This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists   A professor assigned my class Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring,” the book credited with launching the modern environmental movement, my senior year of college. I hadn’t heard much about the classic then, but I was intrigued enough by Carson’s concern for the future, and the promise of a good grade. I quickly understood why it is a critical read for conservationists and how it popularized the field ...

This article originally appeared in the Summer 2019 issue of Backcountry Journal. Join BHA, support your public lands and waters and get four issues a year of Backcountry Journal in your mailbox, and unlimited digital access to current and back issues.   By Zack Williams There is something uniquely public about cutthroat trout. They reside almost entirely in wild, mountainous rivers of the West – undammed, wild, free places – the vast majority of these flowing through public land from ...

Yesterday Backcountry Hunters & Anglers posted a black screen on our Instagram page to listen and in recognition of the pain, uncertainty and outrage felt in communities across North America and the world. We did so to confirm profound changes are necessary. Racism is real and pervasive. We don’t have all the answers; in fact I don’t know if we have any of the answers but we have a base to build on. The mission of BHA is centered on the notion that no matter the color of your skin, ...

This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists   Bernard DeVoto spent the greater part of his career, from the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s, writing essays and articles about the West. During that first decade, most of his fierce writings defended the West and its resident Westerners from the greed of Eastern profiteers. In the second decade, however, his pen turned against the Westerners, as he became convinced that they were their own worst ...