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 voice of the outstanding Leopold documentary, Green Fire. Curt is also the co-editor of The Driftless Reader,  a collection of writings exploring the cultural and natural histories of the Upper Midwest. He is currently a senior fellow with the Aldo Leopold Foundation and with the Center for Humans ...

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, the journey from rifle to trad bow, deep ecology, the art and craft of bowmaking and the glories of America's northeastern wildlands. Ron is the author of A Traditional Bowhunter's Path: Lessons and Adventures at Full Draw, and the founder of the traditional archery supply company LifeCycle ...

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. conservation policy in this conversation with Julia Peebles, BHA’s D.C.-based government relations manager, and John Gale, BHA conservation director. What are the critical issues for BHA and public lands sportsmen and women right now? What policy objectives does BHA have its eye on in 2021…and beyond? Hear ...

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, Hessburg broadened his scope, delving deeper into the greatest force for ecological change on Earth: fire and the age we live now in, the Age of Megafire, or the Pyrocene. Listen to this fascinating deep dive into how we got here and where we must go – if we hope to survive.   To get the absolute most ...

  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 fishing? Hal talks with Land Tawney, BHA's president and CEO, about what's next. Drop into a conversation between two friends about wins and losses, old adventures and new opportunities, unsung heroes of sportsmen-driven conservation, and the power of a good ...

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 Auburn has a different obsession – flyfishing the rocky river shoalwaters and deep, shaded little creeks for redeye bass (Micropterus coosae) a ferocious, brilliantly colored native fish that redefines what Southern bass fishing is all about. Matthew is the author of the book  Fly Fishing for Redeye ...

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 of us know the intense excitement of coming up behind a bird dog on point and the explosive flush of a 40-bird covey suddenly in the air. Southern quail hunting was a culture and a way of life. Meet the folks on the front lines of restoring the bobwhite quail and quail hunting to public and private ...

  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 good books by the fire, we hope you enjoy this wide ranging conversation, a love letter to writing and partnerships and the West. Afterwards, if you haven’t already, listen to Hal’s interviews with David Quammen (episode 91) and Betsy Gaines Quammen (episode ...

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 columnist at Outside magazine for almost two decades. He is a longtime writer for National Geographic (Quammen is the only author ever asked to write an entire issue of the magazine, an exploration of his home country in Montana calledYellowstone: A Journey through America’s Wild Heart). His 2012 book ...

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 out to write about the Bundys, or Mormonism. But her interviews with Bundy family members and her exhaustive study of the history of the Latter Day Saints revealed a side of the anti-public lands movement that no other writer or scholar has even approached. American Zion is an essential resource for ...