By Greg Munther - February 3, 2019 - Originally published in the Montana Standard. When I began bowhunting six decades ago, I could not have predicted the colossal advances in the technology we use to harvest game, particularly the changes in archery equipment. Yet bowhunters today face challenges that I did, then and now: the need to close the distance on an animal and make an ethical kill with an arrow. This challenge and low odds of success allows archers to hunt during the elk rut, when ...

News for Immediate Release Feb. 1, 2019 Contact: Katie McKalip, BHA, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org Rebecca Triche, LWF, 225-362-9007, rebecca@lawildlifefed.org John Devney, Delta, 701-471-4235, jdevney@deltawaterfowl.org            Beaux Jones, Baldwin Haspel Burke & Mayer, LLC, 504-569-2900, bjones@bhbmlaw.com   Groups jointly file amicus brief in appeal of case that would affect managementof wildlife habitat, reduce public access at Catahoula Lake   BATON ROUGE, La. – ...

Come with us to Birmingham, Alabama, to meet Nelson Brooke, the Black Warrior Riverkeeper, whose life is spent on the vast arterial network of some of central Alabama’s most beautiful – and imperiled – rivers and streams. Nelson and Hal talk whitetail and turkey hunting, bass fishing, coal mines and whitewater and shed light on a level of political corruption that is robbing Alabama, and the United States of America, of our most precious resources. Nelson Brooke has been fighting back, armed ...

North Dakota Representatives have introduced a bill (HB 1428) that could jeopardize traditional public hunting, fishing, camping and hiking access on over 400,000 acres of public land, including Army Corps of Engineers-held shorelines on Lake Sakakawea and Lake Oahe. For decades, the shorelines of these lakes have been open for public recreation. The representatives who introduced this bill are seeking to transfer this land to the state, to the detriment of sportsmen and women. The diverse ...

Idaho BHA Habitat Watch Coordinator Dan Herrig and Regional Manager Josh Kuntz represented BHA at the first meeting of a newly formed working group called the Idaho Rangeland Conservation Partnership (IRCP).  The goal of the IRCP is to bring together diverse stakeholders to work on outcome based solutions for management of Idaho’s rangeland.  Nearly 100 people attended the 2-day meeting in Boise on January 15-16, 2019.  Representatives from the Idaho Fish & Game, Idaho Department of Lands, ...