From the Chair On a recent trip to the Saranac Lake region I noticed that there was some color in the mountains and the mornings were crisp. Yes, it’s getting to be that time of year when we start shifting gears into the most wonderful time of year. That’s right, hunting season! I hope your scouting trips have proven productive, your weapon is tuned up, your personal fitness is in order and your “to-do” list is cleared. I would like to extend a personal thanks to all of the folks that helped ...

  “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 from an old church building in Brinkley, Arkansas. Jonathan is also a father and husband, a next-level forager and cook, a writer and working man. As he wrote in an essay for Outdoor Life last winter, “I am a Black man. Actually, I am biracial, but I live in a place where that nuance of truth is, most ...

For those people who had been planning a trip to hunt the incredible region of northwest Alaska, home to the Western Arctic Caribou Herd, they probably got wind of the proposal to close federal public lands to moose and caribou hunting in game management units 23 and 26A. This proposal would have affected all non-federally qualified users (NFQUs), or simply put but not entirely accurate, anyone who does not live within that region. On June 16th the Federal Subsistence Board held a special ...

During the first week of August, volunteers from the Montana Chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers teamed up with the Bob Marshall Wilderness Foundation to clear trails and initiate treatment of a Canada thistle infestation in the heart of the Bob. Volunteers spent seven days in total on the Grizzly Park project, including a day to hike the 14 miles in, four days of hard work, a day off for fishing and the final day for the long trek out. Here is the trip by the numbers: 3+ miles of ...

The State Game Commission stood up for everyday New Mexico anglers, boaters and others today and rejected attempts to shut down public access to five stretches of New Mexico streams. Meeting Thursday in Santa Fe, the commission voted overwhelmingly to reject landowner efforts to permanently close portions of the Chama, Pecos and several smaller streams in southeast New Mexico to the public. NM BHA Chairman Charles Tripp hailed the votes, saying, “The Game Commission showed real backbone ...