A pickup truck throwing up dirt on a muddy off-road track

Outdoor recreation and the rules that govern it

The 4×4 Life

Independent reporting and plain-English explainers on hunting and fishing regulation, public land and access, trucks and off-road travel, and firearms law. Sourced to the agencies that write the rules.

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The 4×4 Life explains the rules that shape outdoor recreation in the United States, and reports on them when they change. What a regulation actually says, which agency wrote it, and what it means for the person trying to comply with it.