WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Earlier this week, the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Federal Lands held a hearing to consider legislation that would erode the strength of the Antiquities Act of 1906. For more than a century the Antiquities Act, a bedrock conservation law signed by President Theodore Roosevelt, has been used to protect public lands and waters across the United States from the threat of development. The Congressional Oversight of the Antiquities Act (H.R. 5499) would require ...

For Immediate Release Mar. 22, 2024  Contact: Thomas Plank 303-720-0111, plank@backcountryhunters.org  BHA Supports Hardrock Mine ‘Good Samaritan’ Legislation   WASHINGTON, D.C. –  As the leading voice for the conservation of public lands, waters, and wildlife, today Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA) cheered the bipartisan introduction of the Good Samaritan Remediation of Abandoned Hardrock Mines Act (H.R. 7779) in the U.S. House of Representatives.  Introduced by Reps. Celeste Maloy ...

From L:R) Senator John Cavanaugh (District 9), Senator Mike Jacobson (District 42), Senator Danielle Conrad (District 46), Evan Egger (AFI Hunt Participant), Dustin McKenna (NE AFI Liaison) AFI Veterans Waterfowl Bill signed into Law in Nebraska! Veterans and Active-Duty Service members received a win from Nebraska Game and Parks on Friday 8 March 2024.  The Commissioners of Nebraska Game and Parks voted unanimously to establish a Veteran Waterfowl Season.  This season will run for two days ...

Jim Heffelfinger, Arizona Game and Fish Wildlife Science Co-ordinator, Chairman of the Mule Deer Working Group, wildlife conservation professional, author of Deer of the Southwest. Coming at you live from the 2024 Mule Deer Expo in Salt Lake City, Hal catches up with one of America’s rockstars of wildlife conservation and research, Arizona’s Jim Heffelfinger. The conversation roams and wanders, from mule deer and blacktails, habitat and CWD, to Mexican wolves and hunting javelina, with a ...

On March 16th Nebraska Backcountry Hunters and Anglers hosted a fence removal project at Nebraska Game and Park’s Wapiti Wildlife Management Area in the Loess Canyons south of North Platte. As the name suggests the 1920 acre Wapiti WMA is home to elk but is also great habitat for mule deer, white-tailed deer, and turkey. Fourteen volunteers completed removal of a barbed wire fence, and net wire fence, on the southeast section of the WMA. Three of the volunteers drew gifts from generous BHA ...