In August, the Pennsylvania chapter continued to bolster their habitat improvement work throughout the state with their 3rd work day of the year at Raccoon Creek State Park’s Wetland Trail. The Pennsylvania Chapter has adopted the wetland trail and is actively seeking members to help with yearly maintenance. Members also continue to maintain fishing line disposal bins at the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. The Pennsylvania chapter got a head start on a busy Public Lands Month by ...

  Daniel Boone is an American icon and he is the namesake for the largest piece of public land in Kentucky. Spread across 21 counties of southern and eastern Kentucky, more than 708,000 acres of Daniel Boone National Forest system lands are managed within a 2.1 million-acre proclamation boundary. One of the unique jewels within the national forest is the Pioneer Weapons Area WMA. This 7,610-acre tract is designated for hunting with "primitive" weapons. Modern breech-loading firearms are ...

With the changing seasons the Idaho chapter's Learn To Hunt program entered the mentored hunting phase. Students were paired with an experienced hunter for a day of big game or upland hunting. Over the course of five weeks, chapter volunteers led twenty students through gear selection, sighting in rifles, field dressing big game, ethics and scouting,  Members of the Idaho chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers crafted and submitted a letter to the BLM regarding the Four Rivers Resource ...

This past summer we spent time with the University of Arizona on their Santa Rita Experimental Range continuing the placement of our OHV “Ride Legally” signs across the state. The Santa Rita is the longest continuously active rangeland research facility and among the five oldest biological field stations in the United States. The Santa Rita is critical open space serving a rapidly growing human population and increasingly threatened sensitive and endangered species and ecosystems. The range ...

Photo by Tim Peterson   This is the continuation of our conversation with Hal Herring, host of BHA's Podcast & Blast, from the Winter 2020 issue of Backcountry Journal. For more of this interview with Hal and loads more great content, join BHA to get the current and every new issue of Backcountry Journal in your mailbox.   Those that read your writing, or follow you on social media, know that you are extremely motivated about protecting our public lands, waters and wildlife – the BHA ...