On Sunday, seven BHA volunteers joined The Nature Conservancy and state corporate partners, Grizzly Liquor, to pull a mile of old barbed wire fence on the boundary of a Block Management Area owned by TNC.⁣ ⁣Volunteers met early Sunday morning at Grizzly Liquor for coffee and donuts before carpooling to the project location in the Blackfoot Valley. The Nature Conservancy's Western Montana Land Steward, Steve Kloetzel, shared a brief background on the landscape and project before volunteers ...

NY held its second Annual Central NY Spring Pint Night May 30th '24 in Homer, NY and was sponsored by Sporting Lead-Free and onX! Folks brought a dish to pass and played conservation themed trivia at the historic Homer Center for the Arts. Put it on your calendar for next year!

NY Hunters of Color, the NY Chapter of BHA, and NY Department of Environmental Conservation got together May 15th at the Filson NYC store to support roughly new turkey hunters.   DEC gave a brief presentation on regulations and public lands around the city and then a panel of seasoned turkey hunters from BHA and HOC answered questions about all things turkey.   Attendees learned about turkey biology, scouting tips, hunting tactics, and saw some calling demos.   After the panel, some ...

  The Long Road to Rendezvous Words and Photos by Melissa Hendrickson   As far as driving directions go, it’s a pretty easy route from our hometown to Rendezvous in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It only involves four turns: take highway 200 East, right turn on highway 93, merge onto I-90 East, then take I-94 East to Minneapolis. Granted we live in Sandpoint, Idaho so those directions do span the distance of almost 1,400 miles. In a stroke of serendipity, Rendezvous dates nestled themselves nicely ...

Event review of Bob Marshall Wilderness Dual Skills Camp July 2022.   I had heard the term wilderness before, but I didn't fully appreciate what it meant until I spent a week hiking over 70 miles through the Bob Marshall wilderness doing trail maintenance with BHA's Armed Forces initiative. This is an amazing part of the country, and I am so thankful to the Armed Forces Initiative for offering me a chance to go. Having seen the Bob Marshall it's so much easier for me to explain to folks why ...