Dec 21, 2022
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 and Wildlife Service as endangered, a listing that will come as no surprise...
Dec 6, 2022
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 explore the many paths that led to her book on the booming trade in stolen...
Nov 22, 2022
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 Virginia and to the American heartland of the Ohio River, to study native plants, medicinal...
Nov 8, 2022
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 Roosevelt and the Crusade for America (2010)...
Oct 25, 2022
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 Nevada, the most arid state in the union, where their impacts are almost unimaginable: desertification and...