I received a well written email from the head of student council at a local high school asking for BHA to come table an event during their Earth Week. He was put up to this task by his environmental science teacher, who just so happens to be a BHA member as well.  I coordinated with the student and picked a date for me to come in at lunch. Prior to Earth Week, I also dropped off BHA donated supplies to help with their Earth Day trash clean-up. With donated supplies from BHA, the students ...

Welcome to Nebraska Backcountry Hunters & Anglers May update!   Latest:   The Nebraska Chapter of BHA held their annual Trashy Cat event May 2-4th at Two Rivers State Rec Area near Yutan, NE. Several Board members and several guests joined us for a weekend of camping, fishing, and trash cleanup. We were able to fill numerous trash bags with fishing line, bottles, cans, fishhooks, styrofoam, and plastic from the river banks and shorelines of this beautiful park. When we weren't picking up ...

  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 ...