For Immediate Release: July 18, 2025 For Information Contact: Valerie DiMarzio, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, vdimarzio@cbf.org Alena Billingsley, Armed Forces Initiative, afimarketing@backcountryhunters.org ANNAPOLIS, MD—In a triumph for outdoor stewardship and clean water, roughly a dozen U.S. veterans and servicemembers joined the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) this week to restore oyster habitat in Maryland and Virginia. Both events were part of a larger Chesapeake Bay fishing ...

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14

Jul

2025

Big Gumbo Fence Removal - Part 2

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June 21st, 2025 - Volunteers from the Montana and North Dakota chapters gathered in the "Big Gumbo" area just south of Marmarth, ND for part 2 of an ongoing stewardship effort in North Dakota's largest continuous swath of BLM land. In 2024 volunteers "inventoried" fence - mapping unknown fence lines on the map, meanwhile noting the composition and condition of the fence. This data was handed off to the local BLM field office, who then determined which fences posed a barrier to wildlife, ...

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9

Jul

2025

BHA Habitat Stewards Rendezvous in Missoula for Fencing Project and Seminar

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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 ...

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8

Jul

2025

EVENT RECAP: USFS And BHA Volunteers Brush Trail in Montana's Flathead Valley

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June 28, 2025 - 8 BHA members based out of the Whitefish/Kalispell area of the Flathead Valley, MT, volunteered their Saturday to hike, sweat and build up "conservation Karma" for the coming hunting season. Volunteers collaborated with USFS in clearing trail 171 - Ingalls to Sylvia Lake, just West of the popular campsites and water access surrounding Tally Lake. Beyond the 4 miles of public land that was improved through these efforts, volunteers enjoyed a day of mountain views and ...

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30

Jun

2025

Jackson Fence Pull Event Recap

Author: Collin Peterson

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 ...

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23

Jun

2025

Utah BHA Volunteers Show Their Grit in Paunsaugunt Fence Pull

Author: Filip Anderson

If you haven’t had the opportunity to drive north to south following the geological shift from the alpine zones of the Panguitch area down along Highway 89 to the red rock desert of Kanab, Utah, you’re missing out. The transition from alpine lakes, ponderosa pines, and lush green meadows, to red sands, big basin sage, and prickly pear cactus is relatively abrupt. One might be tempted into thinking they have traveled onto a completely different continent within the span of 60 miles. This ...

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5

Jun

2025

Alaska BHA Kenai Refuge Canoe Route Clearing Recap

Author: Neal Koeneman

Alaska BHA Kenai Refuge Canoe Route Clearing Recap By Neal Koeneman, Jeff Knisley, & Mary Glaves Clearing the Canoe Portages on the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge with Paddling-ton Bear & the Alaska BHA Crew Twenty dusty miles north of Sterling is the U.S. Fish and Wildlife (USFWS) Education Center, the Den. Geographically, It’s in the heart of a mesh of lakes, and trails in the wet flat expanse of the northern Kenai Peninsula. The area is a part of the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge ...

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