For those people who had been planning a trip to hunt the incredible region of northwest Alaska, home to the Western Arctic Caribou Herd, they probably got wind of the proposal to close federal public lands to moose and caribou hunting in game management units 23 and 26A. This proposal would have affected all non-federally qualified users (NFQUs), or simply put but not entirely accurate, anyone who does not live within that region. On June 16th the Federal Subsistence Board held a special ...

During the first week of August, volunteers from the Montana Chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers teamed up with the Bob Marshall Wilderness Foundation to clear trails and initiate treatment of a Canada thistle infestation in the heart of the Bob. Volunteers spent seven days in total on the Grizzly Park project, including a day to hike the 14 miles in, four days of hard work, a day off for fishing and the final day for the long trek out. Here is the trip by the numbers: 3+ miles of ...

The State Game Commission stood up for everyday New Mexico anglers, boaters and others today and rejected attempts to shut down public access to five stretches of New Mexico streams. Meeting Thursday in Santa Fe, the commission voted overwhelmingly to reject landowner efforts to permanently close portions of the Chama, Pecos and several smaller streams in southeast New Mexico to the public. NM BHA Chairman Charles Tripp hailed the votes, saying, “The Game Commission showed real backbone ...

Shark tacos, guzzler installations & pint nights The California Chapter and BHA Pendleton AFI Club have been busy Operation Horno Last month BHA Pendleton Armed Forces Initiative Club and the California Chapter combined forces demonstrating the interoperability between the Chapter and AFI Club to requisition and install four wildlife water guzzlers aboard Marine Corps Camp Pendleton. The base had lost several guzzlers over the years to various wild fires and with the continued drought ...

The Colorado chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA) recently appointed Graham Geary to serve as an Assistant Regional Director for the Northern Colorado region. Graham was born in Greeley, Colorado, and raised on a small ranch east of there on the edge of the Great Plains, a location from which you can see the snowy peaks to the west and to the east the vast grasslands of the nation’s interior spread as far as the eye can see. “We raised a few cows and rode some good horses and lived ...