NY BHA in collaboration with NYC TU, and NY HOC held an Arbor Day Tree Planting Saturday, April 27, 2024 along the Amawalk/Muscoot River near the town of Amawalk, NY. We returned again this year to plant another 50-plus trees on the banks above the Wood St. bridge access point to help improve the habitat for both the fish in the river and the wildlife in the riparian area along the banks of the river. We also built deer enclosures to protect the newly trees until they are grown enough to ...

Part of the responsibility of the NY BHA Chapter Board is to keep an eye on legislative proposals in the NY Legislature that potentially impact hunters and anglers.   We will do our best to keep this page updated with some specific bills we want our membership to keep an eye on and take action on. Find your NY Assembly representative HERE and NY State Senator HERE. 2024 Bills Hunting / Fishing / Trapping Back Tags - S8644A - Amends environmental conservation law to allow for moving to ...

My wife and I were enjoying a cross-country ski in a New York State Forest.  There was a foot of fresh powder snow and the skiing conditions were perfect.  We had stopped at a trail junction to chat and enjoy the scenery.  It was a cold quiet day in the woods with almost no wind.  The snow was untracked. Except for our ski tracks behind us. The serenity was shattered by the eruption of a large brown bird only inches from my ski tips. It materialized from nowhere, leaving a cloud of fine snow ...

#whyBHA This month’s #whyBHA is from  Gary Stefani (@ggstef11): I have been hunting and fishing since I was a youngster, but I’m relatively new to the BHA community. I joined @backcountryhunters in 2020, at the excellent #publicgrouse film showing in Syracuse, and volunteered for the New York BHA chapter on the communications team. I was fortunate to grow up in a rural village in eastern MA. I could go hunting and fishing out my parent’s back door, with access to thousands of acres of ...