On Friday, August 14, the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission is hosting a public meeting to vote on key wildlife management decisions. Animal rights activists routinely show up to these meetings working to restrict our outdoor heritage, making it vital that Nebraska’s sportsmen and women attend to represent the boots-on-the-ground perspective.
Agenda Items:
- 2027 Mountain Lion Season: Commissioners will vote on expanding the Niobrara Unit, altering permit structures, and increasing harvest limits in certain units.
- 2027 Bighorn Sheep Regular Hunting Season: Commissioners will vote on authorizing one lottery and one auction for the season, if approved, would be December 1 – 22, 2027
- Sportfishing Regulation: Commissioners will vote on creating a trout tag exception for Free Fishing and Park Entry Day at Two Rivers State Recreation Area (Trout Lake), requiring anglers to report catches by 10 p.m. on valid tag days, and moving the paddlefish archery/snagging application start time from 1 p.m. to 10 a.m.
- Biennium Budget Request: Discussion on the agency’s fiscal year 2028-2029 budget priorities.
- Fee Schedules: The establishment of new fee schedules for Fish and Wildlife Education programming.
Meeting Information:
- Date: Friday, August 14, 2026
- Time: 8:00 a.m.
- Location: Blair Public Library, 2233 Civic Drive, Blair, NE
How to Get Involved:
- Testify in Person: Attend the meeting at the Blair Public Library. Public hearings are built directly into the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission schedule, giving you a formal platform to protect our hunting traditions.
- Watch Online: Tracks live updates or watch recorded sessions on the Nebraska Game and Parks YouTube Page. (Note: The commission does not host live, interactive virtual public comments for standard business meetings, so in-person attendance is critical to speak).
The Critical Need for Vigilance
Anti-hunting groups are constantly searching for backdoors to lock us out of public lands, outlaw essential conservation tools, and choke our heritage with red tape. By showing up, you send a clear message to the commission: Nebraska’s sporting community demands science-based management, transparency, and respect for our time-honored traditions.
History proves that when outdoor enthusiasts drop their guard, radical animal-rights groups capitalize on the silence. We cannot sit back and let a loud, highly organized minority rewrite the rules of our outdoor heritage.
Defending the Future of Our Wildlife
As sportsmen, we are the true frontline guardians of a lifestyle that is increasingly coming under political fire. While we are actively funding conservation and managing the land, anti-sportsmen groups are busy filling public hearings to erase our way of life. The threats we face today are unprecedented. It is time for our community to stand together, match their energy, and fiercely protect our right to hunt, fish, and trap. This is how we ensure the legacy we inherited is preserved for our kids, grandkids, and generations to come.
Please forward this alert to your family, friends, and fellow hunters. Urge them to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with you and the Sportsmen’s Alliance to defend our outdoor freedom in the Cornhusker State.
The Sportsmen’s Alliance guarantees hunting, fishing, and trapping for the American sportsman now and forever. We’re there when sportsmen need us most. We are the only organization specifically created to protect the individual hunter, angler, and trapper – no matter the threat. We will never compromise when it comes to defending our way of life in the courts, in the legislatures, in the public square, and at the ballot box. We make this promise to the American sportsman: we will never give up and never give in while proudly securing our future against those seeking to destroy our values, beliefs, and traditions.
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