Media Chapter News Press Releases State Issues BHA Condemns Senate Proposal to Sell Off Up to 3 Million Acres of Public Lands 6/11/2025 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 11, 2025 Contact: media@backcountryhunters.org MISSOULA, Mont. — Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA) is rebuking a sweeping new proposal released by the Senate... Tags: Policy, media, Press Releases, Nevada Chapter, California Chapter, Washington Chapter, Colorado Chapter, Wyoming Chapter, Utah Chapter, New Mexico Chapter, Oregon Chapter, Idaho Chapter, Arizona Chapter, Alaska Chapter
Media Press Releases New Legislation Would Safeguard 58,000 Acres, 74 Miles of Public Lands and Waters in Oregon 3/12/2025 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 12, 2025 Contact: Kaden McArthur, Director of Policy & Government Relations, mcarthur@backcountryhunters.org New Legislation Would Safeguard 58,000 Acres, 74... Tags: Policy, media, Press Releases, California Chapter, Oregon Chapter
Media Press Releases It’s Official: Oregon’s Elliott State Forest to Remain Publicly Accessible 8/18/2017 News for Immediate ReleaseAug. 18, 2017Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org It’s Official: Oregon’s Elliott State Forest to Remain Publicly Accessible Gov. Kate... Tags: Press Releases, Access & Opportunity, Oregon Chapter
Media Press Releases State Issues Oregonians Applaud as Frank and Jeanne Moore Wild Steelhead Bill Advances in U.S. Senate 3/30/2017 PORTLAND, Ore. – A bill that would conserve more than 100,000 acres in Douglas County, Oregon, took another step forward today as it passed out of the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural... Tags: Press Releases, Oregon Chapter
Media Press Releases State Issues BHA Commends Effort to Keep Elliott State Forest Publicly Accessible 3/20/2017 SALEM, Ore. – The Oregon chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers is commending a decision by the Oregon state legislature to consider a bill that could keep the Elliott State Forest under state... Tags: Press Releases, Access & Opportunity, Oregon Chapter
Media Press Releases State Issues Iconic Oregon Public Lands Would be Conserved in New Legislation 3/1/2017 WASHINGTON – Approximately 100,000 acres of Oregon public lands backcountry – including riparian wildlife habitat and a unique steelhead fishery – will be permanently conserved if legislation... Tags: Press Releases, Oregon Chapter
Media Press Releases State Issues Oregon State Land Board Votes to Sell Elliott State Forest 2/15/2017 82,000-plus acres of prized fish and wildlife habitat to be privatized; public access a question mark under future ownership SALEM, Ore. – Despite widespread support from sportsmen,... Tags: Press Releases, Access & Opportunity, Oregon Chapter
Media Press Releases State Issues BHA Urges Innovation to Keep Elliott State Forest Publicly Accessible 12/20/2016 Following state land board decision to postpone the Elliott’s sale, sportsmen speak up on behalf of Oregon’s oldest state forest KEIZER, Ore. – Oregon hunters and anglers are commending a decision... Tags: Press Releases, Access & Opportunity, Oregon Chapter
Media Press Releases State Issues BHA Statement on Arrest of Cliven Bundy 2/11/2016 MISSOULA, Mont. - In the wake of the arrest in Oregon of Cliven Bundy, a Nevada scofflaw and leader of a movement to seize public lands from the American people, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers... Tags: media, Press Releases, Access & Opportunity, Public Lands & Waters, Oregon Chapter
Media Press Releases Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Statement Regarding Arrests in Oregon 2/8/2016 Following the arrests of armed militants who had been occupying Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers President and CEO Land Tawney issued the following... Tags: Press Releases, Oregon Chapter
Media Press Releases Sportsmen Call for Patience, Law and Order on Pubic Lands in Oregon 1/4/2016 MISSOULA, Mont. - The sportsmen's group Backcountry Hunters & Anglers urged cool, patient heads to prevail in the extremists' occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, valuable public... Tags: media, Press Releases, Access & Opportunity, Public Lands & Waters, Oregon Chapter
Media Press Releases State Issues Oregon BHA Spearheads Efforts to Ban Drones for Hunting 5/1/2015 SALEM, Ore. – Proponents of fair chase hunting are celebrating a success in the Beaver State as the Oregon Senate advances legislation that would ban the use of drones for hunting and... Tags: media, Press Releases, Fair Chase, Oregon Chapter