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This article, produced by Orion, originally appeared in the Fall 2021 issue of Backcountry Journal. Join BHA, support your public lands and waters and get four issues a year of Backcountry...

This piece was originally featured in the spring 2021 edition of the Backcountry Journal. My father called my older brother and me into the room and told us to grab the blue notebook from the...

This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists   Backcountry hunters and anglers are no strangers to the notion that there is something restorative...

This piece was originally featured in the spring 2021 edition of the Backcountry Journal. I hear my wife begin recording videos for her fourth-grade class, but she is drowned out by the last of...

News for Immediate ReleaseOct. 5, 2021Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org MISSOULA, Mont. – The fall issue of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers’ quarterly magazine,...

  By Dominic Corsini   Ralph Waldo Emerson is often credited for saying “life is a journey, not a destination.” I cannot help but feel connected to that saying at this moment. However, this story...

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This article, produced by Orion, originally appeared in the Summer 2021 issue of Backcountry Journal. Join BHA, support your public lands and waters and get four issues a year of Backcountry...

MISSOULA, Mont. – The summer issue of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers’ quarterly magazine, Backcountry Journal, is landing in mailboxes across North America. Venture out on summer adventures on our...

This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists   Tracks is a piece of art. I love the ways you can use it, as a quick facts book or a full-on...

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...

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All photos by Matt Butler How to better prepare for all your outdoor adventures.   By Matt Butler   The outdoors have become a respite for many during the challenging times of covid and...

This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists   I first read Richard Nelson’s The Island Within 20 years ago. The book is an intimate testament to...

This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists   Let me first be clear: This is not a book about despair or tragic endings. It is not a book of...

Photo: Jack Lander, from our 2020 Public Lands and Waters Photo Contest   This article first appeared in the Spring 2021 issue of Backcountry Journal. Join BHA to get 4 issues a year right in...

This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists   Written by Indigenous writer Yuri Rytkheu, A Dream in Polar Fog tells the story of a white man who...

BY LUKE FRONTCZAK   The morning had been perfect – clear skies with a long narrow blanket of fog covering the valley floor below my hillside perch, which turned pink as the sun came up. Five...

This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists   If you have spent any time in the landscape of the American West you understand the significance...

  This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists   Author Bjorn Dihle is, among many other things, a BHA member, Backcountry Journal contributor...

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  This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists   Outwardly, Braiding Sweetgrass appears to be a book about plants, viewed through Dr. Kimmerer’s...

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This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists Sen. Martin Heinrich recommended this book to the BHA staff, and it has since become one of my...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists   Dan Flores is a gifted storyteller and chronicler of the history of the Great Plains and wildlife...

  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...

This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists   Approximately 10 years ago I picked up this book after a reading a magazine interview with the...

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This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists   I’ve read both of Greenberg’s popular books: American Catch and Four Fish. What I like best about...

This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists   Reiger’s American Sportsmen is an expanded look into the entwined history of sportsmen, ethics and...

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...

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,...

This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists   I’ve read a handful of books in the past couple years that I think should belong in the...

  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...

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...

  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...

  This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists    In Bloodties, Kerasote brings the reader along with him on three journeys, and each involves...

This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists    Long before he was “The Meateater,” Steven Rinella was just another hunter dreaming of a premium...

This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists   Published posthumously in 1949, Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac is as close to a bible for...

We are all partakers in something that is inherently good. The backcountry awakens a pent-up wonder that is innate to our existence. As we breathe in the mountain air or witness the majesty of...

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Photo by Alex Kim   This article first appeared in the Fall 2019 issue of Backcountry Journal. Join BHA and get the journal, quarterly, in your mailbox. By Corey Ellis While recently rereading...

By Sam Lungren, Backcountry Journal editor This piece was published in the Fall 2018 issue of Backcountry Journal. Since this article was published, the Biden administration has begun their...

by Tovar Cerulli - Orion: The Hunter's Institute The image is familiar: A hunter crouches beside a dead deer, grinning into the camera. What do we make of this picture? We all see the hunter’s...

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...

Image courtesy of Don Thomas   Readers and BHA members outside of Montana may have never heard of the Crazy Mountains, although that is likely to change. One of Montana’s dozen isolated “island”...

Photo by Daniel Wilde For roughly two-thirds of the 20th Century, hunters and fishers were the bedrock of conservation. But beginning in the early 1970s, the ground shifted. The accomplishments of...

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...

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...

The newest issue of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers magazine is available today MISSOULA, Mont. – The winter issue of Backcountry Journal is arriving in BHA members’ mailboxes now. Here’s a...

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...