The Colorado chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA) recently appointed Derek Pankratz to serve on the Colorado BHA Chapter Leadership Team (CLT) as Communications Co-Chair after a year of serving as a Habitat Watch Volunteer (HWV). Derek was born and raised in northeastern Wisconsin along the shores of Lake Michigan. He started gun deer hunting at age 12 and began archery hunting not long after. “I was fortunate to have many uncles and cousins who hunted when I was growing up and ...

Thank you, Sportsmen and Women of Kentucky! We had another big win this week when Representative Massey withdrew HB 395 as a show of good will in response to our efforts. Additionally, Senator Robin Webb amended her Senate Bill 217, the mirror to HB 605, following our meeting with her Friday 03/04/2022.   Senator Webb has ensured procurements by Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources (KDFWR) will be made subject to KRS 45A, the Kentucky Model Procurement Code, she has pulled the ...

 

We hunters and anglers are often lost, these days, in a thicket of questions about public land and private land, loss of access, too much access, conservation priorities, conflicting desires and goals. One person who is forging a path through this thicket is Doug Duren, hunter-conservationist, multi-generational Driftless Area landowner in southern Wisconsin, and somewhat unlikely conservation and hunting media star. Join us for a deeply inspiring conversation about something overwhelmingly ...

Sage grouse are an icon of the interior western United States (and parts of Canada as well). They are obligates of Artemisia spp., i.e. sagebrush; they have very specific habitat, food, mating, and nesting needs, and all of those factors are dependent upon healthy sagebrush based ecosystems. In Wyoming, we are fortunate to have relatively robust, and often huntable, populations of sage grouse. However, science-based conservation efforts and the wellbeing of sage grouse in Wyoming are being ...