Haunted by Alaska: Bjorn Dihle on Life, Bears, and Mystery (ep. 195) Haunted by Alaska: Bjorn Dihle on Life, Bears, and Mystery (ep. 195) Kylee Burleigh / Tuesday, December 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 wildlife guide, a conservationist, and a contributing editor at Alaska and Hunt Alaska magazines. Bjorn is the author of the books Haunted Inside Passage, Never Cry Halibut, and A Shape in the Dark: Living and Dying with Brown Bears. Listeners might also know his work from his riveting story in Outdoor ... Media Podcasts the campfire featured Podcast Read more
BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. #193: NO to Alaska's Ambler Road BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. #193: NO to Alaska's Ambler Road Kylee Burleigh / Tuesday, December 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 covered the Ambler Road controversy in Episode 168 of the podcast, and a quick re-listen to that episode will be handy for getting the information we need to make informed decisions in this coming time of decision and consequence. Here’s a quick breakdown of the issue: The proposed Ambler Road is a ... Media Podcasts the campfire featured Podcast Read more
REBOOT: Ron Mills, Legendary Montana Outfitter (Ep. 44) REBOOT: Ron Mills, Legendary Montana Outfitter (Ep. 44) Kylee Burleigh / Tuesday, November 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 Wilderness since 1959! Ron has authored a new book called Under the Biggest Sky of All, 75 Years on Montana’s Rocky Mountain Front, a raucous and astoundingly funny account of his adventures as a guide, horseman and packer, farrier and ranch hand in some of the wildest country left on the planet. ... Media Podcasts the campfire featured Podcast Read more
BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 192: Healing Waters and Veterans' Journeys BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 192: Healing Waters and Veterans' Journeys Kylee Burleigh / Friday, November 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 outdoor writer and flyfishing guidebook author, and was deeply affected by the friendships he’d made through his involvement with Project Healing Waters, an organization that connects veterans with fishing and other outdoor opportunities. “I had no idea what I was doing when I took this on,” Beau says. ... Media Podcasts the campfire featured Podcast Read more
BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 191: The Fight for Clean Water After the Kingston Disaster with Jared Sullivan BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 191: The Fight for Clean Water After the Kingston Disaster with Jared Sullivan Kylee Burleigh / Tuesday, October 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 aftermath on the health of those who cleaned it up, and holding our federal agencies accountable. In 2019, Tennessee native and former Field and Stream editor Jared Sullivan reported on the aftermath of massive coal ash spill from the TVA’s Kingston Fossil Plant. That spill- at 1.1 billion gallons, ... Media Podcasts the campfire featured Podcast Read more
BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 190: The Battle for Mobile Bay BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 190: The Battle for Mobile Bay Kylee Burleigh / Tuesday, October 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 widened shipping channel created by the US Army Corps of Engineers makes Mobile, Alabama, the second fastest growing port in the US – the amount of cargo handled this year more than doubled from previous years. Some of the world’s healthiest commercial and recreational fisheries, vibrant towns, ... Media Podcasts the campfire featured Podcast Read more
BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. #189: Utah Wants Your Public Lands BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. #189: Utah Wants Your Public Lands Kylee Burleigh / Tuesday, September 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 lawsuit filed against the US government to lay claim to 18.5 million acres of public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management. Utah has a new website called “Stand for Our Land” designed to support the lawsuit – it’s a slick campaign, maybe the slickest yet- and chock-full of the half-truths ... Media Podcasts the campfire featured Podcast Read more
BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. #188: Hunting on the Ballot with Gaspar Perricone BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. #188: Hunting on the Ballot with Gaspar Perricone Kylee Burleigh / Tuesday, September 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 biologists. It is called “ballot biology” and it is a result of some highly motivated anti-hunting and animal rights groups reaching out to a ballooning demographic of non-hunting, often urban, voters who may be well-intentioned (“protect mountain lions and bobcats from being slaughtered!”) but who ... Media Podcasts the campfire featured Podcast Read more
BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 187: The Lost Tale of Prospect Bluff with Archeologist Jeffrey Shanks BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 187: The Lost Tale of Prospect Bluff with Archeologist Jeffrey Shanks Kylee Burleigh / Tuesday, August 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 bloody and tenacious struggle for freedom. The Apalachicola National Forest in Florida’s Panhandle holds some of the most remote swampland wilderness in the US, forbidding blackwater mazes of cypress and black gum and tupelo, whining with biting and stinging insects, the natural home of alligator ... Media Podcasts the campfire featured Podcast Read more
BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 186: Woniya Dawn Thibeault, Winner of Alone: Frozen and Author of Never Alone: A Solo Arctic Survival Journey BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 186: Woniya Dawn Thibeault, Winner of Alone: Frozen and Author of Never Alone: A Solo Arctic Survival Journey Kylee Burleigh / Tuesday, August 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 selected for the Alone Season Six challenge. She and nine other contestants were dropped off along the East Arm of the Great Slave Lake, in Canada’s Northwest Territories, in late fall, with the arctic winter closing in. It was a grim and unforgiving landscape unlike anything she’d ever encountered or ... Media Podcasts the campfire featured Podcast Read more