Pop Up Waterfowl Birding at Chena Flood Project - A Recap by Nate Kibbey, Interior Representative AK ChapterMid-May is a great time to see all of the beautiful migrators pushing north. Birding is a weekly pastime for my wife and I, but today I opened the outing to other BHA members. We started off with some coffee provided by a Wild Rivers Coffee Co , an Alaska Chapter Sponsor. The coffee, conversation, and birds all made for a lovely outing.     A few brand-new birders, and some really ...

    The Taos plateau is a high elevation basalt filled valley in north New Mexico.  It is bordered by the Tusas mountains to the west and the Sangre de Cristo in the east.  It sits at 7,000' elevation and experiences frigid winters and scalding summers.  In 2013 the area was designated the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument.  It encompasses 242,555 acres of sagebrush, grassland, piñon juniper forest and the Rio Grande gorge.  In the winter, large herds of elk migrate out of the Tusas ...

Hunting and Fishing Opportunities Threatened on the Mendenhall Wetlands The Mendenhall State Game Refuge (Taashuyee-Chookan.áani/Mendenhall Wetlands) in Juneau, Alaska, is a rare treasure—designated by the legislature in 1976 to safeguard crucial habitat and provide access for sport and subsistence hunting. These wetlands are not only a haven for hunters and anglers—they’re a globally important bird area and vital spawning grounds for anadromous fish. Now, this irreplaceable refuge is under ...

The Colorado chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA) appointed Steev Wilson to serve as Regional Director for the Roaring Fork Valley Group. Steev was raised on the east coast fishing with his father and grandfather in the Block Island Sound and digging clams, mussels, and crabbing in the salt ponds. He was a volunteer and counselor at the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) camps is the summers where he received his hunters-ed. certification and then ...

The question of whether Congress will draft legislation that includes the sale of public lands looms large as Republican lawmakers prepare their budget reconciliation bill to be made public. The first votes on the topic were held by the Senate earlier this month during consideration of an amendment to block public land sales through this legislative process. The administration took action to overturn two mineral withdrawal processes, as well as to rescind the Bureau of Land Management’s ...