On August 10, the Idaho Department of Lands (“IDL”) notified Trident Holdings, LLC that the Trident proposal to exchange just over 20,000 acres of timberland in northern Idaho for a similar amount of acreage of state endowment land around Payette Lake had been rejected. Idaho BHA has been involved in efforts to develop conservation solutions as alternatives to development on endowment lands around Payette Lake, and background on this work can be found here, as well as in an update post ...

In April of this year, the Idaho Legislature introduced and passed Senate Bill 1211. The bill, which was signed into law by the Governor in May, relates to wolf management within Idaho and will amend prior management regulations in a number of ways once it takes effect on July 1. These changes include expanding methods of take to encompass any method allowable for other wild canines, increasing the financial allocation from Idaho Fish and Game to the Wolf Depredation Control Board from ...

Join some of the ladies of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers for this Women of the Woods event at Castaway Fly Shop in Coeur’d’Alene March 19th at 6pm! All levels of experience welcome! Come out and talk fishing and fly tying with other like minded ladies. We will be walking through the steps for tying the San Juan worm and the Poly Caddis. If you have a vise and materials please bring them along. Of course, Castaway Fly Shop will have materials available for purchase.   If you have any ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) announced they have decided not to pursue a plan to build a 15-mile mountain bike trail along Lucky Peak Reservoir. The proposed "Lakeview Trail" would have been constructed in critical big game winter range within the Boise River Wildlife Management Area (BRWMA). These low elevation foothills outside of Boise are some of the best remaining intact winter range utilized by the largest migrating mule deer herd in Idaho. BHA and our conservation partners ...

On Saturday, October 3, twenty BHA volunteers assembled to assist the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) with planting sagebrush seedlings at Dedication Point near Boise, Idaho to help with an ongoing restoration effort. While not the exact date of National Public Lands Day, the teamwork and cumulative effort to plant approximately 300 seedlings in about two hours is enough to celebrate this contribution to public land restoration! With coordinated efforts between Boise State BHA Collegiate ...