It Is Time to Designate Southern California Steelhead as Endangered The story of southern steelhead is a story of concrete and progress, of the forces of human will over the balance of nature.  With fedora hat and three-piece suit, the man stands – a symbol of progress and success, an icon of the American dream – in front of a 1938 Chevy holding a silvery steelhead by its gills, the last known of its kind in the LA River, a sad reminder of the past and haunting memory of our future.  With a ...

Gianetti’s Spring Creek Ranch in Carbondale hosted a Colorado BHA fly fishing event this month. This was part of BHA’s Women in the Woods campaign, a program aimed at engaging existing and prospective sportswomen. Presenters included entomologist Christina Medved, the director of Community Outreach for the Roaring Fork Conservancy; Kendall Bakich, CPW’s Aquatic Biologist for the Roaring Fork, Eagle, and Middle Colorado watersheds; Lani Kitching owner and guide from the local Proudline Guided ...

Engaging students in advocacy to protect public lands, waters, and wildlife is at the heart of BHA’s Collegiate Program. Since the program’s inception in 2016, this is how we’ve been educating our college members about important conservation legislation and teaching them how to use their voices to speak up for our wild places. The Great American Outdoors Act BHA members were instrumental in helping pass the Great American Outdoors Act in August 2020 and our student leaders were no ...

There are some cool things happening here Ohio, the heart of it all! The Ohio chapter of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers would like to extend our gratitude to Governor DeWine and his administration for keeping his promises to improve Ohio’s water resources for a healthier future for water quality in the buckeye state. Governor DeWine recently announced a $5 million dollar grant program from the H2Ohio project which will incentivize building better ditches. These two stage drainage ditches ...

  Kentucky Discriminate Against Public Land Wild Turkey Hunters The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources (KDFWR) has proposed changes to Spring wild turkey bag limits on public land hunters while leaving private land harvest unchanged. Amendment to Kentucky Administrative Regulations (KAR) 301 KAR 2:142 (link https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/kar/titles/301/002/142/REG/) would reduce Spring wild turkey limits on Kentucky Wildlife Management Areas (WMA) to one wild turkey per ...