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 Taos plateau is a high elevation basalt filled valley in north New Mexico.  It is bordered by the Tusas mountains to the west and the Sangre de Cristo in the east.  It sits at 7,000'...

  The Bootheel region of New Mexico is normally viewed from inside a car speeding down I-10.  From the interstate it appears desolate and dry.  Large wide expanses of creosote bush and mesquite...

    Here comes Jerry and yes, he has sandwiches. The midday heat does little to dampen the appetite we have worked up after a morning of unburdening the local hillside of outdated fencing. There...

Battle At Bellyache Ridge Fence Removal  By Briant Wiles   It was the end of May 2024, and the BHA stewardship team was riding high after victories at Meeker, Rabbit Mountain, Perins Peak, and...

Nineteen Iowa BHA members, college students, and family members gathered on September 15th, 2024 at Wick's Wildlife Area outside of Story City, IA for a fence removal project. The goal of the...

Public Lands Month is not only a chance for BHA members to celebrate our wild places and be thankful for the opportunities they have given us, but it is also our chance to give back to...

Villa Grove State Trust Lands  Fence Removal By Briant Wiles   Looking up from the fence our eyes are drawn to a solid wall of mountains that sweep south lining the bathtub of sediment that is...

  San Isabel National Forest Fence Removal By Briant Wiles   “The fence just disappeared” was the overheard remark of one of the participants at the recent Salida fence pull event. 16 motivated...

Howe Ranch Fence Removal By Briant Wiles   With the elk bugling and the temps starting to come down in the mountains of central Colorado my mind drifts back to the heat of the summer and one of...

                                               Domesticated sheep arrived with the early Spanish conquistadors and explorers in the 1500's.  Sheep herding was a lucrative venture for many people...

Snowmass Falls Ranch  A New Beginning By Briant Wiles   When it comes to opportunities to help improve habitat on a newly acquired piece of public ground in the mountains of Colorado, it...

Miramonte Fence Pull  Dan Noble State Wildlife Area  By Craig Grother   During the weekend of August 9 through 11, West Slope BHA members teamed up with Colorado Parks and Wildlife staff to...

     After two years of project planning by BHA Board Member and BLM Wildlife Biologist, Jason Kaitchuck, a group of 21 volunteers gathered sharing donuts and coffee on the side of the road while...

Minnesota BHA volunteers gathered  on June 29th in the Superior National Forest in Northeast Minnesota to improve access of hunter walking trails that had become nearly inaccessible for...

Over the weekend of June 24th, 27 public land enthusiasts from Washington Backcountry Hunters and Anglers and Trash No Land worked with WA DNR to clean a shooting area in Snohomish County,...

Alaska Chapter Backcountry Hunters & Anglers & USFS at the fence site, Sunday June 9th, 2024.    Every year over 150,000 anglers, nearly a quarter of the population of Alaska, fish along the...

Grouse Creek Pack Out Recap Words and Photos by Melissa Hendrickson   How much trash can 12 adults, 3 pre-teens, and 3 toddlers pick up in 3 hours? Apparently the answer is 2 overfull dump...

As Backcountry Hunters and Anglers members and Forest Service personnel gathered on Friday evening, newcomers were treated to the wide open vistas of the high plains, vast unbroken skylines and...

On March 8, 2024, Mark Mattaini (Paguate, NM), a member of the NM BHA board, was appointed by the New Mexico Game Commission to a five-year term on the Citizens’ Advisory Committee (CAC), which...

Last month The Arizona Chapter gathered volunteers for a clean up on the Perrin Ranch in Northern Arizona. The 2 day project had volunteers spread out across the ranch to clean up campgrounds,...

2nd Annual Rita Blanca Fence Project and Chapter Campout Dallam County, Texas – The Texas Chapter of BHA held the 2nd Annual Rita Blanca Fence Project and Chapter Campout June 2-4. Initially...

Of the many things that I remember wanting as a young kid, but not among the few that I never obtained, living in Alaska was in the top two. Early in my military career and after garnering...

On Saturday June 3rd, a group of Washington Backcountry Hunters and Anglers and Wenatchee Sportsman Association members did a road and shooting area clean up in Derby Canyon in Central Washington...

Photographer: Travis Bradford  When it comes to preserving our natural environment and ensuring the longevity of wildlife habitats, few efforts are as impactful as volunteering for conservation...

BHA and partner organizations recognize U.S. Marine Corps Squadron HMLAT 303 and Major Johnny "CONGO" Zimmer for their critical role in support of desert bighorn sheep during the extreme drought...

Drink. Eat. Keep watch. You’d be forgiven for boiling down pronghorn behavior as such. If you observe their daily samba across the New Mexico plains they always seem to be partaking in one of...

Our first project partnering with the USFS in the Lincoln National Forest was a success in many ways. After kicking off the weekend with a Pint Night at the Downshift Brewery's Hidden Taproom in...

Project Description Over the weekend of April 22 & 23, Colorado's Habitat Stewardship Coordinator, CPW Biologist Brian Holmes, and BHA volunteers ripped out one mile of fence that was impacting...

Grapevine, Texas - The Texas Backcountry Hunters & Anglers chapter held a public land clean-up day on March 11th at Lake Grapevine Wildlife Management Unit (WMA) with nineteen volunteers. Austin...

I originally joined BHA, because I wanted to be outside, doing cool things with like-minded folk. I quickly found BHA was the perfect Reese’s peanut butter cup of getting guidance to advance my...

The Brightline West high speed rail project plans to connect Los Angeles to Las Vegas along Interstate 15 and would have created a massive barrier to movement for desert bighorn sheep, mule...

Winding double yellow lines twist and turn through a boulder strewn canyon of Interstate 8 close to the border with Mexico. A federally endangered Peninsular bighorn ram lays motionless on the...

"We've seen elk calves tangled up in this fencing multiple times." - local hunters In partnership with Colorado Parks & Wildlife, BHA and volunteers removed 1.75 miles of fencing in the rugged...

The golden state was buzzing with activity this Public Lands Month, and it wasn't just the dove and deer season openers getting folks out in the field. California BHA hosted several public land...

For the third year in a row, Capital Region BHA held a Public Land Pack Out at C.F. Phelps Wildlife Management Area in Hartwood, Virginia as part of its Public Lands Month celebrations. After...

Alaska BHA and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) staff joined forces on National Trails Day to clear downed trees, brush, and encroaching vegetation from the Fuller Lakes trail in the Kenai...

Volunteers from all over California convened last weekend to work on wildlife-friendly fencing along the South Fork of the Kern River in order to improve riverine habitat for deer, turkey and...

  The California Chapter of BHA is thrilled to receive over $165,000 in funding from the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation for our Hallelujah Junction Wildlife Area Post-Fire Rehabilitation and...

This spring, Wyoming BHA Chapter volunteers initiated a long-term effort to help clean up garbage and abandoned property from recreational shooting on public lands in the Jackson Hole area. The...