Benjamin E. Burgholzer

Welcome to Outdoorsman, Writer, Educator

Exploring ideas about what it means to be a modern outdoorsman, conservationist, educator, and environmentalist and most importantly, how this impacts how and what we eat. See below for my blog and other published work.

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3 days ago
1 min

Thinking Less Like a Whitetail Hunter and More Like an Elk Hunter

You can find this blog over at Harvesting Nature, here Be sure to check out the rest of the website for great articles on hunting, fishin...

Oct 13
5 min

Loving Public Land While Acknowledging Its Dark Past

The Real History of Conservation and Environmentalism in America Here in the United States, we love thinking in binaries. Some linguists ...

Sep 9
10 min

How To Pack for a Backcountry Hunting Trip

What to bring along and what to leave in the truck. I meant to do this post before the season started, but I’ve been so busy hunting and ...

Publications

See below for clickable links to my published work

"Where We’ve Been and Where We Need to Go: A Close Look at Hunting’s Role in Conservation"

Avid Hunting and Outdoors

August 2020 (forthcoming)

"The Real Story Behind the 28” Brown Caught on a Size 20 BWO on the Upper Delaware" Flylords Magazine

June 2020

"Border Waters" Mountains Piled Upon Mountains: Appalachian Nature Writing in the Anthropocene

June, 2019

"The Ramapo" New York's Emerging Writers: An Anthology of Nonfiction

August, 2018

"Another Dam Undone" Cargo Literary Magazine

Spring, 2016

"On Quonny Pond" Temenos

Spring, 2015

"Don't Go Over Your Hipboots" Little Patuxent Review

Fall, 2014

"On the Run" Ragazine