FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:   March 18, 2025      CONTACT:   Devin O’Dea, Western Policy & Conservation Manager, odea@backcountryhunters.org     Denver, CO – In a huge victory for public land owners, today Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA) applauded the ruling by United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit affirming the right to “corner-cross" to access public lands. The ruling marks a pivotal decision that cements the legality of public access to millions of acres of public lands in ...

Kansans are facing a rash of bills in the state legislature that will greatly affect hunters and anglers. It should be noted that all these bills originated from the House Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources Budget, which is led by Representative Ken Corbet of Topeka. Below is a synopsis of each bill and its status. Please follow Kansas BHA on Instagram as well as the Kansas BHA Podcast for up-to-date information on these bills. If you are a Kansas hunter or angler, please reach ...

Everybody knows there's no such thing as a free lunch, right? Yet there are some folks in the Kansas legislature who think that you don't understand that fact. They think that offering you free deer tags will pull the wool over your eyes and hide what they are actually trying to do. A bill introduced in the Kansas Legislature this session (HB 2079) offers a lot of folks free deer tags, but it has nothing to do with deer tags in the long term. The real goal of that bill is to change hunting ...

On September 17th, the Kansas Chapter of BHA helped the Army Corp of Engineers (USACE) to clean up a marijuana growth operation at Perry Lake in Eastern Kansas.  In 2014 the FBI along with a host of other agencies, busted the illegal operation and confiscated 9,800 plants that were hidden deep in the woods on USACE property.  The remaining equipment used to cultivate the plants was to remain in place under FBI surveillance for five years to determine if anyone else was involved in the ...