The following letter was recently submitted by White River National Forest Habitat Watchman, Bob Shettle, in regards to a proposed 10-mile motorized trail development that would intersect a large tract of critical roadless big game wintering habitat.Concerning the Basalt to Gypsum motorized singletrack #41619. This trail, and the bandit trails it hopefully replaces and eliminates, run through the heart of prime big game habitat. I have hunted Colorado GMU #444 for the last 20 years, and I am ...

By BHA Board Member, Jay Banta   A clear and starry morning.  Just a hint of a breeze.  I leave our venerable 100 year old cabin in the Missouri Ozarks and huff and puff my way to the top of the adjacent ridge  From there an old logging road leads me South where I wait to listen.  I hear a barred owl calling in the distance and the quintessential sound of the Ozark nights, a whippoorwill call not far away.  Soon, the pre-dawn gobbles start - a gobble some 300 yards to the West causes me to ...

Last Thursday, five intrepid BHA members trekked into the Desolation Wilderness above Lake Tahoe for a wedding. The ceremony was held at 8500 feet, just at snow line, on a beautiful sunny day.  BHA members from Washington, Idaho and Nevada were present to perform and celebrate the nuptials. Two bottles of excellent champagne were opened to toast the marriage after the couple were pronounced husband and wife by the minister who proudly wore her BHA ball cap.  Two BHA dogs were part of the ...

Minnesota BHA Friends,The second annual Minnesota Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Rendezvous is scheduled for August 15–17, 2014. We’ll be setting up camp at a Group campsite in Whitewater State Park west of Rochester. See the maps/links below for additional information: www.dnr.state.mn.us/state_parks/whitewater[Directions: The park is located 3 miles south of Elba on State Highway 74]Whitewater State Park is adjacent to 21,050-acre Whitewater Wildlife Management Area. We’ll be in group ...

We recently gave our facebook fans an opportunity to ask BHA’s Executive Director, Land Tawney anything they wanted to know about BHA.  The following is a summary of that live question and answer event.  Stay tuned for future Q&A events on our Facebook Page.  In the meantime, if you have questions about BHA, please ask them anytime using the comment box below.    Question from Russell Bassett   You'all going to take a pass a climate change or are you going to try make a difference to curb ...