The Brightline West high speed rail project plans to connect Los Angeles to Las Vegas along Interstate 15 and would have created a massive barrier to movement for desert bighorn sheep, mule deer, desert tortoise, desert kit fox and many more species. An unlikely coalition that BHA joined was able to successfully advocate for three wildlife crossings to be included in the project. We don’t all see eye to eye on many issues but it’s always refreshing to see groups put aside their differences ...

IDAHO AND NEVADA CHAPTER COORDINATOR Chapter Coordinator – Idaho and Nevada  Organizational Profile:  Backcountry Hunters & Anglers is a North American nonprofit organization with chapters throughout Canada and the United States. BHA seeks to ensure North America’s outdoor heritage of hunting and fishing in a natural setting, through education and work on behalf of our wild public lands, waters and wildlife.  Now, more than ever before, we need wild lands: places that offer solitude and ...

Conservationists are amassing to oppose a Legislative bill that would go against voters’ wishes and permanently cut marijuana tax money out of Montana’s popular habitat acquisition program. On Thursday, the Montana House Appropriations committee will hear House Bill 462, which changes previous legislation mandating how marijuana tax money is distributed. Most important to hunters and conservationists, the bill eliminates the tax money allocated annually to the Habitat Montana program. In ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 2/9/2023 Contact: Jim Klug, Business for Montana Outdoors: 406-581-6434 Frank Szollosi, Montana Wildlife Federation: 406-417-9909 Whitney Tawney, Montana Conservation Voters Ed Fund: 202-412-4793 Noah Marion, Wild Montana: 406-624-9622 Kevin Farron, Backcountry Hunters and Anglers: 406-540-3956   Montanans Rebuke Legislation to Limit Access and Habitat Funding Bill excludes voter-approved Habitat Montana funding authorized by previous Legislature     A new bill being ...

Bad legislation considered last year has reared its head again with the introduction of SB 1057. If passed, this legislation would give feral horses currently ravaging the Apache National Forest the same legal protection as the Salt River Herd received in 2016 through A.R.S. s 3-1491. This was a bad idea in 2016, and it's a bad idea today.  With this protection, feral horses essentially become the legislatively preferred species on its landscape to the detriment of native wildlife and ...