Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers

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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Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

Episodes (226)

Feb 18th Public Land, Private Water: Utah's Stream Access Fight
Feb 3rd Songs from the Saddle with Jackson Holte
Jan 14th Mining the Margins of Wilderness: an Update from the Boundary Waters

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

Feb 18, 2026
2 hours
112 MB

In this episode of the Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast, host Hal Herring speaks with investigative journalist Andrew Becker about the complex and increasingly contentious issue of stream access in Utah. Centered around Becker's deep-dive reporting for The Drake, the conversation explores how a state that is roughly 75% public land can still have most of its fishable water flowing through private property. Becker traces the issue back to Western settlement, including the belief that water is a shared public resource. From the Equal Footing Doctrine and questions of navigability to Utah's modern walk-in access program, the episode unpacks...

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

Public Land, Private Water: Utah's Stream Access Fight

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers

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