By BHA Conservation Director, Holly Endersby. Last month I sat in a cheerful downtown office while a friendly insurance agent entered information into a computer. As I sat in her tiny work space, my eyes were drawn to a small glass vase on the desk. Hovering like an aquatic helicopter was a fish whose scales shimmered with iridescent beauty under the artificial light. It shared its home with the roots of a water loving plant whose leaves garnished the top of the vase like parsley on a dinner ...

The following was written by BHA's Conservation Director, Holly Endersby.  Unless you’ve been living under a rock - and hey, that might not be a bad idea for the future - you’ll know large swaths of Western land are burning-and burning hotter than…well, you know. And looking at the projected temperature and moisture trend line for the future things aren’t going to get better. In fact, we can all say a big hello to the new normal: heat and fire. But what does that mean for BHA and hunters and ...

Last Thursday, five intrepid BHA members trekked into the Desolation Wilderness above Lake Tahoe for a wedding. The ceremony was held at 8500 feet, just at snow line, on a beautiful sunny day.  BHA members from Washington, Idaho and Nevada were present to perform and celebrate the nuptials. Two bottles of excellent champagne were opened to toast the marriage after the couple were pronounced husband and wife by the minister who proudly wore her BHA ball cap.  Two BHA dogs were part of the ...

By BHA Conservation Director, Holly Endersby.   Scientists recently gave the nod to sea otters as unlikely protectors of estuary health. It seems the otters eat crabs which feed on small invertebrates that slurp up algae which bloom when water has increased nutrients in it. The algae grow on the leaves of sea grass-the canary in the coal mine of estuary health-causing less sunlight to reach the sea grass resulting in a die back of the plant. Nutrients increase in estuaries most commonly from ...

The following post was written by BHA's Conservation Director, Holly Endersby, following an interesting hunt in the Idaho backcountry.   Clawing my way awake after a death-like sleep in hunting camp last week, the rain sounded really strange. Kinda a pitter, patter, stop. Pitter, patter, stop. Laying there listening to the sound, I figured it was because the rain was being dispersed by the fir tree looming over the tent. My eye lids begin to sag downwards again as my mind convinced me ...