Area faces threats from industrial scale mining, habitat fragmentation, unmanaged recreation) (Colorado Newsline: 8/21/24)   In the words of former Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA) Conservation Director John Gale, “Conserving large tracts of undeveloped public lands as national monuments is essential to America’s hunting and fishing traditions.”[1] To prove the point, in 2016 BHA and a consortium of outdoor groups and businesses released a report (“National Monuments: A Sportsman’s ...

Colorado Backcountry Hunters & Anglers is glad to welcome Murphy Robinson as the newly appointed sportsmen’s representative to the Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) Commission. Appointed by Governor Jared Polis on Friday, August 16, 2024, Robinson steps into this crucial role at a pivotal time for hunters, anglers, and outdoor enthusiasts across the state. Murphy Robinson brings a wealth of experience, passion, and dedication to his new role on the CPW Commission. A devoted sportsman, ...

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 ...