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Why Hunt Mountain Merriam’s? (Part I)

[EasyDNNnewsLocalizedText:Author]: David Lien

After ten years or so of chasing mountain Merriam’s turkeys through the ponderosa pine-dotted mountainsides and meadows of southwest Colorado, and occasionally putting one in the freezer, it seems like a good time to reflect on the reasons why so many of us find turkey hunting so addicting. Put plainly, “Why hunt mountain Merriam’s?” To those so afflicted, it may seem like a dumb question, but I know plenty of longtime hunters who have never longed to hear the primordial call of a gobbling ...

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British Columbia BHA Winter 2021 Newsletter

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BHA Collegiate Program Welcomes First Club in Kentucky

[EasyDNNnewsLocalizedText:Author]: Kylie Schumacher

BHA's Collegiate Program is no stranger in Kentucky where we launched the first BHA scholarship at the University of Louisville last year. This year they celebrate another win, by welcoming their first official BHA college club at Murray State University led by graduate student Jacob Pease and professor Dr. Howard Whiteman. Say hello to the new leaders of Murray State University BHA (then follow their work as a club on Instagram @murraystatebha)! Jacob Pease is originally from Versailles, ...

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Jackalope Wellington

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The idea for this recipe has been rolling around in my head for two years. It’s most prevalent during the nine-hour drive from my home in Fargo, North Dakota, to my favorite antelope hunting spot on Wyoming public land. So, when a friend called me last week offering two rabbits he had snared, I ran to my freezer and pulled out one of the remaining packages of antelope backstrap I had been saving for a special occasion. Jackalope Wellington Ingredients: 1 antelope backstrap 2 rabbit ...

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Fleet Farm and BHA Launch Corporate Partnership

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News for Immediate ReleaseMarch 24, 2021Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org Fleet Farm has deep roots in Midwestern hunting and fishing and has served hardworking families since its founding in 1955 MISSOULA, Mont. – Fleet Farm and Backcountry Hunters & Anglers have launched a corporate partnership that will advance both Fleet Farm’s and BHA’s stake in the conservation of public lands and waters, sustaining and expanding public access opportunities and ...

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LETTER: Sportsmen oppose HB 505, committed to addressing elk problems

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Dear Chair Fitzgerald and members of the House FWP Committee, Our organizations represent thousands of Montana hunters. We include statewide organizations and local sporting clubs who all care deeply about our public wildlife, our sporting traditions and our friends and neighbors in the landowner and agricultural community. We’re Montanans who have worked together for decades to solve the difficult issues surrounding public wildlife, access and game damage on the working farms and ranches ...

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A Shape in the Dark by Bjorn Dihle

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This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists Author Bjorn Dihle is, among many other things, a BHA member, Backcountry Journal contributor and an ardent defender of wild places – especially the Tongass National Forest surrounding his Southeast Alaska home. A Shape in the Dark is a look at the long and complex relationship between humans and brown bears ranging from the journals of Lewis and Clark and accounts of Indigenous peoples all ...

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Sportsmen ask for veto on land board control over FWP easements

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A dozen sportsmen’s groups are asking Montana’s governor to veto a bill that would allow the state Land Board to veto conservation easements that would benefit hunters and wildlife. Last week, the Montana Sporting Coalition and the Montana Wildlife Federation sent letters to Gov. Greg Gianforte asking him to veto Senate Bill 115 sponsored by Keith Regier, R-Kalispell. The bill is sitting on Gianforte’s desk, having already passed through both houses of the Legislature on party-line votes ...

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Policy Primer - UPDATE on Striped Bass Management

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NY BHA advocates for continuation of goals and objectives, with swifter management action by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) By Charles Witek Striped bass are one of the most important recreational fisheries along the east coast, including New York. The ASMFC, which manages the Atlantic striped bass stock, is in the process of amending its management plan. The amendment offers both promise and concern - it could restore the currently overfished striped bass stock ...

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Why Californians Should Support H.R. 803 "Protecting America’s Wilderness and Public Lands"

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The California Chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers was amped to see the House pass a massive public lands package last month, H.R. 803, Protecting America’s Wilderness and Public Lands. H.R. 803 consists of nine bills designating roughly 1.49 million acres of public lands as wilderness, incorporating more than 1,000 river miles as part of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System and ensuring that wildlife habitat across approximately 1.3 million acres of public land will remain ...

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Why Hunt Mountain Merriam’s? (Part I)

British Columbia BHA Winter 2021 Newsletter

BHA Collegiate Program Welcomes First Club in Kentucky

Jackalope Wellington

Fleet Farm and BHA Launch Corporate Partnership

LETTER: Sportsmen oppose HB 505, committed to addressing elk problems

A Shape in the Dark by Bjorn Dihle

Sportsmen ask for veto on land board control over FWP easements

Policy Primer - UPDATE on Striped Bass Management

Why Californians Should Support H.R. 803 "Protecting America’s Wilderness and Public Lands"

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