News for Immediate ReleaseJuly 20, 2017Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org Sizable majorities in two key states – Arizona and Colorado – oppose drilling in fish and wildlife-rich refuge MISSOULA, Mont. – Polls commissioned in Arizona and Colorado by Backcountry Hunters & Anglers show strong public opposition to energy development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. In Arizona, 61 percent of voters opposed the proposal, along with 58 percent of ...

Oregon’s 82,500-acre Elliott State Forest is well known by sportsmen and women for the coveted public access it provides to high quality hunting and fishing. Roosevelt elk, blacktail deer and wild populations of salmon, steelhead and coastal cutthroat trout call the old growth timber and cold, clean waters home. Established in 1930 as Oregon’s first state forest, the Elliott was dedicated to provide a sustainable source of timber revenue to Oregon schools. Unfortunately, the Elliott stands ...

   

The following BHA white paper provides a synthesis of research on the impacts that motorized use has on the landscape and wildlife.  The white paper is broken up into three sections: 1) soils, water quality and vegetation 2) wildlife 3) the habitat and environment upon which wildlife depend upon.

In conjunction with Trout Unlimited, Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership and dozens of other conservation groups and outdoors businesses, BHA produced a report on our nation's national monuments to highlight the incredible hunting and fishing values these protected areas have to offer. Written by Field & Stream's contributing editor Hal Herring, the report highlights five national monuments and the sportsmen who hunt and fish in them. Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks, NM; Berryessa Snow ...

This report details how the proposed transfer, or sale, of America’s federal public lands would negatively affect sportsmen and women in the United States. A growing number of western state legislators and federal elected officials are advocating for the transfer or all out sale of federal public lands.  This report highlights how these ideas are nothing new and if they come to pass, how detrimental they would be to America’s sportsmen and women, ultimately resulting in loss of access to ...

To view the full report, click here. Nearly 50 years ago a far-sighted, bipartisan group in Congress established the Land and Water Conservation Fund, tapping a fraction of the royalties from offshore oil and gas production to give all Americans a lifetime of outdoor recreational opportunity. Congress intended the Fund to be used for “preserving, developing, and assuring accessibility to … outdoor recreation resources … and to strengthen the health and vitality of the citizens of the United ...