BHA Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

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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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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 roadless areas on earth. The road would be built from the ...

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11.21.2023 BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 168: Paving Paradise: Alaska’s Ambler Road 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 roadless areas on earth. The road would be built from the ...
10.24.2023 BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 167: BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 167: Public Lands, Wild Game Cooking, Hunting, Angling and Conservation – Live from the Texas Hill Country 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 Blast has gone to Texas! Host Hal Herring takes the Podcast & Blast ...
10.10.2023 BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 166: Steven Hawley, Author of Cracked: The Future of Dams in a Hot, Chaotic World 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) to name just two. But the issue of dams – the blocking ...
09.26.2023 BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 165: Public Lands Stewardship in California and Colorado 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 bighorn sheep, fish counts, bowfishing for alligator gar, restoring native plants on burned-over public ...
09.12.2023 BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 164: Dave Simonett of Trampled by Turtles 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. Hal and Dave spent a morning fishing Montana’s Big Blackfoot this summer, throwing ...
08.30.2023 BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 163: The Southeast Grasslands Institute 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 the deliberate cultivation of hundreds of species ...
08.14.2023 BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 162: Ben Long, The Hunter & Angler Field Guide to Raising Hell 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 of benevolent magic or extraordinary good luck. American ...
08.01.2023 BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 161: Texas Chef & Sportsman Jesse Griffiths 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 closer to the reality - on hunting, butchering ...
07.18.2023 BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 160: Mitch Reid with The Nature Conservancy 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 with the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne, he came home ...
07.05.2023 BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 159: Game Warden, Author and Conservationist Sam Lawry 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 podcast is being released to honor Sam and in appreciation ...
06.21.2023 Ep. 158: Hunting at American Prairie 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 expansions of publicly accessible hunting opportunities in the West— and one of America’s ...
06.06.2023 Ep. 157: Kevin Garrad, Founder of Wild Response 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 lurchers, a hunter of invasive minks, and destined ...
05.23.2023 Ep. 156: Bob Lee, Florida Backcountry Lawman 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 voices for the removal of Rodman Dam ...
05.09.2023 Ep. 155: Chris Dombrowski, Montana Fishing Guide and Writer 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 acclaimed poet and the author of Body of Water: A ...
04.25.2023 Ep. 154: The Legal Fight Over Corner Crossing Comes to a Head 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 saga of the corner-crossing hunters and their ...
04.11.2023 Ep. 153 - The MT Legislature, The Weed Tax, and The Conservationists BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 153: The MT Legislature, The Weed Tax, and The Conservationists Montana's legislature meets for only 90 days every two years, but the amount of work that goes into a single abbreviated session is mind-blowing. In ...
03.28.2023 Ep. 152 - Murder of the Grand Kankakee Marsh BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 152: Murder of the Grand Kankakee Marsh “I have never yet found a place that equaled the Kankakee swamps for the variety of game to be found there.” – J. Lorenzo Werich, 1920. Few know ...
03.14.2023 Ep. 151 - Bill Avey, 40 Years in the Forest Service BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 151: Bill Avey, 40 Years in the Forest Service Retired Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest Supervisor Bill Avey is here to give us a clear view into the workings of the U.S. Forest Service – ...
02.28.2023 Ep. 150 - Free the Ocklawaha River! BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 150: Free the Ocklawaha River! Almost 60 years ago, the U.S. government, blinded by hubris, began work on the Cross Florida Barge Canal. Never heard of it? That’s because President Richard Nixon, seeing it for ...
01.31.2023 Ep. 149 - Conservation in the 118th Congress with the BHA Policy Crew Podcast & Blast: Episode 149, Conservation in the 118th Congress with the BHA Policy Crew As a wise man once said, You may not be interested in war, but when the times comes, war will certainly be interested in you. ...
01.17.2023 Ep. 148 - Drew Phipps and the Restoration of the Candy Darter BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 148: Drew Phipps and the Restoration of the Candy Darter America’s Midwestern rivers – the Elk, the Kanawha, the Ohio and all their vast systems of arterial tributaries – are home to a mind-boggling array ...
12.21.2022 Ep. 147 - Ted Koch on the Lesser Prairie Chicken and Grasslands Conservation BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 147: Ted Koch on the Lesser Prairie Chicken and Grasslands Conservation Will we act now to save America’s iconic grasslands? The southern population of the lesser prairie chicken has been listed by the U.S. Fish ...
12.06.2022 Ep. 146 - Lyndsie Bourgon, Author of Tree Thieves BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 146: Lyndsie Bourgon, Author of Tree Thieves Lyndsie Bourgon is a writer, oral historian, National Geographic Fellow and author of Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America’s Woods. Join Hal and Lyndsie as they ...
11.22.2022 Ep. 145 - Dr. Susan Leopold, Ethnobotanist BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 145: Ethnobotanist Dr. Susan Leopold Dr. Susan Leopold is an ethnobotanist who spent the early years of her career in the jungles of the Peruvian Amazon and Central America. An epiphany led her home, to ...
11.08.2022 Ep. 144 - Douglas Brinkley, Author and Historian BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 144: Author and Historian Douglas Brinkley Douglas Brinkley is the preeminent scholar and writer on the history of America’s public lands and conservation movement. Among his seven bestselling books of history are Wilderness Warrior: Theodore ...
10.25.2022 Ep. 143 - Feral Horses on Public Lands in Nevada BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 143: Feral Horses on Public Lands in Nevada More than 82,000 feral horses roam U.S. public lands, about four times as many as the land and water can sustain. Almost all of them live in ...
10.12.2022 Ep. 142 - Ashley Peters - Ruffed Grouse Society and American Woodcock Society BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 142: Ashley Peters, communications director, Ruffed Grouse Society and American Woodcock Society Ashley Peters grew up in rural Iowa, in a landscape of cornfields and monoculture agriculture. Looking for a wilder and wider life, she ...
09.28.2022 Ep. 141 - Nate Schweber - Public Lands Journalist BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 141: Public Lands Journalist Nate Schweber A flamboyant Western politician, yelling hatred for the federal government, accusing anyone who questioned him of being a “communist,” secretly planning a takeover and selloff of 230 million acres ...
09.13.2022 Ep. 140 - Far Bank’s Simon Gawesworth BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 140: Far Bank’s Simon Gawesworth on public access to public waters…worldwide Simon Gawesworth is a second-generation master flycasting instructor and world casting champion, author of three books on Spey casting, and currently works as the ...
08.30.2022 Ep. 139 - Kyle Lybarger, Native Habitat Project BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 139: Kyle Lybarger, Native Habitat Project Kyle Lybarger, a 29-year-old consulting forester, father, deer-hunter, small creek addict and self-proclaimed “native plant nerd” of Hartselle, Alabama, is a major part of a new and wonderful current ...
08.16.2022 Ep. 138 - Alex Harvey - Mississippi Forester BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 138: Mississippi forester Alex Harvey Come with Hal to southern Mississippi to talk with Alex Harvey, a registered professional forester in Mississippi and Alabama and a land management consultant, wildlife biologist and multi-generational conservationist, hunter ...
08.02.2022 Ep. 137 - Russell Worth Parker - Marine Veteran and Storyteller BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 137: Marine Veteran and Storyteller Russell Worth Parker Russell Worth Parker, known as Worth, is a retired Marine and a veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan. After 27 years in the Corps, he is home in ...
07.19.2022 Ep. 136 - Saving the Striped Bass with Mike Woods and Chris Borgatti Striped bass are arguably the most important fish – culturally and economically – on the Atlantic seaboard. And right now, anglers are spearheading a push to conserve and rebuild striper populations, which have suffered in recent decades because of overfishing ...
07.05.2022 Ep. 135 - Rue Mapp - Founder and CEO, Outdoor Afro BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 135: Rue Mapp, founder and CEO, Outdoor Afro Rue Mapp transformed her kitchen table blog into a national nature business and movement. Today, Mapp is founder and CEO of Outdoor Afro. For more than a ...
06.21.2022 Ep. 134 - Snake River Dams BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 134: Snake River Dams We are teetering on the brink of what could be the greatest conservation success story of the past 50 years. The removal of four outdated and failing dams on the lower ...
06.07.2022 Ep. 133 - BLM Director Tracy Stone-Manning BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 133: BLM Director Tracy Stone-Manning For Americans who live or venture west of the Mississippi River or north to Alaska, no public lands are more important, more abundant or more accessible than those managed by ...
05.27.2022 Ep. 132 - Corner Crossing in Wyoming with Ryan Callaghan, Liz Lynch and Jared Oakleaf BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 132, Corner Crossing in Wyoming with Ryan Callaghan, Liz Lynch and Jared Oakleaf Most of us have been following the case: four hunters from Missouri who used a homemade ladder to cross from one section ...
05.03.2022 Ep. 131 - Sen. Jon Tester and the Blackfoot Clearwater Stewardship Act BHA Podcast & Blast, Bonus Ep. 131, Sen. Jon Tester and the Blackfoot Clearwater Stewardship Act To those outside of Montana, the Blackfoot River is the “Big Blackfoot” featured in Norman Maclean’s lyrical and tragic novel A River Runs Through ...
04.27.2022 Ep. 130 - BHA’s Armed Forces Initiative BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 130: BHA’s Armed Forces Initiative: Honoring and serving those who serve. “Public lands are probably not the reason you would list for joining the Army or the Marines, but they’re the key piece of what ...
04.12.2022 Ep. 129 - Joseph Jenkins - Biologist, Herpetologist, Alabama Wanderer The Bankhead National Forest in Alabama is a place of shadowed canyons and rushing coldwater creeks, crystalline waterfalls and bluff shelters blackened by the smoke from campfires over thousands of years. It’s an island of rare plants and wildlife and ...
03.29.2022 Ep. 128 - Jimmy Stiles - Alabama Herpetologist BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 128: Alabama Herpetologist Jimmy Stiles The Conecuh National Forest in south Alabama is known as the Heart of the Longleaf, a landscape of tall pine and wiregrass, restoration and recovery, humming with life and comprising ...
03.15.2022 Ep. 127 - Jack Rudloe - Florida Gulf Coast Writer, Naturalist and Advocate Jack Rudloe is one of the orneriest watermen on the Florida Gulf Coast, a time- and sun-honed fighter for clean water, intact forests and wetlands, and the myriad salt and freshwater life that depends upon it all. He is a ...
03.01.2022 Ep. 126 - Doug Duren - Hunter, Farmer, Land Manager, Conservationist We hunters and anglers are often lost, these days, in a thicket of questions about public land and private land, loss of access, too much access, conservation priorities, conflicting desires and goals. One person who is forging a path through ...
02.15.2022 Ep. 125 -Mark Squillace - Attorney, Legal Scholar, Public Access Expert The forces of privatization are very definitely on the march. From hunting access and opportunity to the age-old conflict over who has the right to fish or swim or boat on our waterways, privatization is arguably the defining debate in ...
01.31.2022 Ep. 124 - Randy Newberg and Andrew McKean - Elk Madness in Montana The Montana chapter of BHA works hard to uphold the gold standard in public hunting opportunities, with one of the longest elk and mule deer hunting seasons in the U.S., a wealth of public land, and one of the most ...
01.18.2022 Ep. 123 - Chef Eduardo Garcia - Co-Founder of Montana Mex Eduardo Garcia, one of the greatest wild game chefs of our time and the co-founder of Montana Mex, returns to the Podcast & Blast to talk, as always, about life – family, work, cooking, hunting, gardening, foraging, the discipline of ...
01.04.2022 Ep. 122 - Allen Morris Jones - Western Storyteller Ep. 122: Allen Morris Jones - Western Storyteller 2022 marks the 25th anniversary of the publication of one of the most important treatises on hunting ever written. Allen Morris Jones’ book A Quiet Place of Violence: Hunting and Ethics in ...
12.21.2021 Ep. 121 - Melanie Vining - Executive Director, Idaho Trails Association Ep. 121: Melanie Vining - Executive Director, Idaho Trails Association For a measure of sweat equity, an entire world of adventure awaits anyone who wants to work on American public lands. In today’s podcast, Hal catches up with Melanie Vining, ...
12.07.2021 Ep. 120 - Dave Byrnes - Australian Outdoorsman Ep. 120: Australian Outdoorsman Dave Byrnes Join us for a journey Down Under with Dave Byrnes, host and founder of Australia’s best hunting and shooting podcast, The Hunting Arete. Byrnes, of Newcastle, New South Wales, is a tradesman, father, aficionado ...
11.23.2021 Ep. 119 - Jessie Shallow - Mule Deer Foundation Biologist Jessie Shallow, of Salmon, Idaho, is the partner biologist for the Mule Deer Foundation, working with state and federal agencies to restore mule deer winter range and other habitat in the wake of the last- decades’ massive range fires. Her ...

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