Popular opinion of California may be dominated by the cultures permeating from Hollywood and Silicon Valley, but hundreds of thousands of acres of public land border all of our major cities. Three bills essential to protecting and expanding California’s public lands are expected to pass through the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands this week. Though Rep. Judy Chu’s (D-CA) San Gabriel Mountains Foothills and Rivers Protection Act (H.R. 2215), ...

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) recently released a proposed set of changes to the state’s inland trout fishing regulations in furtherance of the Department’s Inland Trout Management Program. A result of a call for simplification, the proposed regulations were prepared with the intention of reducing the complexity of the current regulations and easing enforcement for wildlife officers. While the California Chapter applauds CDFW in its pursuit of regulations which permit ...