If you purchased a raffle ticket for the Idaho BHA online raffle back in August, you helped the chapter contribute $5,000 to the County Line Wildlife Friendly Fence Project. This collaborative project, taking place entirely on public lands accessible to hunters and recreationists, is a partnership between Idaho Fish and Game (IDFG), the Bureau of Land Management, grazing permittees and non-profit conservation organizations including Backcountry Hunters and Anglers (BHA), Mule Deer Foundation ...

I can’t take credit for this recipe, though I’m not sure where exactly I pulled it together from… My late friend’s family recipe book from their Alaskan kitchen? My grad school girlfriend’s family recipe from Oregon (made only with Montanan elk!)? Hank Shaw’s blog?! Steven Rinella’s book!? That sausage party in Missoula back in 2015 that my brother took me to!? All of the above. Food has a story to tell and for me that always includes the chain of custody on the recipe, a story told best ...

Montana Chapter of Backcountry Hunters & AnglersPO Box 9257Missoula, MT 59807U.S. Fish and Wildlife ServiceAttention: Vanessa Fields, Project PlannerEmail: LTRCA_comments@fws.govRE: Draft Environmental Assessment and Land Protection Plan, Lost Trail Conservation Area The Montana Chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers submits this comment in support of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service’s (“USFWS”) establishment of the Lost Trail Conservation Area. The Montana Chapter’s roughly ...

This article originally appeared in the fall 2020 issue of Backcountry Journal.   BY RYAN BUSSE   As a young man I once stood on a mountain ridge so beautiful that I now find it impossible to describe. It was summer and a bird dog was at my side when I discovered the place that would change my life and come to be part of my very being. Like a military bootcamp, it broke me and then built me back up – wild, harsh and unspoiled by the hand of man and owned equally by all citizens of this ...