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Striped Bass & ASMFC Spring Meeting 2023

Back in 2022 every BHA Chapter from North Carolina to Maine – the entire footprint of the Atlantic Striped Bass range – advocated for conservation-minded priorities in Amendment 7 to the Striped...
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House Bills Would Weaken, Strip Funding from Land and Water Conservation Fund

News for Immediate ReleaseApril 28, 2023Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org BHA roundly condemns suite of House bills that would undermine America’s most...
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Northwest Colorado Fence Pulling & Greater Sage Grouse Leks Viewing

Project Description Over the weekend of April 22 & 23, Colorado's Habitat Stewardship Coordinator, CPW Biologist Brian Holmes, and BHA volunteers ripped out one mile of fence that was impacting...
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Western Hunting for Texans

The best resources for Texans wanting to get into western hunting: Subscriptions   My first memory with subscriptions for hunting was at Bill’s Barbershop in Archer City, Texas. Part of Bill’s...
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BHA Shuts Down a Petition Attempting to Close Nearshore Fishing in California

Fish & Game Commission voted unanimously to reject a petition that would have closed over 250 miles of nearshore fishing access in California's Central Coast. A petition before the Fish & Game...
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Colorado BHA Q2 2023 Update

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA) mission is to ensure North America’s outdoor heritage of hunting and fishing in a natural setting, through education and work on behalf of wild public lands,...
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North Dakota BHA 2023 Legislative Roundup

First and foremost, the reason for this blog is a sincere – and huge - THANK YOU!!! It’s been a long, arduous legislative session and we are overall happy with the way things have shaken out....
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Hoosiers must preserve investment in public land

The following is an excerpt from an Op-Ed written By Dan Boritt, executive director of Indiana Wildlife Federation and Scott Salmon, a board member of Indiana Backcountry Hunters & Anglers...
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Acreage Added to Preserve portion of New River Gorge National Park

  When the New River Gorge National Park & Preserve redesignation went into effect hunters were left holding the short straw as we were now permanently excluded from 4,385 acres of what was once...
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California BHA's Guide to Navigating a Full Fish & Game Commission Agenda

The Fish & Game Commission meets this Wednesday and Thursday (4/19 & 4/20), and we hope you can show up to provide comments on some very important issues for hunters and anglers in...
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TX BHA Cleans Up Grapevine Lake

Grapevine, Texas - The Texas Backcountry Hunters & Anglers chapter held a public land clean-up day on March 11th at Lake Grapevine Wildlife Management Unit (WMA) with nineteen volunteers. Austin...
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New Year, New Zero "a day at the range"

  I hear the familiar sound of the bolt running a round into a chamber of my buddies Browning X-bolt. I am focused on looking through my spotting scope and watching the young Black tail, slowly...
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Kiowa National Grasslands - 2023 Project Recap

I originally joined BHA, because I wanted to be outside, doing cool things with like-minded folk. I quickly found BHA was the perfect Reese’s peanut butter cup of getting guidance to advance my...
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Florida BHA encourages hunting, recreation access in proposed USFWS Conservation Area

The following comment was submitted 4-17-2023 to the USFWS regarding its proposed Southwest Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Area:   To: United States Fish & Wildlife Service From: Florida...
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Central Coast Heritage Protection Act Reintroduced

BHA is once again rallying support behind the Central Coast Heritage Protection Act recently reintroduced by Representative Salud Carbajal (CA-24). This legislation would add nearly 250,000 acres...
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GET ENGAGED

Importance of Engagement- What can you do? Whether you’ve been in Washington your whole life or just moved here recently now is the time. If you’ve always been immersed in the out of doors or have...
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The Cackalacky Caller Vol. 1 Fourth Edition

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Colorado Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Increase Reward For Illegal Trail Construction (Help Stop Trail Building “Free-For-All”)

In support of our state’s elk, mule deer, trout and a myriad of other species that rely on public lands habitat for survival, the Colorado chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA) is...
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Spring 2023 CO BHA Newsletter

“Spring, in addition to many other things, is a time for renewal of memories that may have grown dim during the winter.” – Sigurd F. Olson, Wilderness Days  As the days grow longer and the weather...
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ArrowRifles During Archery Season in OK

Do Arrow Rifles have a place in Archery Season?  Legislation in Oklahoma that would allow an ArrowRifle to be used during Archery Season isgetting a lot of attention. Naturally, the groups...
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New York BHA Chapter Newsletter - April

Welcome! Hello everyone!  In my neck of the woods, March is not going out full lamb but the cacophony of birds returning and toms strutting gives hope that spring will be here shortly. Although...