Grouse Creek Pack Out Recap Words and Photos by Melissa Hendrickson   How much trash can 12 adults, 3 pre-teens, and 3 toddlers pick up in 3 hours? Apparently the answer is 2 overfull dump trailers and a pick-up bed full! Or at least that was the amount a crew of BHA members and friends did recently at a shooting site in North Idaho. I “discovered” the site on Easter, when our family went out for a bike ride on the road by the shooting pit. I say “discovered” in quotes because the site was ...

The policy team at Kansas BHA rode a veritable roller coaster of legislation in the 2023-2024 session aimed at abolishing or drastically modifying the Kansas Wildlife and Parks Commission, the regulatory body of the Kansas Department of Wildlife & Parks. The impetus for making these changes is widely attributed to the commission holding a listening session regarding banning baiting for deer to combat disease transmission. Some Kansas legislators disliked that conversation and publicly ...

On May 1, 2024, BHA habitat stewardship staff joined Biologists and seasonal field staff to modify barbed wire fence along the Gas Hills Highway outside of Lander, Wyoming. This BLM boundary fence was installed over 70 years ago; as a result, it was not built with wildlife friendly practices in mind. This is a story that is consistent across the intermountain West. The impact of this project was three-fold considering it borders crucial winter range for pronghorn, sage-grouse core area and ...

Since 2021, the family of late game commissioner and conservationist David Soules has generously donated a private land elk authorization to New Mexico BHA with the aim of getting one more public land hunter a chance at harvesting. In fall of 2023 the lucky BHA member that was selected to receive the tag was military affiliated member Travis League. Travis was able to gift the tag to his 14 year old son Cullen. With some recon from the Soules family and BHA volunteers, they headed down to ...

On June 1st volunteers from the New York Chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers assisted NYS DEC West Almond Foresters with the construction of a new foot trail around Allen Lake. The trail begins near the ADA compliant fishing dock and traverses through many different forest cover types before looping back to the parking area. In total, the project added 1.5 miles of trail to the 2,421-acre state forest in Allegany County. Future projects for this trail include constructing spurs to the ...