Due to the efforts of BHA members Travis Icardo and Jeff Bynum, Idaho BHA was recently offered an official voting position on the Panhandle Forest Collaborative.  The Panhandle Forest Collaborative (PFC) has been working with the Idaho Panhandle National Forests for over 8 years. PCFC’s Executive Director, Liz Johnson-Gebhardt, is the chair of the collaborative group. Primarily, this diverse and dedicated group works with the Priest Lake District, the Sandpoint District and the northern ...

On Jan. 8th, 2019, the Texas Legislature convenes for its 140-day regular Session. In preparation for this, TX BHA is assembling an Austin-area boots-on-the-capitol-grounds task force to provide face-to-face feedback and testimony from TX BHA to legislators in an effort to influence bills prior to a vote.  Please consider being a part of this important team. Members of this task force will not be expected to draft their own comments (although input is welcome), or even be experts on the ...

Lots of folks on the North Shore know Tom Healy. A master of timber framing, he has been involved with North House Folk School in Grand Marais since its beginning. Although he moved to Whitefish, Montana several years ago, he returns to the North Shore every year to teach classes at North House. Out in Montana, Healy has another claim to fame. An avid hunter, he has raised and trained bird dogs. His love of hunting also led him into the realm of political activism. In the West, where the ...

By Gerhardt Soeffker - November 8, 2018 - Originally published in the Missoulian. Where I live, near the Blackfoot River, those of us who ply a stick and arrow have been pursuing bugling elk and wary bucks; others have been stripping articulated streamers in front of fall run brown trout. And as the days get shorter, and the nights cooler, it signals the start to general rifle season. For many of us public land owners, this precious time of year marks the start of our time afield in ...

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers is the fastest growing conservation group in North America in large part due to the focus on public lands and grassroots efforts to engage the membership.  One of BHA's mantras has been to make it easy for people to show up and be engaged in discussions that affect the places they love to hunt and fish.  "Pint Nights" are popular BHA method for creating that sort of relaxed style of engagement and the Idaho chapter recently held three such events with tremendous ...