who care about access to the outdoors and healthy fish and wildlife habitat should be pleased with the Farm Bill that finally cleared Congress recently. “This is a very good bill, especially when you consider where it was pointing a few months ago,” said Alex Maggos, the director of agriculture and private lands for the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership. Earlier drafts of the bill threatened to slash conservation by $1 billion. But sportsmen groups and conservationists fought back hard and conservation programs fared better in the final negotiations... READ MORE