It's the most wonderful time of the year! The days are getting shorter and hunting season is officially upon us. Like most of us here at Wyoming BHA, we expect many of you are spending as much time afield or on the water as possible this fall. With that in mind, here's an abbreviated recap of what we've been up to this quarter. Policy Updates In August, Wyoming BHA submitted comments on the Proposed Big Game Damage Claim regulation change, which was similar to HB60 that we ...

Blaring headlines: “Battle lines hardening in dispute over Mobile ship channel deepening project” “No more federal mud dumping' — Standing room only at Baykeeper town hall” A newly deepened and widened shipping channel created by the US Army Corps of Engineers makes Mobile, Alabama, the second fastest growing port in the US – the amount of cargo handled this year more than doubled from previous years. Some of the world’s healthiest commercial and recreational fisheries, vibrant towns, ...

The Colorado Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA) chapter appointed Janet George to serve on their Board/Executive Leadership Team (ELT). She was born and raised in southwestern Michigan. More specifically, the area between Grand Rapids and Holland, only fifteen miles from Lake Michigan’s shoreline. “My Dad started taking me fishing when I was four years old on pan fish and I started small game hunting at 12 years old near my parent’s home in Michigan,” Janet said. “We continued to enjoy ...

Villa Grove State Trust Lands  Fence Removal By Briant Wiles   Looking up from the fence our eyes are drawn to a solid wall of mountains that sweep south lining the bathtub of sediment that is the San Luis Valley in South central Colorado. The breeze picks up and a gust of wind brings cool notes of autumn refreshing the smell of sage tinted air. With bolt cutters and fence pliers we drop the old, barbed wire from wind polished ceder posts. These weathered posts stood as mute testament to a ...

This article also appears in the Fall 2024 issue of Backcountry Journal.    By Bryan Jones This fall the public’s right to hunt will take center stage on the ballot in Colorado with a proposed ban on hunting mountain lions, bobcats and lynx (a federally protected, non-huntable species). Not only would this hunting ban define in Colorado state statute the legal hunting of multiple wildlife species as “trophy hunting,” it would also classify “trophy hunting” as a Class 1 misdemeanor. BHA ...