Besides waterfowl hunting, ice fishing, and enjoying home-cooked comfort meals featuring wild game, here’s what we’ve been up to the last three months at the Montana Chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers: The fight for public access into the Crazy Mountains continues. We have until April 4th to convince Congress to deny the East Crazies land swap; take action here. Photo courtesy of EcoFlight In January, the courts ruled that Governor Gianforte’s veto maneuver on Senate Bill 442 was ...

*** Learn more and comment here by April 7th ***   March 25, 2024   Lolo National Forest Supervisor’s Office Attn: Amanda Milburn - Lolo Plan Revision 24 Fort Missoula Rd Missoula, MT 59804 SM.FS.LNFRevision@usda.gov   Re: Lolo National Forest Plan Revision Comments from the Montana Chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers   Dear Ms. Milburn;     Thank you for the opportunity to provide feedback on the Lolo National Forest Land Management Plan Revision, and for all the work that has gone ...

*** Learn more and submit your own comments by March 28th, 2024 *** Chair Robinson, Vice Chair Tabor, Commissioners:    On behalf of the Montana Chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, we submit the following comments on the proposed 2024-2025 Migratory Bird Regulations.   Our members and supporters value our fair-chase hunting heritage and the wild public lands and waters habitat needed to support it.   Regarding the proposal to lift a ban on waterfowl hunting on an 87-mile stretch of the ...

*** Learn more and submit your own comments by April 3, 2024 ***   March 15, 2024   Ben Gilles, Project LeaderUS Fish and Wildlife Service53775 MT HWY 212 Charlo, MT 59824FW6NorthwestMontanaWMD@fws.gov Re: New Northwest Montana Wetland Management District Administrative Facilities  On behalf of the Montana Chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers and our roughly 3,000 dues-paying members, please consider the below comments outlining our opposition to the Proposed Action to construct a new ...

This Friday Arizona’s Game and Fish Commission may direct the agency to consider alternatives to its controversial system of auctioning coveted hunting opportunities that raise millions of dollars for trophy big-game animals and their habitat. It’s a surprisingly fraught decision for a state agency that has been among the most active brokers of auction tags, or selling to the highest bidder exclusive opportunities to hunt big-game animals that many resident hunters wait their entire lives ...