On February 22, 2025, the Southeast Chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers organized a small game hunt at Sherburne Wildlife Management Area (WMA) in Lottie, Louisiana. This event combined hunting with conservation efforts, reflecting BHA's commitment to preserving public lands. There was some hunting, some trash pick up, and some camping.  Overall, a great time!   Thank you Jacob Thompson for organizing this event! Cannot wait until next year! BHA continues to organize events that align ...

The Georgia Board of BHA would like to keep you updated on the efforts to save Pine Log WMA. If you are able to attend the Bartow County zoning meetings on Feb. 7th or Feb. 9th please do in order to voice your support for public lands and keeping Pine Log WMA open. The following press release was just sent out to all major media outlets in the State of Georgia. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:                                CONSERVATION GROUPS CALL TO SAVE PINE LOG WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA Proposed ...

Come with Hal to southern Mississippi to talk with Alex Harvey, a registered professional forester in Mississippi and Alabama and a land management consultant, wildlife biologist and multi-generational conservationist, hunter and fisherman. Harvey is carrying on the outdoor traditions passed on to him from generations of his family, ranging from herbalism and foraging to rabbit, squirrel and deer hunting, cattle ranching, gardening, cooking and living a full and thriving life in the Southern ...

Ask your South Carolina State Legislators to support HB 4614; Sunday Hunting on Wildlife Management Areas. While Sunday hunting is legal on private land, hunters are still prohibited from hunting Wildlife Management Areas on Sundays. It’s time that public land hunters are afforded 7-day hunting opportunities. Please join Backcountry Hunters & Anglers in urging your state legislators to help repeal the ban on Sunday hunting on public lands in South Carolina!  

 The Conecuh National Forest in south Alabama is known as the Heart of the Longleaf, a landscape of tall pine and wiregrass, restoration and recovery, humming with life and comprising a wild diversity of plants and wildlife found nowhere else. Field biologist, herpetologist, student of deep time, and full-time hunter and fisherman Jimmy Stiles lives and works in the Conecuh, leading efforts to recover the endangered indigo snake (North America’s largest and arguably most impressive snake ...