Photos by TJ Booth (@tbimage) On January 30th, 2020 nearly 300 people gathered to watch the International Fly Fishing Film Festival hosted by the Utah State University Backcountry Hunters and Anglers Collegiate Club. For the second year in a row, USU BHA packed the house at the Utah Theatre to raise funds to protect our public lands and give back to the lands in Cache Valley. Members of the local community as well as people from hours away in Utah and Idaho came together for the love of fly ...

In March of 2019, BHA and public land owners everywhere celebrated the passage of S.47, a legislative package of more than 100 bills called the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management and Recreation Act. Today, the Bureau of Land Management is taking a major step forward in its implementation of the Dingell Act by addressing landlocked public lands across the West. We applaud U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary David Bernhardt for prioritizing this important issue and encouraging ...

This past August, the Utah State University Backcountry Hunters and Anglers along with Cache Anglers Trout Unlimited Chapter assisted Clint Brunson of the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources in electrofishing Temple Fork and Spawn Creek documenting non-native trout encroaching into this system. These creeks are located only 30 minutes away from our campus in Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest. Volunteers aiding Utah DWR in capturing invasive brown trout during electrofishing. Photo: ...

News for Immediate ReleaseFeb. 5, 2020Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org BHA president/CEO urges House subcommittee to advance a bill that would prevent mining within wilderness watershed WASHINGTON – Backcountry Hunters & Anglers President and CEO Land Tawney testified at a House of Representatives hearing today regarding the need to protect the watershed of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness from copper-nickel mining. The House Natural ...