Hike to Hunt is just around the corner. For those of you not familiar with it, BHA puts on a Hike to Hunt contest yearly to promote people getting out and hiking on our public lands, all the while getting in shape for the upcoming  hunting season. This year it will run from June 1 to July 31. Under Armor was generous enough to provide tracking for Hike to Hunt through their Map My Hike app. Anyone that signs up is eligible for random prize drawings. The top contenders across BHA will also be ...

I have been a private land hunter my whole life growing up on a farm in middle Tennessee.  It wasn’t until I became involved with BHA that I wanted to take my hunting to another level by spending more of my time on public lands.   I was lucky enough to be drawn for a quota hunt on a heavily pressured piece of public land around Nashville this year.  I got in a couple scouting trips to get a lay of the land, but most of my scouting was done with topo maps thanks to OnX.  I got a pack to haul ...

Photos by Alex Kim, Garret Smith and Marcus Hockett

By Chris Jenkins Chris is a Board Member and Director of Conservation for the Southeast Chapter of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers and lucky to call the beautiful North Georgia Mountains home. There are a few things in my life that you could classify me as obsessed over, but hunting is by far my most intense addiction. For example, I strive to hunt the entire Georgia deer season in the rut. I start hunting the coastal maritime forests to catch the September and October rut, then I move ...

We all know what a difficult and lengthy journey it is to get a habitat project off the ground. That’s why it is so important to continue monitoring these projects to ensure our efforts are making a difference and to make sure we know if additional efforts are needed. In recent years, the USFS has been hard at work in Pike National Forest to improve habitat and facilitate wildfire mitigation. Inherently, wildfire mitigation leads to opening terrain and establishing great habitat; and ...