Media Chapter News Press Releases New Senate Bill Would Conserve Over 700,000 Acres of Colorado Public Lands 9/26/2024 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sep. 26, 2024 Contact: Thomas Plank, 303-720-0111, plank@backcountryhunters.org New Senate Bill Would Conserve Over 700,000 Acres of Colorado Public Lands WASHINGTON, D.C. –... Tags: Colorado News, the campfire, press releases Download
Media Chapter News Press Releases Anglers and Hunters Applaud Introduction of Legislation to Create Sáttítla National Monument 8/30/2024 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Aug. 30, 2024 Contact: Joel Weltzien, (406) 925-3771, weltzien@backcountryhunters.org Anglers and Hunters Applaud Introduction of Legislation to Create Sáttítla National... Tags: policy blog, the campfire, press releases, California news, California Chapter Download
Media Chapter News Press Releases BLM to Maintain Conservation Status for 28 Million Acres in Alaska 8/29/2024 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Aug. 29, 2024 Contact: Mary Glaves, 415-246-5329, glaves@backcountryhunters.org BLM to Maintain Conservation Status for 28 Million Acres in Alaska Washington, D.C.... Tags: policy blog, the campfire, press releases, Alaska Chapter Download
Media Chapter News State Issues Press Releases Utah Attempts to Wrest Public Lands Out of Public Hands 8/20/2024 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Aug. 20, 2024 Contact: Devin O’Dea, 415-246-5329 odea@backcountryhunters.org Utah Attempts to Wrest Public Lands Out of Public Hands SALT LAKE CITY, UT — Backcountry... Tags: Utah Issues, Utah News, policy blog, the campfire, featured, press releases Download
Media Chapter News Press Releases Legislation to Restore Hunting to California’s Castle Mountains, Improve Public Land Management 5/2/2024 For Immediate Release May 2, 2024 Contact: Thomas Plank, 303-720-0111 plank@backcountryhunters.org Legislation to Restore Hunting to California’s Castle Mountains, Improve Public Land... Tags: the campfire, press releases, California news Download
Media Chapter News Press Releases Chuckwalla National Monument Would Conserve, Connect Public Lands 4/16/2024 For Immediate Release April 16, 2024 Contact: Thomas Plank, 303-720-0111 plank@backcountryhunters.org Chuckwalla National Monument Would Conserve, Connect Public Lands WASHINGTON, D.C.— As... Tags: policy blog, the campfire, press releases, California news Download
Media Chapter News BHA, Other NGOs Save Waterfowl Season at Popular Missouri National Wildlife Refuge 9/6/2023 Backcountry Hunters & Anglers recently helped score a big win for hunter access and opportunity in Missouri that will keep hunting open during the upcoming waterfowl season at Swan Lake National... Tags: policy blog, the campfire, access, Missouri Chapter, Missouri News Download
Media Chapter News Press Releases Sego Trailhead Expansion Joins Public, Private Forces to Expand Access for Backcountry Users 8/4/2023 News for Immediate ReleaseJuly 19, 2023Contact: Katie DeLorenzo, 505-410-6284, delorenzo@backcountryhunters.org SALT LAKE CITY, UT. — In a multi-agency and organization collaboration, Utah... Tags: stewardship blog, Utah News, press releases, habitat Download
Media Chapter News Press Releases Arkansas BHA Brokers Access Agreement to Thousands of Acres 7/13/2023 News for Immediate ReleaseJuly 13, 2023Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org Volunteer-driven partnership with private landowner and Game and Fish Commission... Tags: the campfire, press releases, public access, public lands, Arkansas Chapter, Arkansas News Download
Media Chapter News Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Armed Forces Initiative (AFI) Names Matt Lee Colorado AFI Liaison 5/5/2023 Army National Guard veteran Matt Lee was named Armed Forces Initiative (AFI) Liaison for the Colorado Backcountry Hunters & Anglers AFI Club. Matt was born in Iowa and raised in both Iowa and... Tags: Colorado News, Colorado BHA, AFI Comms Channel, Colorado Chapter Download
Media Chapter News Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 152: Murder of the Grand Kankakee Marsh 3/28/2023 “I have never yet found a place that equaled the Kankakee swamps for the variety of game to be found there.” – J. Lorenzo Werich, 1920. Few know the history now. None who experienced it are still... Tags: Illinois news, the campfire, Podcast, Indiana News Download
Media Chapter News Protect Colorado's Thompson Divide 12/7/2022 Backcountry Hunters & Anglers has been working for years to secure greater certainty for Colorado’s Thompson Divide and the quality hunting and fishing experiences it provides. Now we need your... Tags: Colorado News, Colorado BHA, policy blog, the campfire Download
Media Chapter News Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 145: Ethnobotanist Dr. Susan Leopold 11/22/2022 Dr. Susan Leopold is an ethnobotanist who spent the early years of her career in the jungles of the Peruvian Amazon and Central America. An epiphany led her home, to Virginia and to the American... Tags: the campfire, Podcast, Ohio News, Mid-Atlantic News, Capital News Download
Media Chapter News State Issues Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Rewards OHV Enforcement in Hesperus, CO 9/16/2022 HESPERUS, CO — Backcountry Hunters & Anglers recently issued a reward to a citizen who reported illegal OHV use on Colorado’s public lands. Law enforcement officers from the U.S. Forest Service... Tags: Colorado News, Colorado Issues, the campfire, OHV Download
Media Chapter News Press Releases New Mexico Supreme Court Rules in Support of Public Access to Public Waters 9/2/2022 News for Immediate ReleaseSept. 2, 2022Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org Decision confirms the public’s right to walk or wade streambeds that cross privately... Tags: the campfire, featured, press releases, New Mexico news, New Mexico Chapter, stream access Download
Media Chapter News Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 139: Kyle Lybarger, Native Habitat Project 8/30/2022 Kyle Lybarger, a 29-year-old consulting forester, father, deer-hunter, small creek addict and self-proclaimed “native plant nerd” of Hartselle, Alabama, is a major part of a new and wonderful... Tags: the campfire, Podcast, Southeast News Download
Media Chapter News Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 138: Mississippi Forester Alex Harvey 8/16/2022 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... Tags: the campfire, Podcast, Southeast News Download
Media Chapter News Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 137: Marine Veteran and Storyteller Russell Worth Parker 8/2/2022 Russell Worth Parker, known as Worth, is a retired Marine and a veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan. After 27 years in the Corps, he is home in Wilmington, North Carolina, hunting and fishing and... Tags: North Carolina News, the campfire, AFI Comms Channel, Podcast, public lands Download
Media Chapter News Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 129: Joseph Jenkins, biologist, herpetologist, Alabama wanderer 4/12/2022 The Bankhead National Forest in Alabama is a place of shadowed canyons and rushing coldwater creeks, crystalline waterfalls and bluff shelters blackened by the smoke from campfires over thousands... Tags: the campfire, Podcast, public lands, Southeast News Download
Media Chapter News Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 128: Alabama Herpetologist Jimmy Stiles 3/29/2022 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... Tags: Podcast, Southeast News Download
Media Chapter News State Issues Help Pennsylvania BHA Fight for Sunday Hunting 9/16/2021 Pennsylvania Backcountry Hunters and Anglers believes that restrictions on Sunday hunting are an impediment to reasonable hunting access, and we support the effort made by Senator Dan Laughlin... Tags: Pennsylvania Chapter, Pennsylvania Issues, Pennsylvania News Download