News for Immediate ReleaseSept. 20, 2023Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org  USFWS will invest in restoration and fence removal, inventory and modification work in greater sage grouse habitat in northwest Colorado  WASHINGTON – In a new partnership between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, Sage Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (Sage BIL) funds will be invested in greater sage grouse habitat restoration work in northwestern ...

News for Immediate ReleaseSept. 6, 2023Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org Partnership invests Inflation Reduction Act dollars in projects across Western states over five years, benefiting big-game migration corridors and priority habitat for other species, including sage grouse WASHINGTON – Critical wildlife habitat, including big-game migration corridors and sage grouse habitat, will benefit from a new partnership between the Bureau of Land Management and ...

News for Immediate ReleaseAug. 24, 2023Contact: Devin O'Dea, 415-246-5329, odea@backcountryhunters.org Wildlife Conservation Board Awards Multi-Million Dollar Grant to U.C. Davis for the Interstate 8 Peninsular Bighorn Sheep Crossing Project Sacramento, California – The Wildlife Conservation Board has voted to approve a $5.8 million dollar grant to the University of California, Davis (U.C. Davis). The grant will fund the planning and design of a wildlife crossing aiming to provide safe ...

News for Immediate ReleaseJuly 19, 2023Contact: Katie DeLorenzo, 505-410-6284, delorenzo@backcountryhunters.org SALT LAKE CITY, UT. — In a multi-agency and organization collaboration, Utah Backcountry Hunters & Anglers helped complete a trailhead expansion, clean-up, and infrastructure installation project at a popular access site in the Book Cliffs area of the state. The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation, Sportsmen for Fish and ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 2/9/2023 Contact: Jim Klug, Business for Montana Outdoors: 406-581-6434 Frank Szollosi, Montana Wildlife Federation: 406-417-9909 Whitney Tawney, Montana Conservation Voters Ed Fund: 202-412-4793 Noah Marion, Wild Montana: 406-624-9622 Kevin Farron, Backcountry Hunters and Anglers: 406-540-3956   Montanans Rebuke Legislation to Limit Access and Habitat Funding Bill excludes voter-approved Habitat Montana funding authorized by previous Legislature     A new bill being ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON – Acknowledging years of collaborative, community-driven efforts to permanently conserve valuable backcountry habitat in Colorado’s Thompson Divide, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers welcomed the introduction of legislation in the U.S. Senate that would withdraw the area from future mineral development. Introduced by Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado, the bill would limit future industrial development on approximately 172,000 acres of public lands and waters located just west of ...

The Trump Administration is undermining the Clean Water Act. American sportsmen and women call on the Administration to protect headwater streams and valuable wetlands, keystones of America’s clean water and hunting and fishing heritage. Does America need cleaner waterways? Or do we want to forsake decades of progress and allow degradation of our streams, rivers and wetlands? Those are the vital questions for the new Trump Administration and the 115th Congress. American sportsmen and women ...

Final lease retirements safeguard critical fish and wildlife habitat,  culminate decades-long effort by hunters, anglers, others   HELENA, Mont. – Montana hunters and anglers are celebrating following the secretary of Interior’s cancellation of the last remaining oil and gas leases in some of the finest big game habitat and native fisheries in North America: the Badger-Two Medicine area of the Lewis and Clark National Forest.  Following 35 years of legal and political battles over leases ...