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2021
This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists Let me first be clear: This is not a book about despair or tragic endings. It is not a book of environmental alarmism or an impassioned call-to-action to save the wolves and the whales. It's a concise and carefully researched book about people. Whether you're a fan of him and his music or not, Bob Dylan once said something none of us can really deny, "The only thing people really have in common ...
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Photo: Jack Lander, from our 2020 Public Lands and Waters Photo Contest This article first appeared in the Spring 2021 issue of Backcountry Journal. Join BHA to get 4 issues a year right in your mailbox. Guiding Principles of the Wild Harvest Initiative By Shane P. Mahoney We, as backcountry hunters and anglers, know that recreational wild harvests in North America should be viewed as one of the most sustainable, healthy and environmentally friendly food procurement systems in ...
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This article, produced by Orion, originally appeared in the Spring 2021 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 JAN DIZARD AND PHIL T. SENG Few topics create as much furor around the campfire or the hunt club as the use of baiting in hunting. What’s the big deal? It’s not clear exactly when humans began manipulating the ...
Tags: Backcountry Journal, Fair Chase
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This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists Written by Indigenous writer Yuri Rytkheu, A Dream in Polar Fog tells the story of a white man who through unfortunate circumstance finds himself forced to live among the Chukotka Native people of coastal Russia. Accepted by their people, he eventually learns their culture and ways of life. Alongside this is the story of a people whose entire existence is tied to the natural world – an existence ...
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BY LUKE FRONTCZAK The morning had been perfect – clear skies with a long narrow blanket of fog covering the valley floor below my hillside perch, which turned pink as the sun came up. Five seconds before beginning the trek back to camp, a little motion caught my eye as I put on my backpack. Pulling up my binos, antlers filled my vision. My butt involuntarily fell to the ground, and I felt my heart shift from fifth gear into second. After five years of hunting Washington state, this was the ...
Tags: media, Mentorship, Backcountry Journal
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Mar
This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists If you have spent any time in the landscape of the American West you understand the significance of rivers and water in the sculpting of our actions, experiences and thoughts. While this book’s tale is centered around an incredible account of one single ride down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon, it is just an excuse to tell the epic tale of the river itself – a book of history ...
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This title is part of BHA's Jim Posewitz Digital Library: Required Reading for Conservationists Author Bjorn Dihle is, among many other things, a BHA member, Backcountry Journal contributor and an ardent defender of wild places – especially the Tongass National Forest surrounding his Southeast Alaska home. A Shape in the Dark is a look at the long and complex relationship between humans and brown bears ranging from the journals of Lewis and Clark and accounts of Indigenous peoples all ...
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Authored by Levi Chandler, from the Kid's Corner of the Spring 21 issue of Backcountry Journal:
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Continued from the Spring 21 issue of Backcountry Journal, here are two more of Tim Mead's knots for wilderness campers. Read the spring issue for the first three! Not a member? Join now and get every issue of Backcountry Journal in your mailbox! Bowline The bowline (pronounced bow linn) creates a loop in the end of a rope. The loop is ideal for tying guy lines to tents or tarps, tying a painter to a canoe or kayak, or as in its incarnation tying the bow of a boat to a ...