As part of our 2021 Public Lands and Waters Photo Contest, our judges are offering some tips to improve your photography while out recreating on our public lands and waters. For our second installment, renowned hunting photographer Tony Bynum tells us how to up your hunting photography.  As a Montana photographer, photographing hunts is part of my regular yearly routine. I'm hired to take photographs of people's hunting adventures. I'll share some tips on how to photograph your next hunt. ...

2021 was a big year for Wyoming BHA. All told, we raised over $100,000 for public access. We helped expand access to 33,000 acres of premier backcountry and we are pushing back against attempts to lock us out of our public lands. We fought a land exchange that would have resulted in the loss of quality backcountry hunting grounds. We removed miles of fencing, cleared miles of trail, collected tons of garbage, and organized multiple events that ranged from CWD workshops to a trapping and bird ...

Federal Accomplishments The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (H.R. 3684) is the United States' largest ever investment in infrastructure and included significant provisions for conservation. This legislation passed with a bipartisan majority in the House (228-206) and supermajority in the Senate (69-30) before being signed into law by President Biden. BHA supported provisions aimed at reclaiming public lands impacted by extractive development, maintenance and repair of Forest Service ...

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks has backpedaled on a controversial elk management strategy after a public response that FWP Director Henry “Hank” Worsech described as a “firestorm.” Even after the department backed away from the most contentious proposal it had planned to present to the Fish and Wildlife Commission, public commenters continued to raise concerns at yesterday’s commission meeting in Helena about a process they said has been rushed and favors large landowners and brings the ...