While the California Chapter has been busy planning Pint Nights and staffing booths at various outdoor events. The chapter has also been working on providing comments and recommendations to our states representatives and federal agencies on how to provide and ensure recreational activities on our public lands. The largest issue BHA has been working on has been the proposed Mojave National Preserve Water Management Plan. There is currently an open public comment period for the Mojave National ...

Today the Laramie County Commissioners voted unanimously 5-0 against the two petitions to vacate (eliminate the public right-of-way) for two county roads (highlighted in green and pink in the map below). Buzz Hettick, Chairman of the Wyoming BHA Chapter spoke at the commission hearing earlier today, defending our access to our public lands and standing up for our interests as hunters and anglers. This is an important public lands access victory that we should celebrate.  Thank you to all of ...

Project Lead: SW Colorado BHA Regional Director Dan Parkinson DVM                                    docdanp@gmail.com  970-759-0545    Why?  Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep, the highly valued and iconic state animal of Colorado, are at risk of developing respiratory disease by pathogens acquired from domestic sheep grazing on public land. Effective separation of domestic sheep and goats from wild sheep is the only currently available management solution for preventing or minimizing disease ...

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 ...