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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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The Sharptail Caucus

This article originally appeared in the fall 2020 issue of Backcountry Journal.   BY RYAN BUSSE   As a young man I once stood on a mountain ridge so beautiful that I now find it impossible to...
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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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Tranquility in the Ozarks

  By Garrett Titus   The crisp turquoise spring water ripples across the front of my canoe, with the gentle strokes of my paddle and the soothing melody of stirring songbirds the only sounds as I...
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Live Action Game Cameras

Photo by Barry and Cathy Beck On an October morning a decade or so ago, I was hunting woodcock in an abandoned orchard. A flight had come in and, in less than an hour, I collected my three-bird...
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Yoga for Hunters

Published in Backcountry Journal Winter 2018 Issue. Subscribe by becoming a member here.                  Photo Credit: Bill McDavid It took me 16 days to tag a Dall sheep in Alaska last year. If...
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A Conversation with Jim Posewitz

Published in Backcountry Journal Winter 2018 Issue. Subscribe by becoming a member here.  Photo Credit: Thom Bridge Interview by Sam Lungren Author, biologist, ethicist, historian and legendary...
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Inside The 2017 Fall Journal

News for Immediate ReleaseOct. 27, 2017Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org Inside the Fall Issue of BHA’s Backcountry Journal The newest issue of Backcountry...
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12,000 Years of Great Fishing

The following was written by BHA's Conservation Director Holly Endersby, after a recent fishing trip to Kelly Creek (Idaho). Utter the words Kelly Creek to a real backcountry trout bum and she...