In a March 2014 Colorado Outdoors story (“Hunting For Experience”), I surmised that “hunting is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of game.”[1] If that’s true, then hunting can (in part) be defined as a unique and irreplaceable subset of everyday life, a harvest of knowledge and wonder. As renowned trad bow elk hunter David Petersen says in his book Heartsblood, “In real hunting, a microcosm of life itself, the trip is the destination.”[2] Which brings up a larger ...

State Game Commission member Gail Cramer, of Mayhill, unexpectedly resigned this week. It comes just months after the sudden death of Commissioner David Soules, of Las Cruces, which means Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham now has two commissioners to appoint. We hope the governor will choose well-rounded replacements who represent all New Mexico hunters and anglers, and to avoid the urge to appoint individuals based solely on their political value. After Lujan Grisham was elected in 2018, NM BHA ...

  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 food we carry in the backcountry is both deeply satisfying and at its most effective as fuel. In 2014, after preparing her own groceries for a 30-day Grand Canyon adventure, she founded Heather’s Choice – state-of-the-art, freeze-dried backpacking meals and high-performance snacks - in the kitchen of ...

After carrying a heavy load this legislative session, Montana BHA was able to lighten our packs just a bit as we strode into summer. Here's a quick recap on what we've been up to and what's on deck. First, Some Well-Deserved Recognition, and Some Fun Before BHA's big annual event, the 10th Annual North American Rendezvous, the Montana Chapter was recognized for its outstanding work as BHA Chapter of the Month. At Rendezvous, our Board Chair, John B. Sullivan III, was awarded the Mike ...

  The Colorado chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA) will hold their 12th annual Rendezvous (July 23-25) in southwest Colorado’s San Juan National Forest at the Florida Campground Group campsite north of the Lemon Reservoir, where the first (2009) Colorado BHA Rendezvous was held some five years after BHA was founded.[1] During March 2004, a former U.S. Army officer, Mike Beagle, convened a campfire meeting in the southern Cascade foothills of Eagle Point, Oregon. Seven hunters and ...