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Montana Hunting and Conservation Groups Solidify Court Standing in Legal Defense of Elk Management

[EasyDNNnewsLocalizedText:Author]: Katie McKalip

News for Immediate ReleaseSept. 1, 2022Contact: Katie McKalip, BHA, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org Sonya Smith, MWF, 406-417-9909, sonya@mtwf.org District court judge grants coalition’s motion to intervene by demonstrating a ‘direct, substantial, legally protectable interest’ in suit brought by United Property Owners of Montana MISSOULA, Mont. – A District Court judge has ruled that a coalition of Montana hunting and conservation groups can intervene in a lawsuit ...

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Colorado BHA Fall Newsletter 2022

[EasyDNNnewsLocalizedText:Author]: Derek Pankratz

“To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.” – Aldo Leopold With shorter days and cooler nights, many of us will be looking forward to days spent on the hunt—hopefully in one of those blank places on the map Leopold so valued. Leopold knew, like many Backcountry Hunters & Anglers’ members, that the “blank places” are where you find solitude and challenge. They are where humanity’s footprint is light, and by extension where ...

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Southern California steelhead CESA listing

[EasyDNNnewsLocalizedText:Author]: Ned Weidner

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 ...

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BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 139: Kyle Lybarger, Native Habitat Project

[EasyDNNnewsLocalizedText:Author]: Thomas Plank

Kyle Lybarger, a 29-year-old consulting forester, father, deer-hunter, small creek addict and self-proclaimed “native plant nerd” of Hartselle, Alabama, is a major part of a new and wonderful current sweeping America. Kyle’s Native Habitat Project videos – simple, one-minute vignettes of obscure native plants, remnant grasslands and wildlife-vibrant native plant landscapes – have been downloaded millions of times. The Native Habitat Project is bizarre insects and forgotten plants, science ...

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Women in the Woods Fly Fishing Event Recap

[EasyDNNnewsLocalizedText:Author]: Robert Shettel

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 ...

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EVENT RECAP: Carpp Lake Trail Work

[EasyDNNnewsLocalizedText:Author]: Scott DeSena

Over the weekend of August 12-14, in partnership with the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, 6 MT BHA volunteers ventured into the Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness with picks, shovels, saws and Pulaski's. Under the direction of Josh Lattin from the Pintler Ranger District the group left basecamp at upper Carpp Creek trailhead and made our way past Carpp Lake on the Hi Line Trail towards Tamarack Lake. At Mile 5, we started our work of clearing trail of loose rock and debris, digging out water ...

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Public Lands Month: Advocacy within BHA's Collegiate Program

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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 ...

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Working Group Commences Meetings to find Viable Funding

[EasyDNNnewsLocalizedText:Author]: Jameson Hibbs

A recent meeting was held between the Indiana Division of Wildlife and a working group of representatives from state and national Conservation organizations. The Fee & Licensure Working Group was created by Indiana General Assembly in SB186. Initially, Representatives Randy Frye (District 67) and Tim Wesco (District 21) tried to remove authority of the Natural Resources Commission (NRC) to set DNR fees through a floor amendment. Thanks to a quick advocacy on part of Conservation ...

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OH Set to Improve Water Quality

[EasyDNNnewsLocalizedText:Author]: Jameson Hibbs

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 ...

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OPINION: Don't Forget What Happened Last Session

[EasyDNNnewsLocalizedText:Author]: Brandon Ellis

Since the 2021 legislative session, there's been a lot of outcry from Montana hunters and anglers. Whether it's our discontent about repeated attempts to privatize elk, a disregard for scientific management, or a lack of opportunity for public participation, there's no shortage of complaints coming from the camo crowd. Perhaps no single bill has had a more negative impact on Montana hunters than Rep. Berglee's (R-Joliet) HB 637, signed into law by Gov. Gianforte on May 14, ...

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EVENT RECAP: Carpp Lake Trail Work

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