In early January along the shore of Payette Lake, Idaho BHA held an annual leadership meeting to develop strategies and outline plans for 2019.  Additionally, Idaho BHA welcomed several new members to the leadership team and created four committees to organize our efforts.   In addition to the hard work, the chapter leaders also enjoyed some extraordinary wild game table fare including: mallard, elk, mule deer, pheasant, chukar, and salmon.     Committees Membership/Events/Fundraising: ...

Just before leaving office in 2017, Jay Nixon, Missouri’s 55thgovernor, spearheaded the purchase of land for the establishment of four public parks in the southern half of the state. Ozark Mountain State Park, Jay Nixon State Park, Bryant Creek State Park and Eleven Point State Park together constitute 9,326 acres of public land. All four currently are closed to the public. Eleven Point and Bryant Creek parks were intended to provide backcountry access for recreational activity with minimal ...

Hal comes down to Missoula to talk with BHA’s Ty Stubblefield (who hosts his own podcast, Shoot’n the Bull), about his roots in Oregon’s Umpqua Valley and his life there as a millhand, logging contractor, bowhunter and conservationist in the Coast Range. Now based in Florence, Montana, in the northern Bitterroot Valley, Ty is living the hard balance of family, work and a lifelong obsession with hunting in the farthest reaches of America's wildlands. He tells Hal the story of how he came to ...

By Myers Reece - January 14, 2019 - Originally published in the Flathead Beacon. Roughly 2,000 people packed into the state capitol in Helena on Jan. 11 for a raucous rally in support of public lands, during which throngs of residents from diverse backgrounds across Montana held up signs, chanted and made their voices heard both figuratively and literally. The event was the third in a series of rallies held every two years, beginning in 2015. The 2017 gathering was a similarly boisterous ...

By Ryan Busse, Maggie Carr, Shane Doyle and Mary Hollow - January 8, 2018 - Originally published in the Billings Gazette. We invite you to join us at noon on Friday in the Capitol Rotunda in Helena for the Rally for Public Lands. Montanans from across our great state will come together at the rally to celebrate our public lands and the outdoor way of life those lands make possible. Public lands unify Montanans by allowing us to live the outdoor lives we love. They allow people of ...