News for Immediate ReleaseApril 16, 2019Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org   The newest issue of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers’ magazine is available today   MISSOULA, Mont. – The spring issue of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers’ quarterly magazine, Backcountry Journal, hit mailboxes across the continent last week. This issue contains 70-plus pages of stories, news and photographs of hunting and fishing North America’s public lands and waters. Here’s a ...

News for Immediate Release Jan. 28, 2019 Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org   Inside the Winter Issue of BHA’s Backcountry Journal The newest issue of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers’ magazine is available today   MISSOULA, Mont. – The newest edition of BHA’s quarterly publication, Backcountry Journal, has arrived in members’ and distributors’ mailboxes. This issue, featuring cover art by Ed Anderson, runs the gamut of public lands hunting and fishing in North ...

MISSOULA, Mont. – The winter 2018 issue of Backcountry Journal is arriving in BHA members’ mailboxes in time for the holidays. Here are some highlights from this issue: Required Reading: We asked our staff, board and some literary friends about their favorite books and why they matter. The result is a “best of” list of works critical to the sportsmen-conservation movement and understanding the people and ideas behind it. It also offers some top-notch fireside reading this winter…and gift ...

News for Immediate ReleaseDec. 4, 2017Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org ‘Today is a dark day’ for America’s conservation legacy, says Backcountry Hunters & Anglers CEO MISSOULA, Mont. – Calling today “a dark day” for the nation’s conservation legacy, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers excoriated an anticipated announcement by President Trump to drastically reduce and dismantle two national monuments in Utah that encompass vast expanses of important fish and ...

Public lands sportsmen’s group files amicus brief in Crooks vs. State, which challenges traditional waterfowling opportunities at Catahoula Lake CENLA, La. – Backcountry Hunters & Anglers has filed an amicus brief in a lawsuit that challenges traditional public access opportunities on a Louisiana lake prized by sportsmen and women. At stake is the public’s continued ability to access Catahoula Lake, a sought-after waterfowling destination in Louisiana. A recent decision by a Louisiana ...

News for Immediate ReleaseNov. 16, 2017Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org Interactive habitat maps reveal what’s at stake in administration's national monument review MISSOULA, Mont. – As the Trump administration considers taking unprecedented action to reduce or eliminate national monuments, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers is releasing detailed habitat maps of six Western national monuments on the chopping block. Each of the monuments – Bears Ears and Grand ...

News for Immediate ReleaseNov. 8, 2017Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org New website gauges administration’s track record in light of Trump’s promise to honor Roosevelt’s legacy MISSOULA, Mont. – Today, one year after the 2016 presidential election, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers is launching a website that considers natural resource-related policy decisions from the Trump administration in light of promises by President Trump and other administration ...

News for Immediate ReleaseOct. 19, 2017Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org Senate Votes to Allow Arctic Refuge Drilling Despite Pushback from Sportsmen Surveys in Western states show strong public opposition to energy development in the refuge MISSOULA, Mont. – Following today’s Senate rejection of a budget amendment that would have prevented oil and gas development within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, public lands hunters and anglers ...

News for Immediate ReleaseOct. 13, 2017Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org BHA Builds Eastern Muscle through Key Staff Additions New BHA hires in Northeast and Southeast are working with chapters to grow membership,expand public access, conserve valuable habitat MISSOULA, Mont. – Continuing to ramp up its efforts on behalf of North America’s wild public lands, waters and wildlife, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers announced today two new hires: Chris Hennessey ...

  News for Immediate ReleaseOct. 11, 2017Contact: Katie McKalip, BHA, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.orgCorley Kenna, Patagonia, 202-320-3921, Corley.Kenna@patagonia.com Ryan Callaghan, First Lite, ryan@firstlite.com Sportsmen and Outdoors Leaders Denounce Antiquities Act Takedown House legislation would undermine bedrock conservation law,fundamentally diminish national monuments system MISSOULA, Mont. – Leaders in the outdoors and sportsmen’s communities today joined together in ...