BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 178: One of the West’s Most Powerful Voices for Conservation: Tom Reed

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

Zack Williams

Outdoors, Wilderness, Sports, Fishing, Outdoor, Hunting, Sports & Recreation

4.6 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2024

⏱️ 134 minutes

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Summary

Tom Reed, of Harrison, Montana, is a founding board member of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers and a true son of the Western plains and Rocky Mountain wilderness. Born in Colorado, Tom worked as a horse and mule packer and a small-town reporter in Wyoming, edited a bass fishing magazine in Arizona, spent years with Wyoming Fish and Game as writer and editor. Throughout his life, he’s pursued the foundational passions that drove him as a youngster- horses, hunting and fishing, wilderness, dogs, good guns, family. And he’s written beautifully about it all, in books like Great Wyoming Bear Stories, Blue Lines, and Give Me Mountains for My Horses, and in hundreds of columns and stories for Trout magazine, Wyoming Wildlife, Mouthful of Feathers and many other publications. Join us in a conversation with one of the American West’s most powerful voices for conservation and public lands, recorded in Tom’s writing cabin on the backside of the Tobacco Root Mountains.

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0:00.0	You know the commonality was if you live in a place like Wyoming or Montana or
0:06.4	Colorado you know you like to take your family out on public land some of the
0:11.6	other news outlets like the TV and radio stations found ourselves on the
0:17.9	phone with Senator Tim Worth and he's like we're not going to do this. And so we shut it down. We shut down that
0:24.6	Aspen Harvest and I still think of like Colorado in that part of Colorado, if
0:30.7	Jim Houston hadn't done something about it, it would be way different today.
0:36.0	Yeah.
0:37.0	Be way different.
0:38.0	The other one on his is when they fall off the horse, the ground gets harder and harder every year until it opens up and let you in.
0:44.5	Yeah, exactly. That's the truth. Yeah, and that's true of almost anything, any issue you're talking about.
0:53.7	Yeah, yeah.
0:54.8	You better be real.
0:55.9	Better know what you're talking about.
0:57.4	We've got to have 2005 EPCA, which reduces all the sideboards on oil and gas development.
1:05.2	And then it was 11 years later,
1:07.4	they overturned the export ban
1:08.9	and started selling it on the global market.
1:10.8	So these kind of things could make you very cynical. They could.
1:14.4	Or they could make you say well there's a lot here needs to be fixing.
1:19.6	Hey everybody, Hal hearing. Backcountry hunters and English podcast and blast.
1:24.0	Hey, I'm fired up this morning to announce that Savage Arms is going to be sponsoring this
1:30.3	podcast and on it has a special significance to me because I'm sitting
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