FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Jan. 13, 2025   Contacts:  Kaden McArthur, Director of Policy and Government Relations, mcarthur@backcountryhunters.org  Devin O’Dea, Western Policy & Conservation Manager, odea@backcountryhunters.org     Washington, D.C. — Today the U.S. Supreme Court announced their decision to reject hearing a lawsuit filed by the State of Utah in late summer that threatened the very foundation of America’s public lands legacy. Patrick Berry, President and CEO of Backcountry Hunters ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  Aug. 20, 2024  Contact: Devin O’Dea, 415-246-5329 odea@backcountryhunters.org  Utah Attempts to Wrest Public Lands Out of Public Hands SALT LAKE CITY, UT — Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA) – North America’s premiere advocacy group that serves as the voice for our nation’s wild public lands, waters and wildlife – vehemently opposes the recent legal maneuver by the state of Utah aimed at seizing control of 18.5 million acres of federal public lands.   A long-standing ...

For Immediate Release Aug. 1, 2024 Contact: Thomas Plank, 303-720-0111 plank@backcountryhunters.org “Good Samaritan” Legislation to Clean Up Abandoned Mines Passes the Senate WASHINGTON, D.C. – On July 31, the U.S. Senate passed the Good Samaritan Remediation of Abandoned Hardrock Mines Act (S. 2781) without objection. As the “Voice for our wild public lands, waters, and wildlife,” Backcountry Hunters Anglers (BHA) has strongly supported “Good Samaritan” legislation for decades and is now ...

News for Immediate Release July 9, 2024 Contact: Kaden McArthur, 435-770-3774, mcarthur@backcountryhunters.org  Washington, D.C. — Today, the House Appropriations Committee voted on party lines to advance an Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act that would slash funding for federal land management agencies for Fiscal Year 2025, reducing funding levels for the second year in a row. As one of the nation’s leading grassroots advocacy groups aimed at conserving North ...

For Immediate Release  Jun. 28, 2024  Contact: Thomas Plank, 303-720-0111, plank@backcountryhunters.org  BLM to Halt Ambler Road Permit, Conserve 28 Million Acres of Alaska Public Lands  WASHINGTON, D.C. — The nation’s “voice for wild public lands, waters, and wildlife” – nonprofit advocacy group Backcountry Hunters & Anglers – applauded decisions announced today by the Bureau of Land Management that will ensure the conservation of valuable fish and wildlife habitat across myriad Alaskan ...

For Immediate Release Jun. 24, 2024 Contact: Thomas Plank, 303-720-0111 plank@backcountryhunters.org Legislation Introduced to Build on Migration Corridor Conservation WASHINGTON, D.C. – New bipartisan legislation introduced today in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives with the support of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers would build upon collaborative efforts to conserve big game migration corridors, posing significant benefits for healthy populations of wildlife as they range ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  Contacts: Jay Chancellor, Trout Unlimited, jay.chancellor@tu.org, 720-484-9247  Kaden McArthur, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, mcarthur@backcountryhunters.org, 435-770-3774  BHA, TU Launch Sportsmen for the Dolores  DURANGO, CO — Today, Trout Unlimited and Backcountry Hunters & Anglers launched Sportsmen for the Dolores (sportsmenforthedolores.org). The purpose of this coalition is to conserve fish and wildlife habitat, as well as sustain sporting opportunities, on ...

News for Immediate ReleaseSept. 2, 2022Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org   Decision confirms the public’s right to walk or wade streambeds that cross privately owned lands SANTA FE, N.M. – The New Mexico Supreme Court has ruled again in support of public access to public waters in a Thursday decision that confirms the public’s right to walk or wade streambeds crossing privately owned lands. The opinion ruling by the court follows its unanimous decision in ...

News for Immediate ReleaseJune 22, 2022Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org BHA’s Outdoors for All scholarship helps young people with disabilities get outdoors MISSOULA, Mont. – Three young outdoorspeople will have help getting outdoors thanks to scholarships provided by Backcountry Hunters & Anglers’ Aidan Long Outdoors for All scholarship. Established in early 2022, BHA’s Outdoors for All scholarship assists young people with disabilities access outdoors ...

News for Immediate ReleaseJan. 26, 2022Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org          Lukas Leaf, SFBW, 612-270-6805, lukas@sportsmenbwca.org  WASHINGTON – A broad coalition of hunters and anglers today applauded an announcement by the Department of the Interior to cancel two federal hardrock mineral leases located in the Superior National Forest within the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness watershed, citing the importance of this move to sustaining the ...