This article originally appeared in the Spring 2018 issue of Backcountry Journal.   BY Lieutenant Colonel JEFFREY M. JONES, U.S. ARMY RESERVE   I spent the morning reading “The Battle for Alabama’s Wilderness: Saving the Great Gymnasiums of Nature” by John Randolph, sent to me by a fellow member of the BHA Southeast Chapter Board, in a containerized housing unit in Baghdad, Iraq. I was amazed at the fortitude and tenacity of the public land champions in that era – regular folks who were able ...

The Colorado chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers recently appointed Chris Jones to serve as an Assistant Regional Director for southwest Colorado. Chris was born in southern California but raised in Dolores, Colorado, from the age of five, where his family lived within walking distance of two reservoirs stacked with smallmouth bass, black crappie, northern pike, rainbow trout and channel catfish. Chris and his brother spent countless evenings fishing the shores of Summit and Puett ...

The Nevada chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers is excited to announce that we have added two-chapter level corporate sponsors. IMBIB and Pilot Peak Guide Service have become the newest chapter level corporate sponsors for the Nevada Chapter.     IMBIB Custom Brews is a Reno based brewery that creates diverse and authentic beers to please everyone's palate including sour, malty, hoppy, and easy drinking brews and specializes in barrel-aged beers of many kinds. IMBIB is the monthly ...

July 19, 2019 John MehlhoffState DirectorMontana/Dakotas State OfficeBureau of Land Management5001 Southgate DriveBillings, MT 59101 RE: Montana BLM Musselshell River Access Acquisition - LWCF 2021 Proposal Dear Mr. Mehlhoff, On behalf of the Montana Chapter of Backcountry Hunter & Anglers, I'd like to offer our enthusiastic support for the Lower Musselshell River Access Project and Acquisition in Garfield and Petroleum County. Our Montana Chapter is comprised of more than 3,000 hunters and ...

If you find yourself hunting in North Carolina on both public and private land during hunting seasons, you might want to check your calendar and the time because if it happens to be Sunday and you are on game lands, you will be committing a class 3 misdemeanor. Additionally, even now with recent changes in state law, if you are hunting on private land on Sunday, you better not pull the trigger between 9:30 AM and 12:30 PM without checking some distances to neighboring properties. If you are ...