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
Reactivated Reactivated Zachary Williams / Monday, April 12, 2021 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 seconds before beginning the trek back to camp, a little motion caught my eye as I put on my backpack. Pulling up my binos, antlers filled my vision. My butt involuntarily fell to the ground, and I felt my heart shift from fifth gear into second. After five years of hunting Washington state, this was the ... Media Backcountry Journal the campfire Backcountry Journal r3 Read more
Cochetopa Cottontails Cochetopa Cottontails Gabriela Zaldumbide / Tuesday, February 23, 2021 By Gabriela Zaldumbide One of the reasons why I became a hunter was so I could source my own food. In the last two and a half years, I’ve had the pleasure of hosting many wild game dinners, adoring the opportunities to share my elk, venison or small game with friends. Unsurprisingly, after attending some of these “family dinners,” my friend Anna became interested in harvesting an animal herself. She had harvested a whitetail doe with her dad before in Alabama, but that was long ago. She ... Media Backcountry Journal the campfire Backcountry Journal r3 Hunting for Sustainability Read more
R3: Revelations, Relationships and Reciprocity R3: Revelations, Relationships and Reciprocity Gabriela Zaldumbide / Monday, November 11, 2019 BHA Hunting for Sustainability students discuss public and private land boundaries. Photo by Alex Kim This article originally appeared in the Fall 2019 issue of Backcountry Journal. By Gabby Zaldumbide The Wisconsin air was bitter cold. Turkey season had unfolded, but winter refused to end. As I sat perched on the ground, shotgun in one hand and hot coffee in the other, my hunting instructor and I could hear gobbles as the turkeys left their roost before sunrise. We set up in tall grass ... Media Backcountry Journal Backcountry Journal r3 Hunting for Sustainability Read more