By Karl Puckett - February 14, 2019 - Originally published in the Great Falls Tribune. A coalition of groups says private landowners are illegally blocking public trails in the southern Crazy Mountains in Custer Gallatin National Forest between Big Timber in Livingston and that the Forest Service isn't doing anything about it. The Western Environmental Law Center sent a letter to the Forest Service Wednesday on behalf of the Montana chapter of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers, Friends of the ...

News for Immediate ReleaseFeb. 13, 2019Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org                     Matthew Bishop, 406-324-8011, bishop@westernlaw.org   Sportsmen and women contend Forest Service is not doing its job by failing to protect and defend public access to public lands on historic trails   MISSOULA, Mont. – Backcountry Hunters & Anglers and a coalition of concerned conservation-based groups have submitted a letter to the U.S. Forest Service summarizing ...

News for Immediate ReleaseFeb. 12, 2019Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org   Land and Water Conservation Fund reauthorization, other conservation priorities included in broad-based package of bills   WASHINGTON – A vote by the U.S. Senate today supported a massive package of conservation and public access bills that permanently reauthorizes the Land and Water Conservation Fund and advances other key measures, edging hunters, anglers and other outdoor ...

How does a 2013 graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism find herself pulling a pulk (gear sled) on an ice fishing expedition into the frozen wilderness of the Boundary Waters of Minnesota? How does a cutting-edge multimedia journalist make a living these days while pursuing the stories and the adventures of which most of us can only dream? We ask Natalie Krebs, senior editor at Outdoor Life and Field & Stream, these questions and discuss a lot more - including the ...

News for Immediate ReleaseFeb. 8, 2019Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org   Senate bill follows introduction of House legislation, considers impacts of CWD on big-game populations   WASHINGTON – Public lands sportsmen and women welcomed the introduction this week of Senate legislation that addresses the growing threat chronic wasting disease poses to big game populations across North America.   Sens. John Barrasso (R-WY), Doug Jones (D-AL) and Michael Bennet ...