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Nov

2024

Press Release - Gate Project Complete at Cedar Creek WMA

Arkansas Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Announces Gate Project Completed at Cedar Creek WMA Fort Smith, Ark. (October 16, 2024) – The Arkansas chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA) today announced the completion of a BHA-funded gate project at the Cedar Creek Wildlife Management Area (WMA) in Scott County. The gate project was the final phase of a land donation to the Arkansas Game & Fish Commission (AGFC) that BHA secured in 2023. In 2023, the Arkansas BHA chapter, through a ...
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Nov

2024

CALL TO ACTION: Support a Sandhill Crane Season in Wisconsin

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 ...
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4

Nov

2024

Elected Officials in 15 States Oppose Public Lands, Condemned by Grassroots Network of Hunters and Anglers

Author: Thomas Plank
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Nov. 1, 2024 Contact: Kaden McArthur, 435-770-3774, mcarthur@backcountryhunters.org Elected Officials in 15 States Oppose Public Lands, Condemned by Grassroots Network of Hunters and Anglers WASHINGTON, D.C. — Elected officials in 14 states have now filed four legal briefs in support of the State of Utah’s lawsuit seeking control of 18.5 million acres of public land, with implications that threaten all federal public lands. Following immediate opposition from ...
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Nov

2024

BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 192: Healing Waters and Veterans' Journeys

Almost ten years ago, career firefighter and paramedic Beau Beasley embarked on a journey to tell the true stories of America’s veterans, honestly and in their own words. He was a respected outdoor writer and flyfishing guidebook author, and was deeply affected by the friendships he’d made through his involvement with Project Healing Waters, an organization that connects veterans with fishing and other outdoor opportunities. “I had no idea what I was doing when I took this on,” Beau says. ...
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Oct

2024

Fall 2024 issue of Backcountry Journal

Full digital issues of the Backcountry Journal are available to BHA members. Check out a preview below, or click here to join BHA. Already a member? Click here to log in.
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Oct

2024

Hunters And Anglers Support Dolores River Canyons National Monument Designation

Author: David Lien
A growing chorus of hunters, anglers, and other public lands advocates are encouraging President Biden to protect and Dolores River Canyons region in southwest Colorado as a national monument. A multitude of groups/stakeholders, including Sportsmen For The Dolores and many others, are rallying outdoorsmen and women to help push this proposal over the finish line.   At times when other pathways to protection are stuck in Congressional gridlock, the Antiquities Act allows the President to ...
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Oct

2024

SD BHA Comments on Pactola-Rapid Creek Watershed Mineral Withdrawal

USDA Forest ServiceMystic Ranger District8221 Mount Rushmore RoadRapid City, SD 57702 Re: Pactola-Rapid Creek Watershed Mineral Withdrawal October 25, 2024 On behalf of the South Dakota Backcountry Hunters and Anglers, a community deeply rooted in the ethos of conservation and stewardship of our natural resources, we support the proposed withdrawal of the Pactola-Rapid Creek watershed from mineral and geothermal exploits as outlined in the Environmental Assessment and draft finding of no ...

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29

Oct

2024

New Hampshire Fish & Game Wildlife Action Plan Survey

Your input is crucial to a successful 2025 New Hampshire Wildlife Action Plan. Let your voice be heard and help to protect New Hampshire’s wildlife and wild places by taking the Wildlife Action Plan revision survey! LINK HERE or scan the QR code below! Act before November 30th! The Nongame and Endangered Species Program, in collaboration with other divisions within the Department, and other state agencies and organizations, has been working on the 10-year update of the New Hampshire Wildlife ...
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Oct

2024

Battle at Bellyache Ridge

Author: Briant Wiles
Battle At Bellyache Ridge Fence Removal  By Briant Wiles   It was the end of May 2024, and the BHA stewardship team was riding high after victories at Meeker, Rabbit Mountain, Perins Peak, and the momentous Beer, Bands, and Barbwire Strands event. I might say that we were a little bit smug having battled everything from 4 strand wire in scrub oak to woven wire embedded in thick sage. Overconfident and foolhardy I plunged the Toyota off the pavement onto the dirt road leading up Bellyache ...
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Oct

2024

Support Rhode Island Waterfowl Conservation & Hunting Opportunities

As part of BHA’s Yardsale Auction, New England BHA is auctioning a fully outfitted Rhode Island waterfowl hunt for the winner and three hunting buddies (4 people total) that was generously donated by Chapter partner Big Game Waterfowl. In addition, Connecticut-based decoy carver and taxidermist Bill Embacher has generously donated a mount for a duck of the group’s choosing. Bid on the RI Waterfowl Hunt in BHA’s Yardsale Auction Here                 BHA’s Rhode Island team has a ...
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