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20

Aug

2024

NY BHA August Newsletter

Author: New York BHA
Update from Chapter Chair Happy August everyone. I hope you all are as excited as I am about the upcoming hunting season opening up next month. DEC has some big changes this year to how they will issue hunting licenses and tags, so be sure to read details below.  As I think most know, we had to cancel our Rally in the Valley gathering this year due to low attendance, but we do hope to have some more events around the state soon, so keep an eye out for future announcements. In the meantime, I ...
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20

Aug

2024

Snowmass Falls Ranch - A new beginning.

Author: Briant Wiles
Snowmass Falls Ranch  A New Beginning By Briant Wiles   When it comes to opportunities to help improve habitat on a newly acquired piece of public ground in the mountains of Colorado, it is hard to beat the Snowmass Falls Ranch project. The 600 plus acre property had been listed for sale and without a conservation easement in place making it ripe for development. The property is important for wildlife being a migration corridor for elk and deer between summer and winter ranges. Up ...
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19

Aug

2024

The 2024 Public Lands and Waters Photo Contest

Author: Thomas Plank
Taking pictures of our backcountry experiences is just one way hunters and anglers capture our most beloved memories in designated wilderness, on Bureau of Land Management tracts, Forest Service parcels, and on public waters in between. And we want to see your pics! Backcountry Hunters & Anglers is launching our 2024 Public Lands and Waters Photo Contest this summer with some changes to the previous format. This year we are doing three categories (Hunting on Public Lands, Fishing on Public ...
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16

Aug

2024

LETTER: Montana BHA Supports Montana to Idaho Wildlife Crossing Feasibility Study

Author: Montana BHA
August 14, 2024 Honorable Pete ButtigiegU.S. Secretary of Transportation1200 New Jersey Ave, SEWashington, DC 20590 Subject: US-93 Darby, Montana to Idaho Wildlife Crossing Feasibility Study Dear Secretary Buttigieg, On behalf of the Montana Chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, please accept this letter as written confirmation of our support for the Montana Department of Transportation’s (MDT) Wildlife Crossing Pilot Program (WCPP) discretionary grant funding application for the US-93 ...
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14

Aug

2024

8/9/24 New Mexico State Game Commission Recap

This meeting was called to order at 9 a.m. in Taos, New Mexico by Chair Stump. The Commission roll call was conducted by Director Michael Sloane; all members were present. Commissioners attending onsite were Chair Robert Stump, Vice-chair Sharon Salizar-Hickey, Fernando Clemente, Greg Fulfer, Ed Garcia, and Sabina Pack; Commissioner Tirzio Lopez attended virtually. Self-introductions of others present onsite and those attending virtually were given by about a 10 staff members of the New ...
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14

Aug

2024

AFI Event Review (North Carolina Upland Hunting Class)

Author: Trevor Hubbs
2021 North Carolina Upland 101 Dual Skills Camp   AFI Leader Marty Bartram: “This event was a challenge as we were trying to teach Upland fundamentals in a part of the country with a real niche upland habitat.”   AFI participant Hunter Owen: “I had no idea there were upland opportunities so close to Fort Bragg. Chasing ruffed Grouse in the mountains feels like a whole different game than the pheasants on Fort Reilly, Kansas.”   AFI Volunteer Cooper Akin: “I knew I was interested in an ...
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13

Aug

2024

Success at Miramonte

Author: Briant Wiles
Miramonte Fence Pull  Dan Noble State Wildlife Area  By Craig Grother   During the weekend of August 9 through 11, West Slope BHA members teamed up with Colorado Parks and Wildlife staff to remove 1.2 miles of old sheep wire fence and rebuild 2/3 mile of new wildlife friendly fence on the Dan Noble State Wildlife Area south of Norwood.  On Friday the 9th, 5 CPW employees and 5 members of BHA started work to prepare a 1.2 mile section of old fence for removal. Around mid-day BHA provided ...
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13

Aug

2024

New Mexico BHA Volunteers Remove 6 miles of Fencing on the Marquez/ L Bar WMA

Summer thunderstorms built up on the horizon of the Marquez/L Bar Wildlife Management Area.  This years monsoon season has been a memorable one.  It's rare that the landscape of New Mexico stays this verdant green throughout the summer months.  Lush grama grass and abundant browse will make for healthy elk calves going into the winter months, but miles of barbed wire fencing pose a threat to their survival. On August 9 Backcountry Hunters and Anglers partnered with the New Mexico Department ...
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13

Aug

2024

Maine Team Leader of the New England Chapter, Robert Bryan on Non-lead Ammunition

Non-Lead Ammunition Speaks for Itself at Maine Workshop By Rob Bryan 8/11/2024   On August 10, Rob Bryan represented the New England Chapter at a workshop presented by the Non-Lead Partnership and hosted by Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.  The workshop leaders, who have hunted everything from small game to Alaskan brown bears, presented solid scientific evidence comparing lead-based and non-lead ammunition in terms of impact on wildlife and the terminal performance of both ...
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13

Aug

2024

New England BHA Continues Support for Mass DMF Striped Bass Study

Note: For more on New England BHA’s support of striped bass science, policy, and management, listen to episode #2 of Conservation Cooperative “Striped Bass Science & Management” available wherever you listen to podcasts.   Around a year ago BHA’s New England Chapter made a strategic contribution supporting a Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries study focused on better understanding release mortality in Atlantic striped bass. Earlier this year the New England’s Chapter made an ...
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