By Lauren Miller - September 23, 2018 - Originally published in the Billings Gazette.  These days it is increasingly difficult to find issues that unite individuals and groups from different viewpoints, especially when it comes to decisions at the federal level. But through the haze of wildfire smoke in the West, and political discord in the East, the cool, blue, apolitical waters of the East Rosebud Creek wind through a valley of jagged mountain peaks. These waters are one of those things ...

By Todd Waldron Originally published in the Sun Community News and Printing SEPTEMBER 16, 2018 7:00 AM To the Editor: On Sunday, Sept. 30, the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF), one of our country’s most successful outdoor conservation tools, is set to expire. Since its bipartisan inception in 1964, the LWCF has contributed close to $4 billion for federal, state and local governments to sustain important lands, waters, conserve fish and wildlife habitat and to enhance public access ...

News for Immediate ReleaseSept. 18, 2018Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org The newest issue of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers’ magazine is available today MISSOULA, Mont. – The latest edition of BHA’s quarterly publication, Backcountry Journal, is arriving in members’ and distributors’ mailboxes this week. The new issue is loaded with educational and experiential articles about backcountry adventure, the politics of public lands – including BHA’s new campaign ...

News for Immediate ReleaseSept. 17, 2018Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org Healthy salmon fisheries, remote big game habitat at risk of industrial development; other roadless backcountry in Alaska threatened MISSOULA, Mont. – Remote fish and wildlife habitat in America’s largest national forest, the Tongass in Alaska, soon could be crisscrossed by a network of roads and other inventoried roadless areas left vulnerable to similar development under a proposal ...

Join the New England Chapter September 20 from 6 to 9 p.m. at the new C.C. Filson store in Seaport for a live storytelling event.  BHA's Campfire Stories presented by C.C. Filson is guaranteed to entertain and inspire! We’ll have a killer lineup of veterans and pros of the woods and waters of North America spinning their best yarns in Filson’s brand new Boston store. This event includes a 1-year membership to BHA for you or a friend, dinner, drinks, free reign of the brand new Filson store ...