Every year at BHA’s annual rendezvous, sportsmen and women receive top honors for their contributions to public lands and waters. This year’s award winners were announced late last week in a press release. New this year was the Rachel L. Carson Award, which goes to a new and emerging leader who has gone above and beyond in their contributions to the BHA and conservation communities. Kyle Hildebrandt, president of the BHA club at the University of Minnesota received this inaugural ...

The Colorado chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers recently appointed John Chandler and Christian Robertson to serve on their Chapter Leadership Team (CLT) as Co-Regional Directors for the Gunnison Valley region. John Chandler John was born in Auburn, Alabama (War Eagle!), and raised in northern Alabama. “I began fishing before I can remember with my father and grandfather,” he said. “I would spend as many summer days as possible with my grandfather, fishing for bass and bluegill on ...

WY Board Members Wallace Leastman, Gillette and Pete Kassab, Sheridan participated in a fencing project on June 6th at the Bud Love Wildlife Habitat Management Area led by Wyoming Game and Fish. This effort included multiple agencies and groups working together to remove sections of woven and barbed wire fencing to address barriers limiting wildlife movement. If you're interested in supporting efforts like this in your area please contact your regional WY BHA Board Member and ask how you can ...

This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists   A professor assigned my class Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring,” the book credited with launching the modern environmental movement, my senior year of college. I hadn’t heard much about the classic then, but I was intrigued enough by Carson’s concern for the future, and the promise of a good grade. I quickly understood why it is a critical read for conservationists and how it popularized the field ...

This article originally appeared in the Summer 2019 issue of Backcountry Journal. Join BHA, support your public lands and waters and get four issues a year of Backcountry Journal in your mailbox, and unlimited digital access to current and back issues.   By Zack Williams There is something uniquely public about cutthroat trout. They reside almost entirely in wild, mountainous rivers of the West – undammed, wild, free places – the vast majority of these flowing through public land from ...