Media Chapter News Michigan BHA Goes to Washington DC 5/20/2025 Michigan BHA goes to Washington DC In early April, Mike Donovan, Chapter Board member, participated in a “DC Fly-In” to talk to our Legislators about the importance of the Land and Water... Tags: Michigan news Download
Media Chapter News MI BHA Chapter Applauds DNR’s Decision Halt Development in Gaylord Forest Mgt Unit 2/14/2025 The Michigan chapter of BHA is pleased to report that, following our call to not skip the public input process, the Michigan DNR has halted further plans on a proposed 400 acre solar farm within... Tags: Michigan news Download
Media Chapter News MI BHA Chapter Advocates for Responsible Public Land Use 1/17/2025 MI BHA Chapter Advocates for Responsible Public Land Use The Michigan BHA chapter continues to actively advocate for the responsible management of our state’s public lands. Recently, we submitted... Tags: Michigan news Download
Media Chapter News State Issues Michigan chapter urges action to protect Lake Superior: The Threat of Copperwood Mine 12/13/2024 At Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA), we are passionate about preserving the wild places and public lands that provide us with the hunting, fishing, and recreation opportunities that we all... Tags: Michigan news, Michigan issues, Michigan Chapter Download
Media Chapter News Help Guide Planning at Keweenaw Point and Fort Wilkins State Park 11/20/2024 The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is seeking public input on two new general management plans in the Keweenaw Peninsula. One is for Keweenaw Point state-managed lands and the other is... Tags: Michigan news, Michigan Chapter Download
Media Chapter News MI DNR State Forest Managment Plan - Public Comment Opportunities 8/30/2024 Michigan DNR will release for public comment a draft of the new State Forest Management Plan Development of the Draft Management Plan was a monumental undertaking by the DNR and will set the... Tags: Michigan news, Michigan Download
Media Chapter News 2023 Michigan BHA Recap 12/22/2023 2023 has been an eventful year for the Michigan Chapter of BHA! This year, we've been deeply engaged in vital policy work that is shaping the future of our precious public lands and waters in... Tags: Michigan news, Michigan Chapter Download
Media Chapter News NMU Student Represents BHA on Collaborative Project to Improve Grouse Habitat 9/18/2023 This summer, Northern Michigan University student Michael, participated in the Collegiate Program's first stipend-based stewardship project opportunity. Stipends were offered to students to... Tags: stewardship blog, Michigan news, Michigan Chapter, habitat, Collegiate Program Download
Media Chapter News MI BHA Supports MNRTF Application for Southern Michigan Land Acquisition 9/6/2023 Recently, MI BHA sent a letter to the Michigan Natural Resources Trust Fund (MNRTF) Board and the DNR’s Wildlife Division supporting Wildlife Division’s application for 4.8 million dollars to... Tags: Michigan news Download
Media Chapter News 2023 Michigan BHA Rendezvous Recap 8/4/2023 Michigan BHA Rendezvous Provides Connection and Community There is a unique sense of connection experienced at every BHA gathering. It is the result of knowing that a love for public land,... Tags: Michigan news, Michigan Download
Media Chapter News Michigan DNR Rejects Camp Grayling Expansion 5/3/2023 The Michigan chapter of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers applauds the Department of Natural Resources for their decision to reject the proposed Camp Grayling lease expansion. Last summer the... Tags: Michigan news, Michigan Chapter Download
Media Chapter News State Issues Cornwall Creek Flooding - Recreation Opportunity May be Lost 3/28/2023 Cornwall Creek Flooding may be a place known to you and for others not so much. To me, the Cornwall Creek Flooding is near and dear to my heart, my family having camped on its shores every winter... Tags: Michigan news, Michigan issues, Michigan Download
Media Chapter News 2022 Michigan BHA Highlights 12/14/2022 Back at it! That’s what we are feeling here on the Michigan Chapter of BHA: the board has been fired up since the winter planning session, and we have enjoyed the ride this year! Our goals this... Tags: Michigan news, Michigan Chapter, Michigan Download
Media Chapter News State Issues Camp Grayling Expansion in Michigan and Public Access 12/12/2022 Camp Grayling expansion may inhibit public land access Earlier this year, a proposal by the Michigan National Guard to more than double the amount of public lands it already leases from the... Tags: Michigan news, Michigan issues, Michigan Download
Media Chapter News State Issues Camp Grayling Expansion in Northern Michigan 9/2/2022 Camp Grayling Expansion A recent proposal by the Michigan National Guard to more than double the amount of public lands leased from the state of Michigan is fast becoming a hot topic for... Tags: Michigan news, Michigan issues, Michigan Download
Media Chapter News CWD Research and Management Act 8/25/2022 Chronic wasting disease represents one of the greatest threats to wild deer and other cervids in Michigan and the rest of the US. This is also a threat to the quality of our hunting... Tags: Michigan news, Michigan Chapter Download
Media Chapter News Michigan BHA Chapter Removes Fences for Forest Service 7/22/2021 In early 2020, the U.S. Forest Service and Backcountry Hunters & Anglers began to work together to identify projects east of the Mississippi that would be ideal for BHA volunteers to complete.... Tags: Michigan news, Michigan Chapter Download
Media Chapter News State Issues Michigan Chapter Breaks Down Proposition 20-1 10/23/2020 The Michigan chapter of BHA is the voice for our wild public lands, waters, and wildlife in our great state and seeks to inform members on issues affecting our members as well as public lands and... Tags: Michigan news, Michigan issues, Michigan Chapter Download
Media Chapter News State Issues Action alert! The Michigan DNR needs your input on the 2021 Public Lands Strategy. 8/18/2020 $cweb(function(){ $cweb('#congressweb-action-158').congressweb({ url : '//www.congressweb.com/BHA/158', responsive : true }); }); Tags: Michigan news, Michigan issues Download
Media Chapter News One Cast, Everyone Knows the Rules 8/6/2020 As we walked further upstream, the location Sam described began to materialize. He is never one to be quiet, and he had been talking about this spot all morning. As we continued the trek, I could... Tags: Michigan news, Michigan Chapter, Michigan Download
Media Chapter News Michigan highlights 2019 and looks forward to 2020 1/27/2020 Your Michigan Board just finished our annual planning retreat and we want to share a few things with all of you about this past year and the upcoming plans that we have scheduled for 2020. First,... Tags: Michigan news, Michigan Chapter Download
Media Chapter News The 2019 Michigan BHA Rendezvous and Finding Common Ground 9/13/2019 With a few weeks to reflect on the numerous successes of the 2019 Michigan Chapter Rendezvous, common ground was the unofficial theme that kept popping into my head. Hundreds of individuals... Tags: Michigan news, Michigan Chapter Download
Media Chapter News Bonds of the Wild 6/26/2019 You hear it all the time, hell, I’ve even said it myself: “it goes fast”. But nothing can really prepare you for how fast life actually goes. How you can be in your twenties and blink and you’re... Tags: the campfire, Michigan news, Michigan Chapter, Michigan Download
Media Chapter News State Issues Bad Public Lands Bills Pass Michigan House and Senate 6/19/2018 Michigan public lands bills SB302, SB303, and HB4475 have passed the state house and senate. SB302, and 303 and HB4475 now move to Governor Snyder's desk. The Michigan Board has submitted a... Tags: Michigan news, Michigan issues Download
Media Chapter News State Issues Action Alert! Michigan Public Lands at Risk 3/6/2018 What do you get when you make it harder for the DNR to acquire public land and easer for the DNR to sell public land? Less public land. And in a death of a thousand small cuts, that’s exactly... Tags: Michigan news, Michigan issues, Michigan Chapter Download
Media Chapter News Will Jenkins, BHA's New Upper Great Lakes Coordinator 10/12/2016 Minnesota BHA board member, Will Jenkins, is BHA’s new Upper Great Lakes Outreach Coordinator. Born and raised in Central Virginia, Will now resides in Hudson, Wisconsin with his wife and 3 kids.... Tags: Minnesota Chapter, Minnesota news, Michigan news, Michigan Chapter, Wisconsin Chapter, Wisconsin news Download
Media Chapter News Top Five Reasons Why Transferring Our Public Lands to State Ownership is a Bad Idea 3/8/2016 States manage their lands to make money, not to provide opportunities for recreation. States can’t afford to manage our public lands and would be forced to either raise taxes (a nonstarter) or... Tags: Michigan news, public lands, issues, keepitpublic, media Download