Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 125: Mark Squillace, attorney, legal scholar, public access expert 2/15/2022 The forces of privatization are very definitely on the march. From hunting access and opportunity to the age-old conflict over who has the right to fish or swim or boat on our waterways,... Tags: the campfire, Podcast, public access, Public Waters Access
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 124: Randy Newberg and Andrew McKean on Elk Madness in Montana 1/31/2022 The Montana chapter of BHA works hard to uphold the gold standard in public hunting opportunities, with one of the longest elk and mule deer hunting seasons in the U.S., a wealth of public land,... Tags: the campfire, Montana Chapter, Podcast, public lands
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 117: Undercover Game Warden Tony Latham 10/26/2021 Tony Latham is a retired game warden with 25 years’ experience working undercover on some of Idaho’s wildest public lands and in pursuit of some of the West’s nastiest wildlife criminals.... Tags: Idaho Chapter, the campfire, Podcast, public lands
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 116: Unraveling the Commercialization of Big Game in New Mexico 10/13/2021 Everybody knows that wildlife in the United States is owned by all of us. Elk, deer and other species are held in the public trust, period. But what happens when publicly owned big game is... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 115: Dan O’Brien, South Dakota rancher and founder, Wild Idea Buffalo Co. 9/30/2021 Dan O’Brien ranches buffalo over 26,000 acres of deeded and public lands 30 miles outside of Hermosa, South Dakota. He has been a writer of fiction and nonfiction, a dog trainer and falconer for... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, BONUS Ep. 114: Recovering America's Wildlife Act with Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) 9/14/2021 Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM), a hunter, angler, longtime conservation champion and BHA member, has introduced legislation known as the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (S. 2372). This bipartisan... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 113: Ed Arnett, chief scientist, Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership 9/8/2021 Ed Arnett is the hunting-est, bird-doggingest biologist in America, chief scientist for the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership as well as host of the national conservation TV series This... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 112: Wyoming wilderness guides and outfitters Meredith and Tory Taylor 9/1/2021 Meredith and Tory Taylor have been outfitters, guides and conservation leaders in the wild heart of Wyoming’s Greater Yellowstone for almost 50 years. Over those decades, they have explored places... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 111: Jonathan Wilkins, founder, Black Duck Revival 8/17/2021 “I never found a place I belong, so I’m making one.” Jonathan Wilkins is the founder of Black Duck Revival, a hunting and fishing guide service and simple lodge – built by his own two hands... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 110: Migration corridors, desert elk, mule deer and Wyoming’s Red Desert 8/3/2021 The remote Red Desert is a place of dreams, albeit dreams sometimes replete with choking alkali dust, freezing winds, gumbo mud, and the scattered, bleached bones of the unlucky or unfit of all... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 109: Nephi Cole of the National Shooting Sports Foundation 7/22/2021 Recorded in-person at BHA 10th Annual North American Rendezvous in Montana, join us today for an in-depth conversation between two certified gun nerds, Hal Herring and Nephi Cole. Nephi is... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, EP. 108: North American Board Member and Heather's Choice Founder Heather Kelly 7/6/2021 Alaska-born and raised, top-level collegiate rower, Crossfit addict, big game hunter, river guide, athletic nutrition coach Heather Kelly has spent a lifetime exploring the junction where the... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts Podcast & Blast, Ep. 107: Chef, Author And Outdoorsman Hank Shaw 6/24/2021 Sit down with Hal and Hank Shaw, the man who transformed wild game cookery in America – and who ushered in an entirely new era of hunting, fishing, gathering and foraging as culinary as well as... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 106: Archeologist Dr. Larry Todd 6/9/2021 Archeologist Dr. Larry Todd came home to Meeteetse, Wyoming, after a long career studying ancient hunting peoples all over the planet. Asked to do a quick archeological survey of some... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 105: Legendary Outdoor Writer and BHA Board Member Eddie Nickens 5/26/2021 For more than 20 years, Eddie Nickens, a member of BHA’s North American board of directors, has been the premier storyteller and scribe of American hunting, fishing and conservation, writing for... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 104:Mike Neiduski, the regional director of the Ruffed Grouse Society and American Woodcock Society 5/12/2021 On our latest podcast focusing on the Eastern forests and upland game birds, Hal catches up to Mike “the Polish Hammer” Neiduski, the regional director of the Ruffed Grouse Society and American... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts Hunter, forager, and wild food educator Jenna Rozelle 4/29/2021 “It started with food, and it’s evolved into what most hunters have experienced…sure, the end goal is food, but there’s a million more things to enjoy about it.” Jenna Rozelle lives in southern... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 102: Todd Waldron, Northeast region forest conservation director for the Ruffed Grouse Society and American Woodcock Society 4/14/2021 The Eastern forests encompass 51 million acres of timberlands, including the Adirondack Park, which at 6 million-plus acres is the largest protected area in the lower 48 states. This wealth of... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 101: Grahame Jones, Former Director of Law Enforcement for Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife 3/30/2021 Texas offers a diversity and abundance – of topography, fish and wildlife, and experiences – that few other states can match. Grahame Jones, recently retired as the director of law enforcement... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 100: Dog Trainer, Artist, Writer and Minority Outdoor Alliance Founder Durrell Smith 3/17/2021 Durrell Smith is a bird dog trainer, artist, podcaster and writer from Georgia. He founded the Minority Outdoor Alliance, a pioneer in connecting minorities to their history and voice in the... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 99: Aldo Leopold scholar Curt Meine 3/3/2021 Curt Meine is a conservation biologist and one of America’s foremost conservation and environmental historians. He is the author of the definitive biography Aldo Leopold, His Life and Work and the... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 98: Wildlife Biologist, Traditional Bowyer and Hunter Ron Rohrbaugh 2/16/2021 Come join us for a conversation with Ron Rohrbaugh Jr. of western Pennsylvania, wildlife biologist, traditional bowhunter and bowyer, conservationist and writer. We'll talk whitetails, shooting,... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast Ep. 97: BHA Policy Experts John Gale and Julia Peebles 2/2/2021 A new Congress and new administration bring a wealth of opportunities – and challenges – for those of us who care about America’s public lands and waters. Join Hal for a breakdown of U.S.... Tags: Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 96: Research Ecologist Dr. Paul Hessburg 1/19/2021 Prominent research ecologist Dr. Paul Hessburg began his career decades ago as a U.S. Forest Service entomologist, studying the insects that kill trees on the grandest scale. Over the years,... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 95: End Of Year Chat With Land Tawney 1/4/2021 As we close the book on a tumultuous year, BHA is looking ahead to the next challenge. What's coming up in 2021 for our public lands and waters, for fish and wildlife, and for hunting and... Tags: the campfire, Podcast, donate sidebar
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 94: Alabama redeye bass angler Matthew Lewis 12/15/2020 When most of us think of Alabama bass fishing, we think of throwing crankbaits along the shorelines of Lake Eufaula or tossing a weedless frog on the grass at Guntersville. But Matthew Lewis of... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 93: Bobwhite quail conservation with Michael Hook and Mark Coleman 12/2/2020 Some of us are old enough to remember the gloaming of hot summer days waning into twilight, listening to cicadas and the sweet, two-note call of bobwhite quail gathering for the night. A few of us... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast BONUS Ep. 92: David Quammen and Betsy Gaines Quammen 11/24/2020 Join Hal, David Quammen and Betsy Gaines Quammen for a bonus episode of the BHA Podcast & Blast. As we enter the season of giving thanks, of family in a time of social distancing, of reading... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 91: Science writer and explorer David Quammen 11/17/2020 David Quammen is the foremost science writer of our time, specializing in the linked fields of ecology and evolutionary biology. Quammen has lived in Bozeman, Montana, since 1973 and was a... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts Historian, conservationist and writer Betsy Gaines Quammen 11/4/2020 Betsy Gaines Quammen is the author of the new book American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God & Public Lands in the West,which explores the intersection of religious belief and landscape. Quammen never set... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 89: Alpinist and filmmaker Graham Zimmerman 10/21/2020 Graham Zimmerman is an alpinist, filmmaker and veteran of more than 30 international climbing expeditions. In the summer of 2019, Graham was part of a team that completed the first ascent of Link... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts Podcast & Blast, Ep. 87: Public Trust director David Byars and producer Jeremy Rubingh 9/22/2020 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... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 86: Conflict journalist James Pogue 9/9/2020 James Pogue spent two years as an embedded journalist with the American militia movement. He was at the 2016 occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge with Ammon and Ryan Bundy, an... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 85: Wilderness advocate and guide Bill Cunningham 8/26/2020 Bill Cunningham caught his first cutthroat trout in Lolo Creek, a tributary of the Bitterroot River, with a willow stick, a hook and a piece of string at age five. That was 72 years ago. Since... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 84: Photojournalist, writer and adventurer Jess McGlothlin 8/12/2020 Jess McGlothlin is a wanderer, paddleboarding on the jungle whitewater of the Peruvian Amazon, fly-fishing lost atolls in the South Pacific or watching the rivers of the taiga unfold beneath the... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts Podcast & Blast, Ep. 83: Writer and outdoorsman Malcolm Brooks 7/30/2020 Missoula-based carpenter, elk hunter and bird dog man Malcolm Brooks is the author of the epic novel Painted Horses, a wild and beautifully written story of romance and collision in 1950s Montana,... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 82: Radio Show Host, Hunter and Conservationist Nathan "Shags" McLeod 7/14/2020 Nathan “Shags” McLeod is the hunting- and fishing-est award-winning radio DJ you’ll ever meet and has spent the past 15 years building a huge audience from his base in central Missouri. His... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 81: Investigative Journalist Richard Manning 7/1/2020 From his most recent book Go Wild: Free Your Body and Mind from the Afflictions of Civilization, back to his rough-and-tumble newspaper days covering the scorched-earth timber industry of the... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 80: America’s Shotgunner Phil Bourjaily 6/16/2020 Iowa-based Phil Bourjaily is America’s shotgunner and one of North America’s foremost experts on shotguns and shooting. In addition to writing a monthly column – for nearly three decades – for... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 79: Photographer Lee Kjos 6/3/2020 In a recent interview with Filson, Minnesota-born and bred photographer Lee Kjos was asked to describe his work in five words or less. Kjos replied: “Original. Authentic. Genuine. Unique, and... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 78: Clay Newcomb, journalist and owner of Bear Hunting Magazine 5/19/2020 “Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” are not just words in the Declaration of Independence. They are words to live by, and perhaps nobody is living them harder or better right now than... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 77: Angelo Baca, Navajo-Hopi filmmaker, distance runner, traditionalist 5/6/2020 Hal travels to the Bears Ears National Monument to meet with Angelo Baca, a filmmaker and storyteller who grew up in and around Blanding, Utah, and has roots in this country that go back,... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 76: Rudi Roeslein, Energy and Conservation Visionary 4/21/2020 Rudi Roeslein came to St. Louis, Missouri, as a child from the refugee camps and ruins of post-World War II Europe. He became an inventor and an international industrialist who never lost his deep... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 75: Maggie Carr, Wilderness Hunting Guide 4/7/2020 Born and raised in Choteau, Montana, Maggie Carr is a wilderness hunting guide, backcountry skier, skilled horse and mule packer and co-owner of the unique wilderness outfitting business... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 74: The Editors Behind Outdoor Life Magazine 3/25/2020 What’s it like to be in charge of one of America’s oldest and most read hunting and fishing magazines? As the spring issue of Outdoor Life hits newsstands, we bring you the wild minds behind the... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 73: BHA Montana and the Fight for Public Access in the Crazy Mountains 3/11/2020 In the West, it’s called “the checkerboard” – one square mile of public land (640 acres, called a section) then one square mile of private – a direct result of frontier-era policies where the... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 72: Celebrating Expanded Public Access to State Trust Lands in Colorado 2/25/2020 Colorado’s state trust lands have been held in an iron fist by some of the most anti-public access policies and regulations found anywhere in the Western states. The battle has been simmering for... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 71: Matt Miller, outdoor writer and obsessed angler 2/11/2020 Hal meets with his old friend (and sometimes editor) Matt Miller in Matt’s hometown of Boise, Idaho, to talk about life and Matt’s new book Fishing Through the Apocalypse: An Angler’s Adventures... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Bonus Ep. 70: Howard Vincent, president and CEO of Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever 2/5/2020 Here’s a special edition of the BHA Podcast & Blast, just in time for Pheasant Fest 2020! It’s guns, it’s dogs, it’s wild flushing roosters on the wind, it’s conservation and clean water and... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 69: Christine Peterson, Wyoming outdoor journalist and adventurer 1/28/2020 Wyoming native and star outdoor reporter, with nine years of writing the outdoors column for the Casper Star-Tribune, Christine Peterson has been immersed in Wyoming’s hunting and fishing,... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 68: Wildlife migration corridors and the future of Western wildlife 1/14/2020 This episode of BHA’s Podcast & Blast was recorded at New Belgium Brewing in Fort Collins, Colorado! We’re talking wildlife migration corridors, wildlife crossings and the future of Western... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 67: Mark Kenyon, Founder of Wired to Hunt and Contributor to MeatEater 12/31/2019 “We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 66: Wildfire Expert, Dr. Stephen J. Pyne 12/17/2019 “Photosynthesis puts things together. Fire takes them apart.” – Dr. Stephen J. Pyne. While many people talk of the “Anthropocene” – the age of humankind, when nearly every natural process seems... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, EP. 65: Carp Expert and Public Access Proponent Dan Frasier 12/4/2019 Imagine an undiscovered Eden in the heart of South Dakota, a major river lying untouched and forgotten for decades – with epic fishing amidst thunderous solitude. It exists, and Dan Frasier, a... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Bonus Episode: Live From The Public Land Owner Pale Ale Release Party and LWCF Rally 11/20/2019 Backcountry Hunters & Anglers is celebrating local beers and local outdoor businesses at the launch of the Public Land Owner beer at Missoula, Montana’s recently reborn Highlander Beer – a brand... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 63: Brad Powell of TU and DJ Zor of Arizona BHA Talk LWCF 11/13/2019 Hal is in Phoenix, lost in heat and traffic, looking for Brad Powell and DJ Zor. He finds them: DJ is vice chair of the Arizona chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, a public lands hunter... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 62: Chris Parish and Leland Brown of the North American Non-Lead Partnership 10/30/2019 Hal sits down in Montana with Chris Parish and Leland Brown to talk copper bullets, lead fragments, falconry, raptors, condors, Mexico and California, a love of good guns, wild animals and wild... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, EP. 61: Ron Boehme of The Hunting Dog Podcast and Ryan Busse of BHA 10/15/2019 Ron Boehme of Twin Lake, Michigan, has been hunting and training bird dogs since 1973 and is a senior judge with the North American Versatile Hunting Dog Association. Ron is the host of the... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 60: Gwich’in hunter Walter Peter 10/1/2019 It is 80 miles or so by boat down the intensely braided and ever-changing Yukon River to the village of Fort Yukon, Alaska (at the confluence of the Yukon and the Porcupine), where Hal meets... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 59: Utah Roadless Lands at Risk? 9/17/2019 Utah Gov. Gary Herbert is petitioning the U.S. Department of Agriculture to develop a new, state-specific Roadless Rule that would impact 4 million acres of National Forest lands in Utah. Does... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 58: Utah Stream Access 9/10/2019 Hal is traveling the Wasatch Front, snarled in traffic beneath the spectacular snow-covered peaks, still trying to understand Utah politics. How can a state legislature pass a law that makes it... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 57: The Outdoor Recreation Economy in the West 9/5/2019 The American outdoor recreation industry is the largest industry on the planet – to the tune of $887 billion dollars annually – that until recently has not demanded political representation for... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 56: Fighting For Sunday Hunting In The East 8/27/2019 Some of you may be shocked to learn that in 11 U.S. states, regulations still exist restricting hunting on Sundays. Four states – Delaware, Massachusetts, Maine and Pennsylvania – ban Sunday... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA’s Podcast & Blast, Ep. 55: Randy Newberg and Land Tawney on the Crisis at the BLM 8/13/2019 Calling all American public land owners! The time for action is upon us. In wildland firefighting, a backburn is setting a fire to stop a fire … burning fuels ahead of a conflagration that must be... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep.54: Beretta’s Cory Mays and Dakotah Richardson 7/30/2019 When you are shooting a classic Beretta over and under shotgun at the trap range or in the field, you are handling a finely made weapon built by the same company that made the arquebus barrels... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 53: Recruit, Retain, Reactivate 7/16/2019 The decline in the numbers of American hunters and anglers is not just bad news for our connections to the natural world and for our heritage. Because the North American Model of Wildlife... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 52: Ashley and Jesse Kurtenbach, Hunters and South Dakota Chapter Board Members 7/2/2019 Take a moment to listen to Rendezvous 2019 Storyteller, South Dakota chapter board chair and ardent sportswoman Ashley Kurtenbach, who sat down with her husband Jesse and Hal in the midst of a... Tags: the campfire, featured, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 51: Sen. Martin Heinrich of New Mexico 6/18/2019 As the 116th Congress builds momentum, Sen. Martin Heinrich of New Mexico traveled to Boise, Idaho, for BHA’s 8th Annual North American Rendezvous. One of the most enthusiastic sportsmen on... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 50: Corey Piersol, SITKA Gear 6/4/2019 We’re in South Dakota for the spring snow goose season and testing out some SITKA waterfowling gear in the mud. Late night, after sous vide elk roast and some whiskey, Hal falls into conversation... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep.49: Eduardo Garcia, chef and co-founder, Montana Mex 5/22/2019 Eduardo Garcia grew up free roaming in the Montana backcountry north of Yellowstone National Park, in the company of elk and bison and native trout. The son of a Mexican fisherman and a teacher,... Tags: featured, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 48: Shane Mahoney, Conservationist 5/7/2019 Hunter, writer, thinker, scientist and wildlife expert, Shane Mahoney of Newfoundland is the foremost and most powerful voice of our time for hunting-based conservation and the North American... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 47: Drew Phipps, mussel biologist and upland hunter 4/23/2019 Growing up in a coal mining, fishing and hunting family in Dickinson County, Virginia, the heart of coal country, Drew Phipps spent his early days along the Clinch River, wading, swimming,... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 46: Blan Holman, Southern Environmental Law Center 4/9/2019 Epic floods due to the filling and draining of wetlands, duck numbers falling, fisheries collapsing, federal flood insurance $25 billion in debt, water pollution at levels not seen since the... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 45: Anthony Licata and Colin Kearns of Outdoor Life and Field & Stream 3/25/2019 Anthony Licata and Colin Kearns stand at the helm of two of the most iconic magazine titles in the outdoor industry. Anthony is the editorial director of Outdoor Life and Field & Stream, and Colin... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 44: Ron Mills, Legendary Montana Outfitter 3/13/2019 Back by popular demand: Ron Mills, an outfitter, hunting guide and packer in the Bob Marshall Wilderness since 1959, returns for Round Two in the BHA Podcast & Blast! Ron has authored a new book... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 43: Madison Parker, founder, Bulletproof Primitive Supply 2/26/2019 Hal goes south to meet old friends in the hurricane-battered backcountry of north Florida and talk about survival, spears and slingshots, pit bulls, blacksmithing, baskets, knives and traps, and... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 40: Ty Stubblefield, BHA chapter coordinator and new chapter development 1/15/2019 Hal comes down to Missoula to talk with BHA’s Ty Stubblefield (who hosts his own podcast, Shoot’n the Bull), about his roots in Oregon’s Umpqua Valley and his life there as a millhand, logging... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 39: Tom McGuane, Legendary Writer and Outdoorsman 1/1/2019 Tom McGuane, now in his late 70s, has lived life as a version of the 100-yard dash, fishing and hunting, team roping, ranching, and training and competing on some of America’s best cutting horses.... Tags: the campfire, featured, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 37: Bob St. Pierre, Andrew Vavra and Anthony Hauck of Pheasants Forever & Quail Forever 12/3/2018 In St. Paul, Minnesota, with bird dogs whining in the hall outside, Hal visits the headquarters of Pheasants Forever to interview a trifecta of America’s most committed and passionate upland bird... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 36: Ray Trejo, Gabe Vasquez and Fernando Clemente on the hunt for Mearns Quail 11/19/2018 Join Hal on a camping and hunting trip for Mearns quail deep into the Chihuahua Grasslands smack-dab on the Mexican border. With him is BHA member Ray Trejo, the huntin’est conservationist in New... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Episode 35: Ben Long, BHA Founding Board Member 11/5/2018 A native son of the Palouse country in Idaho and a contributing writer to Outdoor Life, Ben Long is a founding board member of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, a former newspaperman and one of... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Public Lands Month BONUS Episode: Ryan Callaghan and Kenton Carruth of First Lite 9/17/2018 Yvon Chouinard of Patagonia and Kenton Carruth of First Lite. Photo by Chris Crisman This summer, host Hal Herring was invited on a fishing trip into the Bob Marshall Wilderness by Ryan... Tags: the campfire, Podcast, public lands month
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Episode 28: The Tawneys in Washington D.C. 7/31/2018 Hal goes to Washington, D.C., with Land Tawney to hunt up Land’s sister Whitney, who has worked for Ducks Unlimited for seven years. More importantly, Whitney has just added a wild-eyed new... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Episode 27: T. Edward Nickens 7/17/2018 In this episode Hal catches up with T. Edward Nickens, editor at large at Field & Stream magazine and author of the Total Outdoorsman Series of books. Eddie is an old-school Southern gentleman... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Episode 26: Bill Hanlon and the Tatshenshini Remains 7/3/2018 Hal Herring and longtime BHA member and British Columbian Bill Hanlon swap stories in Whitefish, Montana. Hanlon tells the tale of his incredible 1999 adventure that begins with a Dall sheep hunt... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Episode 25: BHA Goes to Washington 6/19/2018 Hal Herring goes to Washington, D.C., to talk with members of Congress about hunting, fishing and public lands and waters. Sen. Michael Bennet (D) of Colorado, Dr. Roger Marshall of Kansas (R),... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Episode 24: David Ledford, CEO and President of the Appalachian Wildlife Foundation 6/7/2018 Hal Herring talks with David Ledford, president and CEO of the Appalachian Wildlife Foundation. They discuss Ledford's history as a biologist, the accidental wildlife boom on reclaimed mines, how... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast: Episode 23, Barry and Kai Whitehill 5/22/2018 Hal Herring talks with father and son team Barry Whitehill of Alaska and Kai Whitehill of Montana at the 7th Annual BHA North American Rendezvous in Boise, Idaho. The outfitters and BHA life... Tags: the campfire, Podcast, Backcountry Stories
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Episode 22: Writer and Native Arkansan Johnny Carrol Sain 5/8/2018 Hal Herring sits down with Johnny Carrol Sain, a writer and native Arkansan who lives in Newton County, Arkansas. They discuss the legend of the Dover Lights, learning to fly fish, Ned... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Episode 21: Patagonia's Yvon Chouinard 4/24/2018 Hal Herring talks with Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia and legendary outdoorsman, at the 2018 BHA North American Rendezvous in Boise, Idaho. They discuss Chouinard's roots, hunting... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Episode 20: Lamar Marshall, Historian & Conservationist 4/3/2018 Hal Herring talks with historian and conservationist Lamar Marshall in Calloway, North Carolina. They discuss Lamar's work with members of the Cherokee nation to conserve the Bankhead National... Tags: the campfire, Podcast, Backcountry Stories
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Episode 19: Brandon Butler of the Conservation Federation of Missouri 3/20/2018 Hal Herring talks with Brandon Butler, Executive Director of the Conservation Federation of Missouri. They discuss Missouri's historic conservation ethic, Indiana's Kankakee swamp, bowhunting... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Episode 18: Tony Bynum, Professional Photographer and Conservationist 3/6/2018 Hal Herring talks with Tony Bynum, prolific professional photographer and conservationist. They discuss life in East Glacier, the fundamentals of photography, traveling in Africa, documenting... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Episode 17: Tiger McKee of Shootrite Academy 2/20/2018 Hal Herring talks with firearms instructor Tiger McKee in Langston, Alabama. They discuss their longtime friendship, why training matters, bench rest accuracy, the field as the final exam,... Tags: the campfire, featured, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Episode 16: John Snow, Shooting Editor at Outdoor Life 2/7/2018 Hal Herring sits down with John Snow, Shooting Editor at Outdoor Life. They chat about the longevity of Outdoor Life, fishing as a first love, tricking people into eating squirrel, the... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Episode 15: Ryan Busse, BHA Board Chair 1/23/2018 "We have people challenge us, saying we're elitists and green decoys, saying we're fakers and fronts for something. I say come to our Rendezvous. Throw a nickel in the air. If it doesn't land on... Tags: the campfire, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Episode 14: Hunting for Sustainability 1/9/2018 Hal Herring sits down with BHA's Sawyer Connelly and Trey Curtiss and with BHA member Jim Giese to talk about BHA’s Hunting for Sustainability program. ... Tags: the campfire, Podcast, r3, Collegiate Program
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Episode 13: Roy Jacobs of Montana BHA Board 12/26/2017 Hal Herring sits down with Roy Jacobs, a hunter and longtime BHA member and Montana chapter board member in Pendroy, Montana. Hal and Roy talk about the history of Pendroy and northern Montana,... Tags: the campfire, featured, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Episode 12: Hunters Hannah Jean Nikinow and Liza Sautter 12/13/2017 Hal Herring talks with hunters Hannah Jean Nikinow and Liza Sautter. They discuss growing up as hunters, being Millennials, the political nature of hunting, hunting with your parents, hunters... Tags: the campfire, Podcast