The Colorado chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers recently appointed Robert Benjamin to serve as a Habitat Watch Volunteer (HWV) for the San Juan National Forest. Robert was born in Denver, but grew up in Fairplay. When he was thirteen their family moved to Grand Junction. He started fishing on a small pond in Fairplay at five or six and was hunting squirrels with a sling shot at the same age. When he was twelve or thirteen, Robert started hunting more regularly for small game, turkey ...

The Colorado chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers recently appointed Eric Jones to serve as a Habitat Watch Volunteer (HWV) for the Arapaho National Forest. Eric was born and raised in a small town outside of Jacksonville, Florida. He started hunting (and angling) around the age of three, walking in the woods with his dad training hunting dogs. “From there I hunted mainly small game in Florida as well as white-tailed deer,” he said. “I shore-fished on the Atlantic Ocean and its tributary ...

“Brave words are brave acts.” –David “Elkheart” Petersen[1] Renowned trad bow elk hunter David Petersen (a former U.S. Marine Corps helicopter pilot) founded the Colorado Backcountry Hunters & Anglers chapter—the first BHA state chapter—in 2005, not long after Mike Beagle (a former U.S. Army field artillery officer) called together a group of hunting-angling friends (the “Gang of Seven”) and stood around that prophetic campfire in southern Oregon where BHA was born during March 2004.[2] In ...

    Colorado recently lost a strong voice for wildlands and wildlife when BHA member Kent Ingram passed away (on Aug. 28). Kent was a consummate hunter-angler-conservationist and his lifetime of advocacy on behalf of our wild public lands, waters and wildlife—while always going out of his way to recognize and facilitate the conservation work of others—speaks volumes about his character. “He was such a strong voice for wildlife and ‘everyday joe sportsmen,’ as he would put it,” said BHA ...

Thank you Colorado BHA! On behalf of the Colorado Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Chapter Leadership Team (CLT), I want to thank you all for your resiliency, creativity and dedication to the BHA mission—helping protect and preserve our wild public lands, waters and wildlife—during this unprecedented year.  Your collective work and selfless dedication has been truly inspirational, but not unexpected given that BHA has always been a “quality over quantity” type outfit from the very beginning, ...