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Maggie Carr, Wilderness Hunting Guide Apr 07, 2020

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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 wilderness outfitting business DropstoneOutfitting, which offers packstring-suppported hiking trips in the Bob Marshall Wilderness and adjacent public lands of Montana. Maggie's family has been here on the Teton River since her great-grandfather was a horseback doctor in the wild homestead years of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Hal and Maggie talk guiding and blizzards, hunting and grizzlies, why anyone would get into the business of outfitting.

The Editors Behind Outdoor Life Magazine Mar 24, 2020

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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 bring you the wild minds behind the stories: Senior Editor Natalie Krebs, Hunting Editor Andrew McKean and their venerable leader, Editor in Chief Alex Robinson. This is the work, this is the experience and the adventure, and, in today's changing media landscape, this is the sacrifice and lack of security that comes with the dream job. Recorded live at the SHOT show in Las Vegas, just before the whole world went bat-soup crazy.

BHA Montana and the Fight for Public Access in the Crazy Mountains Mar 10, 2020

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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 frontier-era policies where the federal government gave away millions of acres of land, some to homesteaders but many to politically connected industries such as the railroads and timber companies. The idea, beyond just enriching a privileged few and scoring political power, was to encourage development of the West – timber for railroad ties and mining supports and lumber mills. The result, in our modern U.S., is a tangle of ownership and, sometimes, an access and land management nightmare. The Crazy Mountains of Montana are one such landscape, a garbled mix of public and private sections, and one where private landowners seem to be playing another old game from the frontier era: blocking access to public lands by controlling sections of private land

BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 72: Celebrating Expanded Public Access to State Trust Lands in Colorado Feb 25, 2020

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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 states. The battle has been simmering for decades: Clearly, Coloradoans were demanding change. Since 2012, BHA's Colorado chapter has been leading the battle for increased access … and Colorado Parks and Wildlife responded, announcing last summer the opening of 500,000 acres of state trust lands for fishing and hunting over the next three years. Hal travels to Denver for a deep dive into these issues and questions with BHA State Policy Director (and obsessive waterfowler) Tim Brass and Liz Rose, a hunter, scholar and researcher who has helped BHA uncover the paths that can lead us to a better future for all outdoors people across the nation.

BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 71: Matt Miller, outdoor writer and obsessed angler Feb 11, 2020

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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 Apocalypse: An Angler's Adventures in the 21st Century. Matt and Hal have known each other since they both started out writing for Bugle magazine before the dawn of the present century, and Matt – an obsessed fisherman, elk and deer hunter and mentor to a nascent fishing and hunting son – has traveled the world as the longtime science writer for The Nature Conservancy (as well as written for Field & Stream and other outdoor publications). If you think you are a fishing obsessive, it might make you feel better (or worse) to know that there are people many times more obsessed than you are, and some of them are probably even weirder than you. Matt fits right in.

Howard Vincent, president and CEO of Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever Feb 04, 2020

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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 the wind, it's conservation and clean water and better farms…and it's Howard Vincent, the grand leader of Pheasants Forever, laying down the history, the future and the now of American upland bird hunting.

Christine Peterson, Wyoming outdoor journalist and adventurer Jan 28, 2020

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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 Wyoming's hunting and fishing, mountains, rivers, plains and wilderness in a way few people will ever match. She talks with Hal about that life – the deadlines, the adventures, the stress and the love of newspapers and reporting – and her decision to leave it behind after the birth of her daughter Miriam, to take up freelancing full time and own the freedom to focus on a new life as an outdoor mother and writer.

BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep 68: Wildlife Migration Corridors and the Future of Western Wildlife Jan 14, 2020

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This episode of BHA's Podcast & Blast was recorded at New Belgium Brewing in Fort Collins, Colorado! We're talking wildlife migration corridors, wildlife crossings and the future of Western wildlife with Colorado's best and brightest. The numbers are sobering: 3,000 wildlife and vehicle collisions per year in Colorado, 600 collisions in one stretch of Highway 9 between Kremmling and Silverthorne alone, human lives lost, life-changing injuries sustained, millions of dollars in damages to vehicles, and thousands of wildlife slaughtered. Join Hal as he interviews Dan Prenzlow, director of Colorado Parks and Wildlife, Jessica Myklebust of Colorado Department of Transportation, and Luke Schafer, wildlife warrior of the West Slope from Conservation Colorado, about problem-solving for wildlife and human beings on an epic scale.

BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 67: Mark Kenyon, Founder of Wired to Hunt and Contributor at MeatEater Dec 31, 2019

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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 our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope." –Wallace Stegner. This week's podcast is an in-depth conversation with Mark Kenyon, Michigan-based hunter and fisherman, founder of Wired To Hunt, leading contributor at MeatEater Inc. and author of the new blockbuster public lands book That Wild Country. Mark and Hal talk hunting and fishing, reading and wanderlust, freedom, fatherhood, and Mark's epic journey of writing a book that combines the best of everyman's adventures with a powerful dose of history, conservation, and the nuts and bolts of our public lands.

BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 66: Wildfire expert, Dr. Stephen J. Pyne Dec 17, 2019

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"Photosynthesis puts things together. Fire takes them apart." – Dr. Stephen J. Pyne. While many people talk of the "Anthropocene" – the age of humankind, when nearly every natural process seems to be affected by the actions of billions of individual people – Stephen Pyne reminds us that we also are living in the Pyrocene, the age of fire, and that the history of humankind is inextricable from the history of fire, the most elemental and implacable force on this planet. Join Hal in Queen Creek, Arizona, for a conversation with Dr. Pyne, 15 years a firefighter on the crew of Grand Canyon National Park; a renowned writer, speaker and teacher; author of 35 books; and the world's foremost scholar and historian of fire, about the Pyrocene, about forests and public lands, and about the future of life on this Earth.

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