Why Protecting Public Lands Matters More Than Ever

By Matt Davis Just earlier this week, I pulled my eyes away from my spotting scope, in which stood a beautiful mule deer I hoped to stalk later that day, and took a moment to look at where I was.. Only a short drive from my front door, I was in the middle of miles and miles of some of the most beautiful mountains in the west. As I soaked in the view, a bull elk bugled in the canyon below as if to welcome the coming month of September, a month every hunter lives for, a day or two early.