The State Game Commission met Thursday, but it was mainly an opportunity to discuss issues coming up in the future. Meeting online, commissioners heard a variety of reports and proposals, including one that would expand the Mentored-Youth Hunter Program, but took no action. Information and Education Chief Lance Cherry unveiled a proposal to allow children as young as 8 to hunt deer, turkey, javelina and small game if accompanied by a mentoring adult. The current minimum age is 10. The ...

Public lands sportsman submitted evidence of illegal access that resulted in the pilot’s conviction Backcountry Hunters & Anglers has issued a reward to John Morris, the Montana hunter who recently captured images of a pilot using a private helicopter to access a fishing hole in the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex. The efforts of Morris and his hunting partner, Randy Brockman, resulted in the pilot’s conviction, qualifying Mr. Morris for a monetary award via BHA’s Reward Fund. The ...

News for Immediate ReleaseJune 25, 2020Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org Public lands sportsman submitted evidence of illegal access that resulted in the pilot’s conviction MISSOULA, Mont. – Backcountry Hunters & Anglers has issued a reward to John Morris, the Montana hunter who recently captured images of a pilot using a private helicopter to access a fishing hole in the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex. The efforts of Morris and his hunting partner, Randy ...

Having spent some time in quarantine, at this point, our kids are clawing at the walls. To stave off a complete takeover of our home, I’m feeding them well. Recently, I figured I would create a delicious fish recipe that is kid friendly, healthy and easy to make. These homemade wild fish fingers are just the ticket. You can even batter the fish in advance and freeze until a time when you’re ready to bake, making it a clutch mid-week dinner. This recipe is intended to take the place of the ...

This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists   I’ve read both of Greenberg’s popular books: American Catch and Four Fish. What I like best about American Catch is that it deals not only with the problem of conservation but also the issue of what we eat. The book discusses everything from New York oysters and the destruction of their habitat to the topic of salmon in Alaska and the Pebble Mine and Bristol Bay debacle. American Catch is an ...

On Tuesday, June 23rd, Leaders from the Montana Chapter of BHA hosted an outdoor BHA member meeting and state lands cleanup at a site targeted as a potential public shooting range. At this time, the specific DNRC parcel is open to recreational shooting, but rogue shooters and users who don't clean up after themselves are putting the future public use of this property at risk. In an attempt of goodwill and to send a message to those shortsighted target shooters, BHA members once again elected ...

This week on Friday Night Ties we’re joined by guide and BHA North American Board Member, Hilary Hutcheson, who shows us how to tie her version of the “Turk’s Tarantula” that she calls the “White Water Skrull”. For those of you not up to speed on your Marvel Comics characters, Skrulls are extraterrestrial shapeshifters. They take on characteristics best suited to whatever environment they happen to be in. Hilary’s name for the pattern is fitting. This particular fly can be drifted like a ...

This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists   Reiger’s American Sportsmen is an expanded look into the entwined history of sportsmen, ethics and policy that shaped what we now know as conservation and sustainable management.  Many sportsmen and women, and even historians, are quick to stop at George Bird Grinnell and Theodore Roosevelt – obvious pillars in the Progressive era of the late 1800s and early 1900s – when mapping the lineage of ...

By Laura Lundquist - June 17, 2020 - Originally posted in the Missoula Current   With U.S. Senate passage of a significant public lands bill, it’s likely that the Land and Water Conservation Fund will finally receive full funding while other money will help reduce the maintenance backlog on federal lands. On Wednesday, Montanans celebrated a second conservation victory in as many days when the U.S. Senate passed the Great American Outdoors Act on a bipartisan vote of 73-25. The Act appeared ...