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11
May
2023
By Sen. Martin Heinrich If you’re like me, fall is your favorite season of the year. And if you read Backcountry Journal, there’s a pretty good chance that you feel most alive when the elk begin to bugle and the aspen leaves turn golden. Last autumn, I was lucky enough to draw a bull elk tag in one of the premier public land units in my home state of New Mexico. This unit is part of the Gila National Forest, where Aldo Leopold formed many of the ideas that guide the modern conservation ...
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Tags: the campfire, Backcountry Journal
8
Dec
2021
Sage grouse are one of the many species likely to benefit from RAWA. Photo: istock.com/gatito33 BY SEN. MARTIN HEINRICH For me, fall is a season that I look forward to all year long. It often means an elk camp with my closest friends and meals of wild game and wild mushrooms shared around a campfire underneath a blanket of New Mexico stars. It means bugles in the crisp morning air and, if I do everything right, days of work packing out and processing the meat that will sustain my family ...
Tags: Fair Chase, the campfire, Backcountry Journal, public lands