Media Podcasts The Future of OUR Public Lands 6/3/2025 Everything you will ever need to know to win any argument about the future of our American public lands--special and crucial episode with Walt Dabney. Understanding the background and... Tags: the campfire, featured, Podcast
Media Podcasts Turkeys, Novels and Wild Appalachia with David Joy 5/20/2025 “[David Joy]is a man who sees his homeplace clearly and who writes like his hand was touched by God.” — The New York Times Novelist and essayist David Joy is a tall, lean and red-bearded... Tags: the campfire, featured, Podcast
Media Podcasts 11 Bulls in a Row with BHA's Trey Curtiss 4/8/2025 Trey Curtiss, a native son of Montana, is BHA’s Strategic Partnerships and Conservation Programs Manager. Trey is also among a very small group of public lands’ elk hunters who have... Tags: the campfire, featured, Podcast
Media Podcasts It’s More Than Fishing: A Conversation with CCA’s Pat Murray 3/25/2025 Come with us to Houston, Texas, to talk saltwater fishing, conservation, philosophy and life with Pat Murray, former light tackle fishing guide and President of the Coastal Conservation... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts Compounding Damage with Destruction on a North Carolina River 2/18/2025 During the deluge of Hurricane Helene, over 30 inches of rain fell in the headwaters of the iconic Nolichucky River in North Carolina, falling on ground already saturated from prior rain.... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts Wilderness meets Modern Society -- Seth Kantner Part II 2/4/2025 Alaska’s Seth Kantner is back with us, as promised, for part two. Seth was born in a sod igloo on the Kobuk River in the 1960s and has been hunting, trapping, fishing, and making a life on... Tags: the campfire, featured, Podcast
Media Podcasts Our Common Ground: A History of America’s Public Lands 1/21/2025 As promised, John Leshy is back on the Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast to discuss his recently published and definitive book, Our Common Ground: A History of America’s Public... Tags: the campfire, featured, Podcast
Media Podcasts Haunted by Alaska: Bjorn Dihle on Life, Bears, and Mystery (ep. 195) 1/7/2025 Bjorn Dihle has lived his entire life in southeast Alaska, hunting and fishing from the Tongass National Forest to the northern Brooks Range and beyond. He is a family man, a wilderness and... Tags: the campfire, featured, Podcast
Media Podcasts Haunted by Alaska: Bjorn Dihle on Life, Bears, and Mystery (ep. 195) 12/24/2024 Bjorn Dihle has lived his entire life in southeast Alaska, hunting and fishing from the Tongass National Forest to the northern Brooks Range and beyond. He is a family man, a wilderness and... Tags: the campfire, featured, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. #193: NO to Alaska's Ambler Road 12/10/2024 Alaska’s proposed Ambler Road is back on the table, and Americans are once again asked a fundamental question about what we value and what kind of world we will pass on to our children. We... Tags: the campfire, featured, Podcast
Media Podcasts REBOOT: Ron Mills, Legendary Montana Outfitter (Ep. 44) 11/26/2024 We're spending Thanksgiving week with our families and bringing you one of our favorite podcast episodes from the archives: Ron Mills, an outfitter, hunting guide and packer in the Bob Marshall... Tags: the campfire, featured, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 192: Healing Waters and Veterans' Journeys 11/1/2024 Almost ten years ago, career firefighter and paramedic Beau Beasley embarked on a journey to tell the true stories of America’s veterans, honestly and in their own words. He was a respected... Tags: the campfire, featured, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 191: The Fight for Clean Water After the Kingston Disaster with Jared Sullivan 10/15/2024 Episode 191 with Jared Sullivan, former editor of Field and Stream and Men’s Journal, on his new book, Valley So Low, about the 2008 coal ash disaster near Kingston, Tennessee, its catastrophic... Tags: the campfire, featured, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 190: The Battle for Mobile Bay 10/1/2024 Blaring headlines: “Battle lines hardening in dispute over Mobile ship channel deepening project” “No more federal mud dumping' — Standing room only at Baykeeper town hall” A newly deepened and... Tags: the campfire, featured, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. #189: Utah Wants Your Public Lands 9/17/2024 Utah files landmark lawsuit challenging federal control over most BLM land Yes, it is to retch over. Once again, the Utah legislature is coming for America’s public lands, this time by way of a... Tags: the campfire, featured, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. #188: Hunting on the Ballot with Gaspar Perricone 9/3/2024 From ballot initiatives that mandate wolf-reintroduction or banning the hunting of mountain lions and bobcats, wildlife management decisions are increasingly being made by voters instead of... Tags: the campfire, featured, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 187: The Lost Tale of Prospect Bluff with Archeologist Jeffrey Shanks 8/20/2024 Join Hal and Florida archeologist Jeffrey Shanks for a lost tale of British Marines and Jamaican privateers, American maroons, Creek Indian warriors, rogue Choctaws, religious prophets, and the... Tags: the campfire, featured, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 186: Woniya Dawn Thibeault, Winner of Alone: Frozen and Author of Never Alone: A Solo Arctic Survival Journey 8/6/2024 Woniya Dawn Thibeault, winner of Alone: Frozen, author of Never Alone: A Solo Arctic Survival Journey In 2019, primitive skills instructor and master hide-tanner Woniya Dawn Thibeault was... Tags: the campfire, featured, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 185: Aldo Leopold and America's 1st Wilderness 7/23/2024 The Wilderness Act was passed by Congress in 1964, and has protected over 109 million acres of American public lands (53% of them in Alaska) since then. But the idea was born in 1924, with the... Tags: the campfire, featured, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 184: Save the Cutoff with Texans Bud Morton and Dustin Baker 7/9/2024 The bitter tide of privatizing public lands and waters is rising fast across America. Only the actions of quietly heroic citizens can stop it. Nobody who hunted and fished the Cutoff wanted to... Tags: the campfire, featured, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 183: Tony Jones, The Reverend Hunter 6/25/2024 Tony Jones, host of the Reverend Hunter podcast, and author of The God of Wild Places: Rediscovering the Divine in the Untamed Outdoors and eleven other books, outdoor writer, hunting mentor,... Tags: the campfire, featured, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 182: Putting Conservation Back in the Foundation of Hunting and Fishing with Mark Kenyon 6/11/2024 Michigander Mark Kenyon is the host of the Meateater podcast Wired to Hunt, and the author of the definitive book on the American public lands, That Wild Country. Mark is at work on another book... Tags: the campfire, featured, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 181: The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation with Jon Gassett and Patrick Berry 5/29/2024 A conversation with Jonathon Gassett, Ph.D., former Commissioner of Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, Southeastern Representative of the Wildlife Management Institute, National... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 180: 20 Years of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers with Ben Long and Patrick Berry 5/14/2024 Ben Long is a founding board member of BHA, the author of the Hunter and Angler’s Guide to Raising Hell, and a lifelong hunter-conservationist of the old breed. Ben came to Rendezvous this year... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 179: Justinn Overton, Executive Director of the Coosa Riverkeeper 4/30/2024 Alabama’s iconic Coosa River was recently named America’s fifth most endangered river. Its vast watershed, all 280 miles of tributaries and lakes, begins in the mountains of north Georgia and... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 178: One of the West’s Most Powerful Voices for Conservation: Tom Reed 4/17/2024 Tom Reed, of Harrison, Montana, is a founding board member of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers and a true son of the Western plains and Rocky Mountain wilderness. Born in Colorado, Tom worked as... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 177: Salmon Source to Sea Expedition with Libby Tobey and Hailey Thompson 4/2/2024 In April of 2022, Libby Tobey, Hailey Thompson and Brooke Hess skied into Marsh Creek in Idaho’s Sawtooth Range, towing their kayaks and a sled full of camping gear. The goal: trace the route of... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts Bonus Episode: Public Lands in Public Hands 3/27/2024 Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT) and Rep. Gabe Vasquez (D-NM) are co-sponsoring the ‘Public Lands in Public Hands Act” which would ban the sale or transfer of most public lands managed by the Department... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 176: Deer in the Southwest with Jim Heffelfinger 3/19/2024 Jim Heffelfinger, Arizona Game and Fish Wildlife Science Co-ordinator, Chairman of the Mule Deer Working Group, wildlife conservation professional, author of Deer of the Southwest. Coming at you... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 175: Outdoor Investigative Journalism: From Lyme Disease to Endangered Species with Jimmy Tobias 3/5/2024 Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 174: Venomous Snakes, Local Hunting And More With Dr. Chris Jenkins 2/20/2024 Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Bonus Episode: The Largest Conservation Opportunity of Our Lifetime 2/8/2024 The largest public lands conservation opportunity in our lifetime is at hand. The Bureau of Land Management is finalizing plans for the long-term management of an expanse of public lands in... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 173: BHA 2023 Policy Roundup with BHA Government Relations Manager Kaden McArthur 2/6/2024 Learn more about what goes on in the halls of Congress as Hal sits down with BHA Government Relations Manager Kaden McArthur to discuss the 2023 wins BHA played a role in achieving for the... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 172: We Can Do This, One Person at a Time with Douglas Tallamy 1/23/2024 Douglas Tallamy, Chair of the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology, University of Delaware Any hunter, angler and/or student of the natural world is bound to be more than a little... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 171: The Conservation History Of George Washington Carver With Mark Hersey 1/9/2024 Join Hal Herring and Mississippi State University environmental history professor and author of My Work is that of Conservation, An Environmental Biography of George Washington Carver Mark... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 170: Poet, Author, Hunter, Angler and Forager Erin M. Block 12/26/2023 Listeners to the BHA Podcast & Blast will likely know Erin Block from her brilliant short essays at MidCurrent, Gray’s Sporting Journal, Field & Stream, and TROUT magazine, where she is an... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 169: Mouthful of Feathers 12/12/2023 If you are an upland bird hunter with a yen for great writing and vividly lived experiences, you have probably been reading the Mouthful of Feathers crew -- Tom Reed, Marissa Jensen and Greg... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 168: Paving Paradise: Alaska’s Ambler Road 11/21/2023 Click HERE to send in your comments about the Ambler Road! Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 167: Public Lands, Wild Game Cooking, Hunting, Angling and Conservation – Live from the Texas Hill Country 10/24/2023 Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 166: Steven Hawley, Author of Cracked: The Future of Dams in a Hot, Chaotic World 10/10/2023 Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 165: Public Lands Stewardship in California and Colorado 9/26/2023 Tags: stewardship blog, the campfire, stewardship, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 164: Dave Simonett of Trampled by Turtles 9/12/2023 Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 163: The Southeastern Grasslands Institute 8/29/2023 Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 162: Ben Long, The Hunter & Angler Guide to Raising Hell 8/15/2023 Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 161: Texas Chef & Sportsman Jesse Griffiths 8/1/2023 Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 159: Game Warden, Author and Conservationist Sam Lawry 7/19/2023 Arizona game warden and author Sam Lawry is retiring from his second career as the executive director of the Teller Wildlife Refuge on the Bitterroot River of Montana. This BHA podcast is being... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 160: Mitch Reid with The Nature Conservancy 7/18/2023 Mitch Reid is a native son of the Alabama Wiregrass, where he grew up fishing and hunting his home country in the headwaters of the Choctawhatchee River. After a military career with the U.S.... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 158: Hunting At American Prairie 6/21/2023 American Prairie is 455,840 sprawling acres of Montana grasslands and breaks that represents one of the largest expansions of publicly accessible hunting opportunities in the West— and one of... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 157: Kevin Garrad, Founder of Wild Response 6/6/2023 Growing up in rural England, Kevin Garrad was a child of the wild moors, a ferreter and a trainer of lurchers, a hunter of invasive minks, and destined to be a soldier. Fast forward to an early-in... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 156: Florida Backcountry Lawman Bob Lee 5/23/2023 You may remember Bob Lee from Free the Ocklawaha River!, where he and Hal first met. Bob is one of the leading voices for the removal of Rodman Dam and the reconnection of the Ocklawaha River to... Tags: the campfire, Podcast, stream access
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 155: Montana Fishing Guide and Writer Chris Dombrowski 5/9/2023 Chris Dombrowski is a professional fishing guide of over two decades on the rivers of Montana, an acclaimed poet and the author of Body of Water: A Sage, A Seeker, and the World’s Most Alluring... Tags: the campfire, Podcast, stream access
Media State Issues Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 154: The Legal Fight Over Corner Crossing Comes to a Head 4/25/2023 The future of public access to public lands is being decided in Wyoming with the ongoing saga of the corner-crossing hunters and their legal travails. We all have a dog in this fight – and never... Tags: the campfire, Montana Chapter, Podcast
Media State Issues Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 153: The MT Legislature, The Weed Tax, and The Conservationists 4/11/2023 Montana's legislature meets for only 90 days every two years, but the amount of work that goes into a single abbreviated session is mind-blowing. In just a few short months during its 2023... Tags: the campfire, Montana Chapter, Podcast
Media Chapter News Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 152: Murder of the Grand Kankakee Marsh 3/28/2023 “I have never yet found a place that equaled the Kankakee swamps for the variety of game to be found there.” – J. Lorenzo Werich, 1920. Few know the history now. None who experienced it are still... Tags: Illinois Chapter, the campfire, Podcast, Indiana Chapter
Media State Issues Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 151: Bill Avey, 40 Years in the Forest Service 3/14/2023 Retired Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest Supervisor Bill Avey is here to give us a clear view into the workings of the U.S. Forest Service – and what is arguably, for a public lands hunter... Tags: policy blog, the campfire, Montana Chapter, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 150: Free the Ocklawaha River! 2/28/2023 Almost 60 years ago, the U.S. government, blinded by hubris, began work on the Cross Florida Barge Canal. Never heard of it? That’s because President Richard Nixon, seeing it for the financial and... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts Podcast & Blast: Episode 149, Conservation in the 118th Congress with the BHA Policy Crew 1/31/2023 As a wise man once said, You may not be interested in war, but when the times comes, war will certainly be interested in you. The same can be said about Congress. This week's episode with BHA's... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 148: Drew Phipps and The Restoration of the Candy Darter 1/17/2023 America’s Midwestern rivers – the Elk, the Kanawha, the Ohio and all their vast systems of arterial tributaries – are home to a mind-boggling array of some of the most bizarre creatures on this... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts 10 Great BHA Podcasts from 2022 1/4/2023 Podcasts are one of the dominant forms of storytelling today, but it's something we can forget in the hurly burly of our daily lives: Stories are meant for telling, and we crave to listen to... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 147: Ted Koch on the Lesser Prairie Chicken and Grasslands Conservation 12/20/2022 Will we act now to save America’s iconic grasslands? The southern population of the lesser prairie chicken has been listed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as endangered, a listing that will... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 146: Lyndsie Bourgon, Author of Tree Thieves 12/6/2022 Lyndsie Bourgon is a writer, oral historian, National Geographic Fellow and author of Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America’s Woods. Join Hal and Lyndsie as they explore the many paths... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Chapter News Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 145: Ethnobotanist Dr. Susan Leopold 11/22/2022 Dr. Susan Leopold is an ethnobotanist who spent the early years of her career in the jungles of the Peruvian Amazon and Central America. An epiphany led her home, to Virginia and to the American... Tags: the campfire, Podcast, Ohio Chapter, Mid-Atlantic Chapter, Capital News
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 144: Author and Historian Douglas Brinkley 11/8/2022 Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 143: Feral Horses on Public Lands in Nevada 10/25/2022 More than 82,000 feral horses roam U.S. public lands, about four times as many as the land and water can sustain. Almost all of them live in Nevada, the most arid state in the union, where their... Tags: the campfire, Nevada Chapter, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 142: Ashley Peters, Communications Director, Ruffed Grouse Society & American Woodcock Society 10/12/2022 Ashley Peters grew up in rural Iowa, in a landscape of cornfields and monoculture agriculture. Looking for a wilder and wider life, she found her way to U.S. Forest Service trail jobs in the... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 141: Public Lands Journalist Nate Schweber 9/27/2022 A flamboyant Western politician, yelling hatred for the federal government, accusing anyone who questioned him of being a “communist,” secretly planning a takeover and selloff of 230 million acres... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 140: Far Bank’s Simon Gawesworth on public access to public waters…worldwide 9/13/2022 Simon Gawesworth is a second-generation master flycasting instructor and world casting champion, author of three books on Spey casting, and currently works as the education and engagement manager... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Chapter News Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 139: Kyle Lybarger, Native Habitat Project 8/30/2022 Kyle Lybarger, a 29-year-old consulting forester, father, deer-hunter, small creek addict and self-proclaimed “native plant nerd” of Hartselle, Alabama, is a major part of a new and wonderful... Tags: the campfire, Podcast, Southeast Chapter
Media Chapter News Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 138: Mississippi Forester Alex Harvey 8/16/2022 Come with Hal to southern Mississippi to talk with Alex Harvey, a registered professional forester in Mississippi and Alabama and a land management consultant, wildlife biologist and... Tags: the campfire, Podcast, Southeast Chapter
Media Chapter News Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 137: Marine Veteran and Storyteller Russell Worth Parker 8/2/2022 Russell Worth Parker, known as Worth, is a retired Marine and a veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan. After 27 years in the Corps, he is home in Wilmington, North Carolina, hunting and fishing and... Tags: North Carolina Chapter, the campfire, AFI Comms Channel, Podcast, public lands
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 136: Striped Bass with Mike Woods and Chris Borgatti 7/19/2022 Striped bass are arguably the most important fish – culturally and economically – on the Atlantic seaboard. And right now, anglers are spearheading a push to conserve and rebuild striper... Tags: New England Chapter, the campfire, Podcast, New York Chapter
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 135: Rue Mapp, founder and CEO, Outdoor Afro 7/5/2022 Rue Mapp transformed her kitchen table blog into a national nature business and movement. Today, Mapp is founder and CEO of Outdoor Afro. For more than a decade, the nonprofit has continued to... Tags: the campfire, Podcast, public lands
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 134: Snake River Dams 6/21/2022 We are teetering on the brink of what could be the greatest conservation success story of the past 50 years. The removal of four outdated and failing dams on the lower Snake River will restore... Tags: the campfire, Podcast, public access, public lands
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 133: BLM Director Tracy Stone-Manning 6/7/2022 For Americans who live or venture west of the Mississippi River or north to Alaska, no public lands are more important, more abundant or more accessible than those managed by the Bureau of Land... Tags: the campfire, Podcast, public access, public lands
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 132, Corner Crossing in Wyoming with Ryan Callaghan, Liz Lynch and Jared Oakleaf 5/26/2022 Most of us have been following the case: four hunters from Missouri who used a homemade ladder to cross from one section of public land to the next without setting foot on private land…and the... Tags: the campfire, Wyoming Chapter, Podcast, public access
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Bonus Ep. 131, Sen. Jon Tester and the Blackfoot Clearwater Stewardship Act 5/3/2022 To those outside of Montana, the Blackfoot River is the “Big Blackfoot” featured in Norman Maclean’s lyrical and tragic novel A River Runs Through It. For Montanans and generations of visitors,... Tags: the campfire, Montana Chapter, Podcast, Public Waters Access
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 130: BHA’s Armed Forces Initiative: Honoring and serving those who serve 4/26/2022 “Public lands are probably not the reason you would list for joining the Army or the Marines, but they’re the key piece of what makes America the greatest country out there,” says Trevor Hubbs,... Tags: the campfire, AFI Comms Channel, Podcast
Media Chapter News Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 129: Joseph Jenkins, biologist, herpetologist, Alabama wanderer 4/12/2022 The Bankhead National Forest in Alabama is a place of shadowed canyons and rushing coldwater creeks, crystalline waterfalls and bluff shelters blackened by the smoke from campfires over thousands... Tags: the campfire, Podcast, public lands, Southeast Chapter
Media Chapter News Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 128: Alabama Herpetologist Jimmy Stiles 3/29/2022 The Conecuh National Forest in south Alabama is known as the Heart of the Longleaf, a landscape of tall pine and wiregrass, restoration and recovery, humming with life and comprising a wild... Tags: Podcast, Southeast Chapter
Media Chapter News Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 127: Florida Gulf Coast Writer, Naturalist and Advocate Jack Rudloe 3/15/2022 Jack Rudloe is one of the orneriest watermen on the Florida Gulf Coast, a time- and sun-honed fighter for clean water, intact forests and wetlands, and the myriad salt and freshwater life that... Tags: Fair Chase, the campfire, Podcast, Public Waters Access, Southeast Chapter
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 126: Doug Duren, hunter, farmer, land manager, conservationist 3/1/2022 We hunters and anglers are often lost, these days, in a thicket of questions about public land and private land, loss of access, too much access, conservation priorities, conflicting desires and... Tags: Fair Chase, the campfire, Podcast, access
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 125: Mark Squillace, attorney, legal scholar, public access expert 2/15/2022 The forces of privatization are very definitely on the march. From hunting access and opportunity to the age-old conflict over who has the right to fish or swim or boat on our waterways,... Tags: the campfire, Podcast, public access, Public Waters Access
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 124: Randy Newberg and Andrew McKean on Elk Madness in Montana 1/31/2022 The Montana chapter of BHA works hard to uphold the gold standard in public hunting opportunities, with one of the longest elk and mule deer hunting seasons in the U.S., a wealth of public land,... Tags: the campfire, Montana Chapter, Podcast, public lands
Media Podcasts Field to Table BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 123: Chef Eduardo Garcia, Co-Founder of Montana Mex 1/18/2022 Eduardo Garcia, one of the greatest wild game chefs of our time and the co-founder of Montana Mex, returns to the Podcast & Blast to talk, as always, about life – family, work, cooking, hunting,... Tags: Field to Table, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 122: Western Storyteller Allen Morris Jones 1/4/2022 2022 marks the 25th anniversary of the publication of one of the most important treatises on hunting ever written. Allen Morris Jones’ book A Quiet Place of Violence: Hunting and Ethics in the... Tags: Fair Chase, the campfire, Podcast, public lands
Media Podcasts The Best Podcast & Blast Episodes You Might Have Missed This Year 12/23/2021 The inestimable Hal Herring's Southern drawl seems to pull the most interesting stories from his guests. Whether they're scientists on the cutting edge of conservation research, ranchers of an... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 121: Melanie Vining, Executive Director, Idaho Trails Association 12/21/2021 For a measure of sweat equity, an entire world of adventure awaits anyone who wants to work on American public lands. In today’s podcast, Hal catches up with Melanie Vining, an Idaho elk hunter,... Tags: the campfire, Podcast, public lands
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 120:Australian Outdoorsman Dave Byrnes 12/7/2021 Join us for a journey Down Under with Dave Byrnes, host and founder of Australia’s best hunting and shooting podcast, The Hunting Arete. Byrnes, of Newcastle, New South Wales, is a tradesman,... Tags: Fair Chase, the campfire, Podcast, public lands
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 119: Mule Deer Foundation Biologist Jessie Shallow 11/23/2021 Jessie Shallow, of Salmon, Idaho, is the partner biologist for the Mule Deer Foundation, working with state and federal agencies to restore mule deer winter range and other habitat in the wake of... Tags: the campfire, Podcast, public lands, Backcountry Skills
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 118: Backcountry College Professor Clay Hayes 11/9/2021 Host of BHA’s Backcountry College YouTube series, Clay Hayes is a traditional bowhunter, wildlife biologist, wilderness skills instructor, master bowyer, filmmaker and family man who splits his... Tags: the campfire, Podcast, public lands, Backcountry Skills
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 117: Undercover Game Warden Tony Latham 10/26/2021 Tony Latham is a retired game warden with 25 years’ experience working undercover on some of Idaho’s wildest public lands and in pursuit of some of the West’s nastiest wildlife criminals.... Tags: Idaho Chapter, the campfire, Podcast, public lands
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 116: Unraveling the Commercialization of Big Game in New Mexico 10/13/2021 Everybody knows that wildlife in the United States is owned by all of us. Elk, deer and other species are held in the public trust, period. But what happens when publicly owned big game is... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 115: Dan O’Brien, South Dakota rancher and founder, Wild Idea Buffalo Co. 9/30/2021 Dan O’Brien ranches buffalo over 26,000 acres of deeded and public lands 30 miles outside of Hermosa, South Dakota. He has been a writer of fiction and nonfiction, a dog trainer and falconer for... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, BONUS Ep. 114: Recovering America's Wildlife Act with Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) 9/14/2021 Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM), a hunter, angler, longtime conservation champion and BHA member, has introduced legislation known as the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (S. 2372). This bipartisan... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 113: Ed Arnett, chief scientist, Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership 9/8/2021 Ed Arnett is the hunting-est, bird-doggingest biologist in America, chief scientist for the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership as well as host of the national conservation TV series This... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 112: Wyoming wilderness guides and outfitters Meredith and Tory Taylor 9/1/2021 Meredith and Tory Taylor have been outfitters, guides and conservation leaders in the wild heart of Wyoming’s Greater Yellowstone for almost 50 years. Over those decades, they have explored places... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 111: Jonathan Wilkins, founder, Black Duck Revival 8/17/2021 “I never found a place I belong, so I’m making one.” Jonathan Wilkins is the founder of Black Duck Revival, a hunting and fishing guide service and simple lodge – built by his own two hands... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 110: Migration corridors, desert elk, mule deer and Wyoming’s Red Desert 8/3/2021 The remote Red Desert is a place of dreams, albeit dreams sometimes replete with choking alkali dust, freezing winds, gumbo mud, and the scattered, bleached bones of the unlucky or unfit of all... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 109: Nephi Cole of the National Shooting Sports Foundation 7/22/2021 Recorded in-person at BHA 10th Annual North American Rendezvous in Montana, join us today for an in-depth conversation between two certified gun nerds, Hal Herring and Nephi Cole. Nephi is... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, EP. 108: North American Board Member and Heather's Choice Founder Heather Kelly 7/6/2021 Alaska-born and raised, top-level collegiate rower, Crossfit addict, big game hunter, river guide, athletic nutrition coach Heather Kelly has spent a lifetime exploring the junction where the... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts Podcast & Blast, Ep. 107: Chef, Author And Outdoorsman Hank Shaw 6/24/2021 Sit down with Hal and Hank Shaw, the man who transformed wild game cookery in America – and who ushered in an entirely new era of hunting, fishing, gathering and foraging as culinary as well as... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 106: Archeologist Dr. Larry Todd 6/9/2021 Archeologist Dr. Larry Todd came home to Meeteetse, Wyoming, after a long career studying ancient hunting peoples all over the planet. Asked to do a quick archeological survey of some... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 105: Legendary Outdoor Writer and BHA Board Member Eddie Nickens 5/26/2021 For more than 20 years, Eddie Nickens, a member of BHA’s North American board of directors, has been the premier storyteller and scribe of American hunting, fishing and conservation, writing for... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 104:Mike Neiduski, the regional director of the Ruffed Grouse Society and American Woodcock Society 5/12/2021 On our latest podcast focusing on the Eastern forests and upland game birds, Hal catches up to Mike “the Polish Hammer” Neiduski, the regional director of the Ruffed Grouse Society and American... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts Hunter, forager, and wild food educator Jenna Rozelle 4/29/2021 “It started with food, and it’s evolved into what most hunters have experienced…sure, the end goal is food, but there’s a million more things to enjoy about it.” Jenna Rozelle lives in southern... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 102: Todd Waldron, Northeast region forest conservation director for the Ruffed Grouse Society and American Woodcock Society 4/14/2021 The Eastern forests encompass 51 million acres of timberlands, including the Adirondack Park, which at 6 million-plus acres is the largest protected area in the lower 48 states. This wealth of... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 101: Grahame Jones, Former Director of Law Enforcement for Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife 3/30/2021 Texas offers a diversity and abundance – of topography, fish and wildlife, and experiences – that few other states can match. Grahame Jones, recently retired as the director of law enforcement... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 100: Dog Trainer, Artist, Writer and Minority Outdoor Alliance Founder Durrell Smith 3/17/2021 Durrell Smith is a bird dog trainer, artist, podcaster and writer from Georgia. He founded the Minority Outdoor Alliance, a pioneer in connecting minorities to their history and voice in the... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 99: Aldo Leopold scholar Curt Meine 3/3/2021 Curt Meine is a conservation biologist and one of America’s foremost conservation and environmental historians. He is the author of the definitive biography Aldo Leopold, His Life and Work and the... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 98: Wildlife Biologist, Traditional Bowyer and Hunter Ron Rohrbaugh 2/16/2021 Come join us for a conversation with Ron Rohrbaugh Jr. of western Pennsylvania, wildlife biologist, traditional bowhunter and bowyer, conservationist and writer. We'll talk whitetails, shooting,... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast Ep. 97: BHA Policy Experts John Gale and Julia Peebles 2/2/2021 A new Congress and new administration bring a wealth of opportunities – and challenges – for those of us who care about America’s public lands and waters. Join Hal for a breakdown of U.S.... Tags: Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 96: Research Ecologist Dr. Paul Hessburg 1/19/2021 Prominent research ecologist Dr. Paul Hessburg began his career decades ago as a U.S. Forest Service entomologist, studying the insects that kill trees on the grandest scale. Over the years,... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 95: End Of Year Chat With Land Tawney 1/4/2021 As we close the book on a tumultuous year, BHA is looking ahead to the next challenge. What's coming up in 2021 for our public lands and waters, for fish and wildlife, and for hunting and... Tags: the campfire, Podcast, donate sidebar
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 94: Alabama redeye bass angler Matthew Lewis 12/15/2020 When most of us think of Alabama bass fishing, we think of throwing crankbaits along the shorelines of Lake Eufaula or tossing a weedless frog on the grass at Guntersville. But Matthew Lewis of... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 93: Bobwhite quail conservation with Michael Hook and Mark Coleman 12/2/2020 Some of us are old enough to remember the gloaming of hot summer days waning into twilight, listening to cicadas and the sweet, two-note call of bobwhite quail gathering for the night. A few of us... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast BONUS Ep. 92: David Quammen and Betsy Gaines Quammen 11/24/2020 Join Hal, David Quammen and Betsy Gaines Quammen for a bonus episode of the BHA Podcast & Blast. As we enter the season of giving thanks, of family in a time of social distancing, of reading... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 91: Science writer and explorer David Quammen 11/17/2020 David Quammen is the foremost science writer of our time, specializing in the linked fields of ecology and evolutionary biology. Quammen has lived in Bozeman, Montana, since 1973 and was a... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts Historian, conservationist and writer Betsy Gaines Quammen 11/4/2020 Betsy Gaines Quammen is the author of the new book American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God & Public Lands in the West,which explores the intersection of religious belief and landscape. Quammen never set... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 89: Alpinist and filmmaker Graham Zimmerman 10/21/2020 Graham Zimmerman is an alpinist, filmmaker and veteran of more than 30 international climbing expeditions. In the summer of 2019, Graham was part of a team that completed the first ascent of Link... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts Podcast & Blast, Ep. 87: Public Trust director David Byars and producer Jeremy Rubingh 9/22/2020 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... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 86: Conflict journalist James Pogue 9/9/2020 James Pogue spent two years as an embedded journalist with the American militia movement. He was at the 2016 occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge with Ammon and Ryan Bundy, an... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 85: Wilderness advocate and guide Bill Cunningham 8/26/2020 Bill Cunningham caught his first cutthroat trout in Lolo Creek, a tributary of the Bitterroot River, with a willow stick, a hook and a piece of string at age five. That was 72 years ago. Since... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 84: Photojournalist, writer and adventurer Jess McGlothlin 8/12/2020 Jess McGlothlin is a wanderer, paddleboarding on the jungle whitewater of the Peruvian Amazon, fly-fishing lost atolls in the South Pacific or watching the rivers of the taiga unfold beneath the... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts Podcast & Blast, Ep. 83: Writer and outdoorsman Malcolm Brooks 7/30/2020 Missoula-based carpenter, elk hunter and bird dog man Malcolm Brooks is the author of the epic novel Painted Horses, a wild and beautifully written story of romance and collision in 1950s Montana,... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 82: Radio Show Host, Hunter and Conservationist Nathan "Shags" McLeod 7/14/2020 Nathan “Shags” McLeod is the hunting- and fishing-est award-winning radio DJ you’ll ever meet and has spent the past 15 years building a huge audience from his base in central Missouri. His... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 81: Investigative Journalist Richard Manning 7/1/2020 From his most recent book Go Wild: Free Your Body and Mind from the Afflictions of Civilization, back to his rough-and-tumble newspaper days covering the scorched-earth timber industry of the... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 80: America’s Shotgunner Phil Bourjaily 6/16/2020 Iowa-based Phil Bourjaily is America’s shotgunner and one of North America’s foremost experts on shotguns and shooting. In addition to writing a monthly column – for nearly three decades – for... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 79: Photographer Lee Kjos 6/3/2020 In a recent interview with Filson, Minnesota-born and bred photographer Lee Kjos was asked to describe his work in five words or less. Kjos replied: “Original. Authentic. Genuine. Unique, and... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 78: Clay Newcomb, journalist and owner of Bear Hunting Magazine 5/19/2020 “Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” are not just words in the Declaration of Independence. They are words to live by, and perhaps nobody is living them harder or better right now than... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 77: Angelo Baca, Navajo-Hopi filmmaker, distance runner, traditionalist 5/6/2020 Hal travels to the Bears Ears National Monument to meet with Angelo Baca, a filmmaker and storyteller who grew up in and around Blanding, Utah, and has roots in this country that go back,... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 76: Rudi Roeslein, Energy and Conservation Visionary 4/21/2020 Rudi Roeslein came to St. Louis, Missouri, as a child from the refugee camps and ruins of post-World War II Europe. He became an inventor and an international industrialist who never lost his deep... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 75: Maggie Carr, Wilderness Hunting Guide 4/7/2020 Born and raised in Choteau, Montana, Maggie Carr is a wilderness hunting guide, backcountry skier, skilled horse and mule packer and co-owner of the unique wilderness outfitting business... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 74: The Editors Behind Outdoor Life Magazine 3/25/2020 What’s it like to be in charge of one of America’s oldest and most read hunting and fishing magazines? As the spring issue of Outdoor Life hits newsstands, we bring you the wild minds behind the... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 73: BHA Montana and the Fight for Public Access in the Crazy Mountains 3/11/2020 In the West, it’s called “the checkerboard” – one square mile of public land (640 acres, called a section) then one square mile of private – a direct result of frontier-era policies where the... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 72: Celebrating Expanded Public Access to State Trust Lands in Colorado 2/25/2020 Colorado’s state trust lands have been held in an iron fist by some of the most anti-public access policies and regulations found anywhere in the Western states. The battle has been simmering for... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts Backcountry Journal Fishing through the Apocalypse with Matt Miller 2/11/2020 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... Tags: Backcountry Journal, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 71: Matt Miller, outdoor writer and obsessed angler 2/11/2020 Hal meets with his old friend (and sometimes editor) Matt Miller in Matt’s hometown of Boise, Idaho, to talk about life and Matt’s new book Fishing Through the Apocalypse: An Angler’s Adventures... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Bonus Ep. 70: Howard Vincent, president and CEO of Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever 2/5/2020 Here’s a special edition of the BHA Podcast & Blast, just in time for Pheasant Fest 2020! It’s guns, it’s dogs, it’s wild flushing roosters on the wind, it’s conservation and clean water and... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 69: Christine Peterson, Wyoming outdoor journalist and adventurer 1/28/2020 Wyoming native and star outdoor reporter, with nine years of writing the outdoors column for the Casper Star-Tribune, Christine Peterson has been immersed in Wyoming’s hunting and fishing,... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 68: Wildlife migration corridors and the future of Western wildlife 1/14/2020 This episode of BHA’s Podcast & Blast was recorded at New Belgium Brewing in Fort Collins, Colorado! We’re talking wildlife migration corridors, wildlife crossings and the future of Western... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 67: Mark Kenyon, Founder of Wired to Hunt and Contributor to MeatEater 12/31/2019 “We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 66: Wildfire Expert, Dr. Stephen J. Pyne 12/17/2019 “Photosynthesis puts things together. Fire takes them apart.” – Dr. Stephen J. Pyne. While many people talk of the “Anthropocene” – the age of humankind, when nearly every natural process seems... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, EP. 65: Carp Expert and Public Access Proponent Dan Frasier 12/4/2019 Imagine an undiscovered Eden in the heart of South Dakota, a major river lying untouched and forgotten for decades – with epic fishing amidst thunderous solitude. It exists, and Dan Frasier, a... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts Backcountry Journal Continued ... An Interview With Hal Herring 11/28/2019 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... Tags: Backcountry Journal, Podcast, Winter 2020
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Bonus Episode: Live From The Public Land Owner Pale Ale Release Party and LWCF Rally 11/20/2019 Backcountry Hunters & Anglers is celebrating local beers and local outdoor businesses at the launch of the Public Land Owner beer at Missoula, Montana’s recently reborn Highlander Beer – a brand... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 63: Brad Powell of TU and DJ Zor of Arizona BHA Talk LWCF 11/13/2019 Hal is in Phoenix, lost in heat and traffic, looking for Brad Powell and DJ Zor. He finds them: DJ is vice chair of the Arizona chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, a public lands hunter... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 62: Chris Parish and Leland Brown of the North American Non-Lead Partnership 10/30/2019 Hal sits down in Montana with Chris Parish and Leland Brown to talk copper bullets, lead fragments, falconry, raptors, condors, Mexico and California, a love of good guns, wild animals and wild... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, EP. 61: Ron Boehme of The Hunting Dog Podcast and Ryan Busse of BHA 10/15/2019 Ron Boehme of Twin Lake, Michigan, has been hunting and training bird dogs since 1973 and is a senior judge with the North American Versatile Hunting Dog Association. Ron is the host of the... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 60: Gwich’in hunter Walter Peter 10/1/2019 It is 80 miles or so by boat down the intensely braided and ever-changing Yukon River to the village of Fort Yukon, Alaska (at the confluence of the Yukon and the Porcupine), where Hal meets... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 59: Utah Roadless Lands at Risk? 9/17/2019 Utah Gov. Gary Herbert is petitioning the U.S. Department of Agriculture to develop a new, state-specific Roadless Rule that would impact 4 million acres of National Forest lands in Utah. Does... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 58: Utah Stream Access 9/10/2019 Hal is traveling the Wasatch Front, snarled in traffic beneath the spectacular snow-covered peaks, still trying to understand Utah politics. How can a state legislature pass a law that makes it... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 57: The Outdoor Recreation Economy in the West 9/5/2019 The American outdoor recreation industry is the largest industry on the planet – to the tune of $887 billion dollars annually – that until recently has not demanded political representation for... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 56: Fighting For Sunday Hunting In The East 8/27/2019 Some of you may be shocked to learn that in 11 U.S. states, regulations still exist restricting hunting on Sundays. Four states – Delaware, Massachusetts, Maine and Pennsylvania – ban Sunday... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA’s Podcast & Blast, Ep. 55: Randy Newberg and Land Tawney on the Crisis at the BLM 8/13/2019 Calling all American public land owners! The time for action is upon us. In wildland firefighting, a backburn is setting a fire to stop a fire … burning fuels ahead of a conflagration that must be... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep.54: Beretta’s Cory Mays and Dakotah Richardson 7/30/2019 When you are shooting a classic Beretta over and under shotgun at the trap range or in the field, you are handling a finely made weapon built by the same company that made the arquebus barrels... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 53: Recruit, Retain, Reactivate 7/16/2019 The decline in the numbers of American hunters and anglers is not just bad news for our connections to the natural world and for our heritage. Because the North American Model of Wildlife... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 52: Ashley and Jesse Kurtenbach, Hunters and South Dakota Chapter Board Members 7/2/2019 Take a moment to listen to Rendezvous 2019 Storyteller, South Dakota chapter board chair and ardent sportswoman Ashley Kurtenbach, who sat down with her husband Jesse and Hal in the midst of a... Tags: the campfire, featured, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 51: Sen. Martin Heinrich of New Mexico 6/18/2019 As the 116th Congress builds momentum, Sen. Martin Heinrich of New Mexico traveled to Boise, Idaho, for BHA’s 8th Annual North American Rendezvous. One of the most enthusiastic sportsmen on... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 50: Corey Piersol, SITKA Gear 6/4/2019 We’re in South Dakota for the spring snow goose season and testing out some SITKA waterfowling gear in the mud. Late night, after sous vide elk roast and some whiskey, Hal falls into conversation... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep.49: Eduardo Garcia, chef and co-founder, Montana Mex 5/22/2019 Eduardo Garcia grew up free roaming in the Montana backcountry north of Yellowstone National Park, in the company of elk and bison and native trout. The son of a Mexican fisherman and a teacher,... Tags: featured, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 48: Shane Mahoney, Conservationist 5/7/2019 Hunter, writer, thinker, scientist and wildlife expert, Shane Mahoney of Newfoundland is the foremost and most powerful voice of our time for hunting-based conservation and the North American... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 47: Drew Phipps, mussel biologist and upland hunter 4/23/2019 Growing up in a coal mining, fishing and hunting family in Dickinson County, Virginia, the heart of coal country, Drew Phipps spent his early days along the Clinch River, wading, swimming,... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 46: Blan Holman, Southern Environmental Law Center 4/9/2019 Epic floods due to the filling and draining of wetlands, duck numbers falling, fisheries collapsing, federal flood insurance $25 billion in debt, water pollution at levels not seen since the... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 45: Anthony Licata and Colin Kearns of Outdoor Life and Field & Stream 3/25/2019 Anthony Licata and Colin Kearns stand at the helm of two of the most iconic magazine titles in the outdoor industry. Anthony is the editorial director of Outdoor Life and Field & Stream, and Colin... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 44: Ron Mills, Legendary Montana Outfitter 3/13/2019 Back by popular demand: Ron Mills, an outfitter, hunting guide and packer in the Bob Marshall Wilderness since 1959, returns for Round Two in the BHA Podcast & Blast! Ron has authored a new book... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 43: Madison Parker, founder, Bulletproof Primitive Supply 2/26/2019 Hal goes south to meet old friends in the hurricane-battered backcountry of north Florida and talk about survival, spears and slingshots, pit bulls, blacksmithing, baskets, knives and traps, and... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 42: Natalie Krebs, Senior Editor at Outdoor Life and Field & Stream 2/11/2019 How does a 2013 graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism find herself pulling a pulk (gear sled) on an ice fishing expedition into the frozen wilderness of the Boundary... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 41: Nelson Brooke, Black Warrior Riverkeeper 1/29/2019 Come with us to Birmingham, Alabama, to meet Nelson Brooke, the Black Warrior Riverkeeper, whose life is spent on the vast arterial network of some of central Alabama’s most beautiful – and... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 40: Ty Stubblefield, BHA chapter coordinator and new chapter development 1/15/2019 Hal comes down to Missoula to talk with BHA’s Ty Stubblefield (who hosts his own podcast, Shoot’n the Bull), about his roots in Oregon’s Umpqua Valley and his life there as a millhand, logging... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 39: Tom McGuane, Legendary Writer and Outdoorsman 1/1/2019 Tom McGuane, now in his late 70s, has lived life as a version of the 100-yard dash, fishing and hunting, team roping, ranching, and training and competing on some of America’s best cutting horses.... Tags: the campfire, featured, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 38: Chris Hennessey, Josh Kaywood and Jason Meekhof 12/18/2018 BHA’s Chris Hennessey of Pennsylvania, Jason Meekhof of Michigan, and Josh Kaywood of Tennessee talk Eastern hunting and fishing, the explosive growth of BHA west of the Mississippi River, and the... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 37: Bob St. Pierre, Andrew Vavra and Anthony Hauck of Pheasants Forever & Quail Forever 12/3/2018 In St. Paul, Minnesota, with bird dogs whining in the hall outside, Hal visits the headquarters of Pheasants Forever to interview a trifecta of America’s most committed and passionate upland bird... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 36: Ray Trejo, Gabe Vasquez and Fernando Clemente on the hunt for Mearns Quail 11/19/2018 Join Hal on a camping and hunting trip for Mearns quail deep into the Chihuahua Grasslands smack-dab on the Mexican border. With him is BHA member Ray Trejo, the huntin’est conservationist in New... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Episode 35: Ben Long, BHA Founding Board Member 11/5/2018 A native son of the Palouse country in Idaho and a contributing writer to Outdoor Life, Ben Long is a founding board member of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, a former newspaperman and one of... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Episode 34: Steve Piragis, Boundary Waters outfitter 10/23/2018 Steve Piragis, of Piragis Northwoods Company, is an institution in Ely, Minnesota: the grand old man of Boundary Waters outfitting and perhaps the most eloquent and knowledgeable spokesman for... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Episode 33: Rachel VandeVoort, Director of the Montana Office of Outdoor Recreation 10/10/2018 Rachel VandeVoort is a native of Whitefish, Montana, with four generations of family history in Montana. She is also director of the Montana Office of Outdoor Recreation. With a background working... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Episode 32: Ryan Bronson, Director of Conservation at Vista Outdoor 9/25/2018 In Anoka, Minnesota, Hal Herring visits the headquarters of Vista Outdoor to talk with Vista Director of Conservation Ryan Bronson. Vista represents dozens of the most popular brands of... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Public Lands Month BONUS Episode: Ryan Callaghan and Kenton Carruth of First Lite 9/17/2018 Yvon Chouinard of Patagonia and Kenton Carruth of First Lite. Photo by Chris Crisman This summer, host Hal Herring was invited on a fishing trip into the Bob Marshall Wilderness by Ryan... Tags: the campfire, Podcast, public lands month
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Episode 31: Hal visits the headquarters of Wild South 9/11/2018 Wild South is the leader in public lands protection in the Southeast. Last winter, Hal met some Southern wilderness warriors in the small town of Moulton, Alabama, at the headquarters of Wild... Tags: the campfire, featured, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Episode 30: Elliott Woods, Montana-based multimedia journalist 8/28/2018 Elliott Woods settled in Montana for its wild abundance of public lands and outdoor adventure Montana-based multimedia journalist and Outside magazine correspondent Elliott Woods served as a... Tags: the campfire, featured, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Episode 29: Adam Gall, visionary fishing and hunting guide 8/15/2018 After almost two years of trying, we catch up with Adam Gall, visionary fishing and big game guide who, with his wife Ana, started Timber to Table Guide Service based in Paonia, Colorado.... Tags: the campfire, featured, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Episode 28: The Tawneys in Washington D.C. 7/31/2018 Hal goes to Washington, D.C., with Land Tawney to hunt up Land’s sister Whitney, who has worked for Ducks Unlimited for seven years. More importantly, Whitney has just added a wild-eyed new... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Episode 27: T. Edward Nickens 7/17/2018 In this episode Hal catches up with T. Edward Nickens, editor at large at Field & Stream magazine and author of the Total Outdoorsman Series of books. Eddie is an old-school Southern gentleman... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Episode 26: Bill Hanlon and the Tatshenshini Remains 7/3/2018 Hal Herring and longtime BHA member and British Columbian Bill Hanlon swap stories in Whitefish, Montana. Hanlon tells the tale of his incredible 1999 adventure that begins with a Dall sheep hunt... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Episode 25: BHA Goes to Washington 6/19/2018 Hal Herring goes to Washington, D.C., to talk with members of Congress about hunting, fishing and public lands and waters. Sen. Michael Bennet (D) of Colorado, Dr. Roger Marshall of Kansas (R),... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Episode 24: David Ledford, CEO and President of the Appalachian Wildlife Foundation 6/7/2018 Hal Herring talks with David Ledford, president and CEO of the Appalachian Wildlife Foundation. They discuss Ledford's history as a biologist, the accidental wildlife boom on reclaimed mines, how... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast: Episode 23, Barry and Kai Whitehill 5/22/2018 Hal Herring talks with father and son team Barry Whitehill of Alaska and Kai Whitehill of Montana at the 7th Annual BHA North American Rendezvous in Boise, Idaho. The outfitters and BHA life... Tags: the campfire, Podcast, Backcountry Stories
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Episode 22: Writer and Native Arkansan Johnny Carrol Sain 5/8/2018 Hal Herring sits down with Johnny Carrol Sain, a writer and native Arkansan who lives in Newton County, Arkansas. They discuss the legend of the Dover Lights, learning to fly fish, Ned... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Episode 21: Patagonia's Yvon Chouinard 4/24/2018 Hal Herring talks with Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia and legendary outdoorsman, at the 2018 BHA North American Rendezvous in Boise, Idaho. They discuss Chouinard's roots, hunting... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Episode 20: Lamar Marshall, Historian & Conservationist 4/3/2018 Hal Herring talks with historian and conservationist Lamar Marshall in Calloway, North Carolina. They discuss Lamar's work with members of the Cherokee nation to conserve the Bankhead National... Tags: the campfire, Podcast, Backcountry Stories
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Episode 19: Brandon Butler of the Conservation Federation of Missouri 3/20/2018 Hal Herring talks with Brandon Butler, Executive Director of the Conservation Federation of Missouri. They discuss Missouri's historic conservation ethic, Indiana's Kankakee swamp, bowhunting... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Episode 18: Tony Bynum, Professional Photographer and Conservationist 3/6/2018 Hal Herring talks with Tony Bynum, prolific professional photographer and conservationist. They discuss life in East Glacier, the fundamentals of photography, traveling in Africa, documenting... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Episode 17: Tiger McKee of Shootrite Academy 2/20/2018 Hal Herring talks with firearms instructor Tiger McKee in Langston, Alabama. They discuss their longtime friendship, why training matters, bench rest accuracy, the field as the final exam,... Tags: the campfire, featured, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Episode 16: John Snow, Shooting Editor at Outdoor Life 2/7/2018 Hal Herring sits down with John Snow, Shooting Editor at Outdoor Life. They chat about the longevity of Outdoor Life, fishing as a first love, tricking people into eating squirrel, the... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Episode 15: Ryan Busse, BHA Board Chair 1/23/2018 "We have people challenge us, saying we're elitists and green decoys, saying we're fakers and fronts for something. I say come to our Rendezvous. Throw a nickel in the air. If it doesn't land on... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Episode 14: Hunting for Sustainability 1/9/2018 Hal Herring sits down with BHA's Sawyer Connelly and Trey Curtiss and with BHA member Jim Giese to talk about BHA’s Hunting for Sustainability program. ... Tags: the campfire, Podcast, r3, Collegiate Program
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Episode 13: Roy Jacobs of Montana BHA Board 12/26/2017 Hal Herring sits down with Roy Jacobs, a hunter and longtime BHA member and Montana chapter board member in Pendroy, Montana. Hal and Roy talk about the history of Pendroy and northern Montana,... Tags: the campfire, featured, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Episode 12: Hunters Hannah Jean Nikinow and Liza Sautter 12/13/2017 Hal Herring talks with hunters Hannah Jean Nikinow and Liza Sautter. They discuss growing up as hunters, being Millennials, the political nature of hunting, hunting with your parents, hunters... Tags: the campfire, Podcast