Every fall, the University of Montana BHA club accepts applications for the Rebecca Romero Legacy Hunting award that covers the cost of a non-resident hunting license for out-of-state students with a focus on females and new hunters. On June 17th, 2018 Rebecca Romero was the victim of a hit-and-run collision in Missoula, Montana. She had just graduated from the University of Montana, earning a degree in wildlife biology, and had recently enlisted in the Montana National Guard with future ...

Despite the fact that Montana’s general rifle season is almost a week old, the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission approved two more public elk hunting access agreements for landowners during its Thursday meeting. Under the program the Cowan Ranch, located south of Havre, was granted four free either-sex elk permits and will choose another four Hunting District 690-20 elk permit holders to hunt. The ranch will also allow the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife & Parks to choose 16 ...

Update: Despite overwhelming opposition from BHA and other hunting and wildlife conservation groups, on November 19th the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Commission voted 4-4 to postpone the 2022 spring bear hunt (the tie vote effectively closes the spring bear hunting season). BHA remains supportive of a spring bear hunting season and is extremely disappointed in the commission's decision.  ------------------------------------------ Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA), the voice ...

WA Chapter’s Public Land Pack Out & Special Trail Maintenance Project Thanks to all of the Washington members who showed up to clean up our public lands!  It was great to finally reconnect in person!  __________________________________________________________________________ Need a reminder of what the Public Land Pack Out is? Every year during September, which is also Public Lands Month, BHA members pack out trash from fishing access sites, wildlife management areas and other areas on ...

Tony Latham is a retired game warden with 25 years’ experience working undercover on some of Idaho’s wildest public lands and in pursuit of some of the West’s nastiest wildlife criminals. Undercover work is a total immersion in a subculture: of cheap alcohol and casual violence, dive bars and broken people, slaughtered fish and wildlife, and coldly professional violators. The job exacts its own price, and nobody could ever say they do it for the pay. It’s only for the truly committed, those ...