Chapter News Chapter Leadership Team Updates Central West Slope Assistant Regional Director Leslie Kaminski was one of the top BHA Hike To Hunt fundraisers![1] Well done, Leslie! The chapter also appointed Amber Leach to serve as a Southeast Colorado Assistant Regional Director. In addition, we appointed four Northern Colorado Assistant Regional Directors, including Zack Scott, Jon Lang, Graham Geary and Trenton Budish. Thank you Amber, Zack, Jon, Graham and Trenton! For additional ...

The vast majority of the well over 200,000 hunters who purchase elk tags in Colorado each year don’t leave the mountains with a quartered or boned-out elk en route to the freezer, myself included. In fact, my elk hunting success (albeit limited) over the years can primarily be attributed to being in the right place at the right time, or “orchestrated luck.” I’m a firm believer that we set ourselves up to be lucky, in all facets of life, through hard work and persistence no matter the ...

Zephyr Minerals Ltd. (Zephyr), is a publicly traded Canadian company located in Nova Scotia (zephyrminerals.com). The company is proposing to open a gold mine in the foothills that serve as a scenic backdrop south and west of Cañon City. The approximate location of the proposed mine is in the Temple Canyon Area, 4 miles southwest of downtown Canon City, 1.5 miles from the city limits, and 1.3 miles from Grape Creek. During April 2020 the Colorado chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers ...

The Colorado chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA) recently appointed Graham Geary to serve as an Assistant Regional Director for the Northern Colorado region. Graham was born in Greeley, Colorado, and raised on a small ranch east of there on the edge of the Great Plains, a location from which you can see the snowy peaks to the west and to the east the vast grasslands of the nation’s interior spread as far as the eye can see. “We raised a few cows and rode some good horses and lived ...

“… as early as 1871, nearly a century before Earth Day, hunters and anglers were speaking out for nature and the environment … The natural world sustains us with clean air, unpolluted water, recreation, and natural resources. If we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves.” –Jim Posewitz, Beyond Fair Chase[1]   Renowned trad bow elk hunter David Petersen (a former U.S. Marine Corps helicopter pilot) founded the Colorado Backcountry Hunters & Anglers chapter—the first BHA state chapter—in 2005, ...