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Apr

2014

Missouri Gobblers

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 ...
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Apr

2014

Thank You to Bureau of Land Management: Seasonal Wildlife Closures

Author: Wyoming BHA
Mr. Snyder,Wyoming Backcountry Hunters & Anglers would like to express our thanks and support of the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) decision to implement temporary road closures on Steamboat Mountain to protect big game birthing habitat from motorized disturbance.  As an organization of passionate backcountry sportsmen and women that believe land and wildlife management should led by science, we are glad to offer our sincere support to those who strive to follow this principle of the ...
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Apr

2014

The First All-BHA Wedding in California Wilderness!

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 ...
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Apr

2014

Letter: Western Sportsmen Support Full Funding of Land & Water Conservation Fund

April 22, 2014 Dear Chairs Mikulski and Rogers and Ranking Members Shelby and Lowey: Our organizations represents thousands of hunters and anglers from the American West who have a vital and vested interest in the sustainability and accessibility of quality fish and wildlife habitat for both present and future generations. The Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) has played a critical role in conserving some of the West’s most important fish and wildlife habitat  and publicly accessible ...
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Apr

2014

Minnesota Backcountry Hunters & Anglers 2nd Annual Rendezvous, August 15-17

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 ...
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21

Apr

2014

Thank You Letter: Temporary Closures on Pole Mountain

Author: Wyoming BHA
Medicine Bow-Routte Forest Supervisor Frank Romero, Wyoming Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, would like to express our support of the temporary road closures put in place on Pole Mountain. We have been involved in working to protect high quality habitat and waters in the area from illegal motorized use and appreciate you taking necessary steps to do the same. We plan to help organize another habitat restoration work day this summer and look forward to working with the USFS on this. If it would ...
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Apr

2014

Question & Answer with Backcountry Hunters & Anglers' Director, Land Tawney

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 ...
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Apr

2014

WY BHA Appeals Shoshone National Forest Plan

Author: Wyoming BHA
The following is an objection letter to the Draft Shoshone National Forest Plan that was recently filed by Wyoming BHA. Shoshone Forest Plan (SFP), Daniel Jiron, Rocky Mountain Regional Forester This objection applies to the designation of areas in the immediate vicinity of Francs Peak and the Wood River as open to, or potentially open to, OHV’s both winter and summer as depicted on maps attached to the final draft, Alternative G, of the Shoshone Forest Plan. We are also opposed to continued ...
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Apr

2014

Montana BHA's Annual Letter

Greetings Fellow Montana BHA Member!It has been another great and busy year for the Montana Chapter of BHA. In an effort to keep all members informed of what we have been up to we want to share a list of some of our major activities in 2013 and early 2014.  Many of the projects are ongoing while new opportunities are developing  as we write this letter. UAV’s/Drones: MT BHA lead the effort to install regulation preventing the use of UAV’s/Drones in Montana for any hunting or scouting ...
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14

Apr

2014

Have Sportsmen in Utah Benefited from the Land and Water Conservation Fund? Most Definitely!

Author: Ken Theis
Nearly 50 years ago, while most of America was focused on the growing conflict in Viet Nam, some forward-thinking individuals were considering the needs of the nation at home.  The growing social and environmental movement gave rise to a number of new laws that provided protection for clean water, clean air, and human rights as part of LBJ’s vision for America that he termed “The Great Society.”   Among the pieces of historic legislation passed in that era were the Wilderness Act in 1964 and ...
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