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Sep

2022

Hunters and Anglers Continue Our Role in Funding Fish and Wildlife Conservation

For generations, hunters and anglers have proudly been at the heart of funding for fish and wildlife conservation in the United States, in addition to playing a central role in fish and wildlife management through the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation. We’ve embraced programs and funding that would conserve fish and wildlife for all the public to enjoy – achieved through license sales, programs like the federal Duck Stamp, and excise taxes on hunting and fishing equipment. This ...
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23

Sep

2022

BHA CEO Appointed to Federal Committee to Advance Hunting, Conservation

News for Immediate ReleaseSept. 23, 2022Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org  The Hunting and Wildlife Conservation Council advises the Interior and Agriculture departments on wildlife and habitat conservation, preserving the nation’s hunting heritage WASHINGTON – Backcountry Hunters & Anglers President and CEO Land Tawney has been appointed to serve on a federal advisory committee to advance wildlife and habitat conservation and preserve America’s hunting ...
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2

Sep

2022

Judge allows conservation groups to intervene in elk regulation lawsuit

Author: Montana BHA
A Fergus County district court judge has granted the request of hunting and access groups to intervene in opposition to a lawsuit seeking to overturn Montana elk hunting regulations. Judge Heather Perry’s Aug. 31 order allows Montana Wildlife Federation, Montana Backcountry Hunters and Anglers, Montana Bowhunters Association, Hellgate Hunters and Anglers, Helena Hunters and Anglers, Skyline Sportsmen’s Association and Public Land and Water Access Association to intervene in United ...
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31

Aug

2022

Southern California steelhead CESA listing

Author: Ned Weidner
It Is Time to Designate Southern California Steelhead as Endangered The story of southern steelhead is a story of concrete and progress, of the forces of human will over the balance of nature.  With fedora hat and three-piece suit, the man stands – a symbol of progress and success, an icon of the American dream – in front of a 1938 Chevy holding a silvery steelhead by its gills, the last known of its kind in the LA River, a sad reminder of the past and haunting memory of our future.  With a ...
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26

Aug

2022

OPINION: Don't Forget What Happened Last Session

Since the 2021 legislative session, there's been a lot of outcry from Montana hunters and anglers. Whether it's our discontent about repeated attempts to privatize elk, a disregard for scientific management, or a lack of opportunity for public participation, there's no shortage of complaints coming from the camo crowd. Perhaps no single bill has had a more negative impact on Montana hunters than Rep. Berglee's (R-Joliet) HB 637, signed into law by Gov. Gianforte on May 14, ...
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25

Aug

2022

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Votes to Approve Controversial Pheasant Stocking Program

Author: Montana BHA
The Montana Fish, Wildlife & Park (FWP) Fish and Wildlife Commission has voted to approve a controversial new pheasant stocking operation for select public lands in the state. The vote occurred during the commission’s regular meeting in Helena this morning and capped months of heated debate between hunters and FWP officials about whether or not the state should be putting pen-raised roosters onto state-owned properties. The program, which was mandated by an act of the Montana Legislature in ...
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Aug

2022

OPINION: Time to kill FWP's pheasant stocking

Checks and balances are a cornerstone of American democracy. This system of controls is also central to managing our fish and wildlife as a public trust resource in Montana. Here, our elected governor and legislators, along with the appointed fish and wildlife commissioners, have both the authority and duty to guide and approve how the department of Fish, Wildlife & Parks discharges its role as the custodian of our state’s wildlife and Montanans’ rights to hunt and fish. Therefore, ...
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12

Aug

2022

House passes Inflation Reduction Act following Senate

Today the House of Representatives passed the Inflation Reduction Act, a massive spending bill that targets climate change, health care and taxes, among other issues. The House vote follows an Aug. 7 vote by the Senate to advance the legislation. The bill’s passage comes after nearly a year of congressional debate and negotiations surrounding the budget reconciliation process. An agreement was finally brokered between Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Senate leadership to move the bill before ...
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10

Aug

2022

OPINION: Daines playing DC politics

My mother, a fourth-generation Montanan, regularly preached “leave it better than you found it.” Now that I’m a father who hunts and fishes on public lands and waters with my family, the reason behind this message resonates: I want to ensure that the opportunities I had are also afforded to my son, Walter. The cold, clean water flowing out of the Scapegoat, Bob Marshall and Mission Mountain Wildernesses into the Blackfoot River provides life to a diverse ecosystem. It’s also where many of ...
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Aug

2022

LETTER: MT BHA Comments on Angling Restrictions and Hoot Owl Criteria

Author: Scott DeSena
August 4, 2022   Chair Robinson, Vice Chair Tabor, Commissioners Waller, Byorth, Walsh, Cebull & Lane Montana Fish Wildlife & Parks 1420 East Sixth Avenue P.O. Box 200701 Helena, Mt 59620-0701   Re: amendments of ARM 12.5.507 and 12.5.508- angling restrictions and fishing closure criteria   Chair Robinson; Vice Chair Tabor, Commissioners Waller, Byorth, Walsh, Cebull and Lane:   The Montana Chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers values our cold, clean streams of Montana. The current ...
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