The Colorado chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers recently appointed Nathan Kettner to serve on their Executive Leadership Team (ELT) as treasurer. Nathan grew up in a small town in southern Minnesota where his dad was the town butcher and had a very traditional introduction to hunting and fishing. “My dad and grandfather took me out deer and pheasant hunting in the fall, ice fishing and fox hunting in the winter, and lake fishing in the spring and summer,” Nathan said. He attended ...

By Joshua Hardt On a bone-biting cold March 7, turkey hunting seemed like it was eons away.  I drove to the Hubbardton Battlefield, a stunning series of meadows that stare directly down the Taconics chain, creating a beautiful mountainous panorama.  I passed frozen lakes still dotted with ice shanties, wondering who I might meet and if I had remembered my Felco nippers.This was the first official event for the Castleton University Chapter of the BHA, in partnership with NWTF.  When I ...

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 DropstoneOutfitting, which offers packstring-suppported hiking trips in the Bob Marshall Wilderness and adjacent public lands of Montana. Maggie’s family has been here on the Teton River since her great-grandfather was a horseback doctor in the wild homestead years of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. ...

This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists   In 2016, BHA, along with Orion – The Hunter’s Institute, established the Jim Posewitz Award for Ethical Hunting and Fishing and honored Randy Newberg as the first recipient. Establishing this award in Jim’s name just made sense as he is the premier author on hunting ethics and our sporting heritage.  If you have ever been around Jim, his prose is natural and doesn’t waste a word. I re-read and ...