BACKCOUNTRY HUNTERS & ANGLERS  2023 COLORADO RENDEZVOUS  SOAP CREEK CORRALS, GUNNISON COLORADO  A CALL TO THE WILD:  The Gunnison Region BHA folks are pleased to bring the ‘23 Colorado Rendezvous to the West Elk Mountains! Come celebrate your Public Lands accomplishments from past years, dream-up projects for the future, and revel in the present; in some of the most spectacular, humbling, awesome, wild Public Lands-scape this side of anywhere! Come join us June 9-11 on the south end of ...

The Georgia Board of BHA would like to keep you updated on the efforts to save Pine Log WMA. If you are able to attend the Bartow County zoning meetings on Feb. 7th or Feb. 9th please do in order to voice your support for public lands and keeping Pine Log WMA open. The following press release was just sent out to all major media outlets in the State of Georgia. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:                                CONSERVATION GROUPS CALL TO SAVE PINE LOG WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA Proposed ...

News for Immediate ReleaseJan. 31, 2023Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org Boundary Waters Wilderness Protection and Pollution Prevention Act Would Ensure Public Waters Will Be Enjoyed by Future Generations  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Backcountry Hunters & Anglers welcomes the reintroduction of the Boundary Waters Wilderness Protection and Pollution Prevention Act, legislation sponsored by Representative Betty McCollum (D-MN) that would permanently protect the ...

News for Immediate ReleaseJan. 31, 2023Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org EPA Final Determination preemptively revokes Pebble Mine permit under Section 404(c) of the Clean Water Act WASHINGTON – A massive industrial mine proposed for the fish- and wildlife-region of Bristol Bay, Alaska, has been blocked by the Environmental Protection Agency, which today announced it is proactively rescinding an industry fill and dredge permit under Section 404(c) of the ...

On August 25, 2004, the Wyoming Attorney General’s office issued an opinion that corner crossing does not violate the state’s “hunter trespass” law. On April 29, 2022, after less than two hours of deliberation, a Carbon County jury found four Missouri hunters not guilty of Wyoming’s criminal trespass law for corner crossing to access public land to harvest elk. The reality is: in Wyoming, no hunter has ever been found guilty of criminal trespass by a jury of their peers for corner ...