The Colorado chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA) recently assisted the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) with a Public Lands Day (May 19) Stewardship Project (i.e., marijuana grow site cleanup). Colorado BHA Southeast Colorado Regional Director, Tyrell Woodward, organized the chapter’s involvement in this USFS-led cleanup in the Wet Mountains of southern Colorado. “We had 12 members participate in the full-day activity,” Ty explained. “Members were joined by five staff from the USFS, ...

During April 2018 the Colorado chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA) welcomed BHA’s Colorado & Wyoming Coordinator, Brien Webster, to our state chapter’s growing army of boots-on-the-ground hunters and anglers fighting to protect and perpetuate our wild public lands, waters and wildlife. Brien was born and raised in Colorado. “For as long as I can remember,” he said, “my family has come together for reunions timed around hatches, hunts and favorite landscapes.” After receiving a BA ...

By Rob Chaney - June 17, 2018 - Originally published in the Missoulian. Ever wonder why Interstate 90 takes such a winding route along the St. Regis River as it climbs toward Lookout Pass on the Montana-Idaho border? “I guess you can thank me for that,” author and wildlife advocate Jim Posewitz admitted during a stop in Missoula last week. Initial designs called for a much straighter road that would have rechanneled the river and destroyed its fishery. In one of his many campaigns to ...

By John Sullivan - June 15, 2018 - Originally published in the Billings Gazette.  Montanans are paying close attention to decisions made by our elected leaders before we head to the polls this fall. One such decision front of mind for the Montana Chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers is the Horse Creek Conservation Easement. This easement would open 20,000 acres for hunting and recreating where it’s needed most — in eastern Montana. The proposal, funded with sportsmen’s dollars — not ...

By Laura Lundquist - June 14, 2018 - Originally published in the Missoula Current. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks intends to capture a few more squares of the property checkerboard that makes up the Fish Creek Wildlife Management Area. On Thursday, the FWP Commission approved a proposal to buy two private parcels within the Fish Creek WMA from Randy Koch for $900,000. In addition to the 116-acre Whitehorse parcel on the WMA’s western edge, Koch is selling another 160-acre parcel that ...