To celebrate National Public Lands Day and promote good stewardship of our nation's public lands, volunteers from the Backcountry Hunters & Anglers club at the University of Idaho spent Saturday, September 22nd hard at work with hand tools.  The volunteers assisted staff from the Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge with improving the walking trails at the popular refuge.  After digging and prepping the trails, the team placed fresh wood chips on the trails.   The U of I club is planning ...

“In any moment of decision, the best thing to do is the right thing, the next best thing to do is the wrong thing, and the worst thing that you can do is nothing.” – Theodore Roosevelt For too long, the State of Wisconsin has done the worst thing in the battle against Chronic Wasting Disease.    But, after years of adopting a relatively hands-off approach to managing the disease, earlier this year, the DNR released the results of a study that confirmed what studies from across the nation and ...

By Laura Lundquist - September 22, 2018 - Originally published in the Missoula Current  ALBERTON – Some new state land is now ready for public recreation, thanks to some enthusiastic volunteers. As part of National Public Lands Day, members of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers bent their backs Friday morning to help Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks restore land along Fish Creek. It’s a parcel that FWP will soon be able to add to the 35,000-acre Fish Creek Wildlife Management Area. But before FWP ...

The Colorado chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA) recently appointed Jeff Ludwig, Ryan Sheets and Alex Cohen to serve at the chapter’s newest Habitat Watch Volunteers (HWVs). Jeff and Alex will perform HWV duties for the Rio Grande National Forest and Ryan is volunteering for the Arapahoe-Roosevelt National Forest(s).   Jeff was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, and lived in Indianapolis for six years before moving to Colorado in 2018. He didn’t grow up in a hunting family, but ...

By Sam Lungren, Backcountry Journal editor This piece was published in the Fall 2018 issue of Backcountry Journal. Since this article was published, the Biden administration has begun their reconsideration of the previous administration’s decision to extend leases for copper mining in the Superior National Forest upstream of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. In August 2021, President Biden's Secretary of Agriculture told the public that he was waiting for a legal opinion from ...