On a still morning in Humboldt County, BHA volunteers gathered at the Lacks Creek Management Area for the second year in a row to expand elk and deer habitat by reducing encroaching conifers on coastal prairies. When we arrived at the Beaver Ridge Prairie on Saturday morning, volunteers spread out across the hilly prairie as a couple blacktail bucks looked on with curiosity. Hand saws and hatchets made quick work of the encroaching douglas firs as thick stands fell  to reveal bunch grasses ...

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 ...

Summer thunderstorms built up on the horizon of the Marquez/L Bar Wildlife Management Area.  This years monsoon season has been a memorable one.  It's rare that the landscape of New Mexico stays this verdant green throughout the summer months.  Lush grama grass and abundant browse will make for healthy elk calves going into the winter months, but miles of barbed wire fencing pose a threat to their survival. On August 9 Backcountry Hunters and Anglers partnered with the New Mexico Department ...

     After two years of project planning by BHA Board Member and BLM Wildlife Biologist, Jason Kaitchuck, a group of 21 volunteers gathered sharing donuts and coffee on the side of the road while being briefed on what the day had in store for them. The project area, just outside of Helper, UT is an important habitat for the state’s population of Greater Sage-Grouse, Mule Deer, and Rocky Mountain Elk. Over the past couple years, erosion in these wet meadows has slowly degraded the habitat ...

Photos & video by The Herd Studios On June 29th and 30th, a group of 15 BHA volunteers and 8 US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) employees removed 3 miles of barbed wire fence from the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge (CMR) in Phillips County, Montana. The fence ran across the middle and southern end of the Rock Creek drainage just east of the Slippery Ann Elk Viewing Area. This is prime elk and mule deer habitat in the iconic Missouri Breaks! We had a great turnout for the ...