April 22, 2014 Dear Chairs Mikulski and Rogers and Ranking Members Shelby and Lowey: Our organizations represents thousands of hunters and anglers from the American West who have a vital and vested interest in the sustainability and accessibility of quality fish and wildlife habitat for both present and future generations. The Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) has played a critical role in conserving some of the West’s most important fish and wildlife habitat  and publicly accessible ...

Medicine Bow-Routte Forest Supervisor Frank Romero, Wyoming Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, would like to express our support of the temporary road closures put in place on Pole Mountain. We have been involved in working to protect high quality habitat and waters in the area from illegal motorized use and appreciate you taking necessary steps to do the same. We plan to help organize another habitat restoration work day this summer and look forward to working with the USFS on this. If it would ...

The following is an objection letter to the Draft Shoshone National Forest Plan that was recently filed by Wyoming BHA. Shoshone Forest Plan (SFP), Daniel Jiron, Rocky Mountain Regional Forester This objection applies to the designation of areas in the immediate vicinity of Francs Peak and the Wood River as open to, or potentially open to, OHV’s both winter and summer as depicted on maps attached to the final draft, Alternative G, of the Shoshone Forest Plan. We are also opposed to continued ...

Nearly 50 years ago, while most of America was focused on the growing conflict in Viet Nam, some forward-thinking individuals were considering the needs of the nation at home.  The growing social and environmental movement gave rise to a number of new laws that provided protection for clean water, clean air, and human rights as part of LBJ’s vision for America that he termed “The Great Society.”   Among the pieces of historic legislation passed in that era were the Wilderness Act in 1964 and ...

The following letter from CO BHA Board Member, David Lien was published by the Durango Herald, April 6, 2014.Recently, the Backcountry Hunters & Anglers held their North American Rendezvous in Denver, where some 300 members from across the country celebrated BHA’s 10-year anniversary. The protection of backcountry habitat for elk and other wildlife, in places like the Hermosa Creek Watershed near Durango, is the driving force behind BHA. U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton, R-Cortez, joined us in Denver ...