“Public lands are not to be gifted to foreign mining billionaires.” Duluth News Tribune: 6/29/25. On May 29 in Colorado, I met Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) advocate and Ely resident Becky Rom, the national chair of the Campaign to Save the Boundary Waters. She and her team attended the Outside Festival in Denver — for good reason. “Attendance at the four-day event … drew 35,000 people, nearly doubling attendance from the debut event last year,” the Colorado Sun reported. Rom ...

The New Jersey Chapter joined forces as they spread out to clean up 3 Wildlife Management Area across the state. In the North: Honey Run Wildlife Management Area, Centrally: Assunpink Wildlife Management Area, and in the South: Union Lake Wildlife Management Area They collected 5+ pickup loads of garbage making our public lands cleaner and healthier for all.   Great job chapter leaders and volunteers!  And to Afuera Coffee Co. for providing three luck people with packages of coffee and ...

As part of the federal budget reconciliation process, members of the U.S. Senate were considering the sale of up to 3 million acres of public land—much of it in the same backcountry places that help veterans heal, reconnect, and reintegrate. For those involved in Backcountry Hunters & Anglers’ Armed Forces Initiative (AFI), these aren’t just parcels on a map. They’re hallowed ground. Thankfully, over this past weekend, Senate negotiators dropped provisions to sell public lands—after ...

On a ridgeline at 8,000 feet in the west Pioneer mountains outside of Jackson, Montana, 13 volunteers from Montana BHA spent their summer solstice rolling up barbed wire and hauling it out of the forest, camping out on a mountaintop, and repeating the process over the next day. Oh yeah, and all of this was done in a straight up blizzard!This shining example of Type II fun was completed as part of a partnership between BHA and the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) in their joint effort to ...