News for Immediate ReleaseJan. 22, 2021Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org Executive order initiates boundary reviews of downsized monuments in Utah, moves to restore integrity to Antiquities Act MISSOULA, Mont. – Protections for millions of acres of public lands wildlife habitat could be restored to two Southwestern national monuments as a result of a review initiated by the Biden administration this week, reversing controversial changes made during the last ...

A Kalispell lawmaker’s bill heard Thursday would put final decisions on Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks’ conservation easements in the hands of the Montana Board of Land Commissioners. Republican Sen. Keith Regier, of Kalispell, said Senate Bill 115 is about creating more accountability by putting potentially multi-million dollar decisions before elected officials rather than a state agency and appointed board. Read more here from the Billings Gazette...

Funding for habitat protection projects throughout the state will roughly double after the State Game Commission last week approved the first increase in the Habitat Stamp in more than 30 years. Raising the fee to $10 a year – it had been $5 since the program began in 1986 – will bring an estimated $8 million a year, including $2 million from NM hunters and anglers and up to $6 million more in matching federal grants. The commission approved the increase 6-1, over the objections of ...

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA) would like to thank Dan Gibbs, Executive Director, Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and Tim Mauck, Deputy Executive Director, DNR for their leadership in standing up for our public lands and wildlife. William Perry Pendley has made a career of trying to dismantle our public lands and unlawfully dismissed legitimate wildlife and habitat concerns within the BLM’s Uncompahgre Resource Management Plan (UFO RMP) - Concerns that were shared by the state, ...

Historic use at the Lindenlure access site The Finley River is a 54-mile-long tributary of the James River, most of it flowing through Christian County, Missouri. It is a well known waterway used for swimming, floating and fishing. The “Lindenlure” access, located just below Lindenlure Lake, has been used by generations of families by way of Canyon Road. As David Romano of the Rivers Access Coalition writes, "The public easement and right of access at Lindenlure dates back some 100 years — ...