For Immediate Release: July 18, 2025   For Information Contact: Valerie DiMarzio, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, vdimarzio@cbf.org Alena Billingsley, Armed Forces Initiative, afimarketing@backcountryhunters.org      ANNAPOLIS, MD—In a triumph for outdoor stewardship and clean water, roughly a dozen U.S. veterans and servicemembers joined the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) this week to restore oyster habitat in Maryland and Virginia.   Both events were part of a larger Chesapeake Bay fishing ...

  Stewardship in Action: Fence Removal, Field Education, and Sweat Equity  On the Thursday leading into Rende 2025, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers and the Missoula BLM field office kicked off the weekend with a boots on the ground stewardship project. Twenty-five volunteers and four BLM staff headed up the Blackfoot River, just east of Missoula, to remove half a mile of old fencing along Belmont Creek.     Over coffee and a light breakfast, the BLM's Assistant Field Manager gave a ...

On a ridgeline at 8,000 feet in the west Pioneer mountains outside of Jackson, Montana, 13 volunteers from Montana BHA spent their summer solstice rolling up barbed wire and hauling it out of the forest, camping out on a mountaintop, and repeating the process over the next day. Oh yeah, and all of this was done in a straight up blizzard!This shining example of Type II fun was completed as part of a partnership between BHA and the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) in their joint effort to ...

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 ...