The state chapter is organizing a day at the state Capitol for members to meet with legislators on Tuesday, March 3rd.  The governor has proposed a bonding bill that includes a major commitment to conservation and outdoor recreation, including the acquisition of more public land.  We need to come out and let our legislators know that we support this proposal and how important public lands are to our hunting, fishing, and other outdoor recreation, as well as the long-term economic growth and ...

On February 11th, the Minnesota Chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers welcomed the introduction of Rep. Jamie Becker-Finn’s Comprehensive Plan to Address Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Outbreak.  The plan includes a series of bills, outlined here, which would: Require active captive cervid operators to use double fencing. Place a moratorium on new captive cervid operations and include a process for buy-outs of existing operations. Give the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) ...

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers is the sportsmen’s voice for our wild public lands, waters and wildlife. And the Minnesota chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA) has been fighting to protect northern Minnesota’s waterways, watersheds and wildlife from proposed sulfide-ore copper mines for going on a decade now.   Twin Metals is a subsidiary of Antofagasta PLC, a Chilean minerals conglomerate. Twin Metals is proposing a large sulfide mining operation southeast of Ely along the ...

  1) Volunteer to assist with the Minnesota DNR’s Adult Learn-to-Hunt program—contact Minnesota BHA Hunting/Fishing Mentorship Coordinator, Ben Peña (68wmedicbp@gmail.com), for additional information. Also see this blog post (“Minnesota New Adult Hunter Program”) from BHA’s former Great Lakes Chapter Coordinator, Will Jenkins. 2) Coordinate a public lands clean-up day in conjunction with National Hunting and Fishing Day (the fourth Saturday in September), Public Lands Month (September) or ...

The following is a response from Minnesota DNR Commissioner Landwehr in regards to Minnesota BHA's letter requesting that regulations be developed to ban the use of drones for hunting and scouting. Dear Mr. Jensen and Mr. Lien: Thank you for sharing your concerns with the Department of Natural Resources regarding the use of drones in hunting and fishing activities.  We certainly appreciate the fair chase issues and share similar concerns to protect our heritage of responsible sportsmanship ...