Mar

2024

AFI Q:1 Newsletter

Good morning, Armed Forces Initiative members, supporters, and subscribers. This is your Q:1 AFI Newsletter here to keep you informed on all the latest happenings in the BHA and AFI universe. 2023 Recap: We introduced over 2,000 participants to the outdoors in over 140 events in 46 states! That is an incredible accomplishment and each of you should pat yourselves on the back if you were involved in any way, shape, or form. If you weren’t and you would like to be, there’s no time like the ...

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Mar

2024

OR Chapter Submits Comments for ODFW Selection Process

Author: Chris Hager

On January 26th, 2024, the Oregon Chapter of BHA submitted comments reflecting the necessary considerations needed for the recruitment of the next Director of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. This comes after the recent retirement of the current Director of ODFW, Kurt Melcher. Read the full comments here: LINK TO FULL COMMENTS

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Mar

2024

NY BHA March Newsletter

Author: New York BHA

Update from Chapter Chair Happy spring everyone (did we even have a winter?)! If you are like me, you are digging out your turkey calls and dreaming of warm mornings chasing gobblers. Or maybe you are itching to get out to your local trout streams with your fly rods. Or maybe you are excited to get out foraging for ramps and morels. No matter what you get up to in the woods and waters this year, we want to hear from you! We really want to see BHA members in the state connecting more than ...

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Mar

2024

NY BHA 2024 Legislative Tracker

Author: New York BHA

Part of the responsibility of the NY BHA Chapter Board is to keep an eye on legislative proposals in the NY Legislature that potentially impact hunters and anglers. We will do our best to keep this page updated with some specific bills we want our membership to keep an eye on and take action on. Find your NY Assembly representative HERE and NY State Senator HERE. 2024 Bills Hunting / Fishing / Trapping Back Tags - S8644A - Amends environmental conservation law to allow for moving to ...

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Mar

2024

Indiana BHA 2024 First Quarter Action

Author: Indiana BHA

The Indiana chapter has had a tremendous start to 2024. Our Events Team organized a slate of events in February that set us on track for another banner year. We kicked things off with a wood duck box build at J.E. Roush Lake Fish and Wildlife Area in northern Indiana (pictured above). 22 volunteers showed up to assemble 24 wood duck boxes for the property, and a Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems grant our Board of Directors member, Ben Stout, received covered the supplies. With such a ...

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Mar

2024

Administration Budget Proposal Would Increase Investments in Public Lands

Author: Thomas Plank

For Immediate Release Mar. 11, 2024 Contact: Thomas Plank, 303-720-0111 plank@backcountryhunters.org Administration Budget Proposal Would Increase Investments in Public Lands WASHINGTON, D.C. – As the leading voice for the conservation of public lands, waters, and wildlife, today Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA) responded to the release of the Biden administration’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2025. This proposed budget would increase funding for federal land ...

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Mar

2024

Efforts Combating CWD and Invasive Species Receives Funding

Author: Chris Hager

The 2024 legislative short session has come to an end and in a bewildering turn of events, despite broad stakeholder support, House Bill 4148, (HB4148) Rep. Helm’s Wildlife Omnibus Bill, died in ways and means. To recap, HB 4148 would have addressed programmatic needs and raised awareness around migration corridors, zoonotic disease research, combating invasive species and addressing coexistence of wildlife in Oregon. Over the course of the session, BHA members, supporters and other public ...

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Mar

2024

AZ Public Lands Bill Watch

Author: Chris Hager

HB 2021 This bill would require the holder of a conservation easement to make an annual payment in place of taxes on the reduction of value of the original parcel caused by the placement of the conservation easement. HB 2022 This bill would require the holder of a conservation easement to maintain the property free of noxious weeds that are a threat to health or safety. HB2021 and HB2022 are an attempt to dissuade conservation easements through inconvenience and complexity and they ignore ...

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Mar

2024

03/08/24 New Mexico Game Commission Recap

Author: Mark Mattaini

Friday March 8, 2024 Albuquerque, NM The meeting began shortly after 9 a.m. with the Commission roll call. Commissioners present included Tirzio Lopez (Vice-Chair), Fernando Clemente, Sharon Salazar-Hickey, Ed Garcia, Dr. Sabina Pack (new), and Robert Stump (new). Attending virtually was Commissioner Greg Fulfer. With the two new commissioners, the legally required number of 7 members was reached. Commissioner Pack (Silver City) identifies as a marketing professional; Commissioner Stump ...

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Mar

2024

Nearly 900,000 acres of Montana in access limbo - PART 2

Author: Amanda Eggert

Nearly a decade before four Missouri Hunters drove to Wyoming for a now-famous hunting trip that landed them before state and federal judges on trespassing charges, Bozeman-based hunting personality Randy Newburg planned something similar. Like the Missouri hunters, Newburg was going to use a ladder to avoid stepping on private property as he corner-crossed, or climbed over the point where two-square-mile sections of public land meet two-square-mile sections of private land.Newburg, who ...

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AFI Q:1 Newsletter

OR Chapter Submits Comments for ODFW Selection Process

NY BHA March Newsletter

NY BHA 2024 Legislative Tracker

Indiana BHA 2024 First Quarter Action

Administration Budget Proposal Would Increase Investments in Public Lands

Efforts Combating CWD and Invasive Species Receives Funding

AZ Public Lands Bill Watch

03/08/24 New Mexico Game Commission Recap

Nearly 900,000 acres of Montana in access limbo - PART 2

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