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October 31, 2025

New president and CEO at Backcountry Hunters and Anglers: Ryan ‘Cal’ Callaghan

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Backcountry Hunters and Anglers announced on Friday, Oct. 31 that its board of directors has selected Ryan Callaghan as the group’s new president and CEO.
Effective Jan. 1, 2026, Callaghan replaces Patrick Berry, who left the job in July after an 18-month tenure. Land Tawney previously had held the post for more than a decade. Well known for his work as director of conservation with Steve Rinella’s Bozeman, Mont.-based outdoors media company Meateater, Callaghan has been an outspoken public lands and hunting rights advocate for years.

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Pennsylvania Game Commission opposes a new youth buck season

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A state legislator believes an early buck season strictly for youth hunters will benefit the sport, but the Pennsylvania Game Commission isn’t on board.
State Rep. Charity Grimm Krupa, R-Smithfield, has introduced House Bill 1915, which directs the Game Commission to implement a youth antlered deer season for junior and mentored youth hunters.

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Al Lindner: Anglers located and caught a lot of lunker fish during open water 2025

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I’ve been fortunate to fish across the Upper Midwest for decades. With every season, there are some common themes, general observations, and lessons learned. While some years are on the good end of the spectrum, others tend to be less than ideal.
As this open-water season of 2025 draws to a close, I’m reflecting on what went well, on what didn’t, and everything in between. There’s no doubt in my mind that the theme for this season was big fish.

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Ryan Rothstein: Bowhunting new public land at midseason? Here’s what to prioritize

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Since I first started tackling public land, I’ve come to realize that I’m an eternal wanderer. When you realize the number of public parcels available to us and the diversity of habitat types covering them, it’s hard to pick just one.
The problem with this wanderlust is that you generally don’t learn a property intimately, thus having only a surface-level knowledge of deer movement on a given piece.

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Ohio’s Maumee River said to be at lowest level since at least 1988

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After a wet spring that saw 11.34 inches of rain fall through May, which was 2.7 inches above average, a severe drought developed over the summer in northwest Ohio.
It has continued into the fall and from Aug. 1 to Oct. 15, only 2.22 inches of rain was recorded in Toledo, which is 4.98 inches below average. As a result, the Maumee River is at the lowest that it has been since 1988, according to several residents of Grand Rapids, Waterville, and Maumee.

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Dean Bortz: I apparently have an affinity for flat tires

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It seems as though flat tires and blown tires have become the bane of my hunting and fishing existence. It’s been, what, four years in a row now that we’ve dealt with some sort of pneumatic fiasco just in October or November?
That doesn’t include any of the previous roadside disasters that fall under the heading of failed rubber or wheels. Come to think of it, I could probably write a book just on all of my mechanical mishaps that I’ve been blessed with over all of these years.

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Jeremiah Haas: Find quality time for youth hunting

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Youth deer season in Illinois can be a difficult season.
Depending on where you are located in the state, the weather can be less than hospitable for deer hunting. However, it’s a balance in that you want nicer weather so the kids can have an enjoyable experience, but you also need the weather to be cooler for the animals to be moving. That is the dilemma of youth season.

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Here’s how to use your hunting property as a revenue source

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Hundreds of millions acres of public lands across the United States are open to hunting.
That type of accessibility sets the United States apart from most other countries and is key to the hunting culture that exists today.
And yet every year millions of people hunt – or seek out opportunities to hunt – on private property, which often comes with less competition and more certainty. Hunting property can be a good revenue source because, for productive properties anyway, there’s relatively limited supply but plenty of demand.

Here’s how to use your hunting property as a revenue source Read More »

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