I hung up the phone and sank into my office chair, rubbing my temples in anticipation of the stress from the reality of what I had just done. I just accepted an invitation to cook at the 4th annual Field to Table Dinner at the North American Rendezvous. I’d be cooking alongside some of the best chefs that I knew of. I am an extremely talented eater, I told myself, not a chef. My initial thought was to make a bò kho (Vietnamese beef stew). I figured you can’t screw that up. The ...

On July 17th, Gov. Mike DeWine signed a budget bill into law that includes a number conservation victories which the Ohio Chapter of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers has been fighting for since Ohio BHA became a chapter in May 2018. The Ohio BHA Chapter executed a successful communication campaign to make sure key legislators, committees, and decision makers heard our voice in support of public lands and waters. This included action alerts, email and phone campaigns, gatherings at the ...

This article originally appeared in the Spring 2018 issue of Backcountry Journal.   BY Lieutenant Colonel JEFFREY M. JONES, U.S. ARMY RESERVE   I spent the morning reading “The Battle for Alabama’s Wilderness: Saving the Great Gymnasiums of Nature” by John Randolph, sent to me by a fellow member of the BHA Southeast Chapter Board, in a containerized housing unit in Baghdad, Iraq. I was amazed at the fortitude and tenacity of the public land champions in that era – regular folks who were able ...

The Colorado chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers recently appointed Chris Jones to serve as an Assistant Regional Director for southwest Colorado. Chris was born in southern California but raised in Dolores, Colorado, from the age of five, where his family lived within walking distance of two reservoirs stacked with smallmouth bass, black crappie, northern pike, rainbow trout and channel catfish. Chris and his brother spent countless evenings fishing the shores of Summit and Puett ...

The Nevada chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers is excited to announce that we have added two-chapter level corporate sponsors. IMBIB and Pilot Peak Guide Service have become the newest chapter level corporate sponsors for the Nevada Chapter.     IMBIB Custom Brews is a Reno based brewery that creates diverse and authentic beers to please everyone's palate including sour, malty, hoppy, and easy drinking brews and specializes in barrel-aged beers of many kinds. IMBIB is the monthly ...