This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists  If we’ve learned anything from history, it’s that public lands will always need advocates. Since the beginning, there have been unremitting attempts to privatize our lands for the short-term benefit of a few. In order to be an effective advocate, it’s important to understand how we got where we are today, collective owners of 640 million acres of public lands. Mark Kenyon takes us on a journey ...

Author: Shawn A "Will this finally come to fruition after nearly 5 years of turkey hunting?" This is what kept resonating through my head as the vocal and leery bird stared at my exact location from a hundred yards away. I watched the bird slowly walk behind some trees and I re-positioned myself from my wide field of view with plenty of shooting options to a minuscule area between three large pines approximately 10" wide at the end of my barrel. I waited and waited in this position for the ...

What do young D.C. lobbyists do when they're unable to hang out with friends and don't have brunch reservations? Well, they practices social distancing by avoiding grocery stores and preparing meals from ingredients stocked away in their pantries and freezers. Like a lot of people, I’ve been spending my time exploring meals that can be made with ingredients I have on hand and those that can be easily hunted, caught or foraged. Recently, I made red snapper sashimi with a recipe inspired from ...

Hal travels to the Bears Ears National Monument to meet with Angelo Baca, a filmmaker and storyteller who grew up in and around Blanding, Utah, and has roots in this country that go back, literally, thousands of years. Baca has roamed far in his life – a competitive distance runner whose athletic career took him east and eventually to a doctoral study at New York University that focuses on the decades-long effort to protect the Bears Ears country. For this conversation with Hal, he is home ...

May 5, 2020 Montana Fish, Wildlife & ParksKris Tempel, Habitat Conservation Biologistktempel@mt.gov490 N. Meridian Road, Kalispell, MT 59901 The Montana Chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (MT BHA) offers the following points pertinent to the potential development of a conservation easement (CE) adjacent to Lost Trail National Wildlife Refuge. The land was recently acquired by Southern Pine Plantations Montana, LLC (SPP) near Marion, MT. Our Chapter is comprised of 3,000+ dues-paying ...