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A Freezer Too Full

Joseph Drake
This piece was originally featured in the spring 2021 edition of the Backcountry Journal. I hear my wife begin recording videos for her fourth-grade class, but she is drowned out by the last of our wine deglazing the good bits from the cast iron in front of me. She has not seen her students for over a month, her heart breaking again with every email received. They ask when things will return to normal. I think of the undergraduate students’ essays I must grade after putting the browned neck ...
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The Momentum Builds

Kylie Schumacher
By Kylie Schumacher It’s the shot heard around the world right now in the hunting and angling communities: Hunting and fishing participation is declining. We’re all familiar with the decline in license sales and days spent afield and know all too well the implications of these statistics. With the addition of BHA’s Recruitment, Retention and Reactivation position, BHA is actively working to reverse these numbers, primarily though our Hunting for Sustainability program. While R3 initiatives ...
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Students: Set your sights on Minnesota

Arkansas BHA Chapter
The Spring 2019 issue of Backcountry Journal featured an article, “Student Licenses Aid in Recruitment,” that detailed how discounted student license rates help R3 efforts across the country and called for more states to offer college students licenses at resident rates. The graphic included with the article mistakenly did not show Minnesota as offering these discounted student rates, which it does. The below article, contributed by the Minnesota DNR, details their R3 and student recruitment ...
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Student Licenses Aid in Recruitment

Sawyer Connelly
This article first appeared in the Spring 2019 issue of Backcountry Journal. Join BHA to receive the quarterly Backcountry Journal, in print, direct to your mailbox.     Editor's Note: The original version of this article contained a graphic that incorrectly showed Minnesota as not offering student licenses at resident rates. This graphic has now been corrected. You can read more about Minnesota's R3 efforts and student licensing in this guest blog post, "Students: Set Your Sights on ...
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