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News for Immediate ReleaseFeb. 26, 2021Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org Protecting America’s Wilderness and Public Lands Act includes longstanding hunter/angler priorities, conserves key Western landscapes WASHINGTON – The U.S. House of Representatives voted today in support of a mammoth package of public lands bills, the Protecting America’s Wilderness and Public Lands Act (H.R. 803), advancing numerous sportsmen’s and women’s priorities and responding to ...

    The Idaho Department of Lands (IDL) released a draft strategy for 5,478 acres of endowment lands surrounding or within the city of McCall. Idaho's constitution mandates these lands be managed to secure the maximum financial return to endowment beneficiaries. The Payette Endowment Lands Strategy looks at the use classification of endowment lands within the McCall Designated Area of Impact and how they relate to current property values, county land use plans, asset management strategies ...

Montana senators on Thursday heard testimony on a bill that would restructure the Montana Board of Outfitters and reduce regulations impacting outfitting businesses. Senate Bill 275, sponsored by Sen. Jeff Welborn, R- Dillon, would tweak outfitter requirements and representation on the board of outfitters. The Montana Outfitters and Guides Association collaborated with lawmakers as the legislation was drafted. Read more here from the Daily Chronicle... 

This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists In great part the appeal of public lands is that they provide a space for us to commune with the primeval. Though your HOA may frown on you shooting a Zwickey at the forkhorn browsing your hostas, the manager of your closest wildlife area likely has no such qualms. An Archer’s Inner Life is a profound exploration of the yearning to return in some small way to life closer to the bone. Sigurslid’s ...