Podcast Episodes

Worldwide Conservation with Mandela Leola Van Eeden

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 find their way back h…

Published on 4 months ago

11 Bulls in a Row with BHA's Trey Curtiss

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 have successfully fill…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

It’s More Than Fishing: A Conversation with CCA’s Pat Murray

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 Conservation Association (…

Published on 5 months ago

Fly Fishing Film Culture with RA Beattie

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 of fly fishing.

Beatt…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Compounding Damage with Destruction on a North Carolina River

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 prior rain. The Nolichu…

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

Wilderness meets Modern Society -- Seth Kantner Part II

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 1960s and has been hun…

Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago

Our Common Ground: A History of America’s Public Lands -- Part II with John Leshy

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 America’s Public Lands.…

Published on 7 months ago

Haunted by Alaska: Bjorn Dihle on Life, Bears, and Mystery (ep. 195)

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 wilderness and wildlife …

Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago

They Gave It All Away: The 1872 Mining Law with John Leshy

“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 extraordinary give-a…

Published on 8 months ago

BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. #193: NO to Alaska's Ambler Road

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 children.  We covered t…

Published on 8 months, 2 weeks ago