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Nov

2014

Curiosity Killed the Doe

By New England BHA Board Member, Corey Ellis   I awoke feeling optimistic about the day’s hunt. After almost forty outings last season trying to harvest my first animal using traditional equipment, it was an unusual feeling. When I moved out east, I had thought that I would have plenty of opportunities to use the more restrictive equipment hunting New Hampshire versus hunting the West, where I had all my life up until this point, because the East Coast is “over run with deer.” Little did I ...
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Nov

2014

New Video Highlights Importance of Wilderness for Wildlife

Author: Wyoming BHA
A new video developed by the University of Wyoming, highlights the importance of designated wilderness areas for five of Wyoming’s migratory big-game species.  The researchers detail how elk, mule deer, moose, bighorn sheep and pronghorn all use Wyoming and Colorado wilderness areas, mostly as high-country summer range. It’s the first time that these migration corridors have been mapped to specifically see how animals use wilderness areas. These wildlife migration patterns have been mapped ...
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Nov

2014

2014 Highlights from Oregon BHA

Check out this great video highlighting the work of Oregon BHA in 2014.//www.youtube.com/embed/uUX3gYkVeok?rel=0&wmode=opaque
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Nov

2014

Protect and Manage Federal BLM Land

Conserve public land I read with interest Karl Puckett’s Sept. 14 story, “Sportsmen seek protections for BLM backcountry,” about the Bureau of Land Management’s new efforts to protect Montana’s undeveloped backcountry lands. It’s welcome news at a time when many pressures are coming to bear on the kind of hunting opportunities that most of us have grown up with and have taken for granted. As resident sportsmen, we’re witnessing what has been long the norm in more crowded states — loss of ...
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Nov

2014

Fish Creek Aquisition

Backcountry Hunters & AnglersMontana ChapterSharon RoseRegion 2 FWP3201 Spurgin Rd., Missoula, MTMontana Backcountry Hunters and Anglers, comprised of nearly 400 Montana hunters and anglers, strongly supports the FWP acquisition of 148 acres from Five Valleys Land Trust in the Fish Creek drainage.   Our boots-on-the-ground organization is firmly committed to fostering a public land legacy  protecting public lands and waters, as well as access to them.This acquisition of nearly ½ mile of Fish ...
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Nov

2014

Whitefish Conservation Easement

Backcountry Hunters & AnglersMontana ChapterRick NorthrupMontana Fish, Wildlife and Parks1420 East 6th AvenuePO Box 200701Helena, MT 59620-0701Dear Mr. Northrup:Montana  Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, composed of nearly 400 grassroots Montana hunters and anglers,  strives to be “the sportsmen’s voice for wild public lands, waters and wildlife.”With that in mind, we are writing to express our strong support for the conservation easement that Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks and The Trust for ...
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Nov

2014

Wanken Settlement on the Marias River

Backcountry Hunters and AnglersMontana ChapterFish Wildlife and Parks CommissionHelena MT 59620Dear Chairman Vermillion and Commissioners:Re Wanken settlement on Marias River WMAMembers of Montana Backcountry Hunters and Anglers have had very positive on- the- ground experiences with the Marias River WMA in its present condition.  Some of our members have hiked, floated, drove to available canyon rim access points since its acquisition.  The WMA is comprised of relatively undeveloped prairie ...
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10

Nov

2014

Every Hunter is an Ambassador: In the social media age, what you say is often held against you

By Ryan Hatfield, Editor of Western Hunter Magazine.   “With Freedom Comes Responsibility.”   This quote is credited to Eleanor Roosevelt, but the overall concept has been used and reinforced by many great Americans.   For many years – in fact, perhaps generations – hunters have shared their stories and photos amongst each other, with the overriding assumption being that you have not only a captive audience, but also a receptive one. When you pulled out the album and flipped through the ...
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Oct

2014

Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge Conservation Weekend

Here’s an update on Oregon’s BHA conservation work weekend.  We had a small group of volunteers who did some big things.  In all, we cleared over 650 acres from junipers invading some core wildlife habitat.  Check out our short video of this event here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd1OMDHNIdcWe want to thank several BHA members for their hard work.  Nick Dobric instigated this conservation effort on behalf of BHA.  Nick works in the Hart-Sheldon regions and knows them intimately.  Also, a ...
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Oct

2014

Letter to Editor: Defending Public Access & Our Freedom to Roam

Editor,In Colorado and much of the west, it has gotten harder to simply move across the parts of the landscape that were special when some of us were growing up here. Many things conspire to take away access even as we try and maintain some of it for our future generations. Currently, there is an insidious but relentless effort to transfer federal public lands to the states. This is a bad idea. It will ultimately impact those who like the freedom of being able to don a pack or saddle a horse ...
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