Springtime in North America is a special time for mushroom enthusiasts. With warmer temperatures, one of the most delicious and coveted of edible fungi start to cryptically emerge from the forest floor: morels. Morels grow in many areas across North America, but they are notoriously and frustratingly finicky about where they will grow. Some species of morels are associated with certain trees, such as cottonwoods, but even looking in the right places doesn’t mean you’ll find any of these ...

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 high-elevation public lands in Northwest Wyoming, he took a crew of students and headed out, convinced of lean pickings and a fast return to the comforts of home. After all, how many ancient hunters would choose to live at 11,000 feet, on barren ridges swept by winter snow and bitter wind, blistered by summer ...

During the Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA) 10th Annual North American Rendezvous (June 3-5, 2021) in Missoula, Montana, we were reminded that BHA knows a thing or two about campfires. BHA started around a campfire in southern Oregon during 2004. In the words of BHA founder Mike Beagle (a former U.S. Army field artillery officer), “What we started around a campfire has grown into a forest fire. BHA is getting better and better. The best is yet to come!” And this Rendezvous was one for the ...

News for Immediate ReleaseJune 2, 2021Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org Backcountry Hunters & Anglers commends Biden administration decision to support wildlife-rich habitat in Alaska MISSOULA, Mont. – Backcountry Hunters & Anglers commended a move by the Biden administration to suspend oil and gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska – and for taking a step toward conserving wildlife-rich public lands in the Arctic North.  The ...

“Maybe it would turn out that any place where genuine, native, aboriginal trout still swam had kept its many charms, and not least the virtue of authenticity, of the preservation of wildness.” -Many Rivers to Cross, M.R. Montgomery Outdoor writer Daniel Ritz, 33, Idaho, spends a lot of time thinking about the change of the American upper-case West.  Prepared only with and motivated largely by the knowledge that he truly understands very little, Daniel is setting off to literally and ...