Media Chapter News State Issues E-Bikes & Elk: A Bad Combination 5/21/2020 A recent story in The Aspen Times (“Traditional cyclists, e-bikers clash over new trail rules across Colorado,” 5/17/20) included some observations from Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA) State... Tags: Colorado Chapter, OHV
Media Chapter News Utah Legislative Action Committee Recap 5/20/2020 In an effort to more directly engage in bill tracking and direct lobbying efforts during the Legislative Session, BHA Utah created a Legislative Action Committee to make a more concerted and... Tags: Utah Chapter
Media Press Releases BHA Rendezvous Goes Global in 2020 5/18/2020 News for Immediate ReleaseMay 18, 2020Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org North America’s biggest gathering of public lands hunters and anglers shifts to online... Tags: the campfire, press releases
Media Chapter News Ohio BHA Comments on HB 553 5/18/2020 Restricting the Ohio Division of Wildlife as the state agency to manage the very resources it is charged with managing is a misstep. Singling out the Chief of the Division of Wildlife and removing... Tags: Ohio Chapter
Media Chapter News State Issues Help expand hunting on National Wildlife Refuges in New York 5/13/2020 Expand Access on Federal Lands in NYLast month, Interior Secretary David Bernhardt proposed expanding hunting and fishing opportunities across more than 2.3 million acres at 97 national wildlife... Tags: New York Chapter
Media Chapter News Q&A with University of Wisconsin Steven's Point Club Leaders 5/4/2020 Jeffrey Edwards – President Q: What is your hunting/fishing/outdoor background? A: I've grown up surrounded by hunting and fishing. My earliest memories are panfishing in northern Wisconsin with... Tags: Wisconsin Chapter, Collegiate Program
Media Chapter News NC State Club Vice President Creates Film "Why America Needs Hunting Now: Does Hunting Help Conservation?" 5/4/2020 Torey Vayer does not identify herself as a hunter or angler. She does, however, consider herself a conservationist. Torey grew up in Rockville, Maryland where a love of animals and the outdoors... Tags: North Carolina Chapter, Collegiate Program
Media Chapter News 4/30/20 NMDGF Game Commission Recap 4/30/2020 A new committee devoted specifically to the concerns of hunters was formed Thursday during the State Game Commission meeting. Proposed by Vice-chairwoman Roberta Salazar Henry, the Hunt Structure... Tags: New Mexico Chapter
Media Chapter News Public Land in a Pandemic 4/28/2020 Image Vince Scott Indiana’s turkey season is here! Like many of you, I will be taking to the woods and fields for the next few weeks in the hopes of calling in a cooperative long beard. In a... Tags: Indiana Chapter
Media Chapter News Backcountry Journal The Pennsylvania Chapter’s Huge Win on Sunday Hunting 4/28/2020 Photo courtesy of Pennsylvania BHA member John Conte III By Don Rank Despite routinely boasting some of the largest numbers of hunters in the United States, Pennsylvania is one of the few... Tags: Pennsylvania Chapter, Backcountry Journal
Media Chapter News Women in the Woods Presents: Michele White of Tumbling Trout 4/24/2020 Written by Chyanne Davis Michele White is an author, conservationist, and the owner of Tumbling Trout Fly Shop in Lake George, Colorado. On the surface Tumbling Trout appears to be a... Tags: Colorado Chapter, Collegiate Program