Update from Chapter Chair Hi fellow public land advocates! I hope you are all enjoying the fall season and having luck filling your freezers! I am writing this before heading out to deer camp for the southern zone firearm opener, so will try to keep this pretty quick. We have a few things to talk about this issue, including reminding you all of the membership drive the NY chapter is running through the end of the year. If you join or renew your BHA membership before the end of the year, you ...

First Annual Alaska Chapter Board Retreat and Crawdad Catch-and-Cook Stewardship Event October 2024: Event Recap     Board Retreat Earlier this year, our Chapter Chair, Dave Johnson, shared an idea of hosting a board retreat at his remote property on Kodiak Island, which he shares with a couple of friends. The chatter of this idea throughout the early part of the year soon came to fruition-- the offer was too good to pass up! The board has long wanted to do chapter planning in person, as in ...

Recently the New York Department of Environmental Conservation sent an email to locals in Region 6 and then to the rest of the state concerning detection of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) at a captive deer farm in Region 6.   Review our CWD Policy Statement and as hunters and conservationist, we encourage you to engage in science-based wildlife management practices to limit the spread of CWD proposed by the NYSDEC. If you travel to this region to hunt please follow the protocols set forth ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Nov. 1, 2024 Contact: Thomas Plank, 303-720-0111, plank@backcountryhunters.org BLM plan aims to stanch steep decline of iconic bird  (WASHINGTON, D.C.--November 8, 2024) – Leading conservation and sportsmen’s organizations today reacted with cautious optimism to a newly released final draft of a plan by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) that outlines how the agency intends to reverse the alarming decline of greater sage-grouse populations across 10 Western states. The ...

Join the Wisconsin Chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers in urging committee members to recommend the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources seek federal approval for a hunting season of the Sandhill Crane.  The Sandhill Crane population has grown substantially thanks to the focused, sustained conservation efforts of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Wisconsin's sandhill crane population was decimated at the turn of the century. with ...