On June 12th, a soggy Saturday morning, ten Montana BHA volunteers teamed up with the four members of a longtime Montana ranching family to remove some unneeded and unruly fence. Montana BHA, RMEF and HHA members helped out Over the years, volunteers from Montana BHA, Hellgate Hunters & Anglers and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, as well neighbors, have helped the family install five miles of wildlife-friendly fencing on the Lolo National Forest where this family holds a grazing ...

News for Immediate ReleaseJune 14, 2021Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org Attendees share stories, gain skills, rally for public lands and waters at a massive campout in western Montana MISSOULA, Mont. – Backcountry Hunters & Anglers’ North American Rendezvous drew an appreciative crowd of public lands hunters, anglers, gatherers and others to western Montana this month for three days of camping, seminars, backcountry skills sessions, speakers, fun and ...

Springtime in North America is a special time for mushroom enthusiasts. With warmer temperatures, one of the most delicious and coveted of edible fungi start to cryptically emerge from the forest floor: morels. Morels grow in many areas across North America, but they are notoriously and frustratingly finicky about where they will grow. Some species of morels are associated with certain trees, such as cottonwoods, but even looking in the right places doesn’t mean you’ll find any of these ...

Archeologist Dr. Larry Todd came home to Meeteetse, Wyoming, after a long career studying ancient hunting peoples all over the planet. Asked to do a quick archeological survey of some high-elevation public lands in Northwest Wyoming, he took a crew of students and headed out, convinced of lean pickings and a fast return to the comforts of home. After all, how many ancient hunters would choose to live at 11,000 feet, on barren ridges swept by winter snow and bitter wind, blistered by summer ...

During the Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA) 10th Annual North American Rendezvous (June 3-5, 2021) in Missoula, Montana, we were reminded that BHA knows a thing or two about campfires. BHA started around a campfire in southern Oregon during 2004. In the words of BHA founder Mike Beagle (a former U.S. Army field artillery officer), “What we started around a campfire has grown into a forest fire. BHA is getting better and better. The best is yet to come!” And this Rendezvous was one for the ...