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    By Dalton Valette   To celebrate this year’s Presidents’ Day, let’s look at the long history of America’s heads of state who enjoyed the great outdoors. For us, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers,...

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  By Benjamin Thomas   I grew up as a hunting kid in south-central Pennsylvania. Our small family farm felt like paradise some days, covered in wildlife from corner to corner. But it was like a...

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This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists Dams make up a fairly significant portion of the energy and agriculture infrastructure of the...

This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists   Every once in a while, I read a book that has the power to transport me somewhere else. Writing...

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By Leyton Hanneman and Matt Hanneman   ’Twas the night before hunting, when all through the woods,The creatures were stirring and there the bull stood.Our packs were all readied and quivers fitted...

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This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists   Our National Forests: Stories from America’s Most Important Public Lands takes readers on a...

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This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists   Doug Peacock’s collection of stories in his most recent book, Was It Worth It?, proves his...

This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists   What do we lose when we let our favorite wild places succumb to the whims of industry and...

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Faces of BHA is a regular column in Backcountry Journal, which spreads light on the incredible volunteers working behind the scenes to ensure the organization succeeds. This installment was...

Faces of BHA is a regular column in Backcountry Journal, which spreads light on the incredible volunteers working behind the scenes to ensure the organization succeeds. This installment was...

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This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists   Echo (Living Wild with the Orions) shares the mental and physical journey of a boy learning about...

This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists   Backcountry hunters and anglers are no strangers to the notion that there is something restorative...

  By Dominic Corsini   Ralph Waldo Emerson is often credited for saying “life is a journey, not a destination.” I cannot help but feel connected to that saying at this moment. However, this story...

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This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists   Tracks is a piece of art. I love the ways you can use it, as a quick facts book or a full-on...

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All photos by Matt Butler How to better prepare for all your outdoor adventures.   By Matt Butler   The outdoors have become a respite for many during the challenging times of covid and...

This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists   I first read Richard Nelson’s The Island Within 20 years ago. The book is an intimate testament to...

This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists   Let me first be clear: This is not a book about despair or tragic endings. It is not a book of...

  This article, produced by Orion, originally appeared in the Spring 2021 issue of Backcountry Journal. Join BHA, support your public lands and waters and get four issues a year of Backcountry...

This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists   Written by Indigenous writer Yuri Rytkheu, A Dream in Polar Fog tells the story of a white man who...

BY LUKE FRONTCZAK   The morning had been perfect – clear skies with a long narrow blanket of fog covering the valley floor below my hillside perch, which turned pink as the sun came up. Five...

This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists   If you have spent any time in the landscape of the American West you understand the significance...

  This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists   Author Bjorn Dihle is, among many other things, a BHA member, Backcountry Journal contributor...

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Authored by Levi Chandler, from the Kid's Corner of the Spring 21 issue of Backcountry Journal: 

  This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists   Outwardly, Braiding Sweetgrass appears to be a book about plants, viewed through Dr. Kimmerer’s...

This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists In great part the appeal of public lands is that they provide a space for us to commune with the...

This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists   North Americans unfortunately have a long history of ecological harm. We also have the great...

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The Indiana Chapter of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers (BHA), the voice for our public lands in the Hoosier state, is excited to announce a new volunteer partnership with the U.S. Forest Service...

This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists    Every book's reading starts with a set of expectations and hopes. I picked up a copy of The...

This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists There is a time for reflection, philosophy and politics. And there is a time to lighten up. The cure...

This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists   Dan Flores is a gifted storyteller and chronicler of the history of the Great Plains and wildlife...

  This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists   A River Runs Through It is a memoir of Maclean's adventures as a young man in the mountainous...

This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists   Approximately 10 years ago I picked up this book after a reading a magazine interview with the...

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This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists   I’ve read both of Greenberg’s popular books: American Catch and Four Fish. What I like best about...

This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists   Reiger’s American Sportsmen is an expanded look into the entwined history of sportsmen, ethics and...

This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists   A professor assigned my class Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring,” the book credited with launching...

This article originally appeared in the Summer 2019 issue of Backcountry Journal. Join BHA, support your public lands and waters and get four issues a year of Backcountry Journal in your mailbox,...

This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists   I’ve read a handful of books in the past couple years that I think should belong in the...

  This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists   When I think of Desert Solitaire I remember a little riverside camp I scraped out of the grass...

This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists  If we’ve learned anything from history, it’s that public lands will always need advocates. Since...

  This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists    In Bloodties, Kerasote brings the reader along with him on three journeys, and each involves...

This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists    Long before he was “The Meateater,” Steven Rinella was just another hunter dreaming of a premium...

This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists   Published posthumously in 1949, Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac is as close to a bible for...

Thank you to everyone who participated in our coloring contest from the Winter 20 issue of Backcountry Journal. Everyone did a fantastic job! Choosing only two winners was an extremely difficult...

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Here are the answers to the Kid's Crossword, located on page 17 of the Spring 2020 issue of Backcountry Journal. Not a member yet? Subscribe HERE and get four issues of Backcountry Journal to your...

This story originally appeared in the Fall 2019 issue of Backcountry Journal By Hal Herring For author Matt Miller of Boise, Idaho, life is too short to be a fishing purist. His work as a writer...

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Photo by Tim Peterson   This is the continuation of our conversation with Hal Herring, host of BHA's Podcast & Blast, from the Winter 2020 issue of Backcountry Journal. For more of this interview...

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Above: The 2018 Hike to Hunt kickoff. by Josh Mills So you’re going to Rendezvous, huh? Get excited. You’re about to be part of the biggest public lands party you’ve ever seen. Your mind is about...

Above: In 2016 the BHA North American board passed a policy statement in support of policies which aim to prohibit new captive cervid canned hunting operations. As concerns around the spread of...