A Montana poacher has been fined more than $5,000 after illegally killing a bighorn ram that he says he believed was an elk. Harold Horine, 45, of Deer Lodge, Montana, shot and killed a mature ram in the Highland Mountains near Butte on Nov. 22, 2021. According to Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks, he did not report the kill and left the meat to waste. “A witness who observed the violation contacted FWP after finding the dead sheep abandoned,” the agency wrote in a press release issued on ...

  Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, Montana Mex and Chef Eduardo Garcia present Tailgate to Table: a series of recipes inspired by our time outdoors that you can create and enjoy from your truck's tailgate. In this episode, Chef Eduardo Garcia creates a quick fried rice dish and shows you to incorporate ingredients you can find during your adventures outdoors – as well as ones you can carry into the backcountry! And sign up for a one-of-a-kind field to table experience with Chef Eduardo and BHA ...

  BY JOEL GAY It’s not easy for resident hunters to draw an elk tag in New Mexico, even for kids. As in many states, demand for tags far outstrips supply. But that’s only part of the equation. New Mexico also has the most liberal private land elk hunting program in the U.S. In recent years, up to half – HALF! – of all available elk tags have been given to landowners to sell to the highest bidder. Whatever is left goes into the big game draw. And even then, residents’ share of the draw is ...

2021 was a year of action. From the halls of the state capitol to the sagebrush steppe in southwest Montana, all the way from the remote trails of the Bob Marshall Wilderness to the comfort of our own homes, sitting behind a computer screen participating in Commission meetings, Montana BHA'ers made our presence known. Here's a quick recap, by the numbers, of what Montana BHA was able to accomplish in 2021: engaged in 30+ bills during the Montana legislative session while enabling 2,570 ...

2022 marks the 25th anniversary of the publication of one of the most important treatises on hunting ever written. Allen Morris Jones’ book A Quiet Place of Violence: Hunting and Ethics in the Missouri River Breaks was once best known among a kind of chosen few outdoorsmen and women, those who relished the history of their pursuit and the philosophy of immersion into landscape, wildlife, blood and meat, and finality – and who wanted to ponder the deep why of what drove them. It was a book ...