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Montana BHA Comments on 2024-2025 MIGRATORY BIRD REGULATIONS

[EasyDNNnewsLocalizedText:Author]: Jake Schwaller

*** 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 ...

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BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 176: Deer in the Southwest with Jim Heffelfinger

Author: Kylee Burleigh

Jim Heffelfinger, Arizona Game and Fish Wildlife Science Co-ordinator, Chairman of the Mule Deer Working Group, wildlife conservation professional, author of Deer of the Southwest. Coming at you live from the 2024 Mule Deer Expo in Salt Lake City, Hal catches up with one of America’s rockstars of wildlife conservation and research, Arizona’s Jim Heffelfinger. The conversation roams and wanders, from mule deer and blacktails, habitat and CWD, to Mexican wolves and hunting javelina, with a ...

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LETTER: North Dakota BHA Supports Keeping Grand Forks Water Board Lands Open for Hunting

[EasyDNNnewsLocalizedText:Author]: Ethan Hodnefield

March 18, 2024 Tom PerdueChairmanGrand Forks County Water Board151 South 4th StreetGrand Forks, ND 58201 Chairman Perdue and Members of the Grand Forks County Water Board, On behalf of the North Dakota Chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers and our dues paying members in the state, we respectfully request that the Grand Forks County Water Board lands be kept open for public hunting. Access to hunting land is a significant barrier to new and experienced hunters alike. It is imperative that ...

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NEBRASKA BHA FENCE REMOVAL PROJECT: Recap

[EasyDNNnewsLocalizedText:Author]: Chris Hager

On March 16th Nebraska Backcountry Hunters and Anglers hosted a fence removal project at Nebraska Game and Park’s Wapiti Wildlife Management Area in the Loess Canyons south of North Platte. As the name suggests the 1920 acre Wapiti WMA is home to elk but is also great habitat for mule deer, white-tailed deer, and turkey. Fourteen volunteers completed removal of a barbed wire fence, and net wire fence, on the southeast section of the WMA. Three of the volunteers drew gifts from generous BHA ...

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Pathways to Clarity - PART 3

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The confluence of forces that created the checkerboard land ownership patterns that so vex many Montanans was not an overnight phenomenon. A slew of congressional acts, land transfers, lawsuits and governmental policies over the past 150 years all contributed to the uncertain, conflict-prone and impassioned debate surrounding corner-crossing — the act of passing from one parcel of public land to its kitty-corner neighbor. Legal and political observers say they don’t expect quick fixes, but ...

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LETTER: Montana BHA comments on the Draft Supplemental Environmental Assessment at Northwest Montana Wetland Management District

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*** 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 ...

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BHA, Coalition Express Support for New Sage Grouse Plans, Sagebrush Habitat Improvement

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For Immediate Release Mar. 14, 2024 Contact: Thomas Plank, 303-720-0111 plank@backcountryhunters.org BHA, Coalition Express Support for New Sage Grouse Plans, Sagebrush Habitat Improvement WASHINGTON, D.C. --In a pivotal step toward conserving the American West's cherished public lands, conservation and sportsmen’s groups offered the following responses on the heels of the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) release of its Draft Resource Management Plan (RMP) ...

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Murray State BHA Collegiate Club Squirrel Hunt and Packout

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On December 2nd, six Murray State BHA club members along with Kevin Murphy from Small Game Nation and Paul Skees from the Kentucky BHA chapter, rendezvoused for a quick breakfast and headed out to Clark��s River for a squirrel hunt. The club members were split into two groups. One of the groups was led by Paul Skees, the group had limited opportunities but a new hunter named Hannah was able to harvest a fox squirrel on her first time ever firing a gun. The other group led by Kevin Murphy ...

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Spring Black Bear: Sealing the Deal

[EasyDNNnewsLocalizedText:Author]: Ryan Schuman

Ryan Schuman, Southeast Alaska Representative with a black bear.It’s nearly April and spring is fast approaching. With that, myself, and many other hunters across Alaska are starting to poke around in their gear closets and get things sorted in anticipation of what will be the first big game hunt of the year for most of us- Spring bear! Whether you’re chasing black bears in the tidal bays of Southeast Alaska or the giant browns on Kodiak, one thing is going to be true: You’ll need to have ...

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LETTER: Montana BHA supports Left Coulee Access Proposed Action

[EasyDNNnewsLocalizedText:Author]: Jake Schwaller

*** Learn more about this proposal and submit your own comments. The deadline is March 28th, 2024.*** March 13, 2024 Bureau of Land ManagementUpper Missouri River Breaks National Monument920 NE Main St, Lewistown, MT 59457Rachel Miller, rmiller@blm.gov Re: Left Coulee Access Environmental Assessment Dear Ms. Miller - 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 support for ...

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NEBRASKA BHA FENCE REMOVAL PROJECT: Recap

Pathways to Clarity - PART 3

LETTER: Montana BHA comments on the Draft Supplemental Environmental Assessment at Northwest Montana Wetland Management District

BHA, Coalition Express Support for New Sage Grouse Plans, Sagebrush Habitat Improvement

Murray State BHA Collegiate Club Squirrel Hunt and Packout

Spring Black Bear: Sealing the Deal

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