As 2024 came to a close, Colorado Backcountry Hunters & Anglers looked back on a year of many successes. We had one of our most active and impactful stewardship seasons ever, removing miles of obsolete fencing and improving habitat throughout the state. We mobilized supporters and allies to defeat the Prop 127 ballot initiative, which would have banned mountain lion hunting and–as importantly–challenged time-tested principles of science-based wildlife management (more on that win below). ...

“One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the spring.”  -Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac   There’s no other organization like Backcountry Hunters & Anglers. Need proof? Take a look at the highlights from the 2023 member survey. What other group boasts a membership that relies on public land 90% of their time afield; eats wild game weekly (50%); is mostly younger (76% under age 54); and–perhaps most amazing in this polarized age–is ...

“A world in which a sacramental portion of food can be taken in an old way—hunting, fishing, farming and gathering—has as much to do with societal sanity as a day's work for a day's pay.” – Tom McGuane, “The Heart of the Game,” Outside, September 1977 Welcome to autumn! We’re keeping this newsletter short because, well, September. September is also Public Lands Month, with national Public Lands Day just around the corner on September 23. There are still some great opportunities to give back ...

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Colorado Chapter Newsletter Winter 2022 “Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.” – Gary Snyder[1] Recently, I found myself in a vegetarian restaurant in New York City, having dinner with a group of co-workers. A number of them are vegetarian or vegan. None of them had ever been hunting. Talk turned to my own recent hunts, and from there to the importance of knowing where one’s food comes from and even more pedestrian details about processing an animal from ...

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Colorado Chapter Newsletter Summer 2022 “What I stand for is what I stand on.” – Wendell Berry Welcome to the first edition of our Colorado Backcountry Hunters & Anglers quarterly newsletter. In it we’ll share key policy developments from Denver, Washington, and beyond; highlight some of the amazing, boots-on-the-ground conservation work being done across the state by BHA members like you; preview upcoming events you can engage in; and offer trip reports, ...