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EVENT RECAP: Fence Pull on the CMR

[EasyDNNnewsLocalizedText:Author]: Doug Krings

MT BHAers are known to brave any kind of weather to get the job done for our public lands. Despite threats of rain, snow and howling winds, a small but mighty crew of eight dedicated public land owners braved the elements and camped out the night before or got on the road before the crack of dawn to make it to Fred Robinson Campground at 7AM on April 23, 2022 for a fence pull on the Charles M. Russell (CMR) National Wildlife Refuge between Grass Range and Zortman, MT. With the guidance of ...

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Lizards' Paradise

[EasyDNNnewsLocalizedText:Author]: Spencer Como

Last month, the Castleton Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Club worked with the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department to restore five-lined skink habitat on Vermont public lands. This project was supported by a grant the club received last fall through BHA's Public Land Owner Stewardship Fund. The five-lined skink, a threatened species in Vermont, is the only lizard species in the state. Unfortunately, this rare cold-blooded vertebrate is only reported to exist in a few towns in the state ...

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Colorado Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Appoint Southwest Colorado Assistant Regional Director

[EasyDNNnewsLocalizedText:Author]: David Lien

The Colorado chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA) recently appointed Blake Mamich to serve an Assistant Regional Director for their Southwest Colorado Group. Blake was born and raised in Greeley, Colorado. “Growing up, I fished anywhere on the Front Range I could talk mom or dad into driving me to,” he said. His first hunting experiences were on walk-in access lands in eastern Colorado chasing pheasant. “Mom taught me how-to tie-on lure and Dad taught me how to shoot a ...

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Flathead Valley Board Member

[EasyDNNnewsLocalizedText:Author]: Montana BHA

Flathead Valley Board Member Regional board members are located in areas where we have high concentration of members. Our Flathead Valley Board Member is expected to live in or around the greater Flathead Valley area. These regional board member positions will serve to oversee and foster engagement in their areas in the following ways, either by they themselves doing them, by working with other Chapter Board Members, or by tapping into other BHA members in the area: Ensure that local ...

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Montana Chapter Access Solutions Leader

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Montana Chapter Access Solutions Leader This position is tasked with a) improving opportunities to access public and private land; b) raising awareness to both threats and opportunities related to public access; and c) helping support, improve or create new or existing access tools. Lead efforts to bring awareness to and support new access opportunities (writing letters of support, flagging for membership, etc).Assist with legislative engagement on bills that deal with loss or gain of public ...

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Hunting Mountain Merriam’s (& Gettin’ Schooled)

[EasyDNNnewsLocalizedText:Author]: David Lien

More often than not encounters with mountain Merriam’s end with hunters getting schooled by wary toms or watching them from afar. After getting busted by a tom not long after sunup, we encountered a sizable group of hens and strutting toms without being able to close the distance. Watching this struttin’ and gobblin’ spectacle alone was worth the price of admission, but I’m getting ahead of myself. The previous afternoon Colorado Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA) Habitat Watch Volunteer ...

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WY BHA Elk Feedground Comments

[EasyDNNnewsLocalizedText:Author]: Elizabeth Lynch

To Mark Gocke, and whom it may concern: Thank you for giving Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA) the opportunity to comment on this important elk feedgrounds planning and management effort. BHA’s mission is to ensure North America's outdoor heritage of hunting and fishing in a natural setting, through education and work on behalf of wild public lands and waters. Our membership is over 30,000 strong, which includes roughly 600 from the Wyoming chapter. Wyoming BHA (WY BHA) sets its priorities ...

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Benefactors aid children's hospital with land donations; recreationists could also benefit

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In 1881, a 19-year-old Louis Shodair stepped off a stagecoach in Helena, a small mining community only two years older than him. He arrived with his mother, widowed when Louis was 8, to care for her ill sister. Later the same year the Shodairs moved to Butte and started The Butte Candy Factory. “Louis Shodair has a new and improved method of making ice cream, which he is serving to his many customers,” The Butte Miner trumpeted in 1886. Read more from the Billings Gazette here...

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Amendment 7: Next Steps for Striped Bass

[EasyDNNnewsLocalizedText:Author]: Chris Borgatti

On Friday, April 15th at Midnight the public comment period for Draft Amendment 7 to the Fishery Management plan for Atlantic Striped Bass closed. A day before that deadline the Leadership Boards of the New England, New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, Capital and Pennsylvania Chapters of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers submitted comments to ASMFC’s staff urging them to recover and protect Striped Bass. Read BHA’s Comments on Amendment 7 Now that the final public input opportunity on ...

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Free landowner elk permit process OK'd, deadline to apply moved back to June 1

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Citing a short timeline for notifying participants, the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission on Tuesday approved a deadline change and a new process for landowners to apply for free either-sex elk tags in return for providing public hunting access. The rule change to a June 1 deadline only applies to this year, the commission decided at its monthly meeting in Helena. Next year April 15 to May 15 would be the application period. Before the third year, FWP is hoping to have a new proposal to ...

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EVENT RECAP: Fence Pull on the CMR

Lizards' Paradise

Colorado Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Appoint Southwest Colorado Assistant Regional Director

Flathead Valley Board Member

Montana Chapter Access Solutions Leader

Hunting Mountain Merriam’s (& Gettin’ Schooled)

WY BHA Elk Feedground Comments

Benefactors aid children's hospital with land donations; recreationists could also benefit

Amendment 7: Next Steps for Striped Bass

Free landowner elk permit process OK'd, deadline to apply moved back to June 1

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