I recently invited my fellow Mo BHA board member and good buddy Frank Petraglia to come up from the city and experience a unique public land hunt that most other Missourians overlook or flat out don’t know about... Public land Sora Rail hunt. *Full disclosure though, this is a very physically challenging hunt and is virtually impossible without waders and a few good hunting dogs. The land sometimes is a stop for a few rare endangered birds, so be careful and study up on local ...

Photos by Nick Dempkowski On Sept. 21, 2019, the Utah State University collegiate club of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers hosted a Public Land Pack Out in Providence Canyon. This project was in coordination with the Logan U.S. Forest Service ranger district office to remove debris from a heavily trafficked area used for recreational shooting. Due to easy accessibility from the city, this area receives an incredibly high amount of use and unfortunately is left with a gross amount of trash as ...

The following stew is inspired by the Chilindron, Spanish Stew, by Hank Shaw, which can be found in his book Buck, Buck Moose. I’ve imparted my own twist on the dish by making the most of what’s on hand in my pantry. The real beauty of this stew is that it affords improvisation, from the type of meat and veggies you opt to use, to the variety of spices, stock, wine and carbs. Use what you have and trust that your stew will turn out great. Though I make this stew throughout the year, it seems ...

On Saturday September 28 the New England Chapter of BHA partnered with the USFS and the USFWS staff on the Green Mountain National Forest and the Silvio O. Conte National Wildlife Refuge for National Public Lands Day projects. On the GMNF, BHA members, spearheaded by Joshua Hardt, started the day in Ripton, VT and traveled to three sites to clean up gravel pits that have been used illicitly as shooting ranges. Using gravel pits as a safe place to sight in a rifle or target practice has been ...

News for Immediate ReleaseSept. 30, 2019Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org Interior Secretary David Bernhardt extends Pendley’s appointment to 2020 WASHINGTON – Reacting to an administration decision to extend the appointment of William Perry Pendley, a noted public lands critic, as acting head of the Bureau of Land Management, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers President and CEO Land Tawney offered the following response: “As hunting season enters full swing, ...