When the mercury starts to rise, hunting in Colorado hits a low. During the ongoing nightmare of stay-at-home orders (and living in a condo without air conditioning) time on the water has become my only respite. Bait fishing, fly-fishing, kayaking, frog-gigging… sign me up. But if you yearn for longer days, cool air, and tell-tale song of a loosed arrow, your daydreams can come true. I bet you didn’t know someone could wax poetic about bow-fishing for carp, did you? My recent bow-fishing ...

News for Immediate ReleaseJuly 14, 2020Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org In letter to House leadership, coalition of outdoors companies says bill ‘will stimulate our economy at a time when our country needs it most’ MISSOULA, Mont. – A broad coalition of outdoors-focused businesses is urging the U.S. House of Representatives to pass the Great American Outdoors Act, bipartisan legislation being called a “once in a generation” opportunity to fund conservation ...

 Pronghorn on lands conserved with LWCF funds in the Sawtooth Valley   The Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA) provides full, dedicated funding to the Land and Water Conservation Fund, along with addressing the nearly $20 billion in maintenance backlogs on our public lands and waters. This broad reaching, bipartisan legislation recently passed the Senate with a vote of 73-25. It is now onto the House with a vote scheduled for this Wednesday the 22nd! Idaho Representative Mike Simpson has ...

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By Tristan Scott - July 13, 2020 - Originally published in the Flathead Beacon Fish and Wildlife Service proposes conservation easement on 100,000 acres of prime hunting and timberland owned largely by Southern Pine Plantations If the sale of a prized swath of Northwest Montana forestland to an out-of-state investment firm was cause for consternation earlier this year, then a new proposal to conserve much of that land for public access, wildlife habitat and sustainable timber management ...