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
The Book of Yaak by Rick Bass The Book of Yaak by Rick Bass Zachary Williams / Thursday, April 28, 2022 This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists What do we lose when we let our favorite wild places succumb to the whims of industry and development? This is the question Rick Bass explores in The Book of Yaak. In the opening pages Bass sets out to capture the heart of the Yaak Valley, a wild, remote region in northwest Montana with immense biodiversity and a critical corridor for animals moving between the Northern Rockies and the Pacific ... Media Backcountry Journal the campfire Backcountry Journal required reading Read more
Echo (Living Wild with the Orions) Echo (Living Wild with the Orions) Zachary Williams / Monday, December 13, 2021 This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists Echo (Living Wild with the Orions) shares the mental and physical journey of a boy learning about survival. I wouldn’t typically choose this genre but the book really captured my attention. I love the ending, but don’t worry I won’t spoil it! This book deploys a certain magnetic pull. I told my mom I would read the book after I finished the series I was reading, read the first page, and was ... Media Backcountry Journal the campfire Backcountry Journal required reading Read more
Tracks: An Animal Tracking Book for Kids by Ann Schaefer, John Schaefer and Tina Howell Tracks: An Animal Tracking Book for Kids by Ann Schaefer, John Schaefer and Tina Howell Zachary Williams / Friday, July 16, 2021 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 tracking book. Both kids and adults will appreciate this book. I enjoyed it very much, and as I am 11, I can safely say that many adults would find this an amazing starter book while kids can learn many new things. The author gives a wide variety of animals that you can track. And parts, such as about a ... Media Backcountry Journal the campfire Backcountry Journal required reading Read more
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer Zachary Williams / Wednesday, March 10, 2021 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 own tandem lens of her degree in botany and Anishinaabe traditional environmental knowledge. Indeed, she weaves these different ways of seeing the world together as tenderly as she describes the eponymous braiding of sweetgrass, but I’d be doing us all a disservice to imply this book is just a ... Media Backcountry Journal the campfire Backcountry Journal required reading Read more
An Archer's Inner Life by Dave Sigurslid An Archer's Inner Life by Dave Sigurslid Zachary Williams / Wednesday, February 24, 2021 This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists In great part the appeal of public lands is that they provide a space for us to commune with the primeval. Though your HOA may frown on you shooting a Zwickey at the forkhorn browsing your hostas, the manager of your closest wildlife area likely has no such qualms. An Archer’s Inner Life is a profound exploration of the yearning to return in some small way to life closer to the bone. Sigurslid’s ... Media Backcountry Journal the campfire Backcountry Journal required reading Read more
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan Zachary Williams / Wednesday, February 10, 2021 This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists North Americans unfortunately have a long history of ecological harm. We also have the great propensity to recognize mistakes and work to fix them. Dan Egan's “The Death and Life of the Great Lakes” takes us on one such journey. The story of the Great Lakes is a rollercoaster ride of disastrous mistakes and our attempts to fix them.The Great Lakes are a resource unmatched anywhere else on ... Media Backcountry Journal the campfire Backcountry Journal required reading Read more