Ryan Callaghan is the conservation director for MeatEater and vice chair of the executive committee on the BHA North American board. Ryan has been a passionate member of the outdoor community, growing up guiding, hunting, fishing and playing in the West.
Jenkins lives in the Nantahala Mountains where he has built a life around conserving wildlife and wild places. He is the founding chief executive officer of The Orianne Society. He also serves on the board of the Indian Ocean Tortoise Alliance and has served leadership roles in the International...
Growing up, Katie spent much of her time outdoors with her family camping, horseback riding, canoeing and fishing. She feels lucky to now live in southern Alberta, Treaty 7 Territory, in the heart of world-class flyfishing rivers and streams, and she spends her summers traveling in her converted...
Jeff Jones is a senior manager for a global engineering and environmental consulting firm while simultaneously serving in the United States Army Reserve for the last 27 years. A veteran of two tours in Iraq, he was raised in south Mississippi as a generalist hunter and angler. He holds...
James’ love of the outdoors began as a boy chasing his dad, but instead of going through the woods, it was on the golf course. Playing late into the evening, he paid attention to the way the air cooled and the sounds changed as the sun dipped behind the Ozark hills where he grew...
Bill is blessed to be a wilderness hunter and to live in British Columbia. He grew up in Trail, B.C., and although he had never hunted or even knew anyone who owned a horse, he has always had a passion for all things wild. His dad got him interested in fly fishing at an early age and...
Jim Harrington was born and raised in Michigan. He currently lives 30 minutes outside of Detroit in Northville with his wife and three kids.
As far back as he can remember he always spent time outdoors whether he was fishing for largemouth in neighborhood ponds, building tree forts or...
Hilary Hutcheson owns and runs Lary’s Fly and Supply in Columbia Falls, Montana, and guides on the Flathead Ri
ver and Middle Fork of the Salmon River. Hutcheson started her fly-fishing career as a teenaged guide in West Glacier, Montana.
Later, she took her journalism...
Don Rank is a lifelong Pennsylvania resident, born and raised in the Philadelphia area. As a youth, he learned to hunt and fish on the large tracts of state game lands surrounding the family cabin built by his grandfather in the mountains of PA. To this day, that cabin continues to be the...
Peter Vandergrift has made almost every nickel of his life from the fly fishing industry. He cut his teeth as a bush guide in the Alaskan backcountry guiding fly anglers in the shadow of what would be the Pebble Mine. For 18 more years, he served as a fly fishing guide and outfitter in Montana...
J.R. Young was raised in Bellevue Washington. He enjoyed his weekends and summer at a cabin in Central Washington where he started hunting and fishing at an early age. He spent countless days exploring Wenatchee National Forest as well as the Mt. Baker/Snoqualmie National Forest closer to...
A Minnesota native who found his way West with the U.S. Air Force, Ed is an artist and entrepreneur who has been part of the hunting and fishing space for over 15 years. As an outfitter, guide and lodge owner, his path in the outdoors has crossed public managers, biologists and ranchers...
Matt Shilling is an entrepreneur with a deep passion for wild places. He carries experience in the private sector as an advisor, board member, executive, and founder of multiple companies and nonprofit organizations.
Shilling also had the honor of serving at the highest levels of the public...