Welcome to BHA’s new website! This digital campfire is still being built—thanks for bearing with us as we get it burning bright.
11
Mar
2026
After nearly a decade behind the mic and more than 225 episodes digging into the people, places and fights that define our public lands and waters, Hal Herring is stepping away from BHA’s Podcast & Blast and onto his next adventure.
For this final episode, we turn the microphone around.
Categories: Media, Podcasts
Tags: media, Podcast
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Welcome to the March 2026 edition of BHA's State Policy Spotter – a high-level scan of state policy and legislation impacting our wild public lands, waters and wildlife across North America.
Categories: Media, Chapter News, State Issues, State Policy Spotter
Tags: Policy, media, Washington Chapter, Colorado Chapter, Utah Chapter
18
Feb
This episode frames Utah as a microcosm of the broader Western struggle over public trust, private property, and the future of access — where law, history, culture, and conservation all meet at the water’s edge.
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Welcome to the February 2026 edition of BHA's State Policy Spotter – a high-level scan of state policy and legislation impacting our wild public lands, waters and wildlife across North America.
Tags: Policy, media, California Chapter, Washington Chapter, Oregon Chapter
On this episode of the Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast, Hal Herring sits down at his home in Augusta, Montana, with singer-songwriter and wilderness mule packer Jackson Holte.
21
Jan
In this episode of the Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast, host Hal Herring is joined by Lukas Leaf and Matthew Schultz of Sportsmen for the Boundary Waters to unpack what’s really at stake. From the personal experiences that bind people to the Boundary Waters to the complex web of policy, permits, and public process governing its future, this conversation makes one thing clear: after today, none of us can say we didn’t know.
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Welcome to the January 2026 edition of BHA's State Policy Spotter – a high-level scan of state policy and legislation impacting our wild public lands, waters and wildlife across North America.
Tags: Policy, media, Wyoming Chapter, Idaho Chapter, Alaska Chapter
30
Dec
2025
Nine decades of weather and work, triumph and tragedy, wildlife and even wilder people, family, camps, crashed planes, and horse wrecks—a life writ large in some of the finest and most remote country left on Earth.
Through photography, storytelling and hard-earned curiosity, this conversation explores why these places matter, why they’re vulnerable, and why building a broader coalition of people who know and care about them may be one of the most important conservation challenges of our time.
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Welcome to the December 2025 edition of BHA's State Policy Spotter – a high-level scan of state policy and legislation impacting our wild public lands, waters and wildlife across North America.
Tags: Policy, media, Ohio Chapter, Wisconsin Chapter, Washington Chapter, Colorado Chapter, Alaska Chapter