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OH BHA Helps to Improve Fishing Access

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Ohio BHA helping to improve fishing access along Chagrin Riverby Jacob Pries and Dustin LindleyWhile many anglers in Ohio are getting their last casts in and perhaps embellishing their best fish stories of the season as the temperature drops, fishing for steelhead is just starting to heat up. Those hearty enough to brave the cold Erie tributaries along the north edge of Ohio will not prospect for gold, but for flashing steel cutting through the water, hunting elusive and powerful rainbow ...

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NJ BHA, partners mentor six new hunters

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Hunter David Oquendo took a nice whitetail doe with the help of his mentor, NJ BHA Board Member Levi Morris. The New Jersey Chapter of BHA, in partnership with National Wild Turkey Federation and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, hosted a mentored archery deer hunt for 6 adults at the Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge in Sussex, NJ in October, 2022. Over a full weekend, the hunters attended a safety and deer hunting workshop and then hunted a full day with their mentor. “I am ...

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The 2022 Public Lands and Waters Photo Contest

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FWP News: Partnership announced to promote hunter behavior

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HELENA – In Montana, good relationships between hunters and landowners are integral to our opportunities, lead to proper wildlife management and ensure that our hunting traditions continue. Landowners play an important role in sustaining healthy wildlife populations, contributing to our economy and communities by creating jobs, and providing valuable habitat and treasured open spaces. But the relationship between hunters and landowners can start to fray when just a few hunters abuse the ...

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Encourage Congress to Advance the America's Outdoor Recreation Act

[EasyDNNnewsLocalizedText:Author]: Kaden McArthur

The America’s Outdoor Recreation Act is the first comprehensive recreation package in nearly 50 years. Several bills long supported by BHA including the Recreation Not Red Tape Act and the Simplifying Outdoor Access for Recreation Act, as well as brand new legislation like the Range Access Act, are a part of this package. Last spring this package of bills supported by BHA was unanimously advanced by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Now we need your support to encourage ...

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OCTOBER '22 MONTANA ELK UPDATE

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It's 70 degrees today, rifle opener is on the horizon, fall colors are peaking and mountain snow is in the 10-day forecast! Things are changing rapidly in Montana, and elk management is no exception. Here's what your Montana Chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers has been up to and what's on deck: 1) Big Snowy Wildlife Management Area, approved! Today, the Montana Land Board voted in favor of acquiring the 5,677-acre parcel by a vote of 4-1. Attorney General Knudsen was the lone voice ...

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Land Board approves purchase of Big Snowy Mountains Wildlife Management Area

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The Montana Land Board on Monday approved the state’s purchase of a nearly 5,700-acre property in the Big Snowy Mountains north of Ryegate for a new wildlife management area. The board, made up of Gov. Greg Gianforte, Attorney General Austin Knudsen, Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen, Superintendent of Public Instruction Elsie Arntzen and state Auditor Troy Downing, voted 4-1 to approve the purchase of the property owned by Shodair Children’s Hospital. Knudsen was the lone dissenting ...

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WA Chapter Joins Statewide Coalition

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The state of Washington, hunting and angling organizations have banned together and created a Washington Fish and Wildlife Conservation Partnership, a new coalition dedicated to protecting the state’s hunting, fishing, and trapping heritage through science-based fish and wildlife management. The WA Chapter has been at the forefront of the new initiative since the beginning as leaders saw the need for organizations to work together out of the recent spring bear decisions by the WDFW ...

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Hunting groups say Rosendale misfired on gun tax repeal

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Pro gun, anti tax. The candidate who takes those positions in a Montana election usually avoids a lot of criticism, but not this year. Hunting groups and the firearms lobby are displeased with U.S. Rep. Matt Rosendale for co-sponsoring a bill to kill the Pittman-Robertson Act, which has contributed $361 million to Montana wildlife restoration projects over its lifetime. Opponents to the bill include the National Rifle Association, which has spent millions supporting Rosendale in ...

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LETTER: MT BHA Comments on 2022 Elk Management Scoping

[EasyDNNnewsLocalizedText:Author]: John Sullivan

October 14, 2022 Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Attn: Wildlife P.O. Box 200701 Helena, MT 59620-0701 Re: 2022 Elk Management Scoping Comments Director Worsech: The Montana Chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers is a grassroots, volunteer-led conservation group with roughly 3,000 dues-paying members in the state, plus tens of thousands of supporters. Our members care deeply about quality wildlife habitat and equitable, fair-chase hunting and fishing opportunities. There are few ...

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The 2022 Public Lands and Waters Photo Contest

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Encourage Congress to Advance the America's Outdoor Recreation Act

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Land Board approves purchase of Big Snowy Mountains Wildlife Management Area

WA Chapter Joins Statewide Coalition

Hunting groups say Rosendale misfired on gun tax repeal

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