The Colorado BHA chapter has appointed five new Chapter Leadership Team (CLT) members: Liz Rose, Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) State Trust Lands Liaison;[1] Kyle Vistuba, Membership Recruitment Coordinator for the Southeast Group;[2] Drew Trujillo, Southeast Group Sponsorship and Media Coordinator;[3] Elena Reynolds, Assistant Regional Director for the Central Rockies Group;[4] and, Leslie Kaminski, Central West Slope Group Assistant Regional Director.[5] We currently have 38 CLT ...

By Rachel Cramer - February 28th, 2020 - Originally published at Montana Public Radio March 1 kicks off the new license year for Montana hunters, many of whom will rely on public land to punch their tags. Some of them say large, out-of-state ranch owners are making it harder to get to their favorite hunting grounds. A hunter in Park County is pushing the courts to decide the limits of public access against private property rights. Driving south of Livingston, it’s easy to see why this area ...

If I had to pick between eating crappie and bluegill, I’d choose bluegill every time. I think crappie tastes bland, whereas bluegill are sweet and firm. The downside, this sunfish family member tends to grow on the smaller side. Bluegill fillets resemble “chips,” and few anglers venture beyond frying them because there’s not much else you can do. Those thin, small pieces can’t hold up to too much handling, let alone any amount of marinating. My solution, prepare and eat the fish whole on ...

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 ...