News for Immediate Release Sept. 8, 2017 Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262,mckalip@backcountryhunters.org     BHA Defends Public Waterfowl Hunting and Fishing Access at Famed Louisiana Lake Southeast chapter of public lands sportsmen’s group joins pushback against attempts to privatize traditional access to Catahoula Lake   CENLA, La. – Backcountry Hunters & Anglers members are stepping up to defend traditional public access opportunities to Catahoula Lake, one of the most sought-after ...

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Until very recently sportsmen and women had given up on hunting the elk, deer, turkey and even Barbary sheep that inhabit the Sabinoso Wilderness in northeastern New Mexico.

Managed by the Bureau of Land Management, the more than 16,000-acre wilderness was designated in 2009. Unfortunately the Sabinoso is landlocked. No legal public access currently exists. 

This could change, however, due to the actions of a generous landowner, who has offered to provide public access to the Sabinoso Wilderness by donating his ranch, which sits on the western boundary of the wilderness and provides the much-needed access point. The 4,080-acre Rimrock Rose Ranch has been purchased by the Wilderness Land Trust, which is willing to facilitate the transfer of ownership to the BLM.

News for Immediate ReleaseAug. 24, 2017Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org Secretary Zinke proposes ‘boundary changes’ to specific monuments, acknowledges broad public support for monuments system, Antiquities Act   [Above, a hunter and their dog hunt the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, credit: mypubliclands] MISSOULA, Mont. – An Interior Department report recommending ambiguous “boundary changes” to national monuments prized by sportsmen and ...

LAS VEGAS, N.M. – Public lands sportsmen and women are celebrating as a deal is inked that will open the Sabinoso Wilderness in northeastern New Mexico to the public for the first time.

The Interior Department announced on Thursday its decision to accept donated lands adjacent to the Sabinoso that include a road easement enabling hunters, anglers and others to access the wilderness. The annexation of the 3,595-acre Rimrock Rose Ranch was brokered by the Wilderness Land Trust and long advocated for by sportsmen, who had urged Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to uphold his pledge to pursue public access opportunities and open the New Mexico wilderness to citizens.