Trump Orders Expand Hunting, Fishing on Federal Lands
Is this restoring public land rights or gutting wildlife protections?
Above: U.S. President Donald Trump in the White House Rose Garden in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 17. Image credit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
The Spin
Right narrative
Public lands and waters belong to the American people, and hunters and anglers finally have a president who acts like it. These orders remove bureaucratic barriers by abolishing pointless lead ammo and tackle bans, creating multi-year fishing permits and implementing sensible hunting and fishing reforms. Access should be the presumption, not a favor bureaucrats hand out.
Left narrative
For people to hunt and fish, animals and fish have to be readily available. However, the administration's hostile actions, ramping up access and removing protections for endangered species, will have the opposite effect, ensuring wildlife declines and overfishing goes unmanaged, compounding the disastrous effects of this presidency's environmental vandalism.
