Stewardship in Action: Fence Removal, Field Education, and Sweat Equity. On the Thursday leading into Rende 2025, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers and the Missoula BLM field office kicked off the weekend with a boots on the ground stewardship project. Twenty-five volunteers and four BLM staff headed up the Blackfoot River, just east of Missoula, to remove half a mile of old fencing along Belmont Creek. Over coffee and a light breakfast, the BLM's Assistant Field Manager gave a ...

On a ridgeline at 8,000 feet in the west Pioneer mountains outside of Jackson, Montana, 13 volunteers from Montana BHA spent their summer solstice rolling up barbed wire and hauling it out of the forest, camping out on a mountaintop, and repeating the process over the next day. Oh yeah, and all of this was done in a straight up blizzard!This shining example of Type II fun was completed as part of a partnership between BHA and the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) in their joint effort to ...