The summer issue of Backcountry Journal is arriving in BHA members’ mailboxes now. Here’s a preview of what you’ll find inside:
Stream Access Now: BHA celebrates the launch of Stream Access Now, our national public access campaign, with a 10-page special section. Seven writers from around the country, including E. Donnall Thomas Jr., Miles Nolte and Mark Taylor, share their perspectives on access laws and battles from Montana to Utah and Missouri to Virginia. Learn what’s happening in your part of the country and how you can help defend and expand stream access opportunities for hunters and anglers.
Elk Calling with Corey Jacobsen: A nine-time elk calling world champion, Jacobsen divulges some of his hard-earned knowledge and wisdom about talking to elk – and how to get them to want to fight you. He also addresses the important role public lands play in the sport of hunting elk and why upholding citizens’ abilities to access them will grow only more important in the years ahead.
Steelhead Sanctuary: BHA recently threw its weight behind Senate legislation to designate 104,000 acres on Oregon’s North Umpqua drainage a sanctuary for native salmon and steelhead. Named to honor the WWII veteran and renowned fly fisherman, the Frank Moore Wild Steelhead Sanctuary would conserve a fishery frequented by another legend, the writer Zane Grey.
Shoreline Paella: In this issue’s Backcountry Bistro, Susan Ebert, author of The Field to Table Cookbook, shares her recipe for a mouth-watering seafood paella – and her experience cooking it with fresh ingredients on a backwoods Texas lagoon.
In Hot Water: In the instructional department, Jack Ballard addresses issues and ethics related to fishing for trout in the summertime heat. Careful timing of your summer fishing trips, monitoring water temperatures and pursuing warm-water species alternatives are a few topics he covers.
Also in this issue are stories about Montana’s Smith River and a sulfide mine being considered at its headwaters, the Conserve School in northern Wisconsin, crane hunting in Texas and the proposed Great Thicket National Wildlife Refuge in New England – as well as contributions from two sitting U.S. senators, who offer their visions for the future of the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund, the most successful conservation program in our nation’s history. As always, this issue is packed with updates on events, issues and happenings from our chapters and boots-on-the-ground members.
Backcountry Journal is distributed to members, regional BLM and Forest Service offices, and the home and D.C. offices of legislators from states where BHA has chapters. It is now available in a digital flipbook edition, available to members on the BHA website. Join BHA today to get your copy.
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