News for Immediate ReleaseJune 4, 2019Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org Sportsmen and women join the public lands revolution; BHA continues exponential growth across North America MISSOULA, Mont. – Backcountry Hunters & Anglers members continue to step up in support of North America’s public lands and waters, fish and wildlife, and hunting and fishing opportunities, establishing eight new chapters in the United States and Canada. The new chapters – Indiana, ...

News for Immediate ReleaseMarch 12, 2019Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org   President signs S. 47, most significant conservation legislation in a decade, following strong support by Congress and advocacy by sportsmen and women   WASHINGTON – Public lands sportsmen and women are celebrating a significant victory following the president’s signing a massive package of conservation and access bills into the law of the land. Permanent reauthorization of the Land ...

News for Immediate ReleaseJuly 10, 2018Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org MISSOULA, Mont. – Backcountry Hunters & Anglers today responded to President Trump’s pardon of Dwight Hammond and Steven Hammond, whose arson convictions sparked the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupation in 2016 and helped advance current and ongoing fights over the future of American public lands and waters. BHA President and CEO Land Tawney issued the following ...

News for Immediate ReleaseFeb. 9, 2018Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org Western big-game species stand to gain under conservation measures announced by Interior secretary, who pledges to base management decisions on ‘best available science’ SALT LAKE CITY – Following a pledge by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to improve the quality of big-game habitat, including winter range and migration corridors, over a cross-section of Western states, Backcountry Hunters ...

News for Immediate ReleaseJan. 9, 2018Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org BHA and partner Boone and Crockett Club give students knowledge and skills to start hunting; successful program to expand in 2018 MISSOULA, Mont. – Hunting for Sustainability, launched in 2016 by Backcountry Hunters & Anglers as a way to spur new, conservation-minded hunters and anglers while also engaging with college students who already hunt and fish, is expanding to a state near ...

News for Immediate ReleaseJan. 8, 2018Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org MISSOULA, Mont. – Backcountry Hunters & Anglers strongly criticized the dismissal of charges against scofflaw rancher Cliven Bundy, his sons and a supporter earlier today. BHA President and CEO Land Tawney issued the following statement: “Cliven Bundy and his followers are lawbreakers who continue to disrespect our government, our public lands and waters, and the citizens who own them. ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

  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 ...