Spring 2025 issue of Backcountry Journal Spring 2025 issue of Backcountry Journal Zachary Williams / Tuesday, April 29, 2025 Full digital issues of the Backcountry Journal are available to BHA members. Check out a preview below, or click here to join BHA. Already a member? Click here to log in. Media Backcountry Journal the campfire Backcountry Journal featured Journal Issue Read more
Resort Town Blues Resort Town Blues Arkansas BHA Chapter / Wednesday, January 6, 2021 By Christine Peterson Bill Andree always had a chance at an elk. It might come suddenly in thick spruce or a steep aspen grove, but it was a chance, and he killed his share. That was in the early 80s, when the elk herd roamed the hills and valleys around Vail, Colorado, in groups of a couple hundred. By the early 2010s, he stopped hunting the area altogether. The longtime Eagle Valley biologist for Colorado Parks and Wildlife who retired in 2018 rarely saw any elk, and he didn’t feel it ... Media Backcountry Journal the campfire Backcountry Journal Read more
Yukon Chapter Studies Changes in Public Access Yukon Chapter Studies Changes in Public Access Arkansas BHA Chapter / Friday, December 20, 2019 By Richard Cherepak and Todd Onsorge Yukon Territory is vast, rugged and sparsely populated. Slightly larger than California, Yukon covers an area of 482,443 square kilometers, yet only has 4,850 kilometers of maintained roads (for comparison, Yukon’s western neighbor, Alaska, has more than 25,000 kilometers of public roads). Resident hunters can live the backcountry hunter’s dream – hiking ridges and valleys in isolated and wild terrain in pursuit of caribou, bison, thinhorn sheep, ... Media Backcountry Journal Backcountry Journal Yukon Chapter Winter 2020 Read more
Connecting People with Wild Places Connecting People with Wild Places Arkansas BHA Chapter / Monday, November 18, 2019 By Mike Clingan, Montana Outdoor Imagery An email in my inbox from BHA caught my attention: “6 days volunteering for the Bob Marshall Wilderness Foundation to improve trails in the backcountry with fellow BHA members.” Exactly the type of adventure that I needed and an opportunity to contribute to a place and cause that mean so much to me. BHA partnered with the Bob Marshall Wilderness Foundation, which was founded in 1996 when the U.S. Forest Service and a group of concerned citizens ... Media Backcountry Journal Montana Chapter Backcountry Journal Winter 2020 Read more
Soldier's Solace: A Mental Congressional Testimony Soldier's Solace: A Mental Congressional Testimony Arkansas BHA Chapter / Tuesday, July 23, 2019 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 ... Media Backcountry Journal AFI Comms Channel Backcountry Journal spring 2018 Read more
Inside the Summer Issue of BHA's Backcountry Journal Inside the Summer Issue of BHA's Backcountry Journal Arkansas BHA Chapter / Monday, July 22, 2019 Full digital issues of the Backcountry Journal are available to BHA members. Check out a preview below, or click here to join BHA. Already a member? Click here to log in. News for Immediate ReleaseJuly 22, 2019Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org The newest issue of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers’ magazine is available today MISSOULA, Mont. – The summer issue of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers’ quarterly magazine, Backcountry ... Media Press Releases Backcountry Journal Backcountry Journal press releases Journal Issue summer 2019 Read more
Is CWD an ethical issue? Is CWD an ethical issue? Arkansas BHA Chapter / Tuesday, July 9, 2019 This article first appeared in the Summer 2019 issue of Backcountry Journal. Join BHA and get the journal, quarterly, in your mailbox. By Patt Dorsey There is a lot we know about chronic wasting disease and there is much to learn. We know that CWD is affecting members of the deer family, including mule deer, white-tailed deer, elk and moose. We also know that CWD is spreading. Biologists have now detected it in 26 U.S. states and in three Canadian provinces. Scientists know that prions ... Media Backcountry Journal Fair Chase Backcountry Journal featured summer 2019 orion Read more
Students: Set your sights on Minnesota Students: Set your sights on Minnesota Arkansas BHA Chapter / Thursday, June 27, 2019 The Spring 2019 issue of Backcountry Journal featured an article, “Student Licenses Aid in Recruitment,” that detailed how discounted student license rates help R3 efforts across the country and called for more states to offer college students licenses at resident rates. The graphic included with the article mistakenly did not show Minnesota as offering these discounted student rates, which it does. The below article, contributed by the Minnesota DNR, details their R3 and student recruitment ... Media Backcountry Journal Minnesota Chapter Backcountry Journal Collegiate Program Read more
From the BCJ Vault: Required Reading for Conservationists From the BCJ Vault: Required Reading for Conservationists Arkansas BHA Chapter / Friday, March 15, 2019 Media Backcountry Journal Backcountry Journal blog Read more