BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 182: Putting Conservation Back in the Foundation of Hunting and Fishing with Mark Kenyon

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

Zack Williams

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

4.6 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2024

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Michigander Mark Kenyon is the host of the Meateater podcast Wired to Hunt, and the author of the definitive book on the American public lands, That Wild Country. Mark is at work on another book about the future of American conservation, and the hunting and fishing that do not exist without it. He’s also hunting and fishing and gardening, raising outdoor kids with his wife, and establishing himself as one of our country’s leading voices in conservation, public lands and the outdoors. Mark has a concrete plan to put conservation back in the foundation of hunting and fishing, and he outlines it right here- don’t miss this conversation.

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0:00.0	It's like if you don't know how you got here then you're not going to know maybe how to keep it.
0:09.6	Yeah, you know. So true. And it's it's the history is unique and and that comes out in that in
0:16.7	that book it's like these were decisions people made and these were real people
0:22.1	they were real people. They were real people, regular people.
0:24.0	Right, yeah.
0:25.0	I think that's a really key thing.
0:26.0	In April of last year and agreeing to spend eight hours picking up trash on a wildlife management unit. By doing that you're saying
0:35.4	something about yourself, whether you're not you know it consciously. Yep. You are
0:40.8	making a statement about your identity.
0:43.0	You're taking a flag and putting it in the ground that says, you know,
0:46.0	I'm that kind of person who shows up.
0:48.0	I'm the kind of person who gives a damn enough.
0:50.0	It's all to do the work.
0:51.0	There is an absolute masterpiece all around us. Just open your eyes and take a step
0:56.1	outside and you have got a work of art if you will open your eyes to that. And that's what my children
1:01.8	have taught me.
1:03.0	Hey everybody, Hell Hearing, Backcountry Hunters and Anglers,
1:08.0	Podcasts and Blast.
1:09.0	Hey, I'm fired up this morning to announce that Savage Arms is going to be sponsoring this
1:15.2	podcast and it has a special significance to me because I'm sitting here holding the Savage Arms Stevens Model 9, Theories M 20
1:28.3	Gage single barrel shotgun that I got for my ninth birthday.
1:33.0	I have had that since 1973.
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