Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA) would like to thank Dan Gibbs, Executive Director, Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and Tim Mauck, Deputy Executive Director, DNR for their leadership in standing up for our public lands and wildlife. William Perry Pendley has made a career of trying to dismantle our public lands and unlawfully dismissed legitimate wildlife and habitat concerns within the BLM’s Uncompahgre Resource Management Plan (UFO RMP) - Concerns that were shared by the state, ...

WY Board Members Wallace Leastman, Gillette and Pete Kassab, Sheridan participated in a fencing project on June 6th at the Bud Love Wildlife Habitat Management Area led by Wyoming Game and Fish. This effort included multiple agencies and groups working together to remove sections of woven and barbed wire fencing to address barriers limiting wildlife movement. If you're interested in supporting efforts like this in your area please contact your regional WY BHA Board Member and ask how you can ...

Stephen came home from a BHA fundraiser, happy to tell me he had bid and won a guided elk hunt. I didn’t know right away that I would be going with him as the hunter.  He told me later that the hunt was for a military veteran or a first time hunter; Stephen wanted me to go as a first time hunter.  I grew up around hunting, whitetail, goose, duck and pheasant, but had never participated myself. I’m not certain why. Perhaps because hunting was so available, I took it for granted, or because we ...

Photo Credit: Good Bull Outdoors   Earlier this week Colorado Parks & Wildlife (CPW) announced the locations of state trust lands now accessible to hunters and anglers across the state of Colorado. This is the first round of expansions that we will see to the Public Access Program, and is part of a multi-year commitment made in July of this year by CPW and the Colorado Land Board to expand public access on state trust lands for hunting and fishing from 480,000 acres to 1 million acres. To ...

On August 9th, Wyoming Board Members Erik Kramer and Ross Crandall hosted a Disease Workshop in Jackson with the goals of getting hunter’s disease-related questions answered as well learning how to obtain and submit lymph nodes to be tested for Chronic Wasting Disease.   Many of the 35 participants asked questions during the Q&A and the lymph node demonstration clarified the process for those who have either not done it before or had a hard time in the field.  Overall, the workshop was a ...