BHA President and CEO Land Tawney

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BHA President and CEO Land Tawney

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Dec 29, 2020

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Join Land Tawney for an end of year chat with host Hal Herring.

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Dec 29, 2020

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Hunting. Angling. Public Lands. That's the meat of what BHA's Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring 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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Rudi 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 industrialist who never lost his deep love for hunting and conservation. Rudi has invested... by Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring
115 min listen
America’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 – for nearly three decades – for Field & Stream, where he is shotguns editor,... by Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring
73 min listen
Historian, 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 belief and landscape. Quammen never set out to write about the Bundys, or Mormonism. But... by Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring
99 min listen
Writer 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 romance and collision in 1950s Montana, where ancient pictographs in unexplored canyons... by Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring
115 min listen
Wilderness 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 five. That was 72 years ago. Since then, he has guided, hunted, fished and wandered from the... by Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring
140 min listen
Clay 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 them harder or better right now than Clay Newcomb of the Arkansas Ozarks, owner of Bear... by Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring
86 min listen
BHA 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 . Matt and Hal have known each other since they both started out writing for Bugle magazine before the dawn... by Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring
92 min listen
The 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 bring you the wild minds behind the stories: Senior Editor Natalie Krebs, Hunting Editor... by Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring
84 min listen
Photojournalist, writer and adventurer 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 rivers of the taiga unfold beneath the rotors of a battered vintage Russian helicopter. She started her own... by Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring
112 min listen
Writer and adventurer Don Thomas: One of America’s great outdoor writers, has hunted, fished and explored the world over – including Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, Siberia and the South Pacific – while chronicling his adventures in 20 books and hundreds of magazine... by Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring
122 min listen
BHA 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 frontier-era policies where the federal government gave away millions of acres of... by Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring
95 min listen
Photographer Lee Kjos: In a recent interview with Filson, Minnesota-born and bred photographer was asked to describe his work in five words or less. Kjos replied: “Original. Authentic. Genuine. Unique, and bad-ass.” For anyone who has marveled at the understated power... by Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring
82 min listen
Angelo 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 in this country that go back, literally, thousands of years. For this conversation with Hal,... by Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring
75 min listen
Investigative 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 scorched-earth timber industry of the 1980s, Richard Manning is the go-to investigative... by Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring
81 min listen
Archeologist 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 archeological survey of some high-elevation public lands in Northwest Wyoming, he took a crew of... by Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring
109 min listen
BHA 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 states. The battle has been simmering for decades: Clearly, Coloradoans were demanding change.... by Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring
73 min listen
Radio Show Host, Hunter and Conservationist Nathan "Shags" McLeod: Nathan “Shags” McLeod is the hunting- and fishing-est you’ll ever meet and has spent the past 15 years building a huge audience from his base in central Missouri. His fans come for his classic rock and roll and for his no-holds-barred,... by Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring
87 min listen
Alpinist 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 that completed the first ascent of Link Sar in the Central Pakistani Karakoram via its... by Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring
98 min listen
Jonathan Wilkins, founder, Black Duck Revival: “I never found a place I belong, so I’m making one.” Jonathan Wilkins is the founder of , a hunting and fishing guide service and simple lodge – built by his own two hands from an old church building in Brinkley, Arkansas. Jonathan is also a... by Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring
108 min listen
Maggie 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 wilderness outfitting business , which offers packstring-suppported hiking trips in the... by Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring
100 min listen
Conflict 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 with Ammon and Ryan Bundy, an experience that he recounts in his 2018 book, Chosen... by Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring
138 min listen
BHA President and CEO Land Tawney: Join Land Tawney for an end of year chat with host Hal Herring. by Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring
86 min listen
Research 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 grandest scale. Over the years, Hessburg broadened his scope, delving deeper into the... by Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring
84 min listen
Bonus 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 in a time of social distancing, of reading good books by the fire, we hope you enjoy... by Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring
65 min listen
Todd 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 rich history of Todd’s home territory, a life of hunting and fishing public lands –... by Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring
124 min listen
Wyoming 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 those decades, they have explored places few others have ever seen, shown generations of... by Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring
137 min listen
Dog Trainer, artist, writer and Minority Outdoor Alliance founder Durrell Smith: Durrell Smith is a bird dog trainer, artist, and from Georgia. He founded the , a pioneering voice in connecting Blacks and others in the hunting community. “He lives what he speaks,” as Hal says of Durrell, who is also a bobwhite quail hunting... by Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring
129 min listen
Bobwhite 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 . A few of us of us know the intense excitement of coming up behind a bird dog on point and the explosive flush of a 40-bird covey... by Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring
98 min listen
Science 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 – exploring how the destruction of natural ecosystems around the world leads to new viruses... by Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring
97 min listen
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100 min listen

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