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Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and Blasts
Hunting. Angling. Public Lands. That's the meat of what BHA's Podcasts & Blasts is about, and we cover the gamut. With guests that range from outdoor writers to backcountry hunters to legendary anglers, we seek to uncover the stories, the truths, the controversies, and the epic conversations that our public land heritage provides.
Episodes
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. #189: Utah Wants Your Public Lands
Utah files landmark lawsuit challenging federal control over most BLM land Yes, it is to retch over. Once again, the Utah legislature is coming for America's…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. #188: Hunting on the Ballot with Gaspar Perricone
From ballot initiatives that mandate wolf-reintroduction or banning the hunting of mountain lions and bobcats, wildlife management decisions are increasingly…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 187: The Lost Tale of Prospect Bluff with Archeologist Jeffrey Shanks
Join Hal and Florida archeologist Jeffrey Shanks for a lost tale of British Marines and Jamaican privateers, American maroons, Creek Indian warriors, rogue…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 186: Woniya Dawn Thibeault, Winner of Alone: Frozen and Author of Never Alone: A Solo Arctic Survival Journey
Woniya Dawn Thibeault, winner of Alone: Frozen, author of Never Alone: A Solo Arctic Survival Journey In 2019, primitive skills instructor and master…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 185: ALDO LEOPOLD AND AMERICA'S 1ST WILDERNESS
The Wilderness Act was passed by Congress in 1964, and has protected over 109 million acres of American public lands (53% of them in Alaska) since then. But…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 184: Save the Cutoff with Texans Bud Morton and Dustin Baker
The bitter tide of privatizing public lands and waters is rising fast across America. Only the actions of quietly heroic citizens can stop it. Nobody who…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 183: Tony Jones, The Reverend Hunter
Tony Jones, host of the Reverend Hunter podcast, and author of The God of Wild Places: Rediscovering the Divine in the Untamed Outdoors and eleven other books…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 182: Putting Conservation Back in the Foundation of Hunting and Fishing with Mark Kenyon
Michigander Mark Kenyon is the host of the Meateater podcast Wired to Hunt, and the author of the definitive book on the American public lands, That Wild…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 181: The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation with Jon Gassett and Patrick Berry
A conversation with Jonathon Gassett, Ph.D., former Commissioner of Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, Southeastern Representative of the…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 180: 20 Years of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers with Ben Long and Patrick Berry
20 Years of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers with Ben Long and Patrick Berry Ben Long is a founding board member of BHA, the author of the Hunter and Angler's…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 179: Justinn Overton, Executive Director of the Coosa Riverkeeper
Alabama's iconic Coosa River was recently named America's fifth most endangered river. It's vast watershed, all 280 miles of tributaries and lakes, begins in…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 178: One of the West's Most Powerful Voices for Conservation: Tom Reed
Tom Reed, of Harrison, Montana, is a founding board member of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers and a true son of the Western plains and Rocky Mountain…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 177: Salmon Source to Sea Expedition with Libby Tobey and Hailey Thompson
In April of 2022, Libby Tobey, Hailey Thompson and Brooke Hess skied into Marsh Creek in Idaho's Sawtooth Range, towing their kayaks and a sled full of camping…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBonus Episode: The Public Lands in Public Hands Act
Representative Ryan Zinke (R-MT) and Representative Gabe Vasquez (D-NM) are co-sponsoring The 'Public Lands in Public Hands Act" which would ban the sale or…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 176: Deer in the Southwest with Jim Heffelfinger
Jim Heffelfinger, Arizona Game and Fish Wildlife Science Co-ordinator, Chairman of the Mule Deer Working Group, wildlife conservation professional, author of…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsEp. 175: Outdoor Investigative Journalism: From Lyme Disease to Endangered Species with Jimmy Tobias
Journalist Jimmy Tobias started out working on backcountry trails for the US Forest Service and Montana Conservation Corps. Since then, he has become one of…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 174: Venomous Snakes, Local Hunting and more with Dr. Chris Jenkins
Join Hal and BHA North American Board Member and CEO of the Orianne Society Dr. Chris Jenkins for a fascinating conversation about everything from public lands…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBonus Episode: The Largest Public Lands Conservation Opportunity in Our Lifetime
The largest public lands conservation opportunity in our lifetime is at hand. The Bureau of Land Management is finalizing plans for the long-term management of…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsEpisode 173: BHA 2023 Federal Policy Roundup with BHA Government Relations Manager Kaden McArthur
Learn more about what goes on in the halls of Congress as Hal sits down with BHA Government Relations Manager Kaden McArthur to discuss the 2023 wins BHA…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 172: We Can Do This, One Person at a Time with Douglas Tallamy
Douglas Tallamy, Chair of the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology, University of Delaware Any hunter, angler and/or student of the natural world is…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 171: The Conservation History of George Washington Carver with Mark Hersey
Join Hal Herring and Mississippi State University environmental history professor and author of My Work is that of Conservation, An Environmental Biography of…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 170: Poet, Author, Hunter, Angler and Forager Erin M. Block
Listeners to the BHA Podcast & Blast will likely know Erin Block from her brilliant short essays at MidCurrent, Gray's Sporting Journal, Field & Stream, and…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBHA Podcast & Blast, Episode 169: Mouthful of Feathers
If you are an upland bird hunter with a yen for great writing and vividly lived experiences, you have probably been reading the Mouthful of Feathers crew --…
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BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 168: Paving Paradise: Alaska's Ambler Road
The proposed Ambler Road is a proposed 211-mile industrial corridor through public lands along the southern flanks of the Brooks Range and one of the last and…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 167: BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 167: Public Lands, Wild Game Cooking, Hunting, Angling and Conservation – Live from the Texas Hill Country
Public Lands, Wild Game Cooking, Hunting, Angling and Conservation – Live from the Texas Hill Country with Chuck Naiser, Jesse Griffiths and Riverhorse…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 166: Steven Hawley, Author of Cracked: The Future of Dams in a Hot, Chaotic World
Listeners of the podcast will remember a number of dam-focused episodes over the past few years, Free the Ocklawaha (Florida) and Snake River Dams (Idaho…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 165: Public Lands Stewardship in California and Colorado
Coho salmon habitat, wetlands conservation, the removal of abandoned fences that kill hundreds of migrating mule deer, pronghorn and elk every year. Marine…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 164: Dave Simonett of Trampled by Turtles
Dave Simonett of Trampled by Turtles is a Minnesota fisherman, hunter and dog man, a former roofer, and one of America's most profound songwriters and…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 163: The Southeast Grasslands Institute
The longhunters of the 18th century knew it well. The Native nations of the Southeast knew it better yet, lived upon its bounty of bison and elk, and…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 162: Ben Long, The Hunter & Angler Field Guide to Raising Hell
There is a dire misconception these days that hunting and angling are somehow the birthright of Americans – and that these life pursuits and passions of ours…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 161: Texas Chef & Sportsman Jesse Griffiths
Texas hunter and fisherman Jesse Griffiths is the author of Afield: A Chef's Guide to Preparing and Cooking Wild Game and Fish and The Hog Book, the definitive…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 160: Mitch Reid with The Nature Conservancy
Mitch Reid is a native son of the Alabama Wiregrass, where he grew up fishing and hunting his home country in the headwaters of the Choctawhatchee River. After…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 159: Game Warden, Author and Conservationist Sam Lawry
Arizona game warden and author Sam Lawry is retiring from his second career as the executive director of the Teller Wildlife Refuge on the Bitterroot River of…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsEp. 158: Hunting at American Prairie
BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 158: Hunting at American Prairie American Prairie is 455,840 sprawling acres of Montana grasslands and breaks that represents one of…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsEp. 157: Kevin Garrad, Founder of Wild Response
BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 157: Kevin Garrad, Founder of Wild Response Growing up in rural England, Kevin Garrad was a child of the wild moors, a ferreter and a…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsEp. 156: Bob Lee, Florida Backcountry Lawman
BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 156: Florida Backcountry Lawman Bob Lee You may remember Bob Lee from Free the Ocklawaha River!, where he and Hal first met. Bob is…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsEp. 155: Chris Dombrowski, Montana Fishing Guide and Writer
BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 155: Montana Fishing Guide and Writer Chris Dombrowski Chris Dombrowski is a professional fishing guide of over two decades on the…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsEp. 154: The Legal Fight Over Corner Crossing Comes to a Head
BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 154: The Legal Fight Over Corner Crossing Comes to a Head The future of public access to public lands access is being decided in…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsEp. 153 - The MT Legislature, The Weed Tax, and The Conservationists
BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 153: The MT Legislature, The Weed Tax, and The Conservationists Montana's legislature meets for only 90 days every two years, but the…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsEp. 152 - Murder of the Grand Kankakee Marsh
BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 152: Murder of the Grand Kankakee Marsh "I have never yet found a place that equaled the Kankakee swamps for the variety of game to be…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsEp. 151 - Bill Avey, 40 Years in the Forest Service
BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 151: Bill Avey, 40 Years in the Forest Service Retired Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest Supervisor Bill Avey is here to give us…
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Ep. 150 - Free the Ocklawaha River!
BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 150: Free the Ocklawaha River! Almost 60 years ago, the U.S. government, blinded by hubris, began work on the Cross Florida Barge…
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Ep. 149 - Conservation in the 118th Congress with the BHA Policy Crew
Podcast & Blast: Episode 149, Conservation in the 118th Congress with the BHA Policy Crew As a wise man once said, You may not be interested in war, but when…
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Ep. 148 - Drew Phipps and the Restoration of the Candy Darter
BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 148: Drew Phipps and the Restoration of the Candy Darter America's Midwestern rivers – the Elk, the Kanawha, the Ohio and all their…
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Ep. 147 - Ted Koch on the Lesser Prairie Chicken and Grasslands Conservation
BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 147: Ted Koch on the Lesser Prairie Chicken and Grasslands Conservation Will we act now to save America's iconic grasslands? The…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsEp. 146 - Lyndsie Bourgon, Author of Tree Thieves
BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 146: Lyndsie Bourgon, Author of Tree Thieves Lyndsie Bourgon is a writer, oral historian, National Geographic Fellow and author of…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsEp. 145 - Dr. Susan Leopold, Ethnobotanist
BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 145: Ethnobotanist Dr. Susan Leopold Dr. Susan Leopold is an ethnobotanist who spent the early years of her career in the jungles of…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsEp. 144 - Douglas Brinkley, Author and Historian
BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 144: Author and Historian Douglas Brinkley Douglas Brinkley is the preeminent scholar and writer on the history of America's public…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsEp. 143 - Feral Horses on Public Lands in Nevada
BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 143: Feral Horses on Public Lands in Nevada More than 82,000 feral horses roam U.S. public lands, about four times as many as the land…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsEp. 142 - Ashley Peters - Ruffed Grouse Society and American Woodcock Society
BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 142: Ashley Peters, communications director, Ruffed Grouse Society and American Woodcock Society Ashley Peters grew up in rural Iowa…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsEp. 141 - Nate Schweber - Public Lands Journalist
BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 141: Public Lands Journalist Nate Schweber A flamboyant Western politician, yelling hatred for the federal government, accusing anyone…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsEp. 140 - Far Bank's Simon Gawesworth
BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 140: Far Bank's Simon Gawesworth on public access to public waters…worldwide Simon Gawesworth is a second-generation master flycasting…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsEp. 139 - Kyle Lybarger, Native Habitat Project
BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 139: Kyle Lybarger, Native Habitat Project Kyle Lybarger, a 29-year-old consulting forester, father, deer-hunter, small creek addict…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsEp. 138 - Alex Harvey - Mississippi Forester
BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 138: Mississippi forester Alex Harvey Come with Hal to southern Mississippi to talk with Alex Harvey, a registered professional…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsEp. 137 - Russell Worth Parker - Marine Veteran and Storyteller
BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 137: Marine Veteran and Storyteller Russell Worth Parker Russell Worth Parker, known as Worth, is a retired Marine and a veteran of…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsEp. 136 - Saving the Striped Bass with Mike Woods and Chris Borgatti
Striped bass are arguably the most important fish – culturally and economically – on the Atlantic seaboard. And right now, anglers are spearheading a push to…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsEp. 135 - Rue Mapp - Founder and CEO, Outdoor Afro
BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 135: Rue Mapp, founder and CEO, Outdoor Afro Rue Mapp transformed her kitchen table blog into a national nature business and movement…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsEp. 134 - Snake River Dams
BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 134: Snake River Dams We are teetering on the brink of what could be the greatest conservation success story of the past 50 years. The…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsEp. 133 - BLM Director Tracy Stone-Manning
BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 133: BLM Director Tracy Stone-Manning For Americans who live or venture west of the Mississippi River or north to Alaska, no public…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsEp. 132 - Corner Crossing in Wyoming with Ryan Callaghan, Liz Lynch and Jared Oakleaf
BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 132, Corner Crossing in Wyoming with Ryan Callaghan, Liz Lynch and Jared Oakleaf Most of us have been following the case: four hunters…