FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  Contacts: Jay Chancellor, Trout Unlimited, jay.chancellor@tu.org, 720-484-9247  Kaden McArthur, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, mcarthur@backcountryhunters.org, 435-770-3774  BHA, TU Launch Sportsmen for the Dolores  DURANGO, CO — Today, Trout Unlimited and Backcountry Hunters & Anglers launched Sportsmen for the Dolores (sportsmenforthedolores.org). The purpose of this coalition is to conserve fish and wildlife habitat, as well as sustain sporting opportunities, on ...

The Colorado Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA) 15th annual Rendezvous is scheduled for June 21-23, 2024. We will set up camp in the San Isabel National Forest-Salida Ranger District west of Salida/Poncha Springs for the weekend (see Maps 1 & 2 below for detailed directions) at a group camping area, known locally as the “goat wadi.” Also see this link for related information from our 2022 Colorado BHA Rendezvous Report, which was held in the same locale. Camp will be located in an open, ...

Colorado Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA) Board/Executive Leadership Team (ELT) member Dan Parkinson received the BHA Aldo Leopold Award for outstanding effort conserving terrestrial wildlife habitat at the BHA North American Rendezvous in Minnesota (on April 20, 2024). Dan has been a BHA Life Member since 2007. He joined the Colorado BHA Chapter Leadership Team (CLT) as Southwest Regional Director during 2014 and later joined the chapter Executive Leadership Team (ELT)/Board.[1] In 2014 ...

For Immediate Release                                                                                     April 3, 2024 Contact: Thomas Plank,303-720-0111 plank@backcountryhunters.org Thompson Divide Mineral Withdrawal Benefits Public Lands, Waters, Wildlife CARBONDALE, CO — Today’s decision by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Department of the Interior to finalize a 20-year administrative mineral withdrawal for approximately 220,000 acres of the Thompson Divide along Colorado’s ...

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA) started around a campfire during March 2004, thanks to seven hunters and anglers, men and women, the “Gang of Seven.”[1] They were inspired by the political activism of Theodore Roosevelt, the Land Ethic of Aldo Leopold and the contemporary writings of hunting ethicist and renowned trad bow elk hunter David “Elkheart” Petersen.[2] In my mind these three, along with BHA founder Mike Beagle and the Gang of Seven, are the Patron Saints of BHA. As Mike said in ...