Where this paper gets its information

Interagency incident system. Narrative updates written by the agency managing the fire, plus maps and closure notices. Has an RSS feed.

California incident pages with acreage, containment and evacuation status.

Entry point to per-forest alert pages. The forest order is the legal authority; every other account is a summary of it.

Crowdsourced conditions plus the official closures page.

Alerts by state.

Long Trail and the Vermont A.T. Shelter and bridge work nobody else reports.

Also maintains a good list of regional fire coordination centres.

Every active federal incident as a feed, with the state in the description. The only way to notice a fire nobody is covering.

Live perimeter polygons with acreage, containment and personnel. Public domain; fetch_federal.py draws our maps from it.

Covers hoot-owl restrictions river by river as they are issued and lifted.

Where California ocean salmon season changes are announced first.

Sets West Coast ocean salmon seasons. Meeting decisions precede the state announcements.

Approves the council's recommendations; useful for the reasoning behind a closure.

Fisheries orders take effect on dates that do not appear in the printed regulations.

Updated daily through the stocking window.

Written by regional biologists. Better regional reading than most magazines.

Quota changes, catch sharing plans and season rules appear here before any state announcement.

In-season rule changes river by river, as they are issued. The single most useful state feed on any beat; watch_federal.py reads it.

Ocean salmon and groundfish in-season changes. WordPress, so the feed is reliable.

Hunt-code-level testing requirements.

Publishes a season outlook that names the units that changed.

Commission sets two years of regulations at a time; the changes are where the stories are.

CWD in the 100-series units.

First detection states move by emergency regulation, which is fast and easy to miss.

Listing decisions, grizzly rules, comment periods.

The proposed rule itself, ahead of anyone's summary of it.

Seasons, surveys and enforcement.

Season openers and rule changes for the Northeast.

Draws, seasons, prescribed burn notices affecting hunt units.

Southwest seasons and conditions.

Fee schedules, closures, incident statements.

The list changes year to year, quietly.

More acreage than the Park Service and a fraction of the coverage.

Fee proposals, rule changes, comment deadlines.

Coordinates the volunteer programme.

Free, no key, JSON. Exposes comments_close_on, which is how you catch a deadline before it passes. watch_federal.py queries it.

Booking rules, cancellation policy, and the transaction fee that is not a camping fee.

Fee proposals run per forest with a named recreation officer and a comment deadline.

Campground and dispersed-camping rules on the east shore.

Grill and griddle recalls. Searchable, authoritative, and almost never covered until someone gets hurt.

Public company, so product launches come with filings and dates.

Stoves, knives, lithium batteries, coolers. The most under-covered outdoor beat there is.

For anything firearms-regulatory. Read the rule, not the headline.

Show dates, exhibitor lists, Innovation Awards.

Runs the Knife of the Year awards; the results are the industry's own verdict.

Show recaps, debut lists, DIY Showcase builds.

SEMA subsidiary doing the lobbying that keeps trails open.

Where the Boulder concept and the body-on-frame platform were announced.

Trim, price and availability changes come from the manufacturer first. Everything else is a rewrite.

Season pages, episode listings, air dates.

Alone Australia announcements and cast.