Photos by TJ Booth (@tbimage) On January 30th, 2020 nearly 300 people gathered to watch the International Fly Fishing Film Festival hosted by the Utah State University Backcountry Hunters and Anglers Collegiate Club. For the second year in a row, USU BHA packed the house at the Utah Theatre to raise funds to protect our public lands and give back to the lands in Cache Valley. Members of the local community as well as people from hours away in Utah and Idaho came together for the love of fly ...

Officers:  Andrew Howell, Torey Vayer, Eric White, Emma Maier The NC State club is close to reaching its one-year birthday with 12 active members and eyes on continued outreach and growth throughout the next semester. They started the semester by focusing on recruitment, tabling at the Wolfpack welcome week where they created visibility for the club and successfully secured five new club members. For Public Lands Month the club hosted a pack out at the Beaver Creek canoe access on Jordan ...

Our collegiate program boasts some hard-working and dedicated emerging leaders in the conservation, hunting, and angling communities. Club leaders, many of which didn't grow up hunting or fishing themselves, are actively working to recruit new hunters and anglers at their universities. They are using their experience to shape the way they approach their outreach and are seeing amazing results. More impressively, they are doing this all while pursuing degrees and working part-time jobs. ...

By early December, most big game hunting seasons are wrapped up in Idaho and many folks won't start thinking about deer and elk for several months.  However, it turns out this is a great time of year for hunters to invest in their future hunting opportunities by helping collect sagebrush seeds that can improve habitat.  Sagebrush plays a vital role in winter range for deer, elk and pronghorn (and many other animals) and when sagebrush ecosystems get destroyed by wildfire it can take a very ...

On September 28, 2019, the Kansas State University Backcountry Hunters & Anglers club hosted a Public Land Clean-up at Pillsbury Crossing Wildlife Area. This project was in coordination with the Kansas Department of Wildlife Parks and Tourism to remove trash from within and along Deep Creek. Because this area is so close to Manhattan, and is easily accessible, over the years it has become a well known party spot. Nine members from BHA at Kansas State and the Wildlife Society met at the ...