Backcountry Hunters & Anglers is proud to announce the Aidan Long Outdoors for All Scholarship, a fund dedicated to help young people with disabilities get outdoors by providing access to adaptive equipment or provide assistance with outdoor education. BHA is currently seeking applicants for this new opportunity.  Aidan Nichols Long, 2004-2021, loved life and nature every day. Growing up in Montana his best times included camping, canoeing and fishing with his mom and dad, Karen Nichols and ...

West Virginia Backcountry Hunters and Anglers needs you to stand up for our public lands! A series of bills have been introduced for a comprehensive motorized recreation program on our public lands under the pretense of a “wildlife viewing” stamp that would provide off-road access on our Wildlife Management Areas, State Forests and State Parks from Memorial Day to Labor Day each year. This disguised motorized recreation program would turn West Virginia’s public wildlife habitat and hunting ...

The first Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA) North American Rendezvous was held at Fort Missoula, Montana, during March 2-4, 2012. Seminars, activities and events on the schedule included (in part): llama packing, casting accuracy, archery range access, DIY outfitting for wilderness fishing and hunting float trips, backcountry success story: Oregon’s Copper Salmon country, etc. Additional seminars covered the perfect backcountry camp, truth to power: getting politicians to listen, Dall ...

DJ and I rumbled down the dusty, wash-boarded road en route to where we planned to camp for the opening weekend of Montana’s rifle season. We passed glammed-out campers, generator-powered chest freezers, fleets of four wheelers, and license plates that seemed to be from everywhere but Montana. DJ lives in northwest Montana, and I live in the booming mountain metropolis of Bozeman. “I’ve been hunting here for years, dude,” I griped. “I’ve never seen it like this.” “Ebbs and flows, brother. ...

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers has consistently supported the expansion of public hunting and fishing access on National Wildlife Refuge System lands and waters across the United States. Since passage of the 1997 National Wildlife Refuge Improvement Act, which resulted in hunting, fishing and other wildlife-dependent recreation being recognized as priority recreational uses on refuges, state fish and wildlife agencies and refuge managers have been working together, through an open public ...