News for Immediate Release Aug. 23, 2018 Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262,mckalip@backcountryhunters.org     As clock ticks down to LWCF expiration, sportsmenand women urge Congress to take action   MISSOULA, Mont. – A new, interactive online report by Backcountry Hunters & Anglers focuses on the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund, featuring background and compelling stats, spotlighting projects across the U.S. that testify to the program’s efficacy, and driving visitors to an ...

News for Immediate ReleaseAug. 7, 2018Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org   Two-thirds of members are 45 or younger, identify as Republican or Independent   MISSOULA, Mont. – Results of a new, comprehensive demographic survey of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers members shows that the membership of North America’s fastest growing group of public lands sportsmen and women skews young and is politically diverse. Nearly 70 percent of BHA members are age 45 or ...

News for Immediate ReleaseJuly 31, 2018Contact: Katie McKalip, BHA, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org                Matt Smythe, AFFTA, 585-406-5525, matt.smythe@affta.org   BHA CEO Receives Fly Fishing Industry Leadership Award American Fly Fishing Trade Association presents first-ever Jim Range Conservation Leadership Award to Land Tawney at annual tradeshow ORLANDO, Fl. – The American Fly Fishing Trade Association presented Backcountry Hunters & Anglers President and CEO ...

News for Immediate ReleaseAug. 1, 2018Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org   BHA Joins Wild Harvest Initiative Initiative is the first program to evaluate wildlife harvests for food security, human health, environment, economy JOHN’S, Newfoundland – Backcountry Hunters & Anglers has launched a new partnership with Conservation Visions in support of the Wild Harvest Initiative®, a research-based program designed to assess and communicate the combined ...

News for Immediate ReleaseJuly 17, 2018Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org   Billion-dollar Conservation Plan Introduced in Senate Recovering America’s Wildlife Act would target at-risk species, state-level habitat work, outdoors economy WASHINGTON – A new bipartisan Senate bill that would authorize more than $1 billion every year to critical state-level fish and wildlife conservation work is drawing the enthusiastic support of public lands sportsmen and ...

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 ReleaseMay 22, 2018Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org   Interior Department proposal could open close to quarter-million acres to new or expanded hunting and fishing at 30 refuges MISSOULA, Mont. – Backcountry Hunters & Anglers is commending a proposal by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to expand hunting and fishing at national wildlife refuges across the United States. Under the proposal introduced yesterday, more than 248,000 acres would ...

News for Immediate ReleaseMay 9, 2018Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org   New Mexico BHA chapter questions candidates for federal and state office on a range of topics important to hunters, anglers, other public lands owners   SANTA FE, N.M. – Voters in New Mexico can familiarize themselves with the positions of candidates seeking federal or state office on a range of public lands-related issues through an online forum developed by the New Mexico chapter ...

  News for Immediate ReleaseMay 9, 2018Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org   Public lands sportsmen and women in Missouri, North Carolina, North Dakota and Ohio launch chapters as young group continues unprecedented growth   MISSOULA, Mont. –Backcountry Hunters & Anglers members demonstrated again their passion and commitment to public lands and waters and to North America’s fastest-growing sportsmen’s group, forming four new BHA chapters and further ...

    News for Immediate ReleaseMay 1, 2018Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org   Outstanding sportsmen and women recognized for conservation leadership at BHA North American Rendezvous   MISSOULA, Mont. – At Backcountry Hunters & Anglers’ 7th annual North American Rendezvous, public lands sportsmen and women were awarded BHA’s greatest honors, recognizing above-and-beyond efforts to conserve important fish and wildlife habitat, support public access ...