By Mateen Hessami - July 19, 2018 - Originally published in the Montana Standard. I am the outgoing president of the University of Montana’s Backcountry Hunters & Anglers college club, which was the first-ever BHA collegiate chapter. There are now 18 student-led BHA college clubs in the United States and Canada, with more being established. I am proud to be part of an organization that prioritizes our generation’s role in the fight for public lands and our outdoor heritage. My passion for ...

News for Immediate ReleaseJuly 17, 2018Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org   Billion-dollar Conservation Plan Introduced in Senate Recovering America’s Wildlife Act would target at-risk species, state-level habitat work, outdoors economy WASHINGTON – A new bipartisan Senate bill that would authorize more than $1 billion every year to critical state-level fish and wildlife conservation work is drawing the enthusiastic support of public lands sportsmen and ...

By the Independent Record - July 12, 2018 - Originally published in the Independent Record. Conservation groups, foundation adopt a trailhead On Monday, June 25, two public land and conservation orgs adopted a trailhead through Adopt-A-Trail Montana (AATM), a cooperative volunteer program designed to help protect Montana’s trails from further spread of noxious weeds. The Backcountry Hunters and Anglers and the Bob Marshall Wilderness Foundation partnered to adopt the Summit Trailhead, the ...

News for Immediate ReleaseJuly 10, 2018Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org MISSOULA, Mont. – Backcountry Hunters & Anglers today responded to President Trump’s pardon of Dwight Hammond and Steven Hammond, whose arson convictions sparked the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupation in 2016 and helped advance current and ongoing fights over the future of American public lands and waters. BHA President and CEO Land Tawney issued the following ...

The Colorado chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA) held their 10th Annual Rendezvous (June 1-3, 2018) in the midst of the Pike-San Isabel (PSI) National Forest south of Leadville near the Twin Lakes Reservoir and Mount Elbert (14,433 ft.), Colorado’s highest peak. A group of forty-five hunters and anglers from across the state enjoyed a weekend of camping, hiking, fishing, wild game cooking and second-to-none comradery. The Pike-San Isabel NF contains all or parts of nine ...