Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 155: Montana Fishing Guide and Writer Chris Dombrowski 5/9/2023 Chris Dombrowski is a professional fishing guide of over two decades on the rivers of Montana, an acclaimed poet and the author of Body of Water: A Sage, A Seeker, and the World’s Most Alluring... Tags: media, Podcast, Public Waters Access
Media Chapter News Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 152: Murder of the Grand Kankakee Marsh 3/28/2023 “I have never yet found a place that equaled the Kankakee swamps for the variety of game to be found there.” – J. Lorenzo Werich, 1920. Few know the history now. None who experienced it are still... Tags: Illinois Chapter, media, Podcast, Indiana Chapter
Media State Issues Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 151: Bill Avey, 40 Years in the Forest Service 3/14/2023 Retired Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest Supervisor Bill Avey is here to give us a clear view into the workings of the U.S. Forest Service – and what is arguably, for a public lands hunter... Tags: Montana Chapter, Policy, media, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 150: Free the Ocklawaha River! 2/28/2023 Almost 60 years ago, the U.S. government, blinded by hubris, began work on the Cross Florida Barge Canal. Never heard of it? That’s because President Richard Nixon, seeing it for the financial and... Tags: media, Podcast
Media Podcasts Podcast & Blast: Episode 149, Conservation in the 118th Congress with the BHA Policy Crew 1/31/2023 As a wise man once said, You may not be interested in war, but when the times comes, war will certainly be interested in you. The same can be said about Congress. This week's episode with BHA's... Tags: media, Podcast
Media Podcasts 10 Great BHA Podcasts from 2022 1/4/2023 Podcasts are one of the dominant forms of storytelling today, but it's something we can forget in the hurly burly of our daily lives: Stories are meant for telling, and we crave to listen to... Tags: media, Podcast
Media Chapter News Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 145: Ethnobotanist Dr. Susan Leopold 11/22/2022 Dr. Susan Leopold is an ethnobotanist who spent the early years of her career in the jungles of the Peruvian Amazon and Central America. An epiphany led her home, to Virginia and to the American... Tags: media, Podcast, Ohio Chapter, Mid-Atlantic Chapter
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 143: Feral Horses on Public Lands in Nevada 10/25/2022 More than 82,000 feral horses roam U.S. public lands, about four times as many as the land and water can sustain. Almost all of them live in Nevada, the most arid state in the union, where their... Tags: media, Nevada Chapter, Podcast
Media Chapter News Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 139: Kyle Lybarger, Native Habitat Project 8/30/2022 Kyle Lybarger, a 29-year-old consulting forester, father, deer-hunter, small creek addict and self-proclaimed “native plant nerd” of Hartselle, Alabama, is a major part of a new and wonderful... Tags: media, Podcast, Southeast Chapter
Media Chapter News Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 138: Mississippi Forester Alex Harvey 8/16/2022 Come with Hal to southern Mississippi to talk with Alex Harvey, a registered professional forester in Mississippi and Alabama and a land management consultant, wildlife biologist and... Tags: media, Podcast, Southeast Chapter
Media Chapter News Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 137: Marine Veteran and Storyteller Russell Worth Parker 8/2/2022 Russell Worth Parker, known as Worth, is a retired Marine and a veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan. After 27 years in the Corps, he is home in Wilmington, North Carolina, hunting and fishing and... Tags: media, Podcast, Armed Forces Initiative, North Carolina Chapter, Public Lands & Waters
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 136: Striped Bass with Mike Woods and Chris Borgatti 7/19/2022 Striped bass are arguably the most important fish – culturally and economically – on the Atlantic seaboard. And right now, anglers are spearheading a push to conserve and rebuild striper... Tags: media, Podcast, New York Chapter, New England Chapter
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 135: Rue Mapp, founder and CEO, Outdoor Afro 7/5/2022 Rue Mapp transformed her kitchen table blog into a national nature business and movement. Today, Mapp is founder and CEO of Outdoor Afro. For more than a decade, the nonprofit has continued to... Tags: media, Podcast, Public Lands & Waters
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 133: BLM Director Tracy Stone-Manning 6/7/2022 For Americans who live or venture west of the Mississippi River or north to Alaska, no public lands are more important, more abundant or more accessible than those managed by the Bureau of Land... Tags: media, Podcast, Access & Opportunity, Public Lands & Waters
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 132, Corner Crossing in Wyoming with Ryan Callaghan, Liz Lynch and Jared Oakleaf 5/26/2022 Most of us have been following the case: four hunters from Missouri who used a homemade ladder to cross from one section of public land to the next without setting foot on private land…and the... Tags: media, Podcast, Access & Opportunity, Wyoming Chapter
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Bonus Ep. 131, Sen. Jon Tester and the Blackfoot Clearwater Stewardship Act 5/3/2022 To those outside of Montana, the Blackfoot River is the “Big Blackfoot” featured in Norman Maclean’s lyrical and tragic novel A River Runs Through It. For Montanans and generations of visitors,... Tags: Montana Chapter, media, Podcast, Public Waters Access
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 130: BHA’s Armed Forces Initiative: Honoring and serving those who serve 4/26/2022 “Public lands are probably not the reason you would list for joining the Army or the Marines, but they’re the key piece of what makes America the greatest country out there,” says Trevor Hubbs,... Tags: media, Podcast, Armed Forces Initiative
Media Chapter News Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 129: Joseph Jenkins, biologist, herpetologist, Alabama wanderer 4/12/2022 The Bankhead National Forest in Alabama is a place of shadowed canyons and rushing coldwater creeks, crystalline waterfalls and bluff shelters blackened by the smoke from campfires over thousands... Tags: media, Podcast, Southeast Chapter, Public Lands & Waters
Media Chapter News Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 128: Alabama Herpetologist Jimmy Stiles 3/29/2022 The Conecuh National Forest in south Alabama is known as the Heart of the Longleaf, a landscape of tall pine and wiregrass, restoration and recovery, humming with life and comprising a wild... Tags: Podcast, Southeast Chapter
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 126: Doug Duren, hunter, farmer, land manager, conservationist 3/1/2022 We hunters and anglers are often lost, these days, in a thicket of questions about public land and private land, loss of access, too much access, conservation priorities, conflicting desires and... Tags: media, Podcast, Access & Opportunity, Fair Chase
Media Podcasts Field to Table BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 123: Chef Eduardo Garcia, Co-Founder of Montana Mex 1/18/2022 Eduardo Garcia, one of the greatest wild game chefs of our time and the co-founder of Montana Mex, returns to the Podcast & Blast to talk, as always, about life – family, work, cooking, hunting,... Tags: Field to Table, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 122: Western Storyteller Allen Morris Jones 1/4/2022 2022 marks the 25th anniversary of the publication of one of the most important treatises on hunting ever written. Allen Morris Jones’ book A Quiet Place of Violence: Hunting and Ethics in the... Tags: media, Podcast, Public Lands & Waters, Fair Chase
Media Podcasts The Best Podcast & Blast Episodes You Might Have Missed This Year 12/23/2021 The inestimable Hal Herring's Southern drawl seems to pull the most interesting stories from his guests. Whether they're scientists on the cutting edge of conservation research, ranchers of an... Tags: media, Podcast
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 121: Melanie Vining, Executive Director, Idaho Trails Association 12/21/2021 For a measure of sweat equity, an entire world of adventure awaits anyone who wants to work on American public lands. In today’s podcast, Hal catches up with Melanie Vining, an Idaho elk hunter,... Tags: media, Podcast, Public Lands & Waters
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 120:Australian Outdoorsman Dave Byrnes 12/7/2021 Join us for a journey Down Under with Dave Byrnes, host and founder of Australia’s best hunting and shooting podcast, The Hunting Arete. Byrnes, of Newcastle, New South Wales, is a tradesman,... Tags: media, Podcast, Public Lands & Waters, Fair Chase
Media Podcasts BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 118: Backcountry College Professor Clay Hayes 11/9/2021 Host of BHA’s Backcountry College YouTube series, Clay Hayes is a traditional bowhunter, wildlife biologist, wilderness skills instructor, master bowyer, filmmaker and family man who splits his... Tags: media, Podcast, Mentorship, Public Lands & Waters