Steve Witte was recently appointed to serve as the Colorado Backcountry Hunters & Anglers chapter Indemnity Lands Liaison. Steve was born in Wray, Colorado, and raised on a farm near Vernon until age 10 when his folks moved off the farm and purchased a business in Wray, where he finished grade school and graduated from junior high and high school. “As a boy on the farm, with my Daisy, I did my best to guard our granary from ravaging sparrows. My first fish was a sunfish from a private pond ...

  The Kentucky Chapter of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers (KYBHA) favors the replacement of the US 51 Bridge and opposes the construction of new bridges which would harm the natural wetland assets, disrupt wildlife habitat, and remove public hunting and fishing opportunities for Kentucky residents and visitors.  KYBHA is the state Chapter of the national organization Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA) which seeks to ensure North America's outdoor heritage of hunting and fishing in a natural ...

Tribal officials and conservation groups on Wednesday raised their objections with an incoming ballot initiative that will soon go out for signature gathering.  Initiative 193 would allow landowners to hunt on private land within the boundaries of Native American reservations. In public comment at a legislative hearing on the proposal Wednesday, opposition from Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal leaders, along with several outdoor advocacy organizations, eclipsed the support ...

News for Immediate ReleaseDecember 6, 2023Contact: Thomas Plank, 303-720-0111, plank@backcountryhunters.org MISSOULA, Mont. – Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA), a trailblazing public lands and conservation advocacy organization, announces the appointment of Patrick Berry as its new Chief Executive Officer. Following an extensive continent-wide search process, Berry, of Middlebury, Vermont, will take the reins of the North America-wide organization on Jan. 1, 2024. Berry’s hire will kick ...

A proposed ballot initiative that could have broad implications for Montana’s elk management and tribal relations will be the sole subject of a surprise state oversight committee Wednesday morning. The legislature’s Environmental Quality Council, an interim super-committee of lawmakers and citizens, is scheduled to consider proposed Ballot Initiative 193 on Dec. 6. at 10 a.m. The meeting, which will be held via Zoom and not in person, caught even some council members by surprise. “Even those ...