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Spring 2025 issue of Backcountry Journal

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Winter 2025 issue of Backcountry Journal

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Fall 2024 issue of Backcountry Journal

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Summer 2024 issue of Backcountry Journal

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Spring 2024 issue of Backcountry Journal

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Winter 2024 issue of Backcountry Journal

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Fall 2023 issue of Backcountry Journal

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Summer 2023 Issue of Backcountry Journal

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Spring 2023 issue of Backcountry Journal

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Winter 2023 issue of Backcountry Journal

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Fall 2022 issue of Backcountry Journal

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Summer 2022 Issue of Backcountry Journal

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Spring 2022 Issue of Backcountry Journal

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Winter 2022 Issue of Backcountry Journal

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Fall 2021 Issue of Backcountry Journal

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Summer 2021 Issue of Backcountry Journal

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Spring 21 Issue of Backcountry Journal

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Winter 21 Issue of Backcountry Journal

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Fall 2020 Issue of Backcountry Journal

The Indiana Chapter of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers (BHA), the voice for our public lands in the Hoosier state, is excited to announce a new volunteer partnership with the U.S. Forest Service...
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The Lochsa Story by Bud Moore

This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists    Every book's reading starts with a set of expectations and hopes. I picked up a copy of The...
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A Fine and Pleasant Misery by Patrick F. McManus

This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists There is a time for reflection, philosophy and politics. And there is a time to lighten up. The cure...
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A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean

  This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists   A River Runs Through It is a memoir of Maclean's adventures as a young man in the mountainous...
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Summer 2020 Issue of Backcountry Journal

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Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists   A professor assigned my class Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring,” the book credited with launching...
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The Only Cutthroat Fly You will Ever Need

This article originally appeared in the Summer 2019 issue of Backcountry Journal. Join BHA, support your public lands and waters and get four issues a year of Backcountry Journal in your mailbox,...
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Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey

  This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists   When I think of Desert Solitaire I remember a little riverside camp I scraped out of the grass...
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That Wild Country by Mark Kenyon

This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists  If we’ve learned anything from history, it’s that public lands will always need advocates. Since...
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2020 Coloring Contest Results

Thank you to everyone who participated in our coloring contest from the Winter 20 issue of Backcountry Journal. Everyone did a fantastic job! Choosing only two winners was an extremely difficult...
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Spring 2020 Issue of Backcountry Journal

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Spring 2020 Kid's Crossword Answers

Here are the answers to the Kid's Crossword, located on page 17 of the Spring 2020 issue of Backcountry Journal. Not a member yet? Subscribe HERE and get four issues of Backcountry Journal to your...
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Fishing through the Apocalypse with Matt Miller

This story originally appeared in the Fall 2019 issue of Backcountry Journal By Hal Herring For author Matt Miller of Boise, Idaho, life is too short to be a fishing purist. His work as a writer...
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Winter 2020 Issue of Backcountry Journal

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Continued ... An Interview With Hal Herring

Photo by Tim Peterson   This is the continuation of our conversation with Hal Herring, host of BHA's Podcast & Blast, from the Winter 2020 issue of Backcountry Journal. For more of this interview...
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Navigating Rendezvous 2019

Above: The 2018 Hike to Hunt kickoff. by Josh Mills So you’re going to Rendezvous, huh? Get excited. You’re about to be part of the biggest public lands party you’ve ever seen. Your mind is about...
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Are Big Racks Ethical?

Above: In 2016 the BHA North American board passed a policy statement in support of policies which aim to prohibit new captive cervid canned hunting operations. As concerns around the spread of...