Roadless Rule Rollback On June 24 Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA) posted a statement (“USDA Rescinds Near Quarter Century Old Protections for 58.5 Million Acres of National Forest Lands”) strongly opposing the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s recent decision to roll back the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule—removing long-standing protections for 58.5 million acres of national forest lands across 39 states.[1] “For 24 years, the Roadless Rule has provided bedrock safeguards some of ...

Colorado BHA Chapter Rallies Conservationists From Across the State (& Nation) for Flood the Lines Day “This is why BHA was built. For this opportunity. For this fight!”[1] Months before the June 2025 culmination and defeat of Utah Sen. Mike Lee’s relentless attempts to sell off millions of acres of our great public lands estate the Colorado chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA) was sounding the alarm and preparing for battle. During the first week of April BHA members from ...

“Public lands are not to be gifted to foreign mining billionaires.” Duluth News Tribune: 6/29/25. On May 29 in Colorado, I met Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) advocate and Ely resident Becky Rom, the national chair of the Campaign to Save the Boundary Waters. She and her team attended the Outside Festival in Denver — for good reason. “Attendance at the four-day event … drew 35,000 people, nearly doubling attendance from the debut event last year,” the Colorado Sun reported. Rom ...

The New Jersey Chapter joined forces as they spread out to clean up 3 Wildlife Management Area across the state. In the North: Honey Run Wildlife Management Area, Centrally: Assunpink Wildlife Management Area, and in the South: Union Lake Wildlife Management Area They collected 5+ pickup loads of garbage making our public lands cleaner and healthier for all.   Great job chapter leaders and volunteers!  And to Afuera Coffee Co. for providing three luck people with packages of coffee and ...