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Public Lands
Why It Matters

Hunting & Fishing Access

America’s 640 million acres of national public lands provide irreplaceable hunting and fishing opportunities to millions of Americans.

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What TRCP is Doing

We’re working to safeguard America’s public lands so hunters and anglers always have quality places to pursue their passions.

MAPping Public Access

Enhancing access to your public lands and waters by digitizing public access records and paper maps.

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Unlocking Public Lands

The Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership teamed up with onX to determine the scope of the landlocked problem and propose solutions for unlocking public lands.

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Public Land Access

America’s 640 million acres of national public lands – including our National Forests and Bureau of Land Management lands – provide irreplaceable hunting and fishing opportunities to millions of Americans.

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How Sportsmen Are Doing It Right

Brian Flynn, Two Wolf Foundation's Story

Following a distinguished career in the U.S. Army, lifelong outdoorsman Brian Flynn returned home from a deployment in Afghanistan and…
Hunting
Why It Matters

Key Issues for America’s Hunters

Your source for the latest policy updates, conservation challenges, and opportunities shaping America’s hunting traditions.

What TRCP is Doing

We’re fighting for meaningful policy changes that benefit wildlife, our waters, and the American landscapes that make our outdoor traditions possible.

Chronic Wasting Disease

CWD is the biggest threat to the future of deer hunting.

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Wildlife Corridors

This critical habitat ensures elk, mule deer, pronghorn antelope, and other migratory species are able to move between their summer and winter ranges, and take full advantage of the spring greenup.

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Sage Grouse Conservation

The TRCP has been on the front lines of sage grouse conservation for years.

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Ryan Sparks
How Sportsmen Are Doing It Right

Ryan Sparks's Story

TRCP’s “In the Arena” series highlights the individual voices of hunters and anglers who, as Theodore Roosevelt so famously said,…
Fishing
Why It Matters

Key Issues for America’s Anglers

Your source for the latest policy updates, conservation challenges, and opportunities shaping America’s fishing traditions.

What TRCP is Doing

We’re fighting for meaningful policy changes that benefit wildlife, our waters, and the American landscapes that make our outdoor traditions possible.

Forage Fish Recovery

If you want great sportfishing, you need healthy forage fish.

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Restoring the Mississippi River Delta

Nearly 2,000 square miles of prime fish and wildlife habitat have vanished along Louisiana’s coast.

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Colorado River

Hunters and anglers are in this together, we know that collaborative solutions can provide relief for the strained Colorado River and safeguard hunting and fishing in this important watershed.

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David Mangum
How Sportsmen Are Doing It Right

David Mangum's Story

Capt. David Mangum is a YETI ambassador and outdoor photographer who utilizes his talents to produce media that inspire a…
Private Land
Why It Matters

Stewardship on America’s private lands

With 70 percent of U.S. lands in private hands and many of our best hunt and fish opportunities occurring there, investing in voluntary conservation on working lands safeguards access, strengthens habitat and water quality, and ensures resilient landscapes.

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What TRCP is Doing

We champion policies and programs that restore wildlife habitat, improve soil and water health, and keep working lands productive.

Farm Bill Conservation Programs

Explore our model farm to learn how each conservation program benefits landowners, wildlife, and sportsmen and women.

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Wildlife Corridors

This critical habitat ensures elk, mule deer, pronghorn antelope, and other migratory species are able to move between their summer and winter ranges, and take full advantage of the spring greenup.

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Sage Grouse Conservation

The TRCP has been on the front lines of sage grouse conservation for years.

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Ward Burton
How Sportsmen are Doing It Right

Ward Burton's Story

Ward Burton’s NASCAR driving career stretched across most of two decades. As an avid sportsman and conservationist, he founded the…
Special Places
Why It Matters

Special Places Worth Protecting

America’s most iconic landscapes provide unmatched habitat and unforgettable days afield. These places sustain wildlife, anchor local economies, and define the hunting and fishing traditions we pass down.

What TRCP is Doing

We’re working to conserve special places that provide world-class habitat and unforgettable opportunities for hunters and anglers.

Alaska

When it comes to quality places to hunt, fish, and trap, Alaska is unique and—in the minds of many—unparalleled. 

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Colorado River

Hunters and anglers are in this together, we know that collaborative solutions can provide relief for the strained Colorado River and safeguard hunting and fishing in this important watershed.

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Pennsylvania

The TRCP currently focuses its conservation efforts on the Chesapeake Bay, Delaware River, and Ohio River watersheds within Pennsylvania.

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The Lolo and Bitterroot National Forests

The Lolo and Bitterroot National Forests stretch across approximately 3.5 million acres in western Montana and provide important wildlife habitat, coldwater fisheries, and recreational opportunities that support thousands of jobs in the region.

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The Pacific Northwest

From the Puget Sound to the Snake River’s Hell’s Canyon, and on to the high divide in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem, the Pacific Northwest is blessed with millions of acres of public lands and thousands of miles of public water. 

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Restoring the Mississippi River Delta

Nearly 2,000 square miles of prime fish and wildlife habitat have vanished along Louisiana’s coast.

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Franklin Adams
How Sportsmen Are Doing It Right

Franklin Adams's Story

As a true Gladesman, conservationist, and historian, Capt. Franklin Adams has spent more than six decades championing Everglades restoration efforts…
Habitat & Clean Water
Why It Matters

Healthy Habitat Powers Every Pursuit

All hunting and fishing opportunities depend on quality habitat, from clean water and healthy wetlands to winter and summer habitats and the migration corridors that connect them.

All About Habitat & Clean Water
What TRCP is Doing

We are working to safeguard the habitats that power every hunting and fishing opportunity.

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Wildlife Corridors

This critical habitat ensures elk, mule deer, pronghorn antelope, and other migratory species are able to move between their summer and winter ranges, and take full advantage of the spring greenup.

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Colorado river

Colorado River

Hunters and anglers are in this together, we know that collaborative solutions can provide relief for the strained Colorado River and safeguard hunting and fishing in this important watershed.

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Nature Based Solutions

How hunters and anglers can play a major role in advocating for habitat-driven solutions.

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Alex Harvey
How Sportsmen Are Doing It Right

Alex Harvey's Story

Alex Harvey, founder of Legacy Land Management, is a registered professional forester in Mississippi and Alabama with a Master's degree…
Science
Why It Matters

Science That Guides TRCP

From conserving migration corridors and wetlands to ensuring clean water and resilient landscapes, science provides evidence that turns conservation goals into effective action.

Science for Conservation
What TRCP is Doing

For hunters and anglers, science safeguards the experiences we treasure including resilient big game populations, abundant fish, and wild places that endure changing social landscapes.

Science Speaker Series

The TRCP Science Speaker Series facilitates discussions around integrated science and research that better inform integrated conservation policy and management decisions and strategies.

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Science Snapshots

Each Science Snapshot translates credible research on key conservation issues into what it means for fish, wildlife, and America’s hunting and fishing traditions.

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Science Blogs

TRCP’s science blogs break down new research and on-the-ground findings to show how conservation science directly affects fish, wildlife, habitat, and our hunting and fishing opportunities.

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Jamelle Ellis
Your Science Expert

Jamelle Ellis's Story

Jamelle Ellis joined the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership in 2022. Jamelle spent the last three years as an environmental sustainability…
Where We Work
Across the Nation

Conservation Across America

TRCP works across the country to ensure hunters and anglers can enjoy healthy fish and wildlife and quality days afield, no matter where they live.

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TRCP in Your Region

TRCP works across the country to ensure hunters and anglers can enjoy healthy fish and wildlife and quality days afield, no matter where they live.

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Who We Are
Our Mission

To guarantee all Americans quality places to hunt & fish

We unite and amplify our partners’ voices to advance America’s legacy of conservation, habitat, and access.

Our Mission & Values
Our People & Partners

  • Meet the TRCP Team

    Our staff and board members unite and amplify our partners’ voices to advance America’s legacy of conservation, habitat, and access.

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  • Our Partners

    ‘Partnership’ is in our name. We work with 64 diverse partner groups that represent today’s leading hunting, fishing, and conservation organizations in order to strengthen the sportsman’s voice in Washington, D.C.

    Our Partners

  • Corporate Council

    TRCP’s Corporate Council is made up of diverse corporations that share a common passion for conservation.

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How You Can Help

To guarantee all Americans quality places to hunt & fish

Your tax-deductible donation will support TRCP's mission, now and into the future.

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Special Ways to support trcp

  • Capital Conservation Awards Dinner

    The CCAD is one of Washington's best-attended conservation celebrations, featuring dinner, cocktails, and a silent auction.

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  • Step Into the Arena

    Help us ensure that our treasured wild habitats and game remain intact for the next generation to enjoy – lend your support to the TRCP’s efforts today!

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  • Roosevelt Roast

    TRCP has partnered with Afuera Coffee Co. to further our commitment to conservation.

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Find the best way for you to lend your support. Join one of TRCP’s donor circles for special invitations, premium offerings from outdoor retailers, and more exclusive benefits. Take control of your legacy with planned giving or contribute to special conservation funds.

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In the Spotlight

House Agriculture Committee Chairman GT Thompson Introduces Farm Bill Proposal 

Hunters and anglers depend on strong Conservation and Forestry Titles, and TRCP will closely evaluate the bill's impacts as it moves forward.

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February 12, 2026

TRCP Appreciates Make America Beautiful Again 250 Strategy and Migration Announcements

Efforts will continue progress on habitat, access, and big game migration corridor conservation

February 11, 2026

New TRCP Staff Member to Focus on Mississippi River Basin Conservation

The Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership's new Lower/Middle Mississippi River representative will coordinate with key partners and community leaders to focus on furthering policy priorities in the region, including the advancement of improved water and habitat management projects.
February 11, 2026

USDA Announces Conservation Reserve Program Signup for 2026

CRP continues a proven legacy of habitat conservation benefiting landowners, producers, wildlife, and sportsmen and women.

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Timely information on major conservation issues, organizational news, and policy developments that matter to America’s hunters and anglers.

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TRCP in The Pacific Northwest

From the Puget Sound to the Snake River’s Hell’s Canyon, and on to the high divide in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem, the Pacific Northwest is blessed with millions of acres of public lands and thousands of miles of public water. Iconic western species such the Roosevelt and Rocky Mountain elk, Columbia blacktails, mule deer, chukar, salmon, and sea-run cutthroat offer vital recreational opportunities and cultural value. This wild land of mountains and rivers is a hunter’s and angler’s playground where the only currency is boot leather.

The Pacific Northwest Projects

This region hosts tens of millions of acres of public land that offer exceptional hunting and fishing, and TRCP is continually working to maintain and improve access to those lands and waters. Big game, steelhead, and salmon migration are critical to quality hunting and fishing in the PNW and the protection of their movement to natal streams and seasonal ranges means hunters and anglers will enjoy these animals for generations to come. TRCP is also a key partner of the BLM, USFWS, and USFS in the Pacific Northwest and ensures that agency land management planning hears the voices of hunters and anglers.

FEATURED PROJECT

The Owyhee Canyon Lands

The Owyhee region, a crown jewel of Oregon’s natural heritage, spans over 4.6 million acres of remote, western public land. Hunters and anglers from across the country travel to the area to hunt mule deer, pronghorn, bighorn sheep, and chukar, and to fish for a variety of trout and smallmouth bass.

As one of the most intact sagebrush ecosystems left in the Great Basin, the Owyhee is simply too special to ignore. The area’s outstanding natural resource value, paired with the challenges it faces—ranging from hotter and drier weather, which exacerbates the spread of non-native weeds and fire risk, to growing recreational pressures—are why the hunting and fishing community calls on lawmakers to conserve this incredible region.

Hunters and anglers value this wildlife rich landscape and are working locally with important stakeholders to discuss the best way to secure long-term conservation policies that conserve its rugged character, working landscapes, and the hunting and angling opportunities.

The Owyhee Canyon Lands

The Owyhee region, a crown jewel of Oregon's natural heritage, spans over 4.6 million acres of remote, western public land. Weigh in today to ensure that hunter and angler interests are incorporated in any forthcoming legislation.

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SUCCESS STORY: MONEY FOR MIGRATION, A PATH FORWARD FOR WILDLIFE CROSSINGS

Oregon lawmakers put $7 million toward more wildlife corridors, for safer highways

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How we work

  • We prioritize the conservation of large, intact landscapes and watersheds throughout the Pacific Northwest that provide irreplaceable habitat for far-ranging and culturally important species, like mule deer and salmon.
  • We hire staff that live, work, hunt, and fish in these important landscapes. Our state-based staff intricately understand the issues affecting our fish and wildlife habitats in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington.
  • We solve problems by rolling up our sleeves and finding collaborative solutions to difficult natural resources challenges. Our recommendations are guided by the best available science and informed by local knowledge.
  • We are collaborative, seeking to unite recreational hunters and anglers, guides, outfitters, and the region’s many Tribal voices around shared priorities.
  • We focus on safeguarding important habitat that supports world-class fishing and hunting opportunities for all user groups.
  • We believe that hunting and fishing traditions are vital to the heritage of the PNW and best served by improved coordination between state and federal managers, and reduced litigation.

THE ISSUES

Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge

Conserving a 100-mile pronghorn migration corridor in the region to improve habitat and big game populations on the refuge that offer one-of-a-kind hunting opportunities.

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Owyhee Canyons

Protecting the Owyhee canyon country which is home to native redband rainbow trout, chukar, mule deer, elk, and large unbroken sagebrush-steppe for sage grouse and California bighorn sheep.

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Wildlife Crossings

Collaborate with state transportation departments, state fish and game, and partners to assure safe passage for wildlife across the highways in the PNW to protect vital migration corridors and daily wildlife movements.

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Caribou Targhee National Forest Planning

Organizing a public lands collaborative for the impending plan revision on the over three million-acre national forest in eastern Idaho with the goal of maintaining important migration routes, summer ranges, and stop-over areas.

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Salmon-Challis National Forest Planning

Safeguarding the Lower 48’s largest wilderness area by encouraging hunters and anglers to comment on plan revision. Working with other stakeholders to make sure local communities prosper from their proximity to vast public lands.

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Upper Snake RMP BLM Planning

Rallying hunters and anglers to comment on the Upper Snake Field Office’s plan revision for 1.9 million acres of the High Divide that stretches from central Idaho to Yellowstone National Park.

Videos

Owyhee Trout Fishing
Owyhee Mule Deer and Packraft Trip
Pronghorn Path Migration
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Meet the team

Michael O’Casey, Director of Public Lands

Michael joined the TRCP in the summer of 2018. He is a native Oregonian who grew up on a small farm just a stone’s throw from the mouth of the mighty Columbia River. Early childhood trips salmon fishing on the Columbia and learning to stalk elk in the mossy forests of the Pacific Northwest hooked him with a passion for hunting and fishing in his home state.

Michael attended the University of Montana, where he received a bachelor’s degree in Wildlife Biology, and has since worked for federal agencies and nonprofits. Most recently, he led the development and implementation of public and private land stewardship projects throughout eastern Oregon.

He currently lives outside of Sisters, Oregon, with his wife and two boys. In his time off, you can find him with his family, camping, fishing, and hunting in the many diverse landscapes of Oregon’s wild country.

Meet the team

Rob Thornberry, Idaho Field Representative

Rob Thornberry, who joined the TRCP in February 2016 as the Idaho Field Representative, has spent his life chasing animals and fish across the West’s stunning public lands. A journalism graduate from the University of Colorado, Rob reported on outdoor issues for nearly three decades and wrote a weekly outdoor column for The Post Register in Idaho.

Public lands have been his playground since he first started chasing sage grouse across the rolling hills of northwestern Colorado. When not working to ensure sportsmen’s access to public lands, Rob can be found swinging a steelhead fly, busting through rapids, or hunting for elk in his beloved eastern Idaho. He and his wife Margaret are proud parents of two grown children.

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Tristan Henry, Oregon Field Representative

Tristan is a lifelong Oregonian, who grew up on a soggy piece of ground in the Willamette Valley. On his family farm he cultivated a persistent sense of curiosity of and commitment to the natural side of the world’s order. His work life started early in that rural setting and after graduating from Oregon State University it has run the gamut from major metropolitan areas to mountain towns, all the while maintaining an abiding and demonstrable commitment to Oregon’s conservation community, eventually bringing him to the TRCP team.

He currently lives in Central Oregon with his wife, Samantha, where they spend their free time hunting,
foraging and otherwise enjoying the richness of Oregon’s varied wildlife.
As TRCP’s Oregon Field Representative, he works to build a durable appreciation for and commitment to the resources and institutions that furnish so many Oregonians’ ways of life.

The Pacific Northwest Program Updates

Get caught up on our most recent stories and advocacy efforts.

 

Idaho Hunters Have 120,800 Reasons to Celebrate
 

Sportsmen and Sportswomen Cheer BLM Decision to Conserve Bennett Hills
 

Planning for Big Game Population Success in Southeast Oregon
From the AT to the Tetons, How a Career in Conservation Led to the TRCP
Moving Forward from the Malheur Standoff Decision
A Private-Land Pronghorn Hunt Built on Stewardship, Trust, and a Budding Bromance
Throwback Thursday: When Beavers Bombed Into the Backcountry to Do Conservation Work

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