Hunters Build Wheelchair-Accessible Blinds at Camp Bullis Public Land Workday

Camp Bullis just showed what hunters can do when they stop talking about access and start building it.

On Aug. 15, hunters and volunteers at Joint Base San Antonio-Camp Bullis turned out for a public land workday on the 30,000-acre Army property near San Antonio. Camp Bullis is open to hunting for military ID cardholders, veterans and authorized military personnel.

The work crew had 28 volunteers, including brand-new hunters, veterans, military personnel and people who have hunted the area for more than 30 years. They set up three wheelchair-accessible shooting blinds in locations expected to produce opportunity this fall, then got the blinds painted and ready to be brushed in.

That is the kind of conservation work that does not need a podium. It puts real access on the ground for hunters who might otherwise get left out, and it does it on land tied directly to the military community. There is nothing soft about making sure disabled hunters and veterans have a place to sit over a legal deer season.

Public land gets better when the people who use it also take responsibility for it. Build blinds, fix trails, clear shooting lanes where legal, mentor new hunters, and leave the place in better shape than you found it. That is how a hunting culture earns its keep.