Katie McKalip, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers’ communications director, explored Eastern backcountry at an early age while growing up outside of Washington, D.C., in Virginia. She waded through the busy hustle of the city to find pockets of public lands and waters, everything from local ponds and marshes to Civil War battlefields. Being raised near the nation’s capital in a military family resulted in a lot of dinnertime discussions about law-making and policy, conversations that would ...

News for Immediate ReleaseMay 1, 2018Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org   BHA commends proposal to withdraw important winter range from minerals development   WASHINGTON – Public lands sportsmen welcomed an announcement by the Department of the Interior today that will support Western big game populations and habitat. Backcountry Hunters & Anglers commended the Interior proposal, which would renew for 20 years a minerals withdrawal on public lands in Wyoming ...

Nonprofits work to reopen popular river access after garbage, damage force closure By David Erickson - April 27, 2018 - Originally published in the Missoulian. A popular river access point on the Bitterroot River near Missoula was recently closed down because so many people were misusing and trashing the site. But a group of volunteers and nonprofit organizations are working hard to get it back in operation. The Buckhouse Bridge access site, located where the river crosses under U.S. ...

Hal Herring talks with Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia and legendary outdoorsman, at the 2018 BHA North American Rendezvous in Boise, Idaho. They discuss Chouinard's roots, hunting jackrabbits with goshawks, replacing stuff with knowledge, a business borne of necessity, Chouinard's climbing crew, rugby shirts and corduroy pants, the Patagonia method of management, the cure for depression, national monuments, an agricultural revolution and the joys of ...

The Colorado BHA 2018 Chapter Rendezvous will be on June 1-3 at the Lakeview campground in the Pike-San Isabel National Forest (about 29 miles north of Buena Vista) in the vicinity of the Twin Lakes Reservoir (2,805 acres) and Mount Elbert (14,433 ft.). We’ve reserved campsites C1-C8 (an entire loop of the campground), which can accommodate some 64 people and 16 cars/RVs. If we run out of space in C loop, all the sites in D and E are first-come-first-serve. Also lots of dispersed camping ...