With the changing seasons the Idaho chapter's Learn To Hunt program entered the mentored hunting phase. Students were paired with an experienced hunter for a day of big game or upland hunting. Over the course of five weeks, chapter volunteers led twenty students through gear selection, sighting in rifles, field dressing big game, ethics and scouting,  Members of the Idaho chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers crafted and submitted a letter to the BLM regarding the Four Rivers Resource ...

This past summer we spent time with the University of Arizona on their Santa Rita Experimental Range continuing the placement of our OHV “Ride Legally” signs across the state. The Santa Rita is the longest continuously active rangeland research facility and among the five oldest biological field stations in the United States. The Santa Rita is critical open space serving a rapidly growing human population and increasingly threatened sensitive and endangered species and ecosystems. The range ...

Photo by Tim Peterson   This is the continuation of our conversation with Hal Herring, host of BHA's Podcast & Blast, from the Winter 2020 issue of Backcountry Journal. For more of this interview with Hal and loads more great content, join BHA to get the current and every new issue of Backcountry Journal in your mailbox.   Those that read your writing, or follow you on social media, know that you are extremely motivated about protecting our public lands, waters and wildlife – the BHA ...

The Pennsylvania Chapter was recently inspired by Tennessee BHA’s #BHAvsCWD Challenge. To help combat chronic wasting disease (CWD), BHA PA is hosting a giveaway to encourage our members to harvest deer in Disease Management Areas (DMA) and have those animals tested to determine the spread and prevalence of this disease in our state. Your hard work will provide biologists and resource managers with the critical data they need to fight the spread of CWD and protect deer populations in ...

News for Immediate ReleaseNov. 22, 2019Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org State game commission overturns unpopular rule limiting public access to streams and waterways ALBUQUERQUE – Sportsmen and women are commending a decision yesterday by the New Mexico Game Commission to support public access to the state’s streams and waterways. The commission’s action on Thursday addresses a rule dating from 2017 that allows landowners to petition the New Mexico ...