GUEST COLUMN: Hope for natural resource policy in new year By KEVIN FARRON - December 27, 2017 - Originally published in the Missoulian.  In Montana, the holidays are a time to spend with family, recreate on our public lands and reflect on the year. In terms of natural resource policy, 2017 has been a rocky one, but recent decisions and proposals with major implications for the big sky state have given Montanans some hope heading into 2018. In my own backyard, the Missoula County ...

In the three years that I've been hunting, I've been introduced to new tastes that I wasn't sure I'd like, but ended up loving. I tried a friend's deer liver a few years ago and found it to be pungent and, honestly, pretty terrible. I could barely stomach it. I promised myself that I'd have one more go at it, and this year's deer proved to be the opportunity to take it.  I was committed to making it my first meal. It took three days to work up the gumption. I started by putting it in a ...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: It’s time to pass the Blackfoot Clearwater Stewardship Act By JOHN SULLIVAN and HANNAH NIKONOW - Dec 21, 2017 - Originally published in the Missoulian  It should come as no surprise that the Montana Chapter of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers supports the Blackfoot Clearwater Stewardship Act. BHA was founded in part to advance policy like the BCSA, and the areas conserved under the bill happen to sit right in our big western Montana backyard. The bill introduced by ...

News for Immediate ReleaseDec. 20, 2017Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org MISSOULA, Mont. – Backcountry Hunters & Anglers stated that “justice must be served” in the conspiracy case against scofflaw rancher Cliven Bundy, his sons and a supporter following a federal judge’s declaration of a mistrial in the case this morning. BHA President and CEO Land Tawney issued the following statement: “Cliven Bundy and his followers are lawbreakers who continue to ...

Hunters and anglers in Colorado are taking lead in engaging the next generation of hunter-angler-conservationists thanks to the state’s two Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA) college chapters: The Western State Colorado University (WSCU) chapter in Gunnison, led by Johnathan Kelley (johnathan.kelley@western.edu), and the Colorado State University (CSU) chapter in Fort Collins with Matt Eischens (matteischens@hotmail.com), a U.S. Air Force veteran, at the helm. During September the WSCU BHA ...