Media Chapter News RECAP: Southeast Chapter Small Game Hunt 3/4/2025 On February 22, 2025, the Southeast Chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers organized a small game hunt at Sherburne Wildlife Management Area (WMA) in Lottie, Louisiana. This event combined... Tags: Southeast Chapter
Media Chapter News State Issues CONSERVATION GROUPS CALL TO SAVE PINE LOG WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA 1/31/2023 The Georgia Board of BHA would like to keep you updated on the efforts to save Pine Log WMA. If you are able to attend the Bartow County zoning meetings on Feb. 7th or Feb. 9th please do in order... Tags: the campfire, Southeast Chapter
Media Chapter News Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 139: Kyle Lybarger, Native Habitat Project 8/30/2022 Kyle Lybarger, a 29-year-old consulting forester, father, deer-hunter, small creek addict and self-proclaimed “native plant nerd” of Hartselle, Alabama, is a major part of a new and wonderful... Tags: the campfire, Podcast, Southeast Chapter
Media Chapter News Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 138: Mississippi Forester Alex Harvey 8/16/2022 Come with Hal to southern Mississippi to talk with Alex Harvey, a registered professional forester in Mississippi and Alabama and a land management consultant, wildlife biologist and... Tags: the campfire, Podcast, Southeast Chapter
Media Chapter News Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 129: Joseph Jenkins, biologist, herpetologist, Alabama wanderer 4/12/2022 The Bankhead National Forest in Alabama is a place of shadowed canyons and rushing coldwater creeks, crystalline waterfalls and bluff shelters blackened by the smoke from campfires over thousands... Tags: the campfire, Podcast, public lands, Southeast Chapter
Media Chapter News State Issues Help Legalize Sunday Hunting on Public Lands in South Carolina 4/5/2022 Ask your South Carolina State Legislators to support HB 4614; Sunday Hunting on Wildlife Management Areas. While Sunday hunting is legal on private land, hunters are still prohibited from hunting... Tags: public lands, South Carolina Chapter, Southeast Chapter
Media Chapter News State Issues 'No Net Loss' Bill Passes in Georgia: Keeps Public Lands Open for Hunting 4/4/2022 ATLANTA — On April 4, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed the No Net Loss bill, which amended Georgia law in order to prevent any net loss of acreage available for hunting on state-owned land... Tags: public lands, Southeast Chapter, Georgia Chapter
Media Chapter News Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 128: Alabama Herpetologist Jimmy Stiles 3/29/2022 The Conecuh National Forest in south Alabama is known as the Heart of the Longleaf, a landscape of tall pine and wiregrass, restoration and recovery, humming with life and comprising a wild... Tags: Podcast, Southeast Chapter
Media Chapter News Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 127: Florida Gulf Coast Writer, Naturalist and Advocate Jack Rudloe 3/15/2022 Jack Rudloe is one of the orneriest watermen on the Florida Gulf Coast, a time- and sun-honed fighter for clean water, intact forests and wetlands, and the myriad salt and freshwater life that... Tags: Fair Chase, the campfire, Podcast, Public Waters Access, Southeast Chapter
Media Chapter News State Issues Support 'No Net Loss' in Georgia 3/11/2022 The Georgia Chapter supports the No Net Loss Bill currently working its way through the Georgia legislature. House Bill 1349 would amend the Official Code of Georgia Annotated to prevent any net... Tags: Southeast Chapter
Media Chapter News State Issues Support HB 1147 and Year-round Hunting and Trapping of Raccoons and Possums 2/17/2022 The Georgia Chapter board supports Georgia House Bill 1147. This bill will allow for year-round hunting and trapping of raccoons and possums. These animals are notorious nest predators and... Tags: Southeast Chapter
Media Chapter News State Issues Southeast Wins on Hunting Buffer 1/18/2022 In November of 2021 the Southeast Chapter was made aware of a proposed hunting buffer zone in Mississippi’s Malmaison WMA. This proposed rule was intended to limit access to the public hunting... Tags: Southeast Chapter