With 2024 coming to an end, we would like to take the opportunity to reflect on California BHA's engagement and accomplishments that were made possible by the support of our dedicated members and volunteers. Stewardship Beers, Bands, & Bitterbrush Stands 2024 This last October, BHA corralled over 45 volunteers to help get 10,000 seedlings planted at the Hallelujah Junction Wildlife Area to restore critical winter range habitat for mule deer, pronghorn antelope, and elk. BHA then hosted our ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Nov. 15, 2024 Contact: Devin O'Dea 415-246-5329, odea@backcountryhunters.org | Scott Gibson 909-210-0548, scottygibson@gmail.com Backcountry Hunters & Anglers and the California Wild Sheep Foundation Join Forces with US Marines on Guzzler Tank Replacement Project for Peninsular Bighorn Sheep   ANZA BORREGO DESERT STATE PARK - In a critical effort to support Peninsular bighorn sheep and other native wildlife in California’s Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, the California ...

Seven volunteers from Kansas BHA and two Pheasants Forever Habitat Specialists joined staff from Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks at Lovewell Wildlife Area to assist with an on-the-ground land stewardship project February 24, 2024. Volunteers and workers cleared trees from fence lines, pulled old wooden posts, and rolled dilapidated barbed-wire fence on a 40-acre tract west of the White Rock Creek boat ramp and camping area. KDWP purchased the tract from Pheasants Forever in 2022 and ...

The Indiana BHA Chapter had a great day of stewardship at J.E Roush Lake Fish and Wildlife Area in Huntington on Saturday, 1/27.  We had 22 awesome volunteers show up to assemble 24 wood duck boxes for this popular piece of public land! Thanks to such a great turn out, we quickly got ahead of schedule with box construction and had time to get out and place four of these boxes around one of the property ponds. Volunteers also had time to re-focus efforts towards picking up trash from key ...

On October 21st, 2023, the Nevada chapter of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers in partnership with the Bureau of Land Management, Tuscarora Field Office conducted fencing repairs along Dixie Creek in northeastern Nevada. Most of the fencing repairs required along Dixie Creek stemmed from flooding and high flows that occurred in the spring of 2023 during the spring runoff that damaged fences crossing along the drainage. The high flows damaged approximately ten fence crossings along the lower ...