Indiana BHA 2024 Year in Review!!!  The Indiana BHA Chapter had an excellent 2024! Below, we are going to provide you with a quick recap of some of our accomplishments over the course of the last year.    (For a sneak peak into plans for 2025, including some opportunities to win awesome prizes in January, see the last section of this blog post.)   Membership recruitment and engagement was a top priority, with the objective of growing the Indiana BHA community so that we can make a ...

For Immediate Release: January 07, 2025   Contacts:Sam Davidson, Policy Director, California Public Lands, Trout Unlimited(831) 235-2542 / sam.davidson@tu.org Kaden McArthur, Director of Policy and Government Relations, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers(435) 770-3774 / mcarthur@backcountryhunters.org   Monument status will better protect the source waters of famous trout streams, key habitats, and fishing and hunting opportunities REDDING, CA — Today, Trout Unlimited (TU) and Backcountry Hunters ...

As 2024 came to a close, Colorado Backcountry Hunters & Anglers looked back on a year of many successes. We had one of our most active and impactful stewardship seasons ever, removing miles of obsolete fencing and improving habitat throughout the state. We mobilized supporters and allies to defeat the Prop 127 ballot initiative, which would have banned mountain lion hunting and–as importantly–challenged time-tested principles of science-based wildlife management (more on that win below). ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Dec. 30, 2024 Contact:  Kaden McArthur, Government Relations Manager, mcarthur@backcountryhunters.org   The Sportsmen for the Rubies Coalition encourages strong collaboration as the Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service seeks public input Elko, NV—Today, Nevada hunters and anglers celebrate the Bureau of Land Management’s announcement of a two-year oil and gas leasing moratorium on 264,000 acres in the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest. The BLM manages the ...

Bjorn Dihle has lived his entire life in southeast Alaska, hunting and fishing from the Tongass National Forest to the northern Brooks Range and beyond. He is a family man, a wilderness and wildlife guide, a conservationist, and a contributing editor at Alaska and Hunt Alaska magazines. Bjorn is the author of the books Haunted Inside Passage, Never Cry Halibut, and A Shape in the Dark: Living and Dying with Brown Bears. Listeners might also know his work from his riveting story in Outdoor ...