Kyle is a man on a mission: to save or restore as much of the South’s native plants, grasslands, savannahs, limestone glades and open woodlands as he possibly can, and to start a movement of motivated Southerners to do the same, anywhere possible and on any scale, from a tiny corner in a suburban front yard or replacing the sterile turf around a new factory, to reintroducing controlled burns to thousands of acres.

For Immediate Release: July 18, 2025   For Information Contact: Valerie DiMarzio, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, vdimarzio@cbf.org Alena Billingsley, Armed Forces Initiative, afimarketing@backcountryhunters.org      ANNAPOLIS, MD—In a triumph for outdoor stewardship and clean water, roughly a dozen U.S. veterans and servicemembers joined the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) this week to restore oyster habitat in Maryland and Virginia.   Both events were part of a larger Chesapeake Bay fishing ...

June 21st, 2025 - Volunteers from the Montana and North Dakota chapters gathered in the "Big Gumbo" area just south of Marmarth, ND for part 2 of an ongoing stewardship effort in North Dakota's largest continuous swath of BLM land. In 2024 volunteers "inventoried" fence - mapping unknown fence lines on the map, meanwhile noting the composition and condition of the fence. This data was handed off to the local BLM field office, who then determined which fences posed a barrier to wildlife, ...

Welcome to Nebraska Backcountry Hunters & Anglers July newsletter! Latest: Based on member and supporter questions, here is a bit of history on the establishment of your Nebraska Chapter of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers. Nebraska became an official chapter in January 2020. However, the interesting backstory to its establishment is that most of chapter founders (Kyle Broadfoot, Bill Grossniclaus, Mike Storrs, Adam Leitschuh, Erik Dippold, Casey Hunter, Ryan Sewell, James Eaves) recall ...

By Don Rank HARRISBURG, PA, July 9, 2025 – This morning, at a small ceremony near the state capital, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed into law House Bill 1431. At last the ban on Sunday hunting has been lifted in Pennsylvania – a hard-earned victory for which Backcountry Hunters & Anglers and its Pennsylvania Chapter should take pride. History The inability to hunt on Sundays in Pennsylvania dates to the days when Ulysses S. Grant was president. Back then, it was one of many “Blue ...