Despite growing uncertainty for the prospects of a 2020 appropriations deal, the U.S. Senate just passed a bill with a measure that effectively sidesteps the bureaucratic nightmare impeding access to public lands on Agricultural Research Service facilities – with big impacts for hunters and anglers in Montana. Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) introduced the amendment, which could lead to renewed public access to the Fort Keogh access site on the Lower Yellowstone River in Miles City. The Montana ...

News for Immediate ReleaseOct. 31, 2019Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org The Colorado Chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers recently issued two rewards to hunters who reported illegal OHV use on Colorado’s public lands. In both instances, enforcement officers from the U.S. Forest Service were able to issue citations to the offending parties based on information provided by citizens. In the first instance, Mike Book and his son arrived in early September ...

    October 29,2019     The Honorable Nancy Pelosi Speaker House of Representatives H-232 Capitol Building Washington, D.C. 20515     The Honorable Kevin McCarthy Minority Leader House of Representatives H-204 Capitol Building Washington, D.C. 20515   The Honorable Raul Grijalva Chairman     The Honorable Rob Bishop Ranking Member House Natural Resources Committee 1324 Longworth House Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20515   House Natural ...

Hal sits down in Montana with Chris Parish and Leland Brown to talk copper bullets, lead fragments, falconry, raptors, condors, Mexico and California, a love of good guns, wild animals and wild meat – all following a long day of rifle shooting with everybody from the Hellgate Hunters and Anglers (a Missoula-based rod and gun club) to former U.S. Army snipers. Chris, director of the global conservation with the Peregrine Fund, is an original Okie from Bakersfield, California, and an ...

By Michael Wright - October 30, 2019 - Originally published in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle  Meanwhile, the Forest Service has tried to make some progress. This summer, it began work on the Porcupine Ibex Trail, a reroute of a disputed trail that a landowner had blocked for years. Agency officials have also said they’re in talks with landowners on the east side of the range about access issues there. Erickson said this latest deal has been in the works for more than a decade. She said there’s ...