News for Immediate ReleaseMarch 30, 2023Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org An impressive slate of honorees receives BHA’s 2023 awards MISSOULA, Mont. – At the 12th annual North American Rendezvous, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers announced its 2023 award winners. BHA’s highest honors recognize individuals, chapters and entities that set themselves apart with their demonstrated commitment and unending effort on behalf of public lands and waters, fish and ...

Montana hunters pushed legislators on Tuesday via a variety of bills to limit out-of-staters who they claim are crowding them out. “We share with nonresidents, but we’re overrun,” Rod Bullis, of Hellgate Hunters and Anglers, testified at a Senate Fish and Game Committee hearing on Tuesday. For proof, resident hunters have pointed to the statistic that between 2012 and 2022, nonresident hunter numbers increased by 80% as resident hunter numbers fell by 7%. Read more from the Billings ...

BHA hosted over 30 college students at this year's North American Rendezvous in Missoula, Montana--all of whom either lead or participate in a BHA club at their university. With representatives from the University of Idaho, University of Wisconsin Stevens Point, Washington State University, University of Montana, Montana State University, Montana Tech, and Indiana State University, this year was a memorable one. Chapter Leader Trap Shoot Students started the weekend at the Missoula Trap and ...

Cornwall Creek Flooding may be a place known to you and for others not so much. To me, the Cornwall Creek Flooding is near and dear to my heart, my family having camped on its shores every winter for over a decade. Surrounded by the Pigeon River Country State Forest (PRC) this impoundment was created in 1966 to provide a high quality, publicly accessible fishery and it has been successful. Enjoyed by many for its beauty and lack of development within the over 100,000 contiguous acres of the ...

Protecting Shoreline Access is a top priority for the Rhode Island BHA team in 2023. Alongside a growing cohort of shoreline access advocates and organitations, BHA’s team remains energized following a momentous campaign during last year’s Legislative Session that saw a shoreline access bill introduced by Rep. Terri Cortvriend (Middletown, Portsmouth) pass the House of Representatives by unanimous vote, only to be held up in the Senate. In the last 12 months we have published articles, ...