News for Immediate ReleaseJune 4, 2020Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org Public lands package introduced this morning in House, Senate expected to consider its version of the bill soon WASHINGTON – Backcountry Hunters & Anglers commended bipartisan legislation introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives this morning that would ensure full, dedicated funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund at $900 million annually and fund maintenance backlogs on ...

News for Immediate ReleaseMay 21, 2020Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org Bipartisan legislation would provide full, dedicated funding to the Land and Water Conservation Fund and address public lands maintenance backlogs WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate is moving forward to vote on the Great American Outdoors Act, bipartisan legislation that would ensure full, dedicated funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund and address maintenance backlogs on public ...

News for Immediate ReleaseMay 18, 2020Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org North America’s biggest gathering of public lands hunters and anglers shifts to online format, June 1-6 MISSOULA, Mont. – Backcountry Hunters & Anglers is moving the BHA North American Rendezvous online in 2020, responding to circumstances arising from the coronavirus and at the same time opening up access to the continent’s biggest gathering of public lands sportsmen and women June ...

News for Immediate ReleaseApril 22, 2020Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org Sportsmen and women remain committed to ensuring the responsible management of vital habitat and drinking water relied on by 117 million Americans MISSOULA, Mont. – Backcountry Hunters & Anglers today reacted with disappointment to a Trump administration rule that unravels fish and wildlife protections restored in 2015 under the Clean Water Act. The administration decision follows a ...

News for Immediate ReleaseMarch 23, 2020Contact: 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, is reaching the homes of BHA members across North America this week. From conservation success stories to backcountry experiences and wild game recipes, this issue is not to be missed. Here’s a ...

News for Immediate ReleaseMarch 9, 2020Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org Bipartisan legislation represents consensus priorities of American citizens, addresses places critical to fish and wildlife and prized by hunters and anglers WASHINGTON – Bipartisan legislation introduced in the U.S. Senate today, the Great American Outdoors Act, would ensure full, dedicated funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund and address maintenance backlogs on public ...

News for Immediate ReleaseMarch 5, 2020Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org Legislation responds to requests by sportsmen and women, follows president’s statement expressing support WASHINGTON – Bipartisan legislation to be introduced in the U.S. Senate will address maintenance backlogs on public lands managed by the National Park Service and ensure full, dedicated funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund, advancing objectives long championed by ...

News for Immediate ReleaseFeb. 11, 2020Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org Days after launching effort to identify inaccessible public lands, Interior proposes reducing LWCF funding by 97 percent WASHINGTON – Backcountry Hunters & Anglers today pointedly criticized an Interior Department budget proposal for fiscal year 2021 that reduces funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund by 97 percent, a move that comes only days after the department issued a ...

News for Immediate ReleaseFeb. 5, 2020Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org BHA president/CEO urges House subcommittee to advance a bill that would prevent mining within wilderness watershed WASHINGTON – Backcountry Hunters & Anglers President and CEO Land Tawney testified at a House of Representatives hearing today regarding the need to protect the watershed of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness from copper-nickel mining. The House Natural ...

News for Immediate ReleaseJan. 15, 2020Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org Legislation would protect iconic wilderness area and surrounding watershed WASHINGTON – Public lands sportsmen and women united in commending introduction of bipartisan legislation, the Boundary Waters Wilderness Protection and Pollution Prevention Act, which would ensure the permanent protection of 234,328 acres of public land upstream of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and ...