Contacts:  Sam Davidson, Policy Director, California Public Lands, Trout Unlimitedsam.davidson@tu.org; (831) 235-2542 Redgie Collins, Director of Law and Policy, California...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Dec. 3, 2024 Contacts: Thomas Plank, Communications Manager plank@backcountryhunters.org Nadia Marji, VP of Marketing & Communications nadia@backcountryhunters.org BHA...

For Immediate Release  Nov. 25, 2024   Contact: Thomas Plank, 303-720-0111, plank@backcountryhunters.org   BHA Welcomes Conservation Leader James Brandenburg to North American Board  MISSOULA,...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Nov. 15, 2024 Contact: Thomas Plank, Communications Manager, plank@backcountryhunters.org Nadia Marji, VP of Marketing & Communications, nadia@backcountryhunters.org BHA...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Nov. 1, 2024 Contact: Thomas Plank, 303-720-0111, plank@backcountryhunters.org BLM plan aims to stanch steep decline of iconic bird  (WASHINGTON, D.C.--November 8, 2024) –...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Nov. 1, 2024 Contact: Kaden McArthur, 435-770-3774, mcarthur@backcountryhunters.org Elected Officials in 15 States Oppose Public Lands, Condemned by Grassroots Network of...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Oct. 9, 2024 Contact: Thomas Plank, 303-720-0111, plank@backcountryhunters.org The U.S. House of Representatives Introduces the North American Grasslands Conservation...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sep. 26, 2024 Contact: Thomas Plank, 303-720-0111, plank@backcountryhunters.org New Senate Bill Would Conserve Over 700,000 Acres of Colorado Public Lands WASHINGTON, D.C. –...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  Aug. 30, 2024  Contact: Thomas Plank, plank@backcountryhunters.org New BLM Solar Plans Seek to Balance Conservation and Renewable Energy Goals Hunting, fishing organizations...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  Aug. 30, 2024  Contact: Joel Weltzien, (406) 925-3771, weltzien@backcountryhunters.org Anglers and Hunters Applaud Introduction of Legislation to Create Sáttítla National...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  Aug. 29, 2024  Contact: Mary Glaves, 415-246-5329, glaves@backcountryhunters.org BLM to Maintain Conservation Status for 28 Million Acres in Alaska  Washington, D.C....

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  Aug. 28, 2024  Contact:  Thomas Plank | plank@backcountryhunters.org Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Run Full-Page Ads Urging CO, OR, CA, and AZ Legislators to Act to Protect...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  Aug. 20, 2024  Contact: Devin O’Dea, 415-246-5329 odea@backcountryhunters.org  Utah Attempts to Wrest Public Lands Out of Public Hands SALT LAKE CITY, UT — Backcountry...

For Immediate Release  Aug. 1, 2024  Contact:  Thomas Plank, 303-720-0111 plank@backcountryhunters.org  Public Hunting and Fishing Access Expanded on National Wildlife Refuges  WASHINGTON, D.C....

For Immediate Release Aug. 1, 2024 Contact:  Zoe Bommarito, Trout Unlimted, zoe.bommarito@tu.org, 517-604-1844 Mary Jo Brooks, National Wildlife Federation, BrooksM@nwf.org, 303-549-8351 Thomas...

For Immediate Release Aug. 1, 2024 Contact: Thomas Plank, 303-720-0111 plank@backcountryhunters.org “Good Samaritan” Legislation to Clean Up Abandoned Mines Passes the Senate WASHINGTON, D.C. –...

For Immediate Release  Jun. 28, 2024  Contact: Thomas Plank, 303-720-0111, plank@backcountryhunters.org  BLM to Halt Ambler Road Permit, Conserve 28 Million Acres of Alaska Public...

For Immediate Release Jun. 24, 2024 Contact: Thomas Plank, 303-720-0111 plank@backcountryhunters.org Legislation Introduced to Build on Migration Corridor Conservation WASHINGTON, D.C. – New...

For Immediate Release May 31, 2024  Contact: Thomas Plank, 303-720-0111 plank@backcountryhunters.org  BHA Welcomes Peter Vandergrift to North American Board  MISSOULA, MT — Backcountry Hunters &...

For Immediate Release  May 24, 2024 Contact: Brittany Parker 863-885-1650, parker@backcountryhunters.org BHA Receives $313K for Virtual Fencing Stewardship Project in CO WALDEN, CO — Backcountry...

For Immediate Release                                                                                     May 9, 2024 Contact: Thomas...

For Immediate Release May 2, 2024  Contact: Thomas Plank, 303-720-0111 plank@backcountryhunters.org  Legislation to Restore Hunting to California’s Castle Mountains, Improve Public Land...

For Immediate Release May 2, 2024  Contact: Thomas Plank, 303-720-0111 plank@backcountryhunters.org  Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument Expanded Via Antiquities Act  WASHINGTON, D.C. – ...

For Immediate Release April 29, 2024  Contact: Thomas Plank 303-720-0111, plank@backcountryhunters.org  Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Welcomes New VP of Marketing and Communications  MISSOULA,...

For Immediate Release April 24, 2024  Contact: Thomas Plank 303-720-0111, plank@backcountryhunters.org  BHA 2024 Rendezvous Celebrates 20 Years as the Voice for Public Lands, Waters, and...

For Immediate Release  April 19, 2024 Contact: Thomas Plank 303-720-0111, plank@backcountryhunters.org Western Arctic Public Lands Receive Greater Protections WASHINGTON, D.C. — As a leading...

For Immediate Release April 19, 2024 Contact: Thomas Plank, 303-720-0111 plank@backcountryhunters.org Admin Signals Intent to Deny Ambler Road Permit: BHA, Conservation Groups Approve WASHINGTON,...

For Immediate Release April 18, 2024  Contact: Thomas Plank, 303-720-0111 plank@backcountryhunters.org  Final Public Lands Rule Will Elevate Conservation on Public Lands  WASHINGTON, D.C. – As...

For Immediate Release April 16, 2024  Contact: Thomas Plank, 303-720-0111 plank@backcountryhunters.org  Chuckwalla National Monument Would Conserve, Connect Public Lands  WASHINGTON, D.C.— As...

For Immediate Release                                                                                     Apr. 9, 2024 Contact: Thomas Plank, 303-720-0111 plank@backcountryhunters.org U.S. House...

For Immediate Release                                                                                     April 3, 2024 Contact: Thomas Plank,303-720-0111 plank@backcountryhunters.org Thompson...

For Immediate Release                    Mar. 27, 2024 Contact: Thomas Plank, 303-720-0111 plank@backcountryhunters.org Legislation to Extend, Increase Funding for Wetland Conservation WASHINGTON,...

For Immediate Release Mar. 22, 2024  Contact: Thomas Plank 303-720-0111, plank@backcountryhunters.org  BHA Supports Hardrock Mine ‘Good Samaritan’ Legislation   WASHINGTON, D.C. –  As the...

For Immediate Release                        Mar. 11, 2024 Contact: Thomas Plank, 303-720-0111 plank@backcountryhunters.org Administration Budget Proposal Would Increase Investments in Public...

For Immediate Release                     Feb. 29, 2024  Contact: Thomas Plank 303-720-0111, plank@backcountryhunters.org   Kaden McArthur 435-770-3774,...

For Immediate Release Feb. 19, 2024  Contact: Thomas Plank, 303-720-0111 plank@backcountryhunters.org  BHA Applauds Legislative Effort to Stop Public Land Transfers   WASHINGTON, D.C. –  As the...

For Immediate Release                                                                                     Feb. 9, 2024 Contact:  Thomas Plank, 303-720-0111 plank@backcountryhunters.org Senate...

For Immediate Release Feb. 2, 2024  Contact: Thomas Plank, 303-720-0111 plank@backcountryhunters.org  BHA Continues Push for Permanent Protection of the Owyhee Canyonlands   WASHINGTON, D.C. –...

For Immediate Release Feb. 1, 2024  Contact: Thomas Plank, 303-720-0111, plank@backcountryhunters.org  BHA’s North American Rendezvous 2024 Moves to Minneapolis Convention Center: Tickets Now...

For Immediate Release                                                                                       January 17, 2024 Contact: Devin O'Dea, 415-246-5329, odea@backcountryhunters.org Thomas...

News for Immediate ReleaseDecember 6, 2023Contact: Thomas Plank, 303-720-0111, plank@backcountryhunters.org MISSOULA, Mont. – Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA), a trailblazing public lands and...

News for Immediate ReleaseNovember 15, 2023Contact: Thomas Plank, 303-720-0111, plank@backcountryhunters.org MISSOULA, Mont. – Three BHA staff members have been chosen to fill newly-created...

News for Immediate ReleaseNov. 3, 2023Contact: Thomas Plank, 303-720-0111, plank@backcountryhunters.org MISSOULA, MT.— Backcountry Hunters & Anglers and 34 other conservation organizations are...

News for Immediate ReleaseOct. 23, 2023Contact: Thomas Plank, 303-720-0111, plank@backcountryhunters.org WASHINGTON, D.C. (October 25, 2023) – A coalition of 41 conservation groups, including...

News for Immediate ReleaseOct. 23, 2023Contact: Thomas Plank, 303-720-0111, plank@backcountryhunters.org MISSOULA, Mont. – Backcountry Hunters & Anglers is proud to announce that John Gale, the...

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers recently helped score a big win for hunter access and opportunity in Missouri that will keep hunting open during the upcoming waterfowl season at Swan Lake National...

News for Immediate ReleaseJuly 19, 2023Contact: Katie DeLorenzo, 505-410-6284, delorenzo@backcountryhunters.org SALT LAKE CITY, UT. — In a multi-agency and organization collaboration, Utah...

News for Immediate ReleaseJuly 13, 2023Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org Volunteer-driven partnership with private landowner and Game and Fish Commission...

News for Immediate ReleaseJune 23, 2023Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org  Public input is requested on 48 expanded opportunities on three refuges, as well as...

Army National Guard veteran Matt Lee was named Armed Forces Initiative (AFI) Liaison for the Colorado Backcountry Hunters & Anglers AFI Club. Matt was born in Iowa and raised in both Iowa and...

“I have never yet found a place that equaled the Kankakee swamps for the variety of game to be found there.” – J. Lorenzo Werich, 1920. Few know the history now. None who experienced it are still...

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers has been working for years to secure greater certainty for Colorado’s Thompson Divide and the quality hunting and fishing experiences it provides. Now we need your...

Dr. Susan Leopold is an ethnobotanist who spent the early years of her career in the jungles of the Peruvian Amazon and Central America. An epiphany led her home, to Virginia and to the American...

HESPERUS, CO — Backcountry Hunters & Anglers recently issued a reward to a citizen who reported illegal OHV use on Colorado’s public lands. Law enforcement officers from the U.S. Forest Service...

News for Immediate ReleaseSept. 2, 2022Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org   Decision confirms the public’s right to walk or wade streambeds that cross privately...

Kyle Lybarger, a 29-year-old consulting forester, father, deer-hunter, small creek addict and self-proclaimed “native plant nerd” of Hartselle, Alabama, is a major part of a new and wonderful...

Come with Hal to southern Mississippi to talk with Alex Harvey, a registered professional forester in Mississippi and Alabama and a land management consultant, wildlife biologist and...

Russell Worth Parker, known as Worth, is a retired Marine and a veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan. After 27 years in the Corps, he is home in Wilmington, North Carolina, hunting and fishing and...

The Bankhead National Forest in Alabama is a place of shadowed canyons and rushing coldwater creeks, crystalline waterfalls and bluff shelters blackened by the smoke from campfires over thousands...

 The Conecuh National Forest in south Alabama is known as the Heart of the Longleaf, a landscape of tall pine and wiregrass, restoration and recovery, humming with life and comprising a wild...

News for Immediate ReleaseOct. 5, 2021Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org MISSOULA, Mont. – The fall issue of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers’ quarterly magazine,...

Pennsylvania Backcountry Hunters and Anglers believes that restrictions on Sunday hunting are an impediment to reasonable hunting access, and we support the effort made by Senator Dan Laughlin...