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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 BlastsHoward Vincent, president and CEO of Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever
BONUS EPISODE! Here's a special edition of the BHA Podcast & Blast, just in time for Pheasant Fest 2020! It's guns, it's dogs, it's wild flushing roosters on…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsChristine Peterson, Wyoming outdoor journalist and adventurer
Wyoming native and star outdoor reporter, with nine years of writing the outdoors column for the Casper Star-Tribune, Christine Peterson has been immersed in…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBHA Podcast & Blast, Ep 68: Wildlife Migration Corridors and the Future of Western Wildlife
This episode of BHA's Podcast & Blast was recorded at New Belgium Brewing in Fort Collins, Colorado! We're talking wildlife migration corridors, wildlife…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 67: Mark Kenyon, Founder of Wired to Hunt and Contributor at MeatEater
We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 66: Wildfire expert, Dr. Stephen J. Pyne
"Photosynthesis puts things together. Fire takes them apart." – Dr. Stephen J. Pyne. While many people talk of the "Anthropocene" – the age of humankind, when…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 65: Carp Expert and Public Access Proponent Dan Frasier
Imagine an undiscovered Eden in the heart of South Dakota, a major river lying untouched and forgotten for decades – with epic fishing amidst thunderous…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 63: Brad Powell of TU and DJ Zor of Arizona BHA talk LWCF
DJ Zor is vice chair of the Arizona chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, a public lands hunter extraordinaire and Navy nuclear sub veteran, and Brad…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBHA Podcast & Blast, EP. 62: Chris Parish and Leland Brown of the North American Non-Lead Partnership
Hal sits down in Montana with Chris Parish and Leland Brown to talk copper bullets, lead fragments, falconry, raptors, condors, Mexico and California, a love…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 61: Ron Boehme of The Hunting Dog Podcast and Ryan Busse of BHA
Ron Boehme of Twin Lake, Michigan, has been hunting and training bird dogs since 1973 and is a senior judge with the North American Versatile Hunting Dog…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 60: Gwich'in hunter Walter Peter
It is 80 miles or so by boat down the intensely braided and ever-changing Yukon River to the village of Fort Yukon, Alaska (at the confluence of the Yukon and…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 59: Utah Roadless Lands at Risk?
Utah Gov. Gary Herbert is petitioning the U.S. Department of Agriculture to develop a new, state-specific Roadless Rule that would impact 4 million acres of…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 58: Chris Barkey of the Utah Stream Access Coalition
Hal is traveling the Wasatch Front, snarled in traffic beneath the spectacular snow-covered peaks, still trying to understand Utah politics. How can a state…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 57: The Outdoor Recreation Economy in the West
The American outdoor recreation industry is the largest industry on the planet – to the tune of $887 billion dollars annually – that until recently has not…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 56: Fighting for Sunday hunting in the East
Meet BHA Capital Region Co-Chair Samantha Flowers, BHA Pennsylvania board member Don Rank and BHA Regional Manager (and Pennsylvanian) Chris Hennessey, who are…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBHA's Podcast & Blast, Ep. 55: Randy Newberg and Land Tawney on the Crisis at the BLM
Calling all American public land owners! The time for action is upon us. In wildland firefighting, a backburn is setting a fire to stop a fire … burning fuels…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBHA Podcast & Blast, EP. 54: Beretta's Cory Mays and Dakotah Richardson
When you are shooting a classic Beretta over and under shotgun at the trap range or in the field, you are handling a finely made weapon built by the same…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsR3: Recruit, Retain, Reactivate
The decline in the numbers of American hunters and anglers is not just bad news for our connections to the natural world and for our heritage. Because the…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 52: Ashley and Jesse Kurtenbach, Hunters
Ashley and Jesse Kurtenbach are board members of the South Dakota Chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers. Join them as they sit down with Hal Herring on the…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsSen. Martin Heinrich of New Mexico
As the 116th Congress builds momentum, Sen. Martin Heinrich of New Mexico traveled to Boise, Idaho, for BHA's 8th Annual North American Rendezvous. One of the…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsCorey Piersol, SITKA Gear Customer Service Manager
Corey is the perfect match for the world's leading hunting gear company (and Podcast & Blast sponsor): a hunter with both bow and rifle, angler with whatever…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsEduardo Garcia, chef and co-founder, Montana Mex
Chef Eduardo Garcia and Hal Herring sat down at the 8thAnnual North American Rendezvous to talk about wild landscapes, their outdoor pursuits and seizing the…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsShane Mahoney, Conservationist
Hunter, writer, thinker, scientist and wildlife expert, Shane Mahoney of Newfoundland is the foremost and most powerful voice of our time for hunting-based…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 47: Drew Phipps, mussel biologist and upland hunter
Hal catches up with Drew and his Llewellin setter, Penny, on the George Washington National Forest in Virginia, and they set out on a long hunt for ruffed…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBlan Holman, Southern Environmental Law Center
Epic floods due to the filling and draining of wetlands, duck numbers falling, fisheries collapsing, federal flood insurance $25 billion in debt, water…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsAnthony Licata and Colin Kearns of Field & Stream and Outdoor Life
Anthony Licata and Colin Kearns stand at the helm of the most iconic magazine titles in the outdoor industry. Anthony is the editorial director of Outdoor Life…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsRon Mills, Montana Outfitting Legend
Back by popular demand: Ron Mills, an outfitter, hunting guide and packer in the Bob Marshall Wilderness since 1959, returns for Round Two in the BHA Podcast &…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsMadison Parker, founder, Bulletproof Primitive Supply
Hal goes south to meet up with old friend and former U.S. Navy SEAL Madison Parker in the hurricane-battered backcountry of north Florida and talk about…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsNatalie Krebs, Senior Editor at Outdoor Life
How does a 2013 graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism find herself pulling a pulk (gear sled) on an ice fishing expedition into the…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsNelson Brooke, Black Warrior Riverkeeper
Come with us to Birmingham, Alabama, to meet Nelson Brooke, the Black Warrior Riverkeeper, whose life is spent on the vast arterial network of some of central…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsTy Stubblefield, BHA chapter coordinator and new chapter development
Hal comes down to Missoula to talk with BHA's Ty Stubblefield (who hosts his own podcast, Shoot'n the Bull), about his roots in Oregon's Umpqua Valley and his…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsTom McGuane, Legendary Writer and Outdoorsman
Hal meets up with Tom McGuane in McLeod, Montana, on the Boulder River. They begin with an eye-widening discussion of how McGuane's "The Heart of the Game"…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBHA in the East: Chris Hennessey, Josh Kaywood and Jason Meekhof
BHA's Jason Meekhof of Michigan, Chris Hennessey of Pennsylvania and Josh Kaywood of Tennessee talk Eastern hunting and fishing, the explosive growth of BHA…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBob St. Pierre, Andrew Vavra and Anthony Hauck of Pheasants Forever & Quail Forever
In St. Paul, Minnesota, with bird dogs whining in the hall outside, Hal visits the headquarters of Pheasants Forever to interview a trifecta of America's most…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsRay Trejo, Gabe Vasquez and Fernando Clemente on the hunt for Mearns quail.
Join Hal on a camping and hunting trip for Mearns quail deep into the Chihuahua Grasslands smack-dab on the Mexican border. With him is BHA member Ray Trejo…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBen Long, Founding BHA Board Member
A native son of the Palouse country in Idaho and a contributing writer to Outdoor Life, Ben Long is a founding board member of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, a…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsSteve Piragis, outfitter and Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wildnerness expert
Steve Piragis, of Piragis Northwoods Company, is an institution in Ely, Minnesota: the grand old man of Boundary Waters outfitting and perhaps the most…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBHA Podcast & Blast, Episode 33: Rachel VandeVoort, Director of the Montana Office of Outdoor Recreation
Rachel VandeVoort is a native of Whitefish, Montana, with four generations of family history in Montana. She is also director of the Montana Office of Outdoor…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBHA Podcast & Blast, Episode 32: Ryan Bronson, Director of Conservation at Vista Outdoor
Hal Herring visits the headquarters of Vista Outdoor to talk with Vista Director of Conservation Ryan Bronson. Vista represents dozens of the most popular…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBHA Podcast & Blast, Public Lands Month BONUS Episode: Ryan Callaghan and Kenton Carruth of FirstLite
This bonus episode of the BHA Podcast & Blast is being released in celebration of Public Lands Month. Listen as Hal talks to Ryan Callaghan and Kenton Carruth…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsBHA Podcast & Blast, Episode 31: Hal visits the headquarters of Wild South
Last winter, Hal met some Southern wilderness warriors in the small town of Moulton, Alabama, at the headquarters of Wild South, where the mission is simple…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsElliott Woods, Montana-based multimedia journalist
Montana-based multimedia journalist and Outside magazine correspondent Elliott Woods served as a soldier in Iraq and was an embedded reporter in Afghanistan…
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and BlastsAdam Gall, visionary fishing and big game guide
After almost two years of trying, Hal catches up with Adam Gall, visionary fishing and big game guide who, with his wife Ana, started Timber to Table Guide…
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The Tawneys in Washington D.C.
Hal goes to Washington, D.C., with Land Tawney to hunt up Land's sister Whitney, who has worked for Ducks Unlimited for seven years. More importantly, Whitney…
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T. Edward Nickens: Editor-at-Large for Field & Stream and Author of Total Outdoorsman Series
In this episode Hal catches up with T. Edward Nickens, editor at large at Field & Stream magazine and author of the Total Outdoorsman Series of books. Eddie is…
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Bill Hanlon and the Tatshenshini Remains
Hal Herring and longtime BHA member and British Columbian Bill Hanlon swap stories in Whitefish, Montana. Hanlon tells the tale of his incredible 1999…
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David Ledford, CEO and President of the Appalachian Wildlife Foundation
Hal Herring talks with David Ledford, president and CEO of the Appalachian Wildlife Foundation. They discuss Ledford's history as a biologist, the accidental…
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Outfitters and BHA Life Members Barry Whitehill and Kai Whitehill
Hal Herring talks with father and son team Barry Whitehill of Alaska and Kai Whitehill of Montana at the 7th Annual BHA North American Rendezvous in Boise…
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Writer and Native Arkansan Johnny Carrol Sain
Hal Herring sits down with Johnny Carrol Sain, a writer and native Arkansan who lives in Newton County, Arkansas. They discuss the legend of the Dover Lights…
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Patagonia's Yvon Chouinard
Hal Herring talks with Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia and legendary outdoorsman, at the 2018 BHA North American Rendezvous in Boise, Idaho. They discuss…
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Lamar Marshall, Historian and Conservationist
Hal Herring talks with historian and conservationist Lamar Marshall in Calloway, North Carolina. They discuss Lamar's work with members of the Cherokee nation…
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Lamar Marshall, Historian and Conservationist
Hal Herring talks with historian and conservationist Lamar Marshall in Calloway, North Carolina. They discuss Lamar's work with members of the Cherokee nation…
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Brandon Butler of the Conservation Federation of Missouri
Hal Herring talks with Brandon Butler, Executive Director of the Conservation Federation of Missouri. They discuss Missouri's historic conservation ethic…
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Tony Bynum, Professional Photographer and Conservationist
Hal Herring talks with Tony Bynum, prolific professional photographer and conservationist. They discuss life in East Glacier, the fundamentals of photography…
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Shootrite Academy's Tiger McKee
Hal Herring talks with firearms instructor Tiger McKee in Langston, Alabama. They discuss their longtime friendship, why training matters, bench rest accuracy…
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John Snow, Shooting Editor at Outdoor Life
Hal Herring sits down with John Snow, Shooting Editor at Outdoor Life. They chat about the longevity of Outdoor Life, fishing as a first love, tricking people…
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Ryan Busse: BHA National Board Chair
Hal Herring sits down with Ryan Busse, BHA National Board Chair. Busse lives in Kalispell, Montana and he's an avid fisherman, bird dog lover, and elk chaser…
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Hunting for Sustainability: Jim Giese, Sawyer Connelly, and Trey Curtiss
Hal Herring sits down with BHA's Sawyer Connelly and Trey Curtiss and with BHA member Jim Giese to talk about BHA's Hunting for Sustainability program. They…
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Roy Jacobs of the Montana BHA Board
Hal Herring sits down with Roy Jacobs, a hunter and longtime BHA member and Montana chapter board member in Pendroy, Montana. Hal and Roy talk about the…
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Hunters Hannah Jean Nikonow and Liza Sautter
Hal talks with hunters Hannah Jean Nikonow and Liza Sautter. They discuss growing up as hunters, being Millennials, the political nature of hunting, hunting…
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Kevin Timm of Seek Outside
Outdoor writer Hal Herring catches up with his good friend Kevin Timm of Seek Outside. They discuss getting into fishing as kids, knowing the country…