Backcountry Hunters & Anglers has been working for years to secure greater certainty for Colorado’s Thompson Divide and the quality hunting and fishing experiences it provides. Now we need your help to secure a 20-year mineral withdrawal that will provide more time to secure permanent protection through the CORE Act. With its bounty of fish and wildlife habitat and rangelands supporting local communities, the Thompson Divide area remains critically important to local ranchers, hunters, and ...

Lyndsie Bourgon is a writer, oral historian, National Geographic Fellow and author of Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America’s Woods. Join Hal and Lyndsie as they explore the many paths that led to her book on the booming trade in stolen timber and other forest products from America’s public and private lands. You will never look at a beautiful violin or guitar quite the same (“music wood’ is among the most poached and the most valuable), and you will be left pondering a very ...

News for Immediate ReleaseNov. 30, 2022Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org President promises action to protect Avi Kwa Ame and surrounding region, which comprise ancestral lands of 12 Indigenous tribes and important desert bighorn habitat MISSOULA, Mont. – Backcountry Hunters & Anglers applauded a pledge by the administration today to conserve vital wildlife habitat and important cultural lands in southern Nevada. In remarks made at the White House Tribal ...