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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 BlastsEp. 131 - Sen. Jon Tester and the Blackfoot Clearwater Stewardship Act
BHA Podcast & Blast, Bonus Ep. 131, Sen. Jon Tester and the Blackfoot Clearwater Stewardship Act To those outside of Montana, the Blackfoot River is the "Big…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsEp. 130 - BHA's Armed Forces Initiative
BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 130: BHA's Armed Forces Initiative: Honoring and serving those who serve. "Public lands are probably not the reason you would list for…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsEp. 129 - Joseph Jenkins - Biologist, Herpetologist, Alabama Wanderer
The Bankhead National Forest in Alabama is a place of shadowed canyons and rushing coldwater creeks, crystalline waterfalls and bluff shelters blackened by the…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsEp. 128 - Jimmy Stiles - Alabama Herpetologist
BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 128: Alabama Herpetologist Jimmy Stiles The Conecuh National Forest in south Alabama is known as the Heart of the Longleaf, a…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsEp. 127 - Jack Rudloe - Florida Gulf Coast Writer, Naturalist and Advocate
Jack Rudloe is one of the orneriest watermen on the Florida Gulf Coast, a time- and sun-honed fighter for clean water, intact forests and wetlands, and the…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsEp. 126 - Doug Duren - Hunter, Farmer, Land Manager, Conservationist
We hunters and anglers are often lost, these days, in a thicket of questions about public land and private land, loss of access, too much access, conservation…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsEp. 125 -Mark Squillace - Attorney, Legal Scholar, Public Access Expert
The forces of privatization are very definitely on the march. From hunting access and opportunity to the age-old conflict over who has the right to fish or…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsEp. 124 - Randy Newberg and Andrew McKean - Elk Madness in Montana
The Montana chapter of BHA works hard to uphold the gold standard in public hunting opportunities, with one of the longest elk and mule deer hunting seasons in…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsEp. 123 - Chef Eduardo Garcia - Co-Founder of Montana Mex
Eduardo Garcia, one of the greatest wild game chefs of our time and the co-founder of Montana Mex, returns to the Podcast & Blast to talk, as always, about…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsEp. 122 - Allen Morris Jones - Western Storyteller
Ep. 122: Allen Morris Jones - Western Storyteller 2022 marks the 25th anniversary of the publication of one of the most important treatises on hunting ever…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsEp. 121 - Melanie Vining - Executive Director, Idaho Trails Association
Ep. 121: Melanie Vining - Executive Director, Idaho Trails Association For a measure of sweat equity, an entire world of adventure awaits anyone who wants to…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsEp. 120 - Dave Byrnes - Australian Outdoorsman
Ep. 120: Australian Outdoorsman Dave Byrnes Join us for a journey Down Under with Dave Byrnes, host and founder of Australia's best hunting and shooting…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsEp. 119 - Jessie Shallow - Mule Deer Foundation Biologist
Jessie Shallow, of Salmon, Idaho, is the partner biologist for the Mule Deer Foundation, working with state and federal agencies to restore mule deer winter…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsEp. 118 - Clay Hayes - Backcountry College Professor
Host of BHA's Backcountry College YouTube series, Clay Hayes is a traditional bowhunter, wildlife biologist, wilderness skills instructor, master bowyer…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsTony Latham - Undercover Game Warden
Tony Latham is a retired game warden with 25 years' experience working undercover on some of Idaho's wildest public lands and in pursuit of some of the West's…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsJoel Gay with NM BHA and Jesse Deubel and Ray Trejo with the New Mexico Wildlife Federation
Everybody knows that wildlife in the United States is owned by all of us. Elk, deer and other species are held in the public trust, period. But what happens…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsDan O'Brien, Bison Rancher and Regenerative Agriculture Visionary
Dan O'Brien has been ranching for nearly 50 years and doing it in a way that improves wildlife habitat. Listen to this intense conversation with Hal Herring…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsRecovering America's Wildlife Act With Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM)
Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM), a hunter, angler, longtime conservation champion and BHA member, has introduced legislation known as the Recovering America's…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsEd Arnett, chief scientist, Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership
Ed Arnett is the hunting-est, bird-doggingest biologist in America, chief scientist for the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership as well as host of the…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsWyoming wilderness guides and outfitters Meredith and Tory Taylor
Meredith and Tory Taylor have been outfitters, guides and conservation leaders in the wild heart of Wyoming's Greater Yellowstone for almost 50 years. Over…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsJonathan Wilkins, founder, Black Duck Revival
"I never found a place I belong, so I'm making one." Jonathan Wilkins is the founder of Black Duck Revival, a hunting and fishing guide service and simple…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsMigration corridors, desert elk, mule deer and Wyoming's Red Desert
The remote Red Desert is a place of dreams, albeit dreams sometimes replete with choking alkali dust, freezing winds, gumbo mud, and the scattered, bleached…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsNephi Cole of the National Shooting Sports Foundation
Recorded in-person at BHA 10th Annual North American Rendezvous in Montana, join us today for an in-depth conversation between two certified gun nerds, Hal…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsNorth American Board Member And Heather's Choice Founder Heather Kelly
Based out of Anchorage, Alaska, Heather's Choice is a backpacking food startup company dedicated to making delicious, ultralight, nutrient-dense meals and…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsWild Game Chef, Author And Outdoorsman Hank Shaw
Join Hal as he sits down with renowned chef, author and outdoorsman Hank Shaw as they discuss hunting, fishing, foraging and preparing the wildest of wild game.
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsArcheologist Dr. Larry Todd
Archeologist Dr. Larry Todd came home to Meeteetse, Wyoming, after a long career studying ancient hunting peoples all over the planet. Asked to do a quick…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsLegendary Outdoor Writer and BHA Board Member Eddie Nickens
For more than 20 years, Eddie Nickens, a member of BHA's North American board of directors, has been the premier storyteller and scribe of American hunting…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsMike Neiduski, the regional director of the Ruffed Grouse Society and American Woodcock Society
On this second podcast focusing on the Eastern forests and upland game birds, Hal catches up to Mike "the Polish Hammer" Neiduski, the regional director of the…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsHunter, forager, and wild food educator Jenna Rozelle
Jenna Rozelle lives in southern Maine, where she teaches classes on wild foods, forages, hunts, fishes and chronicles an existence spent close to the land. For…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsTodd Waldron, Northeast region forest conservation director for the Ruffed Grouse Society and American Woodcock Society
Join Hal and Todd Waldron, Northeast region forest conservation director for the Ruffed Grouse Society and American Woodcock Society, for a discussion of the…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsGrahame Jones, Former Director of Law Enforcement for Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife
Texas offers a diversity and abundance – of topography, fish and wildlife, and experiences – that few other states can match. Grahame Jones, recently retired…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsDog Trainer, artist, writer and Minority Outdoor Alliance founder Durrell Smith
Durrell Smith is a bird dog trainer, artist, podcaster and writer from Georgia. He founded the Minority Outdoor Alliance, a pioneering voice in connecting…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsCurt Meine, conservation biologist and Aldo Leopold scholar
Curt Meine is a conservation biologist and one of America's foremost conservation and environmental historians. He is the author of the definitive biography…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsWildlife biologist, Traditional Bowyer and Hunter Ron Rohrbaugh
Author, conservationist and traditional bowhunter and bowyer Ron Rohrbaugh joins Hal on this week's Podcast & Blast.
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsResearch Ecologist and Wildfire Expert Dr. Paul Hessburg
Prominent research ecologist Dr. Paul Hessburg began his career decades ago as a U.S. Forest Service entomologist, studying the insects that kill trees on the…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBHA President and CEO Land Tawney
Join Land Tawney for an end of year chat with host Hal Herring.
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsAlabama redeye bass angler Matthew Lewis
When most of us think of Alabama bass fishing, we think of throwing crankbaits along the shorelines of Lake Eufaula or tossing a weedless frog on the grass at…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBobwhite quail conservation with Michael Hook and Mark Coleman
Some of us are old enough to remember the gloaming of hot summer days waning into twilight, listening to cicadas and the sweet, two-note call of bobwhite quail…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBonus Episode: David Quammen and Betsy Gaines Quammen
Join Hal and writers David Quammen and Betsy Gaines Quammen for a bonus episode of the BHA Podcast & Blast. As we enter the season of giving thanks, of family…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsScience writer and explorer David Quammen
David Quammen is the foremost science writer of our time, specializing in the linked fields of ecology and evolutionary biology. His 2012 book Spillover –…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsHistorian, conservationist and writer Betsy Gaines Quammen
Betsy Gaines Quammen is the author of the new book American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God & Public Lands in the West,which explores the intersection of religious…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsAlpinist and filmmaker Graham Zimmerman
Graham Zimmerman is an alpinist, filmmaker and veteran of more than 30 international climbing expeditions. In the summer of 2019, Graham was part of a team…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsWriter and adventurer Don Thomas
One of America's great outdoor writers, Don Thomas has hunted, fished and explored the world over – including Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, Siberia and…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsDavid Byars and Jeremy Rubingh of Patagonia's "Public Trust" Film
This Thursday, Sept. 24, BHA and Patagonia are hosting an exclusive screening of Public Trust: The Fight for America's Public Lands – just in time for National…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsConflict journalist James Pogue
James Pogue spent two years as an embedded journalist with the American militia movement. He was at the 2016 occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsWilderness advocate and guide Bill Cunningham
Bill Cunningham caught his first cutthroat trout in Lolo Creek, a tributary of the Bitterroot River, with a willow stick, a hook and a piece of string at age…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsPhotojournalist, writer and adventurer Jess McGlothlin
Jess McGlothlin is a wanderer, paddleboarding on the jungle whitewater of the Peruvian Amazon, fly-fishing lost atolls in the South Pacific or watching the…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsWriter and outdoorsman Malcolm Brooks
Missoula-based carpenter, elk hunter and bird dog man Malcolm Brooks is the author of the epic novel Painted Horses, a wild and beautifully written story of…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsRadio Show Host, Hunter and Conservationist Nathan "Shags" McLeod
Nathan "Shags" McLeod is the hunting- and fishing-est award-winning radio DJ you'll ever meet and has spent the past 15 years building a huge audience from his…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsInvestigative Journalist Richard Manning
From his most recent book Go Wild: Free Your Body and Mind from the Afflictions of Civilization, back to his rough-and-tumble newspaper days covering the…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsAmerica's Shotgunner Phil Bourjaily
Iowa-based Phil Bourjaily is America's shotgunner and one of North America's foremost experts on shotguns and shooting. In addition to writing a monthly column…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsPhotographer Lee Kjos
In a recent interview with Filson, Minnesota-born and bred photographer Lee Kjos was asked to describe his work in five words or less. Kjos replied: "Original…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsClay Newcomb, journalist and owner of Bear Hunting Magazine
"Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" are not just words in the Declaration of Independence. They are words to live by, and perhaps nobody is living…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsAngelo Baca, Navajo-Hopi filmmaker, distance runner, traditionalist
Hal travels to the Bears Ears National Monument to meet with Angelo Baca, a filmmaker and storyteller who grew up in and around Blanding, Utah, and has roots…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsRudi Roeslein, Energy and Conservation Visionary
Rudi Roeslein came to St. Louis, Missouri, as a child from the refugee camps and ruins of post-World War II Europe. He became an inventor and an international…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsMaggie Carr, Wilderness Hunting Guide
Born and raised in Choteau, Montana, Maggie Carr is a wilderness hunting guide, backcountry skier, skilled horse and mule packer and co-owner of the unique…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsThe Editors Behind Outdoor Life Magazine
What's it like to be in charge of one of America's oldest and most read hunting and fishing magazines? As the spring issue of Outdoor Life hits newsstands, we…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBHA Montana and the Fight for Public Access in the Crazy Mountains
In the West, it's called "the checkerboard" – one square mile of public land (640 acres, called a section) then one square mile of private – a direct result of…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 72: Celebrating Expanded Public Access to State Trust Lands in Colorado
Colorado's state trust lands have been held in an iron fist by some of the most anti-public access policies and regulations found anywhere in the Western…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 71: Matt Miller, outdoor writer and obsessed angler
Hal meets with his old friend (and sometimes editor) Matt Miller in Matt's hometown of Boise, Idaho, to talk about life and Matt's new book Fishing Through the…