by Rob Bryan Tick-borne Diseases in New England Anyone who spends any amount of time in the outdoors should take steps to prevent tick-borne diseases. The Northeast has the highest rate of Lyme disease in the US, but Lyme is just one of eight tick-borne diseases in New England.  Deer ticks (officially known as black-legged ticks) can transmit Lyme, anaplasmosis, babesiosis, Borellia myomiti, and the Powassin virus, and one tick can transmit all of them.  Dog ticks sometimes carry Rocky ...

Our first session engaging in the Montana Legislature with the help of a lobbyist was a successful one.While Montana BHA’ers have engaged in state legislative sessions in the past, this added capacity marked a significant increase in the chapter’s level of engagement both inside and outside the Capitol. The session brought plenty of challenges, but we were able to push back against threats to public access, bad wildlife management policy and an attack on Habitat Montana – a crucial ...

Hike to Hunt is just around the corner. For those of you not familiar with it, BHA puts on a Hike to Hunt contest yearly to promote people getting out and hiking on our public lands, all the while getting in shape for the upcoming  hunting season. This year it will run from June 1 to July 31. Under Armor was generous enough to provide tracking for Hike to Hunt through their Map My Hike app. Anyone that signs up is eligible for random prize drawings. The top contenders across BHA will also be ...

I have been a private land hunter my whole life growing up on a farm in middle Tennessee.  It wasn’t until I became involved with BHA that I wanted to take my hunting to another level by spending more of my time on public lands.   I was lucky enough to be drawn for a quota hunt on a heavily pressured piece of public land around Nashville this year.  I got in a couple scouting trips to get a lay of the land, but most of my scouting was done with topo maps thanks to OnX.  I got a pack to haul ...

Photos by Alex Kim, Garret Smith and Marcus Hockett