Image courtesy of Don Thomas   Readers and BHA members outside of Montana may have never heard of the Crazy Mountains, although that is likely to change. One of Montana’s dozen isolated “island” ranges, the Crazies lie an hour’s drive northeast of Bozeman. They offer spectacular wilderness terrain and are home to native cutthroat trout, an over-objective elk herd, deer, mountain goats and large predators galore. Their current notoriety derives not from this natural bounty, but from a heated ...

March 18th, 2018 Sharon RoseRegion 2 MTFWP Comment Coordinator3201 Spurgin RoadMissoula, MT 59804   To Ms. Sharon Rose:   The Montana Chapter of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers supports the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife & Parks and their proposal to acquire two parcels totaling 276 acres in the Fish Creek Wildlife Management Area. This includes the 116-acre Whitehorse parcel and the 160-acre Main-Stem Fish Creek parcel. The Montana Chapter of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers strives to ...

Ty Smail, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers’ merchandise coordinator, can usually be found under piles of shirts and packages in the bottom level of the Missoula office, sending off packages of swag to members. The sixth-generation Montanan found his way to BHA in 2017 after many years of hunting. Ty grew up road hunting in eastern Montana, and he adopted the family culture of hunting – one that runs deep: his great grandmother still wanted to go fishing when she was 97 years old, but Ty began ...

News for Immediate ReleaseMarch 7, 2018Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org   Introduced by Chairman Rob Bishop, the Federal Land Transaction Facilitation Act Reauthorization would permanently reauthorize FLTFA, a proven conservation and public access program WASHINGTON – Backcountry Hunters & Anglers commended action in the House Committee on Natural Resources today to unanimously advance legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives that would ...

Hal Herring talks with Tony Bynum, prolific professional photographer and conservationist.   They discuss life in East Glacier, the fundamentals of photography, traveling in Africa, documenting prairie landscapes, the tenets of wilderness, going where no one goes, completing long-term projects, Tony's favorite shots, the combination of background and light, joining BHA, and much more.  :: iTunes :: Stitcher :: Podbean ::  :: Find all episodes here ::