This November the Wyoming Chapter sponsored a youth antelope hunt near Casper. The event was organized in partnership with local businesses, guides, and organizations, and marks the first annual youth antelope hunt for this partnership. Wyoming Co-Chair Jeff Muratore led this effort for the chapter and guided one of the participants on a successful hunt. In all, ten youth participated and all had successful harvests! The participants were the first to get to hunt the property this year ...

Four volunteers from the Idaho chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers arrived in Weiser about 9:00 a.m. on a sunny and clear November morning.  These men had never met each other previously, but all of them had responded to emails and social media posts from Idaho BHA asking for volunteers to spend a day helping US Forest Service staff build a barrier in an area of the Payette National Forest (hunt unit 31) where illegal motorized use was creating problems.   After exchanging pleasantries ...

By Jared Kennedy, Texas BHA Vice Chair 11/11/18 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ October, over 15,000 acres of unspoiled coastal habitat was transferred to Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD), finalizing a multi-year, $37.7 million land acquisition deal spearheaded by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation. A coalition of conservation organizations and wildlife agencies, including TPWD, The Nature Conservancy, ...

BHA chapters in Connecticut, Colorado and Georgia are cheering the results of the Nov. 6 election and the outcomes of ballot measures impacting future management of state lands, waters and wildlife. In true boots on the ground fashion, BHA chapters worked hard to ensure sportsmen and women had the information needed to make the right vote on the following measures:   Connecticut – Amendment 2, Legislative Requirements to Transfer State Properties Amendment  The New England Chapter of BHA ...

A native son of the Palouse country in Idaho and a contributing writer to Outdoor Life, Ben Long is a founding board member of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, a former newspaperman and one of America’s leading conservation voices and strategists. Hal and Ben have been friends for more than a decade. Hal explains: “I was writing for Bugle magazine, and in almost every issue there would be an incredibly well-written piece by this guy Ben Long … the kind of story where you read a few paragraphs ...