Update from Chapter Chair Well, we have officially made it to the best time of the year. Fall colors, cooling temps, and lots of time in the woods and marshes chasing white-tailed deer, small game, and waterfowl. This is also the time of year when the NY Chapter is starting to look back on what we accomplished and look forward to our plan for next year. As we form those plans, I will make sure to share them here with all of you.  One thing I know for certain is that we need to grow our ...

Episode 191 with Jared Sullivan, former editor of Field and Stream and Men’s Journal, on his new book, Valley So Low, about the 2008 coal ash disaster near Kingston, Tennessee, its catastrophic aftermath on the health of those who cleaned it up, and holding our federal agencies accountable. In 2019, Tennessee native and former Field and Stream editor Jared Sullivan reported on the aftermath of massive coal ash spill from the TVA’s Kingston Fossil Plant. That spill- at 1.1 billion gallons, ...

  Last month, SD BHA celebrated the dedication of “The Stengle Tract,” a 560-acre addition to the Frozen Man Creek Game Production Area in Stanley County, South Dakota which marked a significant conservation and public access achievement. The initiative was a part of Pheasants Forever’s Build a Wildlife Area program, designed to create sustainable landscapes that support wildlife while providing recreational access. The new tract ensures permanent hunting opportunities and habitat for ...

  Lemon Shallot Cream Sauce Lemon Shallot Cream Sauce on Coho, contributed by Alec Boyd-Devine Recently, two friends from my hometown in Indiana visited me at my new cabin in Juneau, Alaska. Having fished for Atlantic salmon with one of them in Michigan, I knew this would be their first experience targeting saltwater Cohos. They were in Juneau primarily to waterfowl hunt, but we were fortunate that the Cohos were also running strong in the Gastineau Channel. I took this heavy run as ...

Nineteen Iowa BHA members, college students, and family members gathered on September 15th, 2024 at Wick's Wildlife Area outside of Story City, IA for a fence removal project. The goal of the project was to remove as much fence as possible to improve access to the small section of the South Skunk River located in the northwest corner of the parcel, as well as mitigating the hazards downed fenceline can have to hunters and their dogs.   In just 4 hours, members of IA BHA and partnered with ...