Hunting

New Law Protects Pennsylvania Landowners

Posted on August 1, 2007 by Land Report Editors

The State of Independence has liberated landowners in a case that may set a national precedent. Earlier this summer, Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell signed a law granting new protections to landowners who open their property to sportsmen and others for…

Tagged with: Casey Burns, Daniel Haas, Ed Rendell, landowner liability, Pennsylvania
Posted in August 2007, Feature, Federal Policy, Hunting, Joseph Guinto, Magazine, News Desk, Northeast, Recreation, Regional News, Topics

Open Fields Legislation Offers Payments to Landowners

Posted on July 1, 2007 by Land Report Editors

Remember that little place in the woods where you used to get off spectacular hip shots while hunting birds on the wing? Well, there’s a strip mall there now. That’s an increasingly common issue for hunters, whose once-prized spots are…

Tagged with: Congress, Jerry Moran, Joseph Guinto, Kent Conrad, Open Fields, Pat Roberts, USDA
Posted in Feature, Hunting, Joseph Guinto, July 2007, Magazine, News Desk, Recreation, Topics

Tom Brokaw: The Land Report Interview

Posted on May 1, 2007 by Eric OKeefe

BY ERIC O’KEEFE PUBLISHED MAY 2007 Tom Brokaw has had a front-row seat at some of the most momentous events in recent history, yet to hear him tell it, what happened on an isolated river bank on his Montana ranch…

Tagged with: A Long Way From Home, Buck Brannaman, Hungarian partridge, KMTV, KNBC, landownership, Meredith Brokaw, Michael Keaton, Montana, NBC, Red Brokaw, sharp-tailed grouse, South Dakota, The Greatest Generation, The Horse Whisperer, The Today Show, Tom Brokaw
Posted in Cattle, Conservation, Equestrian, Eric OKeefe, Feature, Hunting, Magazine, May 2007, News Desk, Recreation, Regional News, Residential Property, Timber, Topics, Water, West

End of the Conservation Reserve Program?

Posted on April 1, 2007 by Land Report Editors

BY JOSEPH GUINTO PUBLISHED APRIL 2007 With the Bush administration backing off on the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), conservation and hunting groups fear the 22-year-old program once dubbed “Noah’s Arc for Wildlife” is a sinking ship. Backers of the CRP,…