Club member, Brody, serves chili samples on campus to promote their event.   Western Colorado University’s collegiate chapter of BHA hosted their 3rd annual chili cookoff at Timbers Sports Bar on Friday, February 21. Timbers offered half-price drinks to any BHA member, and folks who signed up to be a member got an additional drink. The event had about 30 attendees and six brought their own homemade wild game chili to enter into the cookoff. We had quite the variety of wild game to dish up; ...

Colorado’s state trust lands have been held in an iron fist by some of the most anti-public access policies and regulations found anywhere in the Western states. The battle has been simmering for decades: Clearly, Coloradoans were demanding change. Since 2012, BHA’s Colorado chapter has been leading the battle for increased access … and Colorado Parks and Wildlife responded, announcing last summer the opening of 500,000 acres of state trust lands for fishing and hunting over the next three ...

University of Minnesota BHA club president, Kyle Hildebrandt represented Backcountry Hunters and Anglers at the Minneosta DNR's annual roundtable in January. The Minnesota DNR Roundtable’s theme this year was “Connecting to the Outdoors”. Kyle was invited to be part of a panel of speakers for the breakout session titled “Young Voices: Connecting with the Outdoors”. He sat among other panel members including a conservation program manager & three high school workers from Urban Roots, a Saint ...

A small group of hunters, public land enthusiasts, and BHA members gathered at Granger Lake on Feb. 1, to experience the small-game hunting opportunities offered on public land at the Willis Creek Unit. There were six hunters from the Austin, Houston, and San Antonio areas. The event was organized as an informal meetup and an opportunity to gain experience in often-overlooked small game hunting. The weather could not have been more beautiful. It was a clear, crisp morning that eventually ...

February 15, 2020, Brandon, VT- Vermont members of BHA, along with a few new friends, met to celebrate public lands at Red Clover Ale Co. There were tales of turkeys, tracking bucks, big brown trout and snowshoe hares along with toasts to our Green Mountain National Forest, VT F&W WMAs and local town forests. With one of these local town forests on the line on Town Meeting Day, local BHAers were there to get the word out to vote ‘No’ to the sale of land owned by the people of the Town of ...