News for Immediate ReleaseMarch 14, 2019Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org   May 1-4 will bring thousands of public lands sportsmen and womento Boise for speakers, seminars, solidarity and fun   MISSOULA, Mont. – Backcountry Hunters & Anglers is anticipating an unprecedented turnout in Boise, Idaho, May 1-4 for BHA’s 8th Annual North American Rendezvous, the largest gathering of public lands sportsmen and women in the continent. Following a wildly successful ...

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Involvement Due to a rapidly changing landscape, old laws, confused record keeping and difficult politics, sportsmen and women are losing access to Louisiana’s tidally influenced water at an alarming rate. This is fast becoming the largest water-based public access issue in North America. There are a lot of factors at play driving the complexity of coastal access, including landowner conflicts with the state, culturally nuanced property rights, a rapidly ...

Back by popular demand: Ron Mills, an outfitter, hunting guide and packer in the Bob Marshall Wilderness since 1959, returns for Round Two in the BHA Podcast & Blast! Ron has authored a new book called Under the Biggest Sky of All, 75 Years on Montana’s Rocky Mountain Front, a raucous and astoundingly funny account of his adventures as a guide, horseman and packer, farrier and ranch hand in some of the wildest country left on the planet. (Hal wrote the forward to the book, as seen in the ...

On March 4th, members from the California Chapter of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers volunteered to survey wild sheep in the San Gabriel Mountains located just west of Los Angeles. The survey was hosted by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) and required a 3 hour orientation the day before regarding how to record, categorize and observe sheep in order to provide the agency with detailed information. With nearly 100 volunteers showing up at the orientation, there were ...

March 11, 2019 Rep. Carl Glimm & Rep. Nancy Ballance ChairsHouse Appropriations CommitteeHouse of RepresentativesState CapitolHelena, MT 59620 Re: House Bill 10 Dear Chair Balance & Glimm, We, the undersigned organizations, are writing to ask that you vote in favor of House Bill 10 (HB10) and the current funding proposed to replace the Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks’ Automated License System (ALS). We collectively represent tens of thousands of Montana hunters and anglers who care ...