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BHA volunteers gathered this July to remove unnecessary fencing on a 200-acre parcel of prime big game habitat recently acquired by the United States Forest Service in the Pioneer Mountains near Wise River, Montana. Staff from the National Wildlife Federation and USFS facilitated the event by identifying priority zones and marking property boundaries, making it easy for BHA volunteers to show up and get to work. Marked by generations of varied use, the parcel included portions of barbed ...

Great Lakes Salmon 2021 Before this event I was at a heavily regulated army training event that lasted for months in a very intense field environment. The culmination of this training means that I will now be entering the next stage of my career with an increased deployment tempo. During my break between trainings, I was home in Wisconsin and my dad thought it would be good for me to go on this trip. I thought I would miss time with my family, but I didn't quite understand the time why, Dad ...

     After two years of project planning by BHA Board Member and BLM Wildlife Biologist, Jason Kaitchuck, a group of 21 volunteers gathered sharing donuts and coffee on the side of the road while being briefed on what the day had in store for them. The project area, just outside of Helper, UT is an important habitat for the state’s population of Greater Sage-Grouse, Mule Deer, and Rocky Mountain Elk. Over the past couple years, erosion in these wet meadows has slowly degraded the habitat ...