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▶ WebplayerHunting. 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.
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Nov 13, 2026 · 22:37
This week: federal plans that could reshape public-land management and public input, a new refuge initiative, the latest on Big Bend's border wall, Block Island's deer debate,…
Nov 6, 2026 · 17:23
We've got a special episode for you today. Believe it or not, we've been doing Conservation Cooperative for a year now! So, it's a great time to look back at some stories, do…
Oct 29, 2026 · 16:50
From the fight to keep Texas's Cutoff open to the public to Forest Service changes and shoreline access in Washington, this episode covers the issues shaping access to public…
Oct 22, 2026 · 1:04:25
BHA Senior Habitat Stewardship Manager Bard Edrington V joins Backcountry Conversations to talk fence removal, wildlife migration, and the music that comes from time spent on…
Oct 17, 2026 · 22:29
This week on the Backcountry Report: updates on public-land access, clean water, wildlife habitat, and conservation policy—from the Chesapeake Bay and Colorado's Roaring Fork…
Oct 9, 2026 · 27:45
This is Part II of or our two part look at Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) preparedness and prevention in the Northeast. In this episode we will hear from the leading experts on…
Oct 2, 2026 · 21:18
In this episode of the Backcountry Report, we cover proposed data centers on federal lands, a new hunting-and-fishing executive order, the final push to defend the Roadless Rule,…
Sep 24, 2026 · 55:53
This week on Backcountry Conversations, host Trey Curtiss is joined by two BHA staffers: Mary Glaves, BHA's Alaska Program Manager, and Jack Polentes, who works on federal policy…
Sep 17, 2026 · 20:15
In Episode 7 of the Backcountry Report, Chris reports from the Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies Annual Meeting and covers major conservation news, including Minnesota's…
Sep 10, 2026 · 21:25
In this episode we are going to explore Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) preparedness and prevention in the Northeast. As you might know, the Northeast is currently the last CWD…
Sep 4, 2026 · 28:17
Chris kicks the show off with a tribute to Wendell Berry, who died this week at 92, and the language he gave hunters for understanding their place in the food chain. In…
Aug 27, 2026 · 52:13
Twenty-five years ago, the Forest Service made one of the most consequential land management decisions in its history: protecting nearly 60 million acres of national forest from…
Aug 20, 2026 · 17:26
This week on The Backcountry Report, Chris covers major developments affecting public lands, waters and wildlife—from a massive expansion of hunting and fishing opportunities on…
Aug 13, 2026 · 20:46
In this episode, we delve into the fascinating field of Human Dimensions in wildlife and natural resources management. Discover how this discipline is shaping informed…
Aug 6, 2026 · 16:52
In this episode of the Backcountry Report, Chris dives into the latest conservation news and boots-on-the-ground action from across the BHA community. We explore a surprising…
Jul 30, 2026 · 52:33
In this first installment of our new Backcountry Conversations podcast series, we sit down with BHA Director of Development Trey Curtiss for a follow-up to Trey's popular April…
Jul 23, 2026 · 20:18
Summer is in full swing, but fall is on the horizon. In this episode, we dive into major headlines impacting our public lands, from the reduction of Bears Ears and Grand…
Jul 16, 2026 · 30:09
In Part II of our look at brook trout we are going to hear from fisheries managers and state officials from around the Northeast and learn how climate change is influencing brook…
Jul 10, 2026 · 24:22
A major CWD study reveals new transmission risks. The Forest Service proposes a rule that weakens public input. We track urgent conservation funding in Congress, new grazing…
Jun 19, 2026 · 20:59
In this launch episode of the Backcountry Report, BHA introduces its new Podcasts & Blasts feed, covers major conservation headlines — from a federal order loosening motorized…
Jun 15, 2026 · 22:06
Today, we're diving into the world of brook trout -- how they're being affected by our changing climate, and what that means for the future. We are also going to take some time…
Jun 2, 2026 · 19:22
It's MEMBER APPRECIATION WEEK at Backcountry Hunters & Anglers. And for our podcast listeners who aren't already members, we're giving you a special chance to become one. For the…
May 26, 2026 · 32:13
Inside a new economic assessment of federal public lands For a lot of us, public lands are deeply personal. They're where we learned to hunt, where we camp with our families,…
Apr 28, 2026 · 27:09
Today, the Backcountry Hunters & Anglers podcast is sharing the second episode of the Conservation Collective, where they're talking striped bass, the most sought after fish on…
Apr 24, 2026 · 24:47
While BHA's Podcast & Blast takes a moment to plan its next steps, we're sharing the first episode of our Conservation Cooperative podcast (recorded previously), which looks at a…
Mar 18, 2026 · 2:00:44
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…
Feb 18, 2026 · 1:37:51
In this episode of the Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast, host Hal Herring speaks with investigative journalist Andrew Becker about the complex and increasingly contentious…
Feb 3, 2026 · 1:51:11
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…
Jan 14, 2026 · 1:45:52
BREAKING: Since this interview was recorded, a new attempt to permit a copper-nickel mine upstream of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is underway. On Monday, Jan. 12,…
Dec 30, 2025 · 2:17:35
It was the late spring of 1932 when Idaho outfitter Jim Renshaw first saw the upper Selway River from the back of a horse. The packstring was led by his father, Alvin, who had…
Dec 18, 2025 · 1:59:15
On this episode of the Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast and Blast , host Hal Herring sits down with Josh Jackson, author of The Enduring Wild and founder of The Forgotten…
Dec 2, 2025 · 1:39:12
Hunters and anglers across the country may never set foot on Alaska's Dalton Highway—but what's unfolding there affects every American who cares about public land. In this…
Nov 12, 2025 · 1:59:55
BHA's new President & CEO Ryan Callaghan probably needs doesn't need an introduction. But you may be wondering what he and BHA are planning for the future, why now is such a…
Oct 28, 2025 · 1:48:26
During the 2025 fight against the mass sell-off of America's public lands, Utah-born cowboy, big game guide, and U.S. Army veteran Braxton McCoy seemed to be everywhere, from his…
Oct 14, 2025 · 1:54:10
A controversy over public lands' management in Indiana's 204,000-acre Hoosier National Forest turns out to be a microcosm of a burning (pun intended) national debate over using…
Sep 30, 2025 · 2:04:48
The American pronghorn is North America's most unique big game animal, a Great Plains living relic from the end of the Ice Age—a creature of speed, agility and beauty that once…
Sep 17, 2025 · 1:04:53
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is taking public comments on the proposal to rescind the 2001 Roadless Rule, which affects 45 million acres of our national forests. Why is…
Sep 9, 2025 · 1:19:22
BHA's Podcast and Blast is proud to be sponsored by Silencer Central, the nation's largest clearinghouse for silencers. Motto: "Silencers Made Simple since 2005." This episode…
Aug 26, 2025 · 1:23:12
Join us for a conversation with Carmen Vanbianchi, Research Director and Co-founder of Home Range Wildlife Research, based in Winthrop, Washington, in the Methow Valley. Home…
Aug 13, 2025 · 2:17:22
The Northeast is the most densely populated part of our country, and is rich in opportunities for hunting, fishing, hiking and camping, due to an extensive network of public…
Jul 30, 2025 · 1:45:59
Kyle Lybarger, a native of Hartselle, Alabama, is a botanist and restoration ecologist and the founder of the Native Habitat Project. He's also a father, a conservationist, a…
Jul 15, 2025 · 1:41:31
Come with us to Arab, Alabama, to meet Phyllis Light, herbalist, responsible forager, native plant conservation advocate, founder of the Appalachian Center for Natural Health,…
Jul 1, 2025 · 2:05:20
Chris Jordan has some unwelcome news for the watershed and fisheries restoration movement. Restoring robust populations of salmonids and other fish species in degraded rivers and…
Jun 20, 2025 · 1:26:41
The news keeps getting worse: over 250 million acres of our public lands potentially up for sale and 3 million or more likely carved out. While this has been a goal, and a dream,…
Jun 17, 2025 · 1:19:52
"At first the Euroamerican settlers could not fathom the tallgrass prairie. Stepping into it from cropland-speckled woodlands to the east, they entered a land of sky and horizon,…
Jun 3, 2025 · 1:48:53
Everything you will ever need to know to win any argument about the future of our American public lands--special and crucial episode with Walt Dabney. Understanding the…
May 20, 2025 · 2:26:10
"[David Joy]is a man who sees his homeplace clearly and who writes like his hand was touched by God." — The New York Times Novelist and essayist David Joy is a tall, lean and…
May 6, 2025 · 1:49:06
Public lands and waters have risen to the forefront of hunter-angler issues in 2025, from Utah's attempted steal of 18.5 million acres of land owned by us all and managed by the…
Apr 22, 2025 · 1:50:53
When Mandela Leola Van Eeden was a child roaming the South African outback, her father would run a flag up a tall pole above their cabin so that she and her dog would be able to…
Apr 8, 2025 · 1:51:36
Trey Curtiss, a native son of Montana, is BHA's Strategic Partnerships and Conservation Programs Manager. Trey is also among a very small group of public lands' elk hunters who…
Mar 25, 2025 · 1:42:58
Come with us to Houston, Texas, to talk saltwater fishing, conservation, philosophy and life with Pat Murray, former light tackle fishing guide and President of the Coastal…
Mar 4, 2025 · 1:41:52
RA Beattie was the man behind the camera for many of the most influential fly-fishing films of the past several decades. It's no exaggeration to say his work changed the culture…
Feb 18, 2025 · 1:22:31
During the deluge of Hurricane Helene, over 30 inches of rain fell in the headwaters of the iconic Nolichucky River in North Carolina, falling on ground already saturated from…
Feb 4, 2025 · 2:04:42
Wilderness meets Modern Society -- Seth Kantner Part II Alaska's Seth Kantner is back with us, as promised, for part two. Seth was born in a sod igloo on the Kobuk River in the…
Jan 21, 2025 · 1:24:57
As promised, John Leshy is back on the Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast to discuss his recently published and definitive book, Our Common Ground: A History of…
Jan 7, 2025 · 1:56:56
Bjorn Dihle has lived his entire life in southeast Alaska, hunting and fishing from the Tongass National Forest to the northern Brooks Range and beyond. He is a family man, a…
Dec 24, 2024 · 1:17:39
"It is astonishing that this law has escaped fundamental change." John Leshy, author of The Mining Law: A Study in Perpetual Motion The 1872 Mining Law represents one of the most…
Dec 10, 2024 · 1:27:07
Alaska's proposed Ambler Road is back on the table, and Americans are once again asked a fundamental question about what we value and what kind of world we will pass on to our…
Nov 26, 2024 · 1:12:11
We're spending Thanksgiving week with our families and bringing you one of our favorite podcast episodes from the archives: Ron Mills, an outfitter, hunting guide and packer in…
Oct 29, 2024 · 1:51:26
Almost ten years ago, career firefighter and paramedic Beau Beasley embarked on a journey to tell the true stories of America's veterans, honestly and in their own words. He was…
Oct 15, 2024 · 2:00:02
Episode 191 with Jared Sullivan, former editor of Field and Stream and Men's Journal, on his new book, Valley So Low , about the 2008 coal ash disaster near Kingston, Tennessee,…
Oct 1, 2024 · 1:27:13
Blaring headlines: " Battle lines hardening in dispute over Mobile ship channel deepening project" "No more federal mud dumping' — Standing room only at Baykeeper town hall" A…
Sep 17, 2024 · 1:46:04
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 public lands, this…
Sep 3, 2024 · 1:55:30
From ballot initiatives that mandate wolf-reintroduction or banning the hunting of mountain lions and bobcats, wildlife management decisions are increasingly being made by voters…
Aug 20, 2024 · 1:58:10
Join Hal and Florida archeologist Jeffrey Shanks for a lost tale of British Marines and Jamaican privateers, American maroons, Creek Indian warriors, rogue Choctaws, religious…
Aug 6, 2024 · 1:48:33
Woniya Dawn Thibeault, winner of Alone: Frozen, author of Never Alone: A Solo Arctic Survival Journey In 2019, primitive skills instructor and master hide-tanner Woniya Dawn…
Jul 23, 2024 · 1:51:28
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 the idea was born in…
Jul 9, 2024 · 1:33:28
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 hunted and fished the…
Jun 25, 2024 · 2:05:25
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, outdoor writer,…
Jun 12, 2024 · 1:37:31
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 Country. Mark is at work…
May 29, 2024 · 1:43:19
A conversation with Jonathon Gassett, Ph.D., former Commissioner of Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, Southeastern Representative of the Wildlife Management…
May 14, 2024 · 1:22:41
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 Guide to Raising…
Apr 30, 2024 · 1:39:32
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 the mountains of…
Apr 17, 2024 · 2:14:14
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 wilderness. Born in…
Apr 2, 2024 · 1:38:21
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 gear. The goal:…
Mar 27, 2024 · 33:31
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 transfer of most…
Mar 19, 2024 · 1:27:02
Jim Heffelfinger, Arizona Game and Fish Wildlife Science Co-ordinator, Chairman of the Mule Deer Working Group, wildlife conservation professional, author of Deer of the…
Mar 5, 2024 · 1:29:02
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 America's…
Feb 20, 2024 · 1:43:42
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 and local hunting…
Feb 8, 2024 · 58:48
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 an expanse of…
Feb 6, 2024 · 1:43:18
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 played a role in…
Jan 23, 2024 · 1:32:59
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 bound to be more…
Jan 9, 2024 · 2:03:50
Join Hal Herring and Mississippi State University environmental history professor and author of My Work is that of Conservation, An Environmental Biography of George Washington…
Dec 26, 2023 · 2:15:55
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 TROUT magazine,…
Dec 12, 2023 · 1:21:17
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 -- Tom Reed, Marissa…
Nov 21, 2023 · 1:30:38
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 largest protected…
Oct 24, 2023 · 1:12:36
Public Lands, Wild Game Cooking, Hunting, Angling and Conservation – Live from the Texas Hill Country with Chuck Naiser, Jesse Griffiths and Riverhorse Nakadate The Podcast and…
Oct 10, 2023 · 1:32:49
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, Columbia River basin)…
Sep 26, 2023 · 1:50:58
Coho salmon habitat, wetlands conservation, the removal of abandoned fences that kill hundreds of migrating mule deer, pronghorn and elk every year. Marine Corps helicopters and…
Sep 12, 2023 · 1:22:51
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 hardest-touring musicians.…
Aug 30, 2023 · 1:51:23
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 maintained it with fire and…
Aug 14, 2023 · 1:34:00
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 belong to us by dint…
Aug 1, 2023 · 1:36:16
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 text – artwork is…
Jul 18, 2023 · 1:35:40
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 a military career…
Jul 5, 2023 · 1:12:20
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 Montana. This BHA…
Jun 21, 2023 · 1:45:36
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 the largest…
Jun 6, 2023 · 1:40:00
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 trainer of…
May 23, 2023 · 1:55:33
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 one of the leading…
May 9, 2023 · 1:22:39
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 rivers of Montana, an…
Apr 25, 2023 · 51:14
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 Wyoming with the ongoing…
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