By Justin Post - June 11, 2019 - Originally published in The Livingston Enterprise Four conservation groups sued the U.S. Forest Service on Monday over public access to four trails in the Crazy Mountains. The 114-page lawsuit argues in part that the federal agency is failing to follow its own policy and direction to resolve disputes between members of the public seeking to access the four trails and landowners who want to keep them out. The lawsuit was filed by the Montana Chapter of ...

News for Immediate ReleaseJune 10, 2019Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org   Coalition contends that the Forest Service is abdicating its duty to uphold and defend public access to established trails   BILLINGS, Mont. – Maintaining traditional public access opportunities in the Crazy Mountains of Montana is the goal of a lawsuit filed today against the U.S. Forest Service by a coalition of conservation-based groups, including Backcountry Hunters & ...

By Michael Wright - June 10, 2019 - Originally published the Bozeman Daily Chronicle A coalition of conservation groups has sued the U.S. Forest Service over public access to trails in the Crazy Mountains, an island range northeast of Livingston known for its complex land ownership picture and access disputes. The lawsuit filed in federal court in Billings accuses the Forest Service of neglecting to preserve access to four trails in the range that have been blocked by landowners in the past. ...

The 4th Annual Beers, Bands & Public Lands celebration in Missoula was the best one yet! Despite our efforts to push the event back a month in hopes of summer weather, the first Friday in June still sent us a few Montana spring squalls. More than one-thousand Public Land Owners were undeterred though and showed up in force to experience the more than two dozen local Montana breweries and cideries, killer raffles, two live bands, six local food trucks and some good ol' public land advocacy ...

News for Immediate ReleaseJune 6, 2019Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org Interior Secretary Bernhardt proposes increased opportunities for sportsmen and women on 74 refuges, 15 fish hatcheries MISSOULA, Mont. – Backcountry Hunters & Anglers commended Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt’s proposal to expand public hunting and fishing access at 74 national wildlife refuges and 15 national fish hatcheries, totaling 1.4 million acres of public lands and ...