Spring 2025 issue of Backcountry Journal Spring 2025 issue of Backcountry Journal Zachary Williams / Tuesday, April 29, 2025 Full digital issues of the Backcountry Journal are available to BHA members. Check out a preview below, or click here to join BHA. Already a member? Click here to log in. Media Backcountry Journal the campfire Backcountry Journal featured Journal Issue Read more
Is CWD an ethical issue? Is CWD an ethical issue? Arkansas BHA Chapter / Tuesday, July 9, 2019 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 wasting disease and there is much to learn. We know that CWD is affecting members of the deer family, including mule deer, white-tailed deer, elk and moose. We also know that CWD is spreading. Biologists have now detected it in 26 U.S. states and in three Canadian provinces. Scientists know that prions ... Media Backcountry Journal Fair Chase Backcountry Journal featured summer 2019 orion Read more
From Backcountry Journal: Crazy Business From Backcountry Journal: Crazy Business Don Thomas / Wednesday, March 21, 2018 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” ranges, the Crazies lie an hour’s drive northeast of Bozeman. They offer spectacular wilderness terrain and are home to native cutthroat trout, an over-objective elk herd, deer, mountain goats and large predators galore. Their current notoriety derives not from this natural bounty, but from a heated ... Media State Issues Backcountry Journal the campfire Montana Chapter Backcountry Journal featured media Read more
Inside the Winter Issue of BHA’s Backcountry Journal Inside the Winter Issue of BHA’s Backcountry Journal SuperUser Account / Tuesday, December 19, 2017 MISSOULA, Mont. – The winter 2018 issue of Backcountry Journal is arriving in BHA members’ mailboxes in time for the holidays. Here are some highlights from this issue: Required Reading: We asked our staff, board and some literary friends about their favorite books and why they matter. The result is a “best of” list of works critical to the sportsmen-conservation movement and understanding the people and ideas behind it. It also offers some top-notch fireside reading this winter…and gift ... Media Press Releases Backcountry Journal Backcountry Journal featured press releases Read more