The Spring 2019 issue of Backcountry Journal featured an article, “Student Licenses Aid in Recruitment,” that detailed how discounted student license rates help R3 efforts across the country and called for more states to offer college students licenses at resident rates. The graphic included with the article mistakenly did not show Minnesota as offering these discounted student rates, which it does. The below article, contributed by the Minnesota DNR, details their R3 and student recruitment ...

The Province of British Columbia recently launched the Forest and Range Practices Act (FRPA) Improvement Initiative. FRPA is a key piece of legislation in the province that governs the management of B.C.'s forests and grasslands and has direct implications on wildlife habitat, water quality, biodiversity and access management. Speak Up! Public feedback will be collected by the provincial government until July 15, 2019 at 4:00 p.m. Participate by completing the online feedback form. To help ...

The Province of British Columbia recently launched the Forest and Range Practices Act (FRPA) Improvement Initiative. FRPA is a key piece of legislation in the province that governs the management of B.C.'s forests and grasslands and has direct implications on wildlife habitat, water quality, biodiversity and access management. Speak Up! Public feedback will be collected by the provincial government until July 15, 2019 at 4:00 p.m. Participate by completing the online feedback form. To help ...

This recipe, prepared by BHA member and Montana Chapter Vice Chair Tom Healy, was featured fare at the 2019 Montana Chapter Campout. To say it was a hit is an understatement; the dish was a highlight of the event. In addition, Tom prepared a dessert of elk bacon, almond and bear fat brittle over hand-cranked maple buttermilk frozen custard and topped with rhubarb currant jam. Here's how to make the bacon.  Elk Shoulder Bacon Ingredients:  5 lbs. elk shoulder & neck maple syrup  black ...

You hear it all the time, hell, I’ve even said it myself: “it goes fast”. But nothing can really prepare you for how fast life actually goes. How you can be in your twenties and blink and you’re in your forties, blink again and sixty will be staring you in the face. Or how fast the life of your favorite dog can pass by, or how quickly your kids can grow up literally before your eyes. It goes fast. All of it. When I was younger, my thoughts were always to the future, to what’s next. As I get ...