For more than 20 years, Eddie Nickens, a member of BHA’s North American board of directors, has been the premier storyteller and scribe of American hunting, fishing and conservation, writing for Field & Stream, Garden and Gun, Audubon and dozens of other publications. It’s a radical understatement to call him an outdoor writer, although the term fits the man who has published the best-selling behemoth of outdoor skills, Field & Stream’s Total Outdoorsman. In their conversation, Hal and Eddie ...

May 24, 2021 Dept. of Interior, Bureau of Land ManagementMissoula Field Office3255 Fort Missoula Rd.Missoula, MT 59804 Re: LWCF Fiscal Year 2021-2022 Ninemile Woodchuck Area Acquisition The Montana Chapter of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers submits this comment in support ofthe Ninemile Woodchuck Proposed Land Aquisition. The Montana Chapter’s more than 3,200members have a keen interest in the permanent protection of Montana lands (more than 11,000acres here), as our organization is ...

“Are we there yet?!” This phrase, usually reserved for children in the backseat of a car eight hours into a family road trip, ran through my head on just about every hunting or fishing trip last year.  And the year before that, and even the year before that. No, it wasn’t that I didn’t enjoy hunting and fishing. As an adult onset hunter and angler entering my fifth full season, I frequently wonder how I ever lived without these pursuits. The phrase became an unfortunate mantra because I had ...

A last-minute addition to a Montana fish and wildlife bill signed into law on Friday reinvigorated a long-running debate over the role of money in hunting in Montana. House Bill 637 is sprawling; it affects game wardens, block management, hunting with dogs and taking turkeys, along with other fish and wildlife management issues in the state. But during the last day of the legislative session, it was amended to include language that boosts the odds of nonresidents with outfitters getting deer ...

On April 21, 2021, Representative Tony Bacala introduced House Bill 691 in order to implement a hunting and fishing license restructure. The restructure of licenses and fees would simplify the purchasing process by consolidating multiple existing licenses into fewer licenses, and provide an increase in revenue for the Department. A license restructure was last implemented in the year 2000. Now, more than 20 years later, LDWF needs an increase in funding in order to support Louisiana’s ...