Montana State Legislature 2021 - 2022 Water Policy Interim Committee Members Attn: Jason Mohr, Legislative Staff Researcher   RE: HJ 37: Study of selenium standard for Lake Koocanusa Dear Sen. Jill Cohenour, Rep. Willis Curdy, Rep. Robert Farris-Olsen, Rep. Tom France, Rep. Rhonda Knudsen, Rep. Marty Malone, Sen. Shane Morigeau, Rep. Bob Phalen, Sen. Walt Sales, and Sen. Jeff Welborn:   The Montana Chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers represents roughly 3,000 sportsmen and women who are ...

I read over a dozen recipes for wild turkey before setting out to cook my first one. The sentiments I found in some forums as to the dark meat being “not worth” preparing did not deter me, but instead offered a full-on challenge. Well, challenge accepted! This method of dry brining, smoking and pressure cooking worked well while tenderizing the meat and infusing full flavor. Now that BHA's Midnight Forest Bourbon Whiskey made by Spotted Bear Spirits is a regular staple in my cabinet, it is ...

Water binds us all together, and in the case of northwest Montana, our community is living with the downstream effects of the upriver environment. Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks found selenium levels were increasing in seven species of fish in Lake Koocanusa between 2008 and 2013. For this reason and many others, Montana BHA strongly supports the state of Montana's proposed water quality limits to protect Lake Koocanusa and the Kootenai River from selenium contamination from Canada’s coal ...

This article originally appeared in the fall 2020 issue of Backcountry Journal.   BY RYAN BUSSE   As a young man I once stood on a mountain ridge so beautiful that I now find it impossible to describe. It was summer and a bird dog was at my side when I discovered the place that would change my life and come to be part of my very being. Like a military bootcamp, it broke me and then built me back up – wild, harsh and unspoiled by the hand of man and owned equally by all citizens of this ...

By Molly Elliott - July 20, 2020 - Originally published in the Flathead Beacon The Great American Outdoors Act would make targeted investments on our lands and waters On June 17, the U.S. Senate passed the Great American Outdoors Act with a 73-25 vote. This bipartisan legislation fully funds the Land and Water Conservation Fund, our nation’s most successful conservation program, and provides much needed dollars for repairs and maintenance projects on our public lands. The Great American ...