New guidelines and timelines for Montana landowners to apply for a free either-sex elk hunting tag will go before the Fish and Wildlife Commission for approval on April 19. Prior to that, the commission is holding a work session to discuss the program on April 18 at 3 p.m. The change in the agreements, known commonly as 454s because they were created by House Bill 454, was motivated by a controversial approach the Department of Fish, Wildlife & Parks took last year. For decades, only a ...

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), joined by his colleagues Sens. Mitt Romney (R-UT) and John Barrasso (R-WY), announced in early April the introduction of the HOUSES Act (S. 4062), legislation that would permit state or local governments to buy public lands on the cheap, ostensibly to address diminished housing supply and rising housing costs.  Sen. Lee and the bill’s other sponsors claim that S. 4062 would alleviate the housing crisis. However, it is similar to legislation that Sen. Lee floated back in ...

April 12, 2022   Jay Pape Regional Maintenance Manager 1400 South 19th Ave Bozeman, MT 59718   RE: Acquisition & Development of Cornell FAS   Dear Mr. Pape,   The Montana Chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers submits this comment in support of Alternative B, the proposed acquisition and development of Cornell Park FAS in Dillon, MT. The increased and improved public access is something our roughly 3,000 dues-paying Montana members stand firmly behind. Other benefits of interest are the ...

The Bankhead National Forest in Alabama is a place of shadowed canyons and rushing coldwater creeks, crystalline waterfalls and bluff shelters blackened by the smoke from campfires over thousands of years. It’s an island of rare plants and wildlife and old growth trees in a state where coalmining and industrial forestry and now the sprawl of cities have radically altered the landscape. Come with us to Moulton, Alabama, and meet native son Joseph Jenkins, a biologist and herpetologist, hunter ...

  Whitewater Bay on Admiralty Island. Credit, USFS. In January of 2020 the United States Forest Service completed the purchase of 22,890 acres on Admiralty Island in the vicinity of Cube Cove. The land, which was once heavily impacted by logging operations, is now in public ownership and is part of the Kootznoowoo Wilderness Area on Admiralty Island. The damage from previous logging operations in the area was extensive and many roads and culverts in the area have become impediments to fish ...