Most humans are blessed with five senses (sight, sound, smell, taste and touch) and spring turkey hunters are especially thankful for hearing. The sound of the spring woods at dawn reaches an exhilarating crescendo when robust gobbles rain down from wooded mountainsides. It’s that sound/experience that many turkey hunters find addicting. If your addiction leads you to Colorado and you’re planning to hunt backcountry mountain Merriam’s, you are likely hiking in from a trailhead base camp each ...

Public Hearing on WSA21-01 on Monday, March 21st from 3pm-6pm Alaska Time.  Call: 1-800-779-2712 Passcode: 5653753

The Colorado chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers recently appointed Bill Dombroski to serve as an Assistant Regional Director for Boulder County. Bill was born and raised in northeast Pennsylvania. He went fishing for the first time at the age of 4 and has been doing it ever since. “My dad was the biggest mentor in my life, I owe my passion and love for the water to him,” Bill said. “He started me out with trout fishing at a local pond and slowly moved me into bigger water where we ...

News for Immediate ReleaseMarch 15, 2022Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org MAPLand Act would modernize, digitize map records, increasing access opportunities for public lands hunters WASHINGTON – Bipartisan legislation that would modernize and digitize map records for the benefit of public lands hunters passed out of the U.S. House of Representatives today following strong and continued advocacy by Backcountry Hunters & Anglers and other sportsmen’s and ...

Jack Rudloe is one of the orneriest watermen on the Florida Gulf Coast, a time- and sun-honed fighter for clean water, intact forests and wetlands, and the myriad salt and freshwater life that depends upon it all. He is a world-renowned scientist and researcher, a commercial harvester of sea life, an unparalleled educator and the author of nine books and hundreds of articles. He and his wife Anne founded Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory in the fishing town of Panacea in 1980. Hal and Jack ...