For years, Idaho BHA has played an integral role within the Idaho's Clearwater Collaborative to work towards common-sense forest management solutions, which balance a wide variety of land-based interests. After years of hard work, negotiations and compromise the Clearwater Collaborative has reached an agreement which will provide for backcountry fish and wildlife habitat protection, while also increasing timber harvest yields, improving motorized recreational opportunities and adding jobs to ...

The following is a joint press release submitted by NM BHA, NM Wildlife Federation and Trout Unlimited in support of legislation that would provide permanent wilderness protection in two areas within the Rio Grande dele Nort National Monument.New Mexico hunters and anglers applaud action in the U.S. Senate today that would permanently protect two key areas on opposite sides of the recently established Rio Grande del Norte National Monument.The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee ...

The following is a letter that was to the Wyoming Game and Fish Department on behalf of Wyoming BHA, in support of the proposed non-motorized designation on the Snake River. Dear Commission Members: As a conservation organization of sportsmen that value the solitude, challenge and escape that traditional, non-motorized hunting and fishing opportunities provide, Wyoming Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (WY BHA) would like to offer our support of the non-motorized designation proposed on the ...

Around the country on America’s wild public lands, BHA members are helping to protect pristine habitat key to great hunting and fishing. Read on to find out more about State Chapter projects and work days. Idaho BHA –May 3-5, the Idaho Chapter partnered with the Idaho Fish & Game to remove approximately 3,500 feet of barbed wire fence and T-posts to improve elk migration corridors on the Craig Mountian Wildlife Management Area. Chapter members camped at Benton Meadows on Craig Mountain, did ...

As you may have heard the next chapter in the Bristol Bay Pebble Mine dilemma is unfolding and we need you (and your friends) to take a minute to provide comments on the proposal. Here’s what’s at stake in Bristol Bay… Bristol Bay’s wild rivers, wetlands and frontier land supports the world’s largest remaining wild salmon fishery, 35 fish species (all 5 species of Pacific Salmon) and 46% of the global abundance of wild sockeye   Wild, undisturbed wildlife habitat for moose, ...