BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 160: Mitch Reid with The Nature Conservancy
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring
Zack Williams
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🗓️ 18 July 2023
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
Mitch Reid is a native son of the Alabama Wiregrass, where he grew up fishing and hunting his home country in the headwaters of the Choctawhatchee River. After a military career with the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne, he came home to raise his family and continue to serve his nation by working with The Nature Conservancy to protect and restore the lands and waters of the place he loves the most in the world. Alabama is No. 1 in aquatic species diversity, with more than 4,000 known species. It is also No. 2 in the nation for species extinction. The time for action is right now. Huge projects are underway in Alabama, from restoration of coastal estuaries and marshes to protecting some of the most diverse hardwood forests and most biologically rich and intact rivers left on Earth. One of the most important watershed restorations in the U.S. is underway right here – reconnecting the mighty Alabama River and its thousands of miles of tributaries to the Gulf of Mexico – Gulf walleye, sturgeon, vast runs of mullet and other catadromous fish … they were all here, all the way up the Cahaba, the Coosa, the Tallapoosa. And they can be again.
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| 0:00.0 | And it's hard when you got billions of people all over the world living on the land. |
| 0:09.2 | It's hard for everybody to get you know, but if we're successful in our work here at the |
| 0:14.3 | Conservancy we will still have those places like the Connecticut like the |
| 0:19.4 | Connecticut like the fisheries off of Coffey Island, |
| 0:24.0 | like the Skyline WMA, |
| 0:27.0 | where you can go and still live that story |
| 0:31.0 | that we want to tell about ourselves. |
| 0:33.0 | And that's really important to me. |
| 0:35.0 | It doesn't matter if you're talking about |
| 0:38.0 | the longleaf pines, the rivers, or the coast. |
| 0:41.0 | If people don't see it and they can't use it, then they won't care about what |
| 0:46.2 | you're trying to protect. If people don't have access, if they can't see and love a piece of land they won't support |
| 0:55.3 | what I'm trying to do long term for sure it's long term public ownership that's |
| 1:00.6 | the key. |
| 1:01.6 | Hey everybody, Hal hearing, Back Country Hunters and Anglers podcast and Blast. |
| 1:08.0 | Hey, I really wanted to thank Wilson for its long support of this podcast. Without Phil... Thank you |
| 1:15.0 | I thank Filsen for its long support of this podcast. Without Filsen, I don't get to do what I want to do with it. |
| 1:18.0 | And I've had a mighty good time over the last couple years, |
| 1:22.0 | thanks to their support. So I'd ask everybody to check |
| 1:25.8 | out Philson.com or your local outdoor retailers. If you know the history is for 125 years, |
| 1:34.0 | Philson's uncompromising commitment to quality has defined their brand |
| 1:38.0 | and their authenticity. |
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