By Patrick Reilly - February 16th, 2019 - Originally published in the Missoulian.  The Bureau of Land Management lands near Missoula will be open to more logging and grazing should a new management plan become final. Friday, the BLM’s Montana/Dakotas State Office announced it had completed a Missoula Proposed Resource Management Plan, and an accompanying Environmental Impact Statement. Up for a 30-day protest period, the proposal elicited praise from at least one timber industry professional ...

Dear Ms. Rodriguez and Congressional staffers, A belated thank you for the gift of your time in hosting the Truckee Meadows Public Lands Management Act all-day stakeholder discussions last month (1/24). No small feat! And an extra thank you for including us, as well as our representative from national Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA). We apologize for the lateness of this response, but as volunteers, sometimes life & day jobs intervene to keep us from the computer. For your ...

I was introduced to carpaccio about a year ago while doing prep work in a commercial kitchen. At the time, we used beef eye of round from steamship rounds we butchered in house. This is an exceptional cut for carpaccio, but in the back of my mind I had a feeling that venison loin would be even better. It turns out I was right. Carpaccio first arrived on the culinary scene in 1950, dreamt up by Italian restaurateur Giuseppe Cipriani. Cipriani was the owner and founder of Harry’s Bar in ...

News for Immediate ReleaseFeb. 11, 2020Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org Days after launching effort to identify inaccessible public lands, Interior proposes reducing LWCF funding by 97 percent WASHINGTON – Backcountry Hunters & Anglers today pointedly criticized an Interior Department budget proposal for fiscal year 2021 that reduces funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund by 97 percent, a move that comes only days after the department issued a ...

Anyone who has spent time in the vast expanses of public land in Northern California can attest to the richness of the landscape. From the ancient redwoods of the coasts to the sprawling ecosystems of the Mendocino, Six Rivers, Shasta-Trinity, and Klamath national forests, outdoor enthusiasts in the Golden State are privileged with easy access to hundreds of thousands of acres on which to hunt, fish or simply get outside and enjoy nature. This tremendous gift comes with the responsibility to ...