This week, we’re discussing how you might be a jerk on public lands and not even realize it.

A few news stories from this week include the following:

A quick update on Colorado’s proposal to do away with non-resident over-the-counter archery elk tags.

In Montana, American Prairie just acquired 12,500 more acres of land, bringing its total between deeded and leased property to 475,000 acres.

In Wyoming, Joe Ricketts, the founder of TD Ameritrade, has been attempting to build a luxury resort in the heart of prime elk and moose wintering ground and on the Sublette mule deer migration corridor.

A new update to wildfire risk.org has shown that significantly more people and homes are at risk of wildfire than previously thought.

In New Mexico, the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, the Bureau of Land Management, and several other partners supplied funding for new water sources for wildlife in the Sierra Padrones, Polvadera, and Chupadera mountains.