Every Nov. 11 on Veterans Day and Remembrance Day, Americans and Canadians celebrate and honor former military service members who wore the uniform during peacetime or war.   The origins of Veterans Day and Remembrance Day started with the recognition of World War I veterans as Armistice Day – on the first anniversary of the “11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month” 1918 armistice to end World War I. However in 1954, after WWII and the Korean War, Congress declared Nov. 11 Veterans Day ...

August on the Lake Michigan side of Wisconsin is a tricky time of year. The big lake can’t quite decide if it's ready for Fall or if the boiling windless Summer days will prevail. The complexity of August is compounded by the coming Fall salmon runs. First the Chinook Salmon come into port and run the Milwaukee, Sauk and Sheboygan rivers. They are followed closely by the Cohos and up north the Pinks before winter ice up. All these events are determined by water temperature and weather.   A ...

Reps. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA) and Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) have introduced bipartisan legislation, the Veterans in Parks (VIP) Act. The legislation will provide free annual America the Beautiful Passes to current military service members and free lifetime America the Beautiful Passes to veterans and members of Gold Star Families. “The new additions to the America the Beautiful Passes are a much-needed inclusion for our currently serving military members and the ability to ease access for ...

This article originally appeared in the Spring 2018 issue of Backcountry Journal.   BY Lieutenant Colonel JEFFREY M. JONES, U.S. ARMY RESERVE   I spent the morning reading “The Battle for Alabama’s Wilderness: Saving the Great Gymnasiums of Nature” by John Randolph, sent to me by a fellow member of the BHA Southeast Chapter Board, in a containerized housing unit in Baghdad, Iraq. I was amazed at the fortitude and tenacity of the public land champions in that era – regular folks who were able ...