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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.

BHA Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring Backcountry Hunters & Anglers

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    • 4.8 • 846 Ratings

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.

    Ep. 175: Outdoor Investigative Journalism: From Lyme Disease to Endangered Species with Jimmy Tobias

    Ep. 175: Outdoor Investigative Journalism: From Lyme Disease to Endangered Species with Jimmy Tobias

    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 hardest-hitting investigative reporters specializing in public lands, conservation, and the outdoors. Tobias’ story about the link between ecosystem disruption and tick-borne illnesses, “How Lyme Disease Became Unstoppable,” was published in June 2022 in The Nation. That story was the original inspiration for this interview, but Hal and Jimmy range far afield, from ticks to endangered species protection and the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, which promises to dismantle federal public lands and their management once and for all.  Join us.

    • 1 hr 29 min
    BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 174: Venomous Snakes, Local Hunting and more with Dr. Chris Jenkins

    BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 174: Venomous Snakes, Local Hunting and more with Dr. Chris Jenkins

    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 and food to Dr. Jenkins' specialty: venomous snakes. 
    An episode you don't want to miss!

    • 1 hr 43 min
    Bonus Episode: The Largest Public Lands Conservation Opportunity in Our Lifetime

    Bonus Episode: The Largest Public Lands Conservation Opportunity in Our Lifetime

    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 public lands in Alaska that is larger than the state of Ohio.  There are 28 million acres at stake, an unfathomable wealth of wildlife, big game, fisheries, waterfowl, and the headwaters of rivers like the Kuskokwim and the Yukon. These are known as the D1 Lands, protected from mining and energy development by the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971.
    In 2020, the management of these lands was thrown into limbo. Now, the BLM is asking for the American people to determine the future of these lands.
    Join us to learn more, as Hal interviews Alaskan Rachel James, of Salmon State.  
    And then be sure to comment through BHA's Action Alert.

    • 58 min
    Episode 173: BHA 2023 Federal Policy Roundup with BHA Government Relations Manager Kaden McArthur

    Episode 173: BHA 2023 Federal Policy Roundup with BHA Government Relations Manager Kaden McArthur

    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 achieving for the conservation of our public lands and waters. 

    • 1 hr 43 min
    BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 172: We Can Do This, One Person at a Time with Douglas Tallamy

    BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 172: We Can Do This, One Person at a Time with Douglas Tallamy

    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 than a little gobsmacked by the rate of development and growth that we see all around us: Bozeman, Atlanta, Boise, Moab, Salt Lake City, Huntsville, Austin, the Gulf Coast, Phoenix, Chattanooga, Asheville and beyond.
    Is there any hope for the wild places and the world we love?
    Hell, yes there is. And it will be done by each and every one of us – yard by yard, deck by deck, square foot by square foot. The possibilities are endless.
    Doug Tallamy, of the Homegrown National Park  movement is the author of Nature’s Best Hope (with a companion volume for younger readers and Bringing Nature Home.
    Doug has a plan to create 22 million acres of native plant communities that will restore whole kingdoms of birds, insects, reptiles and other wildlife, at almost no cost, and with no need to beseech the government or beg alms of the powers that be.
     Join us, for a damn good time, and learn about a work that anyone can love and a movement that everybody can be part of.
    If you hang around to the end, you’ll get outlandish insect tales, for no extra investment. And because this interview was so much fun, we’ve got another one scheduled with Doug to talk about his new book on Oak trees – all 600 species of them – and his obsession with the mysterious universe of gall wasps. Your mind will be blown. 

    • 1 hr 32 min
    BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 171: The Conservation History of George Washington Carver with Mark Hersey

    BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 171: The Conservation History of George Washington Carver with Mark Hersey

    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 Carver Mark Hersey for a fantastic American conservation story that has never been more relevant than it is right now. 
    If you finished seventh grade in an American public school, you learned about George Washington Carver, who was born into slavery in Missouri and grew up to be one of America’s leading scientists and agronomists, working from his laboratory at Tuskegee University in Alabama. Carver was a friend and advisor to U.S. presidents, including Theodore Roosevelt, and sought out as counsel by some of the best minds in agriculture across the world.    
    Carver was also one of America’s pioneers of the science of ecology and a cutting-edge conservationist who advocated for the restoration of whitetail deer, quail and fisheries, long before such ideas became mainstream. His conservation vision was forged in the fire of his own history and in his life’s work in Alabama’s post-slavery Black Belt and along the Fall Line, known then as “the most destroyed land in all of the South” -- a place where poverty, injustice and hunger were closely tied to the abuse and collapse of the systems of the earth.
    Don't miss Hal's fascinating conversation with Mark Hersey.

    • 2 hr 3 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
846 Ratings

846 Ratings

Free Loader Listener ,

Missing best episodes

Missing some of the best episodes with Jim Pozawits and Guide Ron Mills. Need to put those back up.

Bainbridge98110 ,

The Hal Herring Show…

I keep coming back to this podcast hoping it gets better, but the host is constantly interrupting the folks he’s supposed to be interviewing. It’s painful to listen to.

Mbroes01 ,

Always a great conversation

Love the variety of locales, topics and guests on this show. Everything from organizing to big Buck story telling. Can we start keeping a book list? Lots of them discussed, could keep me reading fit years on great topics. Keep it up Hal!

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