During June the Colorado Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA) held their 10th Annual Rendezvous near Leadville. Members from across the state spent the weekend camping, hiking, fishing eating wild game and enjoying some of our nation’s wild public lands estate. They also visited nearby Camp Hale, remembering those who have sacrificed so much to preserve and protect our great democracy and its unequaled public lands legacy. Tucked in a high mountain valley north of Leadville in Eagle County, ...

The Colorado chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA) recently appointed Don Holmstrom to serve as their Chapter Leadership Team (CLT) vice chair. Don was one of BHA’s early members, joining in 2005, the same year the Colorado chapter (BHA’s first state chapter) formed and only a year after seven hunters and anglers stood around a campfire in Oregon, starting BHA. He was also one of Colorado BHA’s first Habitat Watch Volunteers (HWVs), starting in September 2009, the same month the ...

The Colorado chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA) recently assisted the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) with a Public Lands Day (May 19) Stewardship Project (i.e., marijuana grow site cleanup). Colorado BHA Southeast Colorado Regional Director, Tyrell Woodward, organized the chapter’s involvement in this USFS-led cleanup in the Wet Mountains of southern Colorado. “We had 12 members participate in the full-day activity,” Ty explained. “Members were joined by five staff from the USFS, ...

During April 2018 the Colorado chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA) welcomed BHA’s Colorado & Wyoming Coordinator, Brien Webster, to our state chapter’s growing army of boots-on-the-ground hunters and anglers fighting to protect and perpetuate our wild public lands, waters and wildlife. Brien was born and raised in Colorado. “For as long as I can remember,” he said, “my family has come together for reunions timed around hatches, hunts and favorite landscapes.” After receiving a BA ...

In the U.S. we are blessed with a wide variety of public lands. We can hunt elk and bighorns in the high Rockies, antelope and muleys on the Great Plains, and whitetails in the Eastern woodlands, among a multitude of other game species. This is an incredible heritage that can be passed on to our children and grandchildren, if we’re vigilant. Unfortunately, population growth, energy development, ATV proliferation and all sorts of other human activities have steadily eroded wildlife habitat ...