No one plans to have their first kid two months early. All the books and blogs and listicles about impending parenthood offer tips on anything from nursing to diaper rash, but none explain what it’s like to spend the first month of your child’s life visiting her in the hospital. They don’t describe what it’s like to talk to your tiny creation on the other side of a plastic box with impossibly small tubes in her hands and nose.

In the wake of the November elections, the eyes of the nation are on the incoming administration. How will it take shape? Which campaign promises will become reality and which will not? With many questions unanswered even during the campaign, anglers specifically are wondering whether the new administration will adopt policies that reflect or threaten our sporting heritage. But while focus is turned to the President-elect, members of Congress beholden to special interests are wasting no time in promoting legislation that would exploit and seize U.S. public lands and waters.