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Jun

2025

Nebraska Chapter June 2025 Update

Welcome to Nebraska Backcountry Hunters & Anglers June newsletter! Latest: Your Nebraska Chapter of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers hosted a volunteer event at East Willow Island Wildlife Management Area between Cozad and Gothenburg on June 21st. It was hotter than blazes! The primary objective of the event was to improve the habitat for native wildlife occurring in the region. This state WMA has large areas of invasive Chinese elm and eastern red cedar. Volunteers applied herbicide to a ...
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May

2025

Nebraska Chapter May 2025 Update

Welcome to Nebraska Backcountry Hunters & Anglers May update!   Latest:   The Nebraska Chapter of BHA held their annual Trashy Cat event May 2-4th at Two Rivers State Rec Area near Yutan, NE. Several Board members and several guests joined us for a weekend of camping, fishing, and trash cleanup. We were able to fill numerous trash bags with fishing line, bottles, cans, fishhooks, styrofoam, and plastic from the river banks and shorelines of this beautiful park. When we weren't picking up ...
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Apr

2025

Nebraska BHA April update

Welcome to Nebraska Backcountry Hunters & Anglers April update!   Latest: Nebraska BHA met with Nebraska Game and Parks biologist Adam Kester in North Platte to discuss public hunting programs and some of the partnerships to increase hunter opportunity. We discussed ways that NEBHA could support public hunting sites with our volunteer projects. Locally, NGPC has a partnership with NCORPE funding several access/fencing projects on tracts open to hunting. Stayed tuned for future updates on ...
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Mar

2025

Nebraska BHA March Newsletter

Welcome to Nebraska Backcountry Hunters & Anglers March update! This month, two BHA Nebraska board members Kyle Broadfoot and Bill Grossnicklaus set up a BHA booth at the Nebraska Bowhunters Association annual meeting in Kearney. They visited with numerous attendees and informed visitors of our mission to protect and enhance public access to Nebraska’s public Lands and Waters. The meeting and booth were a great success.     Other News: Nebraska BHA sent out a response email to the BLM ...
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Feb

2025

Nebraska BHA February 2025 Newsletter

Nebraska Backcountry Hunters & Anglers has begun sending out a regular report with a summary of our recent efforts and with alerts on potential upcoming events. This past month we added four new Board Members to Nebraska BHA. They are Cody Russell of Beatrice, Derek Leslie of Omaha, Jason Wurst of Sutherland, and Loren Smith of North Platte. To learn more about the entire board visit Click Here. This month, BHA Nebraska has been working with Nebraska Game and Parks to improve Wildlife ...
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Feb

2025

BLM proposes sale of parcels in Nebraska

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is revising its land use plan in Nebraska, potentially opening nearly all of its 5,100 acres for sale. These parcels, primarily 40 to 80 acres each, are scattered across the western two-thirds of the state and have been federally owned since the Homestead era. BLM Field Manager Chad Krause noted that many of the parcels are not easily accessible to the public without permission from adjacent landowners, reducing its public value. The Nebraska BHA chapter ...
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Mar

2024

NEBRASKA BHA FENCE REMOVAL PROJECT: Recap

Author: Chris Hager
On March 16th Nebraska Backcountry Hunters and Anglers hosted a fence removal project at Nebraska Game and Park’s Wapiti Wildlife Management Area in the Loess Canyons south of North Platte. As the name suggests the 1920 acre Wapiti WMA is home to elk but is also great habitat for mule deer, white-tailed deer, and turkey. Fourteen volunteers completed removal of a barbed wire fence, and net wire fence, on the southeast section of the WMA. Three of the volunteers drew gifts from generous BHA ...
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