Happy 50th Birthday to the Wilderness Act! Backcountry Hunters & Anglers is dedicated to protecting America’s finest hunting and fishing habitats. www.backcountryhunters.org

1. Backcountry Bucket List
10 Wilderness hunting and fishing
trips you must do before you die.
(c) BHA 2014
www.backcountryhunters.org

2. Gila Wilderness
Photo by: NM BHA member Oscar Simpson
State: New Mexico
Area: 558,000 acres
Quarry: Famous for trophy elk, but also Coeus whitetail, wild turkey, mule deer and native trout

3. Eagle Cap Wilderness
Photo by: OR BHA member Mike Beagle
State: Oregon
Area: 360,000 acres
Quarry: Mule deer, elk, black bear, mountain lion and high lakes trout fishing.

4. Frank Church-River of No Return
Wilderness
Photo: ID BHA member Scott Stouder
State: Idaho
Area: 2.3 million acres
Quarry: Elk, mule deer, black bear, bighorn, mountain goat, wolf, mountain lion, native trout as well as
chinook salmon and steelhead.

5. Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex
State: Montana
Photo by: MT BHA member Ryan Busse
Area: 1.5 million acres
Quarry: Elk, mule deer, bighorn sheep, mountain goat, moose, black bear, mountain lion, wolf, native trout
including westslope cutthroat and bull trout

6. Ruby Mountains Wilderness
State: Nevada
Area: 93,000
Quarry: Famous for trophy mule deer
Wilderness.net

7. Jim Bridger Wilderness
State: Wind River Range, Wyoming
Area: 428,000 acres
Quary: High alpine lake fishing above timber line; bighorn sheep, mule deer and elk

8. Boundary Waters Canoe Area
Photo by Mark Johnson, MN Deer Hunters Association
State: Minnesota
Area: 812,000 acres
Quary: Backcountry whitetail, moose, black bear along with lake fishing for pike, walleye

9. Key West Wilderness
Wilderness.net
State: Florida
Area: 6,197 acres
Quarry: Made famous for bonefish, permit and other saltwater species, as written about by Zane Grey
and Tom McGuane.

10. Mollie Beattie Wilderness/ Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge
Photo: ID BHA member Holly Endersby
State: Alaska
Area: 8 million acres
Quarry: Caribou, Dall sheep, grizzly as well as native fish and furbearers.

11. Flat Tops Wilderness
State: Colorado
Area: 235,000 acres
Quarry: Elk, mule deer, black bear, moose, amid the aspen.
Wilderness.net

12. Happy 50th Birthday to the Wilderness Act,
protecting America’s finest hunting and fishing
habitats. www.backcountryhunters.org