Full digital issues of the Backcountry Journal are available to BHA members. Check out a preview below, or click here to join BHA. Already a member? Click here to log in. News for Immediate ReleaseSept. 26, 2019Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org  The newest issue of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers’ magazine is available today MISSOULA, Mont. – The fall issue of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers’ quarterly magazine, Backcountry ...

News for Immediate ReleaseOct. 3, 2019Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org BHA membership is young, politically diverse, active public lands users, new demographic survey reveals MISSOULA, Mont. – Increasingly Backcountry Hunters & Anglers members are rejecting partisan party politics but remain young, active and passionate users of public lands and waters, according to the results of a new, comprehensive survey of the membership of the fastest growing ...

News for Immediate ReleaseSept. 30, 2019Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org Interior Secretary David Bernhardt extends Pendley’s appointment to 2020 WASHINGTON – Reacting to an administration decision to extend the appointment of William Perry Pendley, a noted public lands critic, as acting head of the Bureau of Land Management, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers President and CEO Land Tawney offered the following response: “As hunting season enters full swing, ...

News for Immediate ReleaseSept. 26, 2019Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org Natural resources funding increased, but lack of dedicated, full funding for LWCF a missed opportunity WASHINGTON – Backcountry Hunters & Anglers is calling a Senate fiscal year 2020 spending bill a positive on many fronts, although appropriators are settling for only a modest increase for the Land and Water Conservation Fund over currently enacted levels. The Senate Appropriations ...

News for Immediate ReleaseSept. 5, 2019Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org Groups unite to condemn move to exempt motorized bikes from motorized travel management decisions WASHINGTON – Sportsmen and women are opposing an Interior Department decision to open millions of acres of public land trails to motorized e-bikes, threatening intact fish and wildlife habitat and undermining science-based land management strategies. As framed via Secretarial Order 3376 ...

News for Immediate ReleaseSept. 3, 2019Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org Public Land Pack Out challenges BHA members and supporters to clean up our public lands during their days afield MISSOULA, Mont. – Backcountry Hunters & Anglers members are coming together in force during Public Lands Month, working, activating and celebrating in support of our North American lands and waters – and, via BHA’s Public Land Pack Out, leaving them a little better than they ...

News for Immediate ReleaseAug. 20, 2019Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org Backcountry Hunters & Anglers partners with Highlander Beer in support of North American public lands and waters MISSOULA, Mont. – Backcountry Hunters & Anglers and Highlander Beer are partnering on a new beer, Public Land Owner American Pale Ale.   Brewed and canned out of Missoula, Montana, where both BHA and Highlander are headquartered, Public Land Owner Pale Ale is light-bodied ...

News for Immediate ReleaseAug. 13, 2019Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org Koch follows a decades-long career in public lands resource management by joining BHA's North American leadership team MISSOULA, Mont. – Biologist Ted Koch has joined the Backcountry Hunters & Anglers North American board of directors, bringing passion and expertise on public lands honed during a career in natural resource management. As traditional bowhunter and ecologist, Koch ...

News for Immediate ReleaseAug. 8, 2019Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org New management plan removes protections for hundreds of thousands of acres of public lands, leaving the greater sage grouse vulnerable to continued population declines WASHINGTON – A new plan from the Trump administration proposes sweeping changes to existing management strategies for the greater sage grouse and is drawing blistering criticism from sportsmen and women and other public ...

News for Immediate ReleaseJuly 26, 2019Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org William Perry Pendley, an outspoken proponent of selling off public lands and waters, has been appointed BLM policy head, charting management of 245 million acres WASHINGTON – Backcountry Hunters & Anglers bluntly criticized an administration decision to elevate a well-known advocate of the sale of public lands to the top policy position at the Bureau of Land Management. William Perry ...