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2025 Public Lands and Waters Photo Contest

Zack Williams

Taking pictures of our backcountry experiences is just one way hunters and anglers capture their most beloved memories in designated wilderness, on Bureau of Land Management tracts, Forest Service parcels, and on public waters in between. And we want to see your pics! Our winners will take home over $8,900 in prizes from partners like Savage, Simms, Fishpond, Seek Outside, Benchmade, Sitka, First Lite, Walton’s, Irish Setter, Grundens, NRS, and more!

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Students: Set your sights on Minnesota

Arkansas BHA Chapter
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 ...
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Student Licenses Aid in Recruitment

Sawyer Connelly
This article first appeared in the Spring 2019 issue of Backcountry Journal. Join BHA to receive the quarterly Backcountry Journal, in print, direct to your mailbox.     Editor's Note: The original version of this article contained a graphic that incorrectly showed Minnesota as not offering student licenses at resident rates. This graphic has now been corrected. You can read more about Minnesota's R3 efforts and student licensing in this guest blog post, "Students: Set Your Sights on ...
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Backcountry Journal is the quarterly membership magazine of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers. Each issue covers conservations issues, BHA news and exciting hunting and fishing stories from your wild public lands, waters and wildlife across North America.

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