Nine months after Hurricane Helene ripped through the Southern Appalachians, contractors hired by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers continue to rip through critical aquatic habitats in the name of storm debris removal. The most recent victim of this ongoing and unwarranted natural disaster, a .75-mile stretch of Little Rose Creek, located within the Pisgah Gamelands in Mitchell County. Originating up near the Blue Ridge Parkway, Little Rose is a known site for native Southern Appalachian ...

North Carolina House Bill 1012 provides 500 million dollars of funding to state agencies and grants to local governments for Hurricane Helene disaster recovery. While we applaud the additional funding for desperately needed relief to the mountain region of North Carolina impacted by Hurricane Helene last year, we have an issue in regards to Part III, Section 3.1(a) of the bill. This section requires local governments to use US Army Corp of Engineers (USACOE) contractors for waterway and ...

NC BHA’s 5th Annual Hunt for Squirrels & Trash on North Carolina’s Public Lands Saturday, January 28th — Saturday, February 12th Trashy is back!! Too good to be true? Nope. Too cool for school? Yep. Too hot to handle? Maybe. Too cold to hold? Shoot straight and find out. NC BHA’s fifth annual Trashy Squirrel Hunt is going to be the best one yet! We’re adding an extra weekend on the front end, which means more time to collect trash and tails on North Carolina’s public lands. We’ve updated ...

In celebration of Public Lands Month, North Carolina State University BHA in collaboration with Opportunity Outdoors hosted a combination Deer Hunting Workshop/Public Land Packout.  The event took place on Jordan Game Lands in Chatham County, North Carolina.  In total there were 12 participants attend, including members from the North Carolina chapter.  The event started out with four local mentors, two of which were from Opportunity Outdoors, demonstrating various methods of tree stand ...

Officers:  Andrew Howell, Torey Vayer, Eric White, Emma Maier The NC State club is close to reaching its one-year birthday with 12 active members and eyes on continued outreach and growth throughout the next semester. They started the semester by focusing on recruitment, tabling at the Wolfpack welcome week where they created visibility for the club and successfully secured five new club members. For Public Lands Month the club hosted a pack out at the Beaver Creek canoe access on Jordan ...