Last week, in a 4-3 commissioner vote, the Seven County Infrastructure Coalition (SCIC) opted to withdraw its application from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to build a highway through the Book Cliffs region. “What’s this about a highway going through the Book Cliffs?” This was a question I heard all too often from attendees that stopped by the Backcountry Hunters & Anglers booth at the Western Hunting & Conservation Expo in February, peering over the “Stop the Book Cliffs Highway” ...

Growing up in northern Minnesota, with the great outdoors at my doorstep, facilitated plenty of hunting, trapping, fishing, hiking and canoeing in the vast expanse of woodlands and waterways found there. As a result, I’m no stranger to encountering the region’s predator and prey species, including whitetail deer, moose and wolves. Still, I can count on one hand the close encounters I’ve had with wolves during my lifetime. Boundary Waters Journal publisher Stuart Osthoff is in the same boat. ...

BHA continues to track litigation over hunting and fishing opportunities on national wildlife refuges, including reports that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is engaged in discussions with the Center for Biological Diversity.   We’ve always supported the expansion of public hunting and fishing access on National Wildlife Refuge System lands and waters, for many years and across multiple administrations, and we remain strongly opposed to any actions that would diminish the expansion of ...