Posted November 17, 2017 10:30 am by Comments

By Ammoland Editor Joe Evans

Elk Swimming
Elk Swimming

MISSOULA, Mont. -(Ammoland.com)- As the Trump administration considers taking unprecedented action to reduce or eliminate national monuments, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers is releasing detailed habitat maps of six Western national monuments on the chopping block.

Each of the monuments – Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante in Utah, Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks and Rio Grande del Norte in New Mexico, Cascade-Siskiyou in Oregon and Gold Butte in Nevada – was designated over the last two decades to safeguard, at least in part, important wildlife habitat, valuable fisheries and access to great places to hunt and fish.

Each interactive map highlights data on fish and wildlife habitat and hunting and fishing opportunity that are at risk in the wake of the administration’s review.

“Sportsmen and women need to understand what’s at stake,” said BHA Conservation Director John Gale. “Conserving large tracts of undeveloped public lands as national monuments is essential to America’s hunting and fishing traditions. These maps graphically illustrate what we currently possess as public land owners – and what we could easily lose.”

Taken together, the maps offer revealing data:

  • Each of the six national monuments identified for modification or elimination contains important big game habitat.
  • Together, the six national monuments encompass nearly 4 …Read the Rest

    Source:: AmmoLand

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