After joining the Idaho State Chapter Board, I’ve been lucky enough to get acquainted with the University of Idaho (U of I) Collegiate Chapter and their powerhouse of a President Jacob Young.  We first met when he graciously invited me to attend a duck call build he solicited and organized for the club. The event was a perfect combination of team building, learning about the pros and cons of a niche outdoor industry, and plain old loud “quacky” fun. During this, Jacob and I hatched a scheme ...

For Immediate Release April 19, 2024 Contact: Thomas Plank, 303-720-0111 plank@backcountryhunters.org Admin Signals Intent to Deny Ambler Road Permit: BHA, Conservation Groups Approve WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced its intent to deny the permit for the Ambler Road Project, safeguarding Alaska’s famed Brooks Range and its unparalleled hunting and fishing grounds. This significant announcement was met with applause from Backcountry Hunters & Anglers ...

Tom Reed, of Harrison, Montana, is a founding board member of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers and a true son of the Western plains and Rocky Mountain wilderness. Born in Colorado, Tom worked as a horse and mule packer and a small-town reporter in Wyoming, edited a bass fishing magazine in Arizona, spent years with Wyoming Fish and Game as writer and editor. Throughout his life, he’s pursued the foundational passions that drove him as a youngster - horses, hunting and fishing, wilderness, ...

As Backcountry Hunters and Anglers members and Forest Service personnel gathered on Friday evening, newcomers were treated to the wide open vistas of the high plains, vast unbroken skylines and unfortunately, Eastern New Mexico spring winds. With gusts of up to 60 mph and sustained winds of 40 mph or so, volunteers buttoned up and scooted close to propane campfires as they got to know each other and planned out the work for the 4th Annual Kiowa National Grassland project.   Neither night ...

On March 8, 2024, Mark Mattaini (Paguate, NM), a member of the NM BHA board, was appointed by the New Mexico Game Commission to a five-year term on the Citizens’ Advisory Committee (CAC), which advises the New Mexico Habitat Stamp program (HSP) sponsored by the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish (NMDGF). (A Habitat Stamp is required, in addition to the proper license, to fish, hunt, or trap on US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and US Forest Service (USFS) lands and waters in New ...