The so-called Big Beautiful Bill suddenly turned ugly for America’s 60 million hunters and anglers after Utah Senator Mike Lee proposed selling up to three million acres of federal land in the West. Sportsmen and women are traditionally among the most reliable Republican voters, but the nation’s hunters and anglers are drawing a line in the public sand with the proposed disposal of federal ground through the reconciliation process.

“I fear some members of Congress are taking the continued support of sportsmen for granted,” says Jeff Crane, President and CEO of the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation (CSF). "For sportsmen, selling millions of acres of our federal lands in a fast- tracked budget reconciliation effort is unacceptable.”

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