Photo: NPS/Simon Weller   BY ZACH WELLER   “Hey Trav, I think I see a mountain goat. Take out your 15s and see if you can confirm.” We were still in the canoes, just 20 minutes into our five-day...

  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...

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...

  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...

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...

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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...

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...