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 ...

News for Immediate ReleaseJan. 11, 2022Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org MISSOULA, Mont. – Backcountry Hunters & Anglers today commended a move by the Biden administration to prohibit oil and gas development on critical public lands and waters in Alaska’s Arctic, while also urging the administration to coordinate with Congress to permanently conserve special areas of fish and wildlife habitat. The Bureau of Land Management-promulgated action would reverse a ...

News for Immediate ReleaseDec. 15, 2021Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org WASHINGTON – Military veterans and Gold Star families will gain lifetime access to thousands of federal recreation areas thanks to language included in the fiscal year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act, which the Senate voted to advance today. Led by Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) and John Boozman (R-AR) and Reps. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA) and Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), the ...

News for Immediate ReleaseDec. 8, 2021Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org WASHINGTON – Backcountry Hunters & Anglers commended a vote by House of Representatives members this evening to advance a bill that would address chronic wasting disease. The House passed the bipartisan Chronic Wasting Disease Research and Management Act (H.R. 5608) 393-33 under suspension of the rules, allowing it to expedite consideration of noncontroversial bills. BHA and a broad ...

News for Immediate ReleaseNov. 19, 2021Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org WASHINGTON – Following months of negotiations, the U.S. House of Representatives today voted to pass a massive, $1.7 trillion spending bill using the budget reconciliation process. The Build Back Better Act makes significant investments in public lands and waters, valuable wildlife habitat and key federal management programs that Backcountry Hunters & Anglers have consistently ...

News for Immediate ReleaseNov. 6, 2021Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org WASHINGTON – A massive legislative package focused on improving U.S. infrastructure and addressing a number of conservation priorities was advanced 228-206 by the House of Representatives late Friday night. The $1.2 trillion, bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act was passed by the Senate in August. Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, which has championed key measures in the bill ...

News for Immediate ReleaseOct. 22, 2021Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.orgMISSOULA, Mont. – Following notice from the White House that Martha Williams has been nominated as director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers President and CEO Land Tawney offered this response:“A more knowledgeable, smart and dedicated leader for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service would be hard to find,” said Tawney. “Martha Williams has spent a ...

News for Immediate ReleaseOct. 20, 2021Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org              Lukas Leaf, SFBW, 612-270-6805, lukas@sportsmenbwca.org    WASHINGTON – Sportsmen for the Boundary Waters and Backcountry Hunters & Anglers today commended a decision by the Biden administration to protect the Boundary Waters Wilderness watershed from industrial mining. The action this morning by the Departments of Agriculture and Interior includes an application for a ...

News for Immediate Release Oct. 19, 2021 Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org  MISSOULA, Mont. – A former member and chair of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers’ North American board of directors, Ryan Busse, has written a book about his career in the gun industry. Busse’s book “Gunfight” is unrelated to BHA, and BHA is not connected to it in any way.   In 2014, BHA’s North American board voted unanimously in support of a policy statement declaring BHA’s commitment ...

News for Immediate ReleaseOct. 8, 2021Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org   MISSOULA, Mont. – Backcountry Hunters & Anglers today commended a decision by the Biden administration to reinstate protections to three national monuments whose boundaries were reduced by the previous administration, restoring the integrity of the federal Antiquities Act and heeding the calls of hunters and anglers, conservationists, Tribal Nations and others. BHA, together with a ...