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Public Lands
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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.

 Brian Flynn, Two Wolf Foundation
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.

 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.

 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.

 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.

 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.

 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.

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…

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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 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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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.

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    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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    ‘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.

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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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Restoring the

Mississippi River Delta

Overview of the issue

Nearly 2,000 square miles of prime fish and wildlife habitat have vanished along Louisiana’s coast. The sea level is rising at the same time that the land is sinking and eroding, because sediment that was historically delivered by annual flooding on the Mississippi River has been cut off by flood-protection and navigation levees for a century.

Habitat conditions were made even worse in 2010, when the Deepwater Horizon suffered an explosion and sank, causing the largest oil spill ever to occur in U.S. waters. Reparation fees paid by BP, however, have created once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to restore Louisiana’s coastal wetlands and fish habitat and undo more than just oil spill damage. Watch our videos to learn how.

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Big speckled trout and more close to Mississippi River!

It’s a break in the Mississippi River that’s been wide open for almost a decade, and it’s still more controversial than figuring the best methods to combat the coronavirus. Some anglers love Mardi Gras Pass, and see its value to the ecosystem as a whole, but others simply despise it.

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Popular fishing spot delivers BIG-TIME!

Fishing conditions are sometimes ideal, and you feel extremely good about your chances before you ever leave the house. More commonly, however, something nags at the back of your mind, causing you to question whether you should have stayed in bed and continued dreaming about fish instead of braving the elements to try to actually catch them.

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Speckled trout, white trout every single cast!

Thanks to unseasonably warm temperatures, the annual migration of speckled trout from the outside spawning grounds to the inside feeding areas has been later and slower than usual. Some fish are in the marshes and interior lakes, but not yet in the numbers that are typical for this time of year.

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Gobs of speckled trout in sight of Mississippi River!

Specks are notorious for seeking out clear water, where they can use their razor-sharp eyes to feed, and in the summertime, they need salty water to complete their spawning mission.

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Redfish GOBBLE gummy worms!

Worms are appealing fare to only two main groups of earth-dwellers — birds and fish. So whoever decided to form gelatinous sugar into a confectionary resembling the most disgusting critters outside of Washington, D.C., was surely a sadist.

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This American Land: Restoring Louisiana’s Coast

With Louisiana’s coastline sinking and washing away, projects aim to reverse mismanagement that has blocked the deposit of sediment at the Mississippi’s mouth.

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Saving the Coast

The TRCP’s Chris Macaluso joins Pro Bass Angler Greg Hackney on Louisiana Sportsman TV in April 2018 to talk coastal restoration in the marshes near New Orleans.

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Castin Cajun Pontchartrain Trout Fishing in New Orleans Part Two

Catching speckled trout and redfish and talking about freshwater and grass with the Castin’ Cajun Tony Fontenot and Capt. Mike Gallo in December 2017.

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Fishing the MR-GO on Castin' Cajun

Talking coastal restoration and flood protection and catching some specks and reds with the Castin’ Cajun in January 2016.

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Chris Macaluso, Grass Beds in Louisiana - Louisiana Sportsman TV

Center for Marine Fisheries Director Chris Macaluso talks about the importance of grass beds for fishing in Louisiana and across the Gulf on Louisiana Sportsman TV in July 2014.

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