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5

Jun

2025

Alaska BHA Kenai Refuge Canoe Route Clearing Recap

Alaska BHA Kenai Refuge Canoe Route Clearing Recap     By Neal Koeneman, Jeff Knisley, & Mary Glaves    Clearing the Canoe Portages on the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge with Paddling-ton Bear & the Alaska BHA Crew Twenty dusty miles north of Sterling is the U.S. Fish and Wildlife (USFWS) Education Center, the Den. Geographically, It’s in the heart of a mesh of lakes, and trails in the wet flat expanse of the northern Kenai Peninsula. The area is a part of the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge ...
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12

May

2025

Public Land Stewards on the Taos Plateau

    The Taos plateau is a high elevation basalt filled valley in north New Mexico.  It is bordered by the Tusas mountains to the west and the Sangre de Cristo in the east.  It sits at 7,000' elevation and experiences frigid winters and scalding summers.  In 2013 the area was designated the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument.  It encompasses 242,555 acres of sagebrush, grassland, piñon juniper forest and the Rio Grande gorge.  In the winter, large herds of elk migrate out of the Tusas ...
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29

Jan

2025

Backcountry Stewardship in the Bootheel of New Mexico

  The Bootheel region of New Mexico is normally viewed from inside a car speeding down I-10.  From the interstate it appears desolate and dry.  Large wide expanses of creosote bush and mesquite fade off into distant rocky peaks.  If you have ever hunted or hiked in this landscape, you know that it is full of life to be discovered.   Javelina scattered along the hillsides searching for barrel cactus fruit, mule deer browsing the mesquite bushes, Gambel's quail in the washes, pronghorn in the ...
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10

Dec

2024

Summer Recap - Fence Pull with RMEF at Pumphouse

Author: Briant Wiles
    Here comes Jerry and yes, he has sandwiches. The midday heat does little to dampen the appetite we have worked up after a morning of unburdening the local hillside of outdated fencing. There is a scramble to help Jerry unload the cooler and soon the frenzy dies down replaced with mild munching noises. We eat then lounge contented in the shade watching the Colorado River roll on as it is want to do. Jerry Pelis is back again and this time he means business. Not that he did not mean ...
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28

Oct

2024

Battle at Bellyache Ridge

Author: Briant Wiles
Battle At Bellyache Ridge Fence Removal  By Briant Wiles   It was the end of May 2024, and the BHA stewardship team was riding high after victories at Meeker, Rabbit Mountain, Perins Peak, and the momentous Beer, Bands, and Barbwire Strands event. I might say that we were a little bit smug having battled everything from 4 strand wire in scrub oak to woven wire embedded in thick sage. Overconfident and foolhardy I plunged the Toyota off the pavement onto the dirt road leading up Bellyache ...
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10

Oct

2024

Event Recap: Wick's Wildlife Area Fence Removal

Nineteen Iowa BHA members, college students, and family members gathered on September 15th, 2024 at Wick's Wildlife Area outside of Story City, IA for a fence removal project. The goal of the project was to remove as much fence as possible to improve access to the small section of the South Skunk River located in the northwest corner of the parcel, as well as mitigating the hazards downed fenceline can have to hunters and their dogs.   In just 4 hours, members of IA BHA and partnered with ...
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2

Oct

2024

EVENT RECAP: USACE Waterfowl Work Day Brings Immediate Results For Minnesota BHA Members

Public Lands Month is not only a chance for BHA members to celebrate our wild places and be thankful for the opportunities they have given us, but it is also our chance to give back to them. Minnesota BHA and AFI members gathered on the shores of Big Sandy Lake in east-central Minnesota on Sept. 27 in partnership with the U.S Army Corp of Engineers for a workday installing wood duck houses and mapping locations to record future nesting successes. After a morning of introductions of members ...
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30

Sep

2024

Villa Grove STL Fence Removal

Author: Briant Wiles
Villa Grove State Trust Lands  Fence Removal By Briant Wiles   Looking up from the fence our eyes are drawn to a solid wall of mountains that sweep south lining the bathtub of sediment that is the San Luis Valley in South central Colorado. The breeze picks up and a gust of wind brings cool notes of autumn refreshing the smell of sage tinted air. With bolt cutters and fence pliers we drop the old, barbed wire from wind polished ceder posts. These weathered posts stood as mute testament to a ...
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24

Sep

2024

San Isabel National Forest Fence Removal

Author: Briant Wiles
  San Isabel National Forest Fence Removal By Briant Wiles   “The fence just disappeared” was the overheard remark of one of the participants at the recent Salida fence pull event. 16 motivated volunteers meet up on a warm and sunny mid-September morning at a work site on San Isabel National Forest. A joint effort between BHA, Greater Arkansas Nature Association (GARNA), and Chaffee County Rec Adopters brought folks together from many walks of life with one goal in common: improve habitat. ...
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5

Sep

2024

Howe Ranch Fence Removal

Author: Briant Wiles
Howe Ranch Fence Removal By Briant Wiles   With the elk bugling and the temps starting to come down in the mountains of central Colorado my mind drifts back to the heat of the summer and one of my most memorable fence pulls this year. It was a few months ago that the BHA stewardship team headed north of Hayden, CO but came back with a renewed sense of purpose knowing that there are so many good folks out there fighting the good fight.  Somewhere between old west lore and a new western ...
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