My buddy Gerald in the Tennessee BHA chapter calls the Boundary Waters “his Eden.” It’s a metaphor that works on a couple levels. Eden was a space of pure nature. It was also the place we became conscious, became aware of pairs of opposites. Knowledge of this and that. Light and dark. The first wardrobe malfunction when man and woman, noticing they were different, grabbed some fig leaves to cover up. Our group was in the Boundary Waters last week, and opposites were everywhere. Technology ...

The Nevada Chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers teamed up with Friends of Nevada Wilderness and Back Country Horsemen of America to host a 3 day volunteer event in the Table Mountains last June.Table Mountain is located in the central portion of the Monitor Range approximately 60 miles northeast of Tonopah, Nevada. The name comes from its unique high plateau or table land landspace. It is one of the few flat-topped ranges in the Great Basin.This area is home to the introduced Monitor elk ...

It's that time of year when hunters head into the field to enjoy public lands and carry on our time honored tradition of hunting with family and friends. Sometimes during these outings we encounter wrongly locked gates on state trust land. If you run into a gate that you believe to be wrongly locked, here's what to do.  1. Determine if the gate is wrongly locked. The right to enter State Trust Land is assured if access is available by public road (defined in Section 67-2-1, NMSA 1978) or ...

Colorado Backcountry Hunters & Anglers held a “Campfire Stores: A Public Lands & Military Event” in Colorado Springs on Thursday, August 1 (at Stargazers Theater), featuring the stories of six individuals and their experiences in the backcountry. The event also highlighted the sacrifices of our military members and the organizations that seek to provide them with hunting, fishing and other opportunities, including American Heroes In Action, the Wounded Warrior Project, Freedom ...

Calling all American public land owners! The time for action is upon us. In wildland firefighting, a backburn is setting a fire to stop a fire … burning fuels ahead of a conflagration that must be stopped. This episode of BHA’s Podcast & Blast, featuring Hunt Talk’s Randy Newberg and BHA President and CEO Land Tawney along with host Hal Herring, is our version of a backburn. We are setting a fire in our country, raising a public land owner’s flag and marching on Washington, D.C. The ...