This week, Idaho BHA member Derek Farr (pictured) will be traveling to Washington DC to express support for the Land & Water Conservation Fund (LWCF). LWCF is a critical source of funding for providing public hunting and fishing access and protecting key fish and wildlife habitat. Over the past five decades, over $210 million in LWCF funding has gone to benefit key public hunting and fishing areas in Idaho, such as Hell’s Canyon National Recreation Area (NRA), Middle Fork Clearwater National ...

As areas urbanize and private lands continue to be leased-up by those willing to pay the highest dollar, public land access is becoming increasingly important for sportsmen throughout theU.S. The importance of access is backed-up by a recent study that found lack of hunting access to be the number one reason that people stopped hunting. Virtually all sportsmen agree access is important. While there is some unfortunate disagreement amongst sportsmen groups about what the term “access” means ...