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Jan

2019

BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 40: Ty Stubblefield, BHA chapter coordinator and new chapter development

Hal comes down to Missoula to talk with BHA’s Ty Stubblefield (who hosts his own podcast, Shoot’n the Bull), about his roots in Oregon’s Umpqua Valley and his life there as a millhand, logging contractor, bowhunter and conservationist in the Coast Range. Now based in Florence, Montana, in the northern Bitterroot Valley, Ty is living the hard balance of family, work and a lifelong obsession with hunting in the farthest reaches of America's wildlands. He tells Hal the story of how he came to ...
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14

Jan

2019

Arizona Chapter Volunteers Pack Gila Trout into Backcountry

Most trout stockings involve hard-working hatchery personnel, a hatchery truck, and an exciting ride down a stocking pipe for those trout! However, sometimes native trout need to get into remote areas to have the best chance for survival. And for that we have creative biologists and dedicated volunteers who hike heavy buckets of cold water and trout into steep canyons to return those fish to their native streams. On Saturday, November 3, 2018, AGFD biologists from Pinetop Region, with huge ...
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14

Jan

2019

Large Crowd Descends on State Capitol for Public Lands Rally

Author: Myers Reece
By Myers Reece - January 14, 2019 - Originally published in the Flathead Beacon. Roughly 2,000 people packed into the state capitol in Helena on Jan. 11 for a raucous rally in support of public lands, during which throngs of residents from diverse backgrounds across Montana held up signs, chanted and made their voices heard both figuratively and literally. The event was the third in a series of rallies held every two years, beginning in 2015. The 2017 gathering was a similarly boisterous ...
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10

Jan

2019

Senate to Consider Public Lands Package Reviving LWCF

News for Immediate ReleaseJan. 10, 2018Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org   Package of bills faces a challenging path forward, although the Senate’s use of a seldom-employed rule when introducing it could fast-track its advance   WASHINGTON – In defiance of the government shutdown that continues to impact federal workers and public lands, a broad-based package of public lands bills, including a measure that would revive the Land and Water Conservation Fund, ...
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Jan

2019

OPINION: Montana’s public lands are worth celebrating and defending

Author: Ryan Busse
By Ryan Busse, Maggie Carr, Shane Doyle and Mary Hollow - January 8, 2018 - Originally published in the Billings Gazette. We invite you to join us at noon on Friday in the Capitol Rotunda in Helena for the Rally for Public Lands. Montanans from across our great state will come together at the rally to celebrate our public lands and the outdoor way of life those lands make possible. Public lands unify Montanans by allowing us to live the outdoor lives we love. They allow people of ...
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7

Jan

2019

LETTER: Montana BHA Supports Graveley-Warm Springs Conservation Easements

Author: Montana BHA
January 7th, 2019 Greg MullenNatural Resource Damage ProgramNRDP@mt.gov  (406) 444-0205   Re: Graveley-Warm Springs Conservation Easements Funding   To: Greg Mullen and relevant parties,   The Montana Chapter of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers is writing to express our support for the purchase of the Graveley-Warm Springs Conservation Easements.   Our members include roughly 3,000 Montana hunters, anglers and others who adamantly champion North America's outdoor heritage of hunting and ...
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7

Jan

2019

Presidential Order Could Open Millions of Acres of Public Lands to Disruptive Management Practices

News for Immediate ReleaseJan. 7, 2019Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org   Increased logging and fuels reduction prescribed in executive order could reduce wildfire but increase disturbance in big game habitat, fisheries   WASHINGTON – Millions of acres of public lands big game habitat and fisheries overseen by the Interior and Agriculture departments will be subject to vaguely defined management practices intended to minimize wildfire under an executive ...
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Jan

2019

LETTER: Montana BHA Supports Garrity Mountain WMA Addition

January 5th, 2019 Sharon RoseRegion 2 MTFWP Comment Coordinator3201 Spurgin RoadMissoula, Montana 59804shrose@mt.gov   To Ms. Sharon Rose:   The Montana Chapter of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers highly encourages the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife & Parks to acquire the proposed 154- acre addition to the 9,635-acre Garrity Mountain Wildlife Management Area (WMA).   MTBHA is supportive of the Natural Resource Damage Programs’ Restoration Plan (2012) and acquiring this parcel is ...
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5

Jan

2019

LETTER: Montana BHA Supports Buxbaum-Boulder Creek Ranch Public Access

January 5th, 2019 Sharon RoseRegion 2 MTFWP Comment Coordinator3201 Spurgin RoadMissoula, Montana 59804shrose@mt.gov   To Ms. Sharon Rose:   The Montana Chapter of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers highly encourages the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife & Parks to accept the public hunting access component of a conservation easement on the Buxbaum-Boulder Creek Ranch.We are thrilled that this project would secure significant permanent public hunting access on and through the property in a ...
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Jan

2019

2018 Public Lands & Waters Photo Contest Winners

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers and Orvis teamed up in 2018 to give public land owners a chance to showcase their public lands experience and win one of four great prize packages by entering our 8th annual Public Lands and Waters Photo Contest. We received nearly 1000 images from all across North America. The BHA staff narrowed the submissions down to the top 10 and voted to select our final winners. Here, we’re happy to present you with the winning images of 2018 and the stories behind each ...
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