Recreational Fishing and Hunting Heritage and Opportunities Act

Current understanding

To be populated as evidence accumulates.

2026-09-22 — Reinvigorating America’s Hunting Heritage: cross-connection with hunting-heritage: Executive action parallels legislative efforts under the Recreational Fishing and Hunting Heritage and Opportunities Act to expand hunting access on federal lands. (novelty: 2)
2026-09-22 — Restoring American Saltwater Angling and Recreation: cross-connection with saltwater-recreational-fishing: Executive action on saltwater angling complements legislative efforts to expand recreational fishing and hunting access on federal lands and waters. (novelty: 3)
2013-02-14 — Land and Water Conservation Authorization and Funding Act of 2013: cross-connection with land-water-conservation-fund: Both address federal-land recreation access; the 2013 LWCF bill would have earmarked ≥1.5% of LWCF spending specifically for hunting, fishing, and other access to existing federal public lands. (novelty: 2)
2012-02-02 — Recreational Fishing and Hunting Heritage and Opportunities Act: 112th Congress bill introduced that would require BLM and Forest Service to treat their lands as open to hunting, fishing, and recreational shooting by default (closure requires formal action) and to plan land use to facilitate those activities; referred to committee with no further action shown. (novelty: 2)