BHA’s Largest Fly-In Targets an Important Conservation Fund, LWCF Last week, BHA chapter members from across the nation gathered in Washington, D.C., to advocate for the reauthorization of the Land and Water Conservation Fund, America’s most popular and successful conservation program. The diverse group of 30 BHA members, who traveled to D.C. from destinations as diverse as Oregon and Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Mexico, were ecstatic to tell their LWCF stories and share their experiences with ...

I joined BHA because I enjoy Western hunting and want to preserve and enhance access to public lands in the West. But, I’m learning public lands access and conservation is a problem all across the United States. On January 30, a Facebook post was made to the Delaware Forest Service page announcing a pilot project being developed to lease both the Long and Tunnel tracts of Redden State Forest in southern Delaware. Prior to this post there was no announcement on the department website or any ...

News for Immediate ReleaseNov. 10, 2017Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org  Public Access to Sabinoso Wilderness Achieved Public lands sportsmen among loudest advocates for dealthat opens previously inaccessible New Mexico wilderness LAS VEGAS, N.M. – Public lands sportsmen and women are celebrating as a deal is inked that will open the Sabinoso Wilderness in northeastern New Mexico to the public for the first time. The Interior Department announced on ...

News for Immediate ReleaseAug. 24, 2017Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org Secretary Zinke proposes ‘boundary changes’ to specific monuments, acknowledges broad public support for monuments system, Antiquities Act   [Above, a hunter and their dog hunt the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, credit: mypubliclands] MISSOULA, Mont. – An Interior Department report recommending ambiguous “boundary changes” to national monuments prized by sportsmen and ...

News for Immediate ReleaseAug. 2, 2017Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org  ‘What Happened to Ryan Zinke?’ BHA Launches Ad Campaign Public lands sportsmen and women hold the interior secretary accountable for conservation promises, spotlight administration’s misguided national monuments review MISSOULA, Mont. – U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s home state of Montana is the target of an advertising campaign launched today by Backcountry Hunters & Anglers. ...