Hello, this is Hal Herring, with Backcountry Hundreds and Anglers Podcast and Blast. It's early summer here. I'm still up in northwestern Montana out of Whitefish here and we had a

backcountry hunters and anglers story night last night campfire, I think they call it.

Yeah, and, uh,

Filson Storytelling Night.

Yeah, right.

C. C. Filsons sponsored Storytelling Night.

And one of the stories was Bill Hanlon, who is, what is it,

BHA board member or board chairman?

The chair of the British Columbia chapter of the backcountry hunters and anglers.

All right, Bill's out of Sparwood, British Columbia Columbia he's active in about as many conservation efforts

as anybody I've ever known we've been talking non-stop for about four hours but uh what we're going to talk about is an incredible find in the really far reaches

of B.C. right?

Yes.

And first, I want you to talk a little bit about what you do up there and all that stuff, but this is, this is, I heard this story last night and as soon as I woke up this morning I said, you know, this is the podcast for the, for the further for the week or the day if not

the decade so we got an ice man we've got like incredible backcountry running we got

glaciers people melting out of

glaciers yeah so the first introduce yourself a little bit if you don't mind

thanks hell my name is Bill Hanlon I'm the chair of the British Columbia chapter

of backcountry hunters and anglers I'm also chair of the British Columbia chapter of Back Country Hunters and Anglers.

I'm also chair of the Hornaday Wilderness Society.

It's a small but effective wilderness advocacy group out of the Elk Valley in British Columbia.

I live in Sparwood, BC with my wife Sue. We have three children. They're all

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