For Immediate Release  May 24, 2024 Contact: Brittany Parker 863-885-1650, parker@backcountryhunters.org BHA Receives $313K for Virtual Fencing Stewardship Project in CO WALDEN, CO — Backcountry Hunters & Anglers is proud to announce the awarding of a $313,200 grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) for wildlife and grasslands conservation in southern Colorado. BHA staff land management agencies and ranchers will be utilizing virtual fencing, a new technology that helps ...

Hunting access on Big Springs STL is an outcome of the Public Access Program and provides approximately 10,000 acres of land for hunting access near Elicott, CO outside of Colorado Springs.  This project was a collaboration between Backcountry Hunters and Anglers (BHA) and Colorado Parks and Wildlife, lead by Colorado Chapter Board Member and CPW Biologist Ty Woodward, with input from the Ag Lessee on the state trust property.  The funding for the fencing materials was provided through a ...

"We've seen elk calves tangled up in this fencing multiple times." - local hunters In partnership with Colorado Parks & Wildlife, BHA and volunteers removed 1.75 miles of fencing in the rugged pinyon juniper forests of Meeker, CO during National Public Lands Day weekend. Over the Fall CPW will drive through, load up the removed materials, and truck it to the scrap yard to be recycled. While removing woven wire fence from the top of a ridge, two hunters out glassing approached us to share ...