In the spring of 2018, the Pennsylvania Chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers joined a number of other groups to oppose a planned resort development at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ­– managed Raystown Lake in Huntingdon County, Pa. In the final master plan revision released March 18, 2021, the Army Corps classified the Hawn’s Bridge / Hawn's Peninsula area proposed for development as an Environmentally Sensitive Area (ESA), negating the planned resort or any other development. The ...

The Colorado chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers recently appointed Robert Benjamin to serve as a Habitat Watch Volunteer (HWV) for the San Juan National Forest. Robert was born in Denver, but grew up in Fairplay. When he was thirteen their family moved to Grand Junction. He started fishing on a small pond in Fairplay at five or six and was hunting squirrels with a sling shot at the same age. When he was twelve or thirteen, Robert started hunting more regularly for small game, turkey ...

UPDATED: 6/22/22 Snake River salmon and steelhead are iconic species. Huge runs of large, strong fish historically made the journey from the Pacific Ocean up the Columbia to the Snake River and vast array of tributaries in Oregon, Washington and Idaho to spawn. They are indicator species that speak to the health of a watershed and are revered for sustenance and sport by anglers. The loss of Snake River salmon and steelhead, all federally listed as endangered or threatened, creates severe ...

Durrell Smith is a bird dog trainer, artist, podcaster and writer from Georgia. He founded the Minority Outdoor Alliance, a pioneer in connecting minorities to their history and voice in the hunting and angling communities. “He lives what he speaks,” as Hal says of Durrell, who is also a bobwhite quail hunting fanatic, guiding and chasing birds largely on public lands. Through his work and pursuits, he is carrying on an incredible lineage of Southern quail hunting and dog training, giving ...

By Matt Breton                                                                                                                                    This piece was first published in VTDigger   Last June, I wrote a commentary about how much I valued public land during the initial months of my Covid-19 furlough. Now, a year into this pandemic, having returned to work in the health care setting, the value of having access to that land has only increased to me and, I suspect, many other users. I ...