Fish & Game Commission voted unanimously to reject a petition that would have closed over 250 miles of nearshore fishing access in California's Central Coast. A petition before the Fish & Game Commission of California proposed to "prohibit take of groundfish shoreward of 100 feet in the West Coast Central Groundfish Management Area year-round." The petitioner cited struggling kelp forests as rationale for the broad fishing closure of nearly 250 miles of California's central coast for iconic ...

Yesterday, Senator's Feinstein (D-CA) and Padilla (D-CA) introduced the Western Riverside National Wildlife Refuge Act, companion legislation to Rep. Calvert (R-CA) & Takano's (D-CA) H.R. 972 The Wildlife Refuge Conservation & Recreation for the Community Act, a bipartisan bill which passed the house last year. As a stakeholder group, BHA has voiced support for H.R. 972 citing the benefits to wildlife and habitat connectivity as well as the potential to access approximately 150,000 acres of ...

Sierra Pacific Industries (SPI) is a forest products company that owns 2.3 million acres of land across California, Oregon and Washington. They are the largest private land owner in California and after a recent acquisition of 175,000 acres of land in Oregon owned by the Seneca Jones Timber Company, they are now the largest private landowner in the nation. Until 2019, SPI had allowed for public access to their lands for hunting, hiking, fishing and cross-country skiing. However, citing ...

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 upland game. After a hard day's work, volunteers hit the river and found shady pools and hungry fish in an effort to provide valuable fisheries data to the Bureau of Land Management. To wash it all down, they had a keg of Outstanding IPA donated by Kern River Brewing and smoked venison spaghetti ...