RI BHA Sponsors 2025 Youth Mentored Turkey Hunt
For the second year in a row BHA’s New England Chapter is sponsoring the RI Youth Mentored Wild Turkey Hunt coordinated by The Light Foundation and the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management’s Fish & Wildlife Division. This joint initiative takes place during Rhode Island’s youth turkey weekend in late April, and brings families, landowners, and mentors together to support the youth who participate in the hunt.
“BHA’s New England Chapter is excited to support the youth mentored wild turkey hunt for another season,” said New England Chapter Chair Michael Woods of Saunderstown, RI. “I’ve had the opportunity to mentor youth hunters for the last several hunting seasons, and through these experiences I have seen the positive impact that RI’s youth mentored wild turkey hunt has on the participants and their families. Supporting programs like this one fits squarely within BHA’s mission of ensuring North America’s outdoor heritage of hunting and fishing.”
New England BHA has been a constant supporter of youth mentored hunting programs in Rhode Island, including a youth mentored wild turkey hunt each spring and a youth mentored waterfowl hunt each fall.
New England BHA thanks BHA Corporate Partner Columbia River Knife & Tool (CRKT) for their generous donation to Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, which made our support for the 2025 RI DEM F&W/Light Foundation youth turkey hunt possible.
About New England BHA Chapter
New England BHA is a voice for the sporting community in New England that values solitude, silence, clean and free flowing rivers, and habitat for large, wide-ranging wildlife.