Engaging students in advocacy to protect public lands, waters, and wildlife is at the heart of BHA’s Collegiate Program. Since the program’s inception in 2016, this is how we’ve been educating our college members about important conservation legislation and teaching them how to use their voices to speak up for our wild places. The Great American Outdoors Act BHA members were instrumental in helping pass the Great American Outdoors Act in August 2020 and our student leaders were no ...

This Public Lands Month, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers and our partners at Sportsmen for the Boundary Waters are highlighting our work on behalf of Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Wildfires closed the BWCA and surrounding areas to visitation this summer and showed the massive impact the Boundary Waters has on tourism and what happens when access to the area is restricted. Learn what you can do today to ensure future generations of hunters and anglers have access to the ...

Photos by Nick Dempkowski On Sept. 21, 2019, the Utah State University collegiate club of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers hosted a Public Land Pack Out in Providence Canyon. This project was in coordination with the Logan U.S. Forest Service ranger district office to remove debris from a heavily trafficked area used for recreational shooting. Due to easy accessibility from the city, this area receives an incredibly high amount of use and unfortunately is left with a gross amount of trash as ...