public lands

NDA Connects Bourbon and Whitetails Through Exciting Habitat Project in Kentucky

Nov 3, 2025 NDA Staff

The National Deer Association (NDA) and several of their conservation partners recently commemorated the completion of a momentous habitat improvement project three years in the making. Collaborating organizations and volunteers successfully restored nearly 100 acres…

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NDA Restores Longleaf Pine Ecosystems and Improves Deer Habitat Across Mississippi

Aug 13, 2025 NDA Staff

The NDA is creating healthy ecosystems across the state of Mississippi by establishing, enhancing, and maintaining longleaf pine in three National Forests. As part of our nearly 6,000-acre habitat improvement goal on USDA Forest Service…

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NDA Partners With Private Industry to Hire Two New Public Land Foresters

May 15, 2025 NDA Staff

The NDA is proud to announce the hiring of two new professional foresters through a partnership with the natural resource management companies Southern Forestry Consultants and Wiregrass Ecological Associates. The new employees join a growing…

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NDA Supportive of BLM’s Public Lands Rule While Encouraging Clarity and Additional Input

Jul 17, 2023 Torin Miller

The National Deer Association (NDA) recently joined nearly two-dozen conservation partners in submitting comments to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) on the agency’s Conservation and Landscape Health Rule (Public Lands Rule). An overview of…

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Range Access Act Would Greatly Expand Recreational Shooting on Public Lands

Oct 18, 2022 Torin Miller

Last week, Rep. Blake Moore (R-Utah) introduced the Range Access Act, which would promote and expand access to safe recreational target shooting practice on federal public lands. Specifically, this bill would require the U.S. Forest…

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Action Alert: Oppose Anti-Hunting Legislation in New York

Jun 6, 2022 Torin Miller

New York Assembly Bill 9895 (and companion Senate Bill 9345), which recently passed the New York State Legislature, prohibits the hunting wild deer in the town of Southampton on state lands adjacent to a licensed…

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