5/16/14Mr. Roy Elicker, DirectorOregon Department of Fish and Wildlife 4034 Fairview Industrial Drive SE Salem, OR 97302Dear Mr. Elicker:Backcountry Hunters & Anglers was formed here in Oregon ten years ago by like-minded sportsmen and women who want to preserve our heritage of hunting and fishing for future generations.  Our mission is simple and straight-forward – we work to protect wild public lands, waters, and wildlife.  In that decade, our membership has spread to all fifty states.  ...

The Idaho Chapter is pleased to announce that we will be sponsoring a scholarship once again for a youth to attend the Idaho Conservation Officer's Association Youth Camp. This years camp will be held August 11-15, 2014, at the Trinity Pines Camp and Conference Center in Cascade, ID. Youth camp activities include a range day complete with rimfire, centerfire, and muzzleloaders, a challenge course, wildlife id, fishing techniques, introduction to archery, introduction to trapping, and a ...

By BHA Board Member, Jay Banta of Torrey, Utah The flaring disputes in southern Utah about the appropriate uses of public land highlights one of the very reasons Backcountry Hunters & Anglers was formed: Making sure our shared public land resources are managed responsibly and passed on to future generations. That is why sportsmen and women must speak out against the threatened illegal ATV ride in a Bureau of Land Management administered area that is closed to motorized use. BHA members, many ...

PRESS STATEMENT Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, Utah Chapter Friday, May 9, 2014 Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, including its Utah Chapter, condemns the illegal ATV protest ride at Recapture Canyon as destructive, misguided and counterproductive. The Bureau of Land Management faces a complex task of balancing multiple uses of our public lands, including recreation, wildlife, clean water and grazing.  Many members of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers own ATVs, and realize that reasonable limits ...

 Join BHA, help us stop this national land grab!   A radical cry to wrest our national forests and Bureau of Land Management land away from public ownership is being heard throughout the West.  That cry should alarm all Americans who cherish their freedom to hunt and fish.   The American people own 450 million acres of national forest, rangeland, wildlife refuges and national parks. Some of these lands are famous while others are obscure "secret spots." They include trout streams, ...