CA BHA Volunteers help CDFW Staff Survey Bighorn Sheep Across the Mojave!    The heat was coming and we all knew it. With a projected high of 115 for both days, we knew that getting to elevation and glassing early was our key to success. BHA volunteers, some coming from as far as San Diego and Los Angeles, gathered during the summer solstice this year to help CDFW biologists survey some of California's Desert Bighorn Sheep population. These surveys, which BHA has been helping with for years, ...

Join Hal and Florida archeologist Jeffrey Shanks for a lost tale of British Marines and Jamaican privateers, American maroons, Creek Indian warriors, rogue Choctaws, religious prophets, and the bloody and tenacious struggle for freedom. The Apalachicola National Forest in Florida’s Panhandle holds some of the most remote swampland wilderness in the US, forbidding blackwater mazes of cypress and black gum and tupelo, whining with biting and stinging insects, the natural home of alligator ...

Snowmass Falls Ranch  A New Beginning By Briant Wiles   When it comes to opportunities to help improve habitat on a newly acquired piece of public ground in the mountains of Colorado, it is hard to beat the Snowmass Falls Ranch project. The 600 plus acre property had been listed for sale and without a conservation easement in place making it ripe for development. The property is important for wildlife being a migration corridor for elk and deer between summer and winter ranges. Up ...

August 14, 2024 Honorable Pete ButtigiegU.S. Secretary of Transportation1200 New Jersey Ave, SEWashington, DC 20590 Subject: US-93 Darby, Montana to Idaho Wildlife Crossing Feasibility Study Dear Secretary Buttigieg, On behalf of the Montana Chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, please accept this letter as written confirmation of our support for the Montana Department of Transportation’s (MDT) Wildlife Crossing Pilot Program (WCPP) discretionary grant funding application for the US-93 ...

2021 North Carolina Upland 101 Dual Skills Camp   AFI Leader Marty Bartram: “This event was a challenge as we were trying to teach Upland fundamentals in a part of the country with a real niche upland habitat.”   AFI participant Hunter Owen: “I had no idea there were upland opportunities so close to Fort Bragg. Chasing ruffed Grouse in the mountains feels like a whole different game than the pheasants on Fort Reilly, Kansas.”   AFI Volunteer Cooper Akin: “I knew I was interested in an ...