The following is the text of a letter delivered this week to key Pennsylvania Senate lawmakers: Subject: Support of Senate Bill 607To: Leader Kim Ward, President Pro Tempore Jake Corman. The Pennsylvania Chapter of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers (BHA) supports the efforts by Senator Laughlin and requests a positive vote on Senate Bill 607. BHA’s mission is to ensure North America's outdoor heritage of hunting and fishing in a natural setting, through education and work on behalf of wild ...

What is public land worth to you? Lately at BHA, we’ve been thinking about aspens – in particular, their remarkable ability to grow, survive, reproduce and thrive throughout long lives buffeted by challenges over which they have no control: drought, fire, disease and development. Aspens can reproduce in the same way so many trees do – with blossoms, seeds and help from many other players: the pollinators necessary for reproduction, birds and other animals that depend upon and disperse the ...

In June of 2021, Montana Sen. Jon Tester reintroduced the Montana Headwaters Legacy Act which aims to designate 385.4 miles of Montana's rivers as Wild & Scenic, nearly doubling the state's protected river segments. Wild and Scenic designations would mean that public access and many traditional uses of these rivers continue, but would ensure that these waterways remain undammed, wild, clean and free flowing, forever. There's no doubt that this level of protection would benefit Montana’s $7.1 ...

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The Ministry of Forests Lands and Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development was established in 2010 to foster integrated decision making on the land. Much has changed in the last 10 years and in light of this Premier John Horgan has asked Nathan Cullen, the current Minister of State for Lands and Natural Resource Operations, to assess whether land use objectives that support economic activity, environmental sustainability and reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples can be more ...