Senator Ron Wyden was unsuccessful in his attempt to attach his important O&C timber management bill onto the Defense Appropriations bill passed at the end of the lame duck session in December.  His bill would modernize the way timber is logged in western Oregon’s 2.8 million acres of checkerboard BLM lands providing more economic certainty for 18 counties.  It also set aside half of these lands for concentrated conservation – protecting important water resources and the icons of Oregon – ...

By BHA Conservation Director, Holly Endersby. Last month I sat in a cheerful downtown office while a friendly insurance agent entered information into a computer. As I sat in her tiny work space, my eyes were drawn to a small glass vase on the desk. Hovering like an aquatic helicopter was a fish whose scales shimmered with iridescent beauty under the artificial light. It shared its home with the roots of a water loving plant whose leaves garnished the top of the vase like parsley on a dinner ...

Help us thank Senator Jon Tester and Congressman Steve Daines for their bi-partisan work on behalf of Montana's wild public lands and waters.//www.youtube.com/embed/JhB9RS--zFU?rel=0&wmode=opaque

Napa, Calif. – Backcountry Hunters & Anglers today welcomed the Interior Secretary and Under Secretary of Agriculture to California for a public meeting about the opportunities to protect Berryessa Snow Mountain as a national monument.   “Hunting and angling are inextricably linked to healthy habitat. It is our responsibility as sportsmen to protect our wild country and public lands,” said J.R. Young, a volunteer leader of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers-California and resident of Los Gatos. ...

The following letter was recently printed in the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel here.It’s an interesting contrast that during the same week, when both of the Western Slope’s largest newspapers (in Durango and Grand Junction) editorialized against efforts by corporate front groups and others to turn public lands over to the states, that someone from the American Lands Council would come to Grand Junction to propose doing just that.In case you’re not familiar with this anti-public lands group, ...