News for Immediate ReleaseJan. 7, 2019Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org   Increased logging and fuels reduction prescribed in executive order could reduce wildfire but increase disturbance in big game habitat, fisheries   WASHINGTON – Millions of acres of public lands big game habitat and fisheries overseen by the Interior and Agriculture departments will be subject to vaguely defined management practices intended to minimize wildfire under an executive ...

  News for Immediate ReleaseDec. 21, 2018Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262,  mckalip@backcountryhunters.org   MISSOULA, Mont. – Following today’s breakdown of congressional budget negotiations that triggered the start of a government shutdown at midnight tonight, BHA President and CEO Land Tawney issued the following response: “Our public lands and waters and the critters that inhabit them rely on the stewardship of our federal land managers. The expertise, energy and commitment they ...

  News for Immediate ReleaseDec. 20, 2018Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org   Interior Department moves ahead with renewal of controversial mining leases upstream of Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness ELY, Minn. – An administration decision to renew controversial and contested minerals leases in the Boundary Waters watershed in Minnesota jeopardizes a world-class wilderness while advancing industrial development, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers stated ...

  News for Immediate ReleaseDec. 15, 2018Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org   Missoula, Mont. - Following an announcement by the Trump administration of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s resignation, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers President and CEO Land Tawney offered the following response:  “Ryan Zinke came to the Interior Department with an ambitious vision for overseeing the nation’s great natural resources, but he ultimately broke his contract with the ...

News for Immediate ReleaseDec. 6, 2018Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org   Sportsmen and women criticize weakened conservation policies in administration plan for the Western sage steppe   MISSOULA, Mont. – New sage grouse management plans unveiled by the Bureau of Land Management could unravel years of stakeholder collaboration and reduce habitat conservation measures for sagebrush country that have played a major role in keeping the greater sage grouse off ...

News for Immediate ReleaseOct. 1, 2018Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org    Local conservation and public access projects across the country could languish as a result of Congress’ inaction   WASHINGTON – Inability by Congress to find time and prioritize the Land and Water Conservation Fund led to the expiration of one of America’s most successful and long-lived conservation and access programs, said Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, which accelerated calls for ...

News for Immediate ReleaseSept. 25, 2018Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org On National Voter Registration Day, BHA calls on hunters and anglers to vote their values, offers resources on candidates MISSOULA, Mont. – Today, National Voter Registration Day, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers is urging sportsmen and women to“Vote Public Lands and Waters” and launching a series of state-based questionnaires designed to inform voters about the stances taken by ...

News for Immediate ReleaseSept. 18, 2018Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org The newest issue of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers’ magazine is available today MISSOULA, Mont. – The latest edition of BHA’s quarterly publication, Backcountry Journal, is arriving in members’ and distributors’ mailboxes this week. The new issue is loaded with educational and experiential articles about backcountry adventure, the politics of public lands – including BHA’s new campaign ...

News for Immediate ReleaseSept. 17, 2018Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org Healthy salmon fisheries, remote big game habitat at risk of industrial development; other roadless backcountry in Alaska threatened MISSOULA, Mont. – Remote fish and wildlife habitat in America’s largest national forest, the Tongass in Alaska, soon could be crisscrossed by a network of roads and other inventoried roadless areas left vulnerable to similar development under a proposal ...

News for Immediate ReleaseSept. 13, 2018Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org WASHINGTON – Backcountry Hunters & Anglers today welcomed a unanimous vote by a U.S. House of Representatives committee to advance a measure that would permanently reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund at $900 million annually. The House Natural Resources Committee passed a modified version of a bill, H.R. 502, in a voice vote today. Committee Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) and ...