Popular opinion of California may be dominated by the cultures permeating from Hollywood and Silicon Valley, but hundreds of thousands of acres of public land border all of our major cities. Three bills essential to protecting and expanding California’s public lands are expected to pass through the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands this week. Though Rep. Judy Chu’s (D-CA) San Gabriel Mountains Foothills and Rivers Protection Act (H.R. 2215), ...

  By Mike Clingan, Montana Outdoor Imagery   An email in my inbox from BHA caught my attention: “6 days volunteering for the Bob Marshall Wilderness Foundation to improve trails in the backcountry with fellow BHA members.” Exactly the type of adventure that I needed and an opportunity to contribute to a place and cause that mean so much to me.   BHA partnered with the Bob Marshall Wilderness Foundation, which was founded in 1996 when the U.S. Forest Service and a group of concerned citizens ...

The Idaho Chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers needs your help in 2020 to protect public lands, waters and wildlife!  The chapter is looking for volunteers to help with many different aspects of the chapter business including: Events (fundraisers & meetings)  Stewardship (work projects & education efforts) Policy engagement (legislative issues & public land/water management plans) Communications (social media, newsletters, blog posts) We are looking for all levels of involvement.  It ...

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Hal is in Phoenix, lost in heat and traffic, looking for Brad Powell and DJ Zor. He finds them: DJ is vice chair of the Arizona chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, a public lands hunter extraordinaire and Navy nuclear sub veteran, and Brad Powell of Trout Unlimited is a 32-year veteran of the U.S. Forest Service – former supervisor of the Tongass National Forest, the entire Northwest Region, the Davy Crockett National Forest in Kentucky, and so on … a pragmatic but firebrand ...