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NMDGF Overhauls Antelope Tag System

[EasyDNNnewsLocalizedText:Author]: Joel Gay

It just got easier for hunters, both resident and non-resident, to draw an antelope tag in New Mexico. The State Game Commission in May voted for a massive overhaul of its antelope management program, a move that NM BHA strongly supported. It was a two-part action, but most important the Commission eliminated the Antelope Private Lands Use System, known as A-PLUS. That program for years has given about 70 percent of all available antelope tags to a small group of landowners, who could then ...

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Posewitz' life story recounts joys of ethical hunting

[EasyDNNnewsLocalizedText:Author]: Arkansas BHA Chapter

By Rob Chaney - June 17, 2018 - Originally published in the Missoulian. Ever wonder why Interstate 90 takes such a winding route along the St. Regis River as it climbs toward Lookout Pass on the Montana-Idaho border? “I guess you can thank me for that,” author and wildlife advocate Jim Posewitz admitted during a stop in Missoula last week. Initial designs called for a much straighter road that would have rechanneled the river and destroyed its fishery. In one of his many campaigns to ...

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Idaho BHA submits comments to BLM regarding motorized use in Owyhees

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Idaho BHA Habitat Watch coordinator Dan Herrig and Habitat Watch volunteer Larry Callister worked together to submit comments to the Owyhee Field Office of the BLM regarding the Silver City Travel Management Plan, which covers a large area in southwest Idaho. The BLM was seeking public comments for three proposed action alternatives regarding motorized use in the area covered by the Silver City Travel Management Plan. Idaho BHA supported Alternative B because this alternative would: have ...

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OPINION: Montana Land Board must do its job

[EasyDNNnewsLocalizedText:Author]: John Sullivan

By John Sullivan - June 15, 2018 - Originally published in the Billings Gazette. Montanans are paying close attention to decisions made by our elected leaders before we head to the polls this fall. One such decision front of mind for the Montana Chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers is the Horse Creek Conservation Easement. This easement would open 20,000 acres for hunting and recreating where it’s needed most — in eastern Montana. The proposal, funded with sportsmen’s dollars — not ...

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Your Voice Is Needed: Public Land Access at Stake in Wyoming

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We need your help. Two petitions have been sent to the Laramie County Commissioners to vacate (eliminate the public right-of-way) for two county roads (highlighted in green and pink in the map below). If approved by the Commissioners, some of the associated public lands along these roads will be rendered inaccessible. This is an important Public Lands access issue and we need your help. The Laramie County Commissioners are meeting next Tuesday (June, 19th) to decide this issue. It doesn’t ...

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FWP Commission approves $900K Fish Creek land deal

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By Laura Lundquist - June 14, 2018 - Originally published in the Missoula Current. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks intends to capture a few more squares of the property checkerboard that makes up the Fish Creek Wildlife Management Area. On Thursday, the FWP Commission approved a proposal to buy two private parcels within the Fish Creek WMA from Randy Koch for $900,000. In addition to the 116-acre Whitehorse parcel on the WMA’s western edge, Koch is selling another 160-acre parcel that ...

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The Importance of Protecting the Red Desert to Hoback Mule Deer Migration Corridor

[EasyDNNnewsLocalizedText:Author]: Brien Webster

Earlier this month Wyoming BHA member Erik Kramer weighed in on the importance of the Red Desert to Hoback Mule Deer Migration Corridor and the current proposed lease sale parcels located within this range. This is the largest Mule Deer corridor on record, the integrity of this corridor is important for sportsmen and is critical to the health of our Mule Deer population in Western Wyoming. You can read Erik's letter below or by clicking this link. To learn more about this issue you can ...

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NY BHA gets dirty to clean up public lands

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By TIM ROWLAND, Originally published in the Sun Community News and Printing JUNE 13, 2018 2:00 PM HAGUE, New York — At an old sand pit in close proximity to the Rogers Rock State Campground, shooters have been showing up for years with a broad array of weaponry and unconventional targets, which they proceed to blast into oblivion with their shotguns and rifles. Bottles, cans, tires, televisions — anything was fair game at what the state considers to be an illegal shooting range. Aside from ...

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POPULAR PARK-FUNDING PROGRAM SET TO EXPIRE

[EasyDNNnewsLocalizedText:Author]: Bryce Oates

The ballfields, wildlife habitat, trails and other amenities created through the Land and Water Conservation Fund serve communities all over the nation. “There’s not a person in rural Montana, not an American citizen, who hasn’t been impacted by a LWCF project,” says one advocate. From biking trails to fishing streams, baseball diamonds to woodlands, the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) pays for local parks and recreation areas all across America, drawing from the ...

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New England Chapter Spring 2018 Newsletter

Author: New England BHA Chapter

Wow! What a winter and spring! BHA in New England is starting to really step it up. Pint Nights galore, sessions with biologists and legislators, state leadership teams, growth on the Chapter Board. We're beginning to swing the conversation on conservation our way folks! Oh yeah, the weather was incredible too. Reports of 8" of snow in northern VT on April 20th... Read on for what has been going on in your chapter: State-specific projects we've been involved in Details about our ...

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