Volunteering for a few hours at an event - that's impressive and greatly appreciated. But volunteering an entire week of your summer to improve trails on our public lands? Now THAT deserves an extra dose of appreciation! Earlier this month, seven BHA members plus a few packers and one crew leader, Ally Pike from the Bob Marshall Wilderness Foundation, packed in seven miles into the Great Bear Wilderness and set up camp along the Middlefork of the Flathead. There, the volunteer crew attacked ...

When you are shooting a classic Beretta over and under shotgun at the trap range or in the field, you are handling a finely made weapon built by the same company that made the arquebus barrels used to quell the Ottoman Turks at the ferocious Battle of Lepanto in 1571. Heck, Beretta Arms was already almost 50 years old by then! The Fabbrica d'Armi Pietro Beretta, with its headquarters in Brescia, Italy (in the Val Trompe, a center of iron ore mining and smelting since the days of the Roman ...

The BHA volunteer fencing project on the Dome Mountain WMA was a big success! A number of public land owners rolled up their sleeves on a beautiful Saturday to help our friends at Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks with habitat improvement projects at the Dome Mountain Wildlife Management Area in the Paradise Valley. Thanks to the solid turnout, the group was able to split up and tackle all three of FWP's priorities. One crew pulled about a mile of old barbed wire and fence posts on the newly ...

By Laura Lundquist - July 26th, 2019 - Originally published in the Missoula Current  More structures like the Animals Bridge on Highway 93 north of Missoula are needed to help wildlife safely cross Montana roadways. But hunters and wildlife advocates say federal funding is needed to overcome high construction costs. As the U.S. Senate considers the budget for the 2020 Highway Bill, conservation and sportsmen’s groups are lobbying hard for a small pot of money to be set aside just for ...

The Wyoming Chapter of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers presented the Wyoming Game and Fish with a check for $3000 in support of the Access Yes Program. The check was presented at the July Commission meeting in Rock Springs Wyoming. Game and Fish Director Brian Nesvik, and Commission President David Rael recognized the Wyoming Chapter for its continued support of the Access Yes program. The Access Yes program provided access to 2,670,173 acres of land in Wyoming in 2018 for hunting as well ...