Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA) is disappointed that Proposition 127, which proposes a hunting ban for Mountain Lion, Bobcat, and Lynx, has garnered enough signatures to appear on the Colorado ballot this November. BHA urges its members and all conservation-minded citizens to work within their communities to educate their friends, family members, and neighbors on how this initiative contradicts science-based wildlife management and the use of hunting as a tool to manage vital species in ...

By Dan Wilson & Josh Wilund On August 1st, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) announced the first confirmed case of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in Washington state. The news hit like a gut punch, and within minutes, our phones lit up with texts from board members, emails from conservation partners, and calls from media contacts. Deep down, many of us in Washington who are tracking CWD knew this day would come, though we hoped we had more time. For those unfamiliar, CWD ...

For Immediate Release Aug. 1, 2024 Contact:  Zoe Bommarito, Trout Unlimted, zoe.bommarito@tu.org, 517-604-1844 Mary Jo Brooks, National Wildlife Federation, BrooksM@nwf.org, 303-549-8351 Thomas Plank, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, plank@backcountryhunters.org, 303-720-0111 Portland, Ore. – The National Wildlife Federation, Trout Unlimited, and Backcountry Hunters & Anglers have launched an aggressive ad campaign to highlight the urgent need for the designation of the Owyhee Canyonlands ...

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BHA volunteers gathered this July to remove unnecessary fencing on a 200-acre parcel of prime big game habitat recently acquired by the United States Forest Service in the Pioneer Mountains near Wise River, Montana. Staff from the National Wildlife Federation and USFS facilitated the event by identifying priority zones and marking property boundaries, making it easy for BHA volunteers to show up and get to work. Marked by generations of varied use, the parcel included portions of barbed ...