BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. #188: Hunting on the Ballot with Gaspar Perricone

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

Zack Williams

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

4.6 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

From ballot initiatives that mandate wolf-reintroduction or banning the hunting of mountain lions and bobcats, wildlife management decisions are increasingly being made by voters instead of biologists.

It is called “ballot biology” and it is a result of some highly motivated anti-hunting and animal rights groups reaching out to a ballooning demographic of non-hunting, often urban, voters who may be well-intentioned (“protect mountain lions and bobcats from being slaughtered!”) but who don’t know how wildlife is managed, how it was restored from near-extinction, or who pays for habitat and biologists and all the moving parts of the world’s most successful wildlife model. Only about 6 out of every 100 Colorado residents buys a hunting license- if it becomes a contest of us against them, a hot culture war decided by votes, we will lose. The wildlife will lose with us.

There is trouble ahead, and a new and formidable challenge for all of us who love hunting and wildlife. Join us for an interview with Gaspar Perricone, who is on the frontlines of this battle in Colorado, and has a plan to win it.

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0:00.0	The underlying goal here of course is to embrace a wildlife management philosophy that reduces if not outright prohibits the use of hunter harvest as a wildlife management tool.
0:18.1	And of course anybody who is educated or is suit in wildlife management practices,
0:24.8	knows that the North American model
0:27.6	utilizes Hunter Harvest as a primary management tool.
0:31.4	And it is the bedrock policy by which all 50 state
0:35.2	game and fish agencies administer not just big game management not just game
0:41.2	management but also non-game management as well.
0:44.8	And so, yeah, what's at stake here is science-based wildlife management itself.
0:51.6	And if you think that the step between Initiative 91 in Colorado and your
0:57.7	rights to hunt and fish in your state are disconnected, you'd be mistaken.
1:02.1	Hey everybody, Hal hearing, Backcountry Hunters and Anglers Podcasts and Blast.
1:08.0	Hey, I'm fired up this morning to announce that Savage Arms is going to be sponsoring this
1:14.2	podcast and it has a special significance to me because I'm sitting here
1:19.7	holding Savage Arms Stevens Model 9, Series M, 20-Gage Single Barrel Shotgun that I got for my ninth
1:30.4	birthday.
1:31.4	I have had that since 1973. It is polished off. It's silvered up. It's
1:39.5	scratched. I passed it on to my son when he was 10, I think. That would have been in 2010 and all I've done in all those years is to change the replace the ejector.
1:53.0	That shotgun has change the uh... replace the ejector on
1:54.0	that shotgun has shot
1:56.4	thousands upon thousands of one thousands of rounds
1:59.9	so
2:02.4	this whole thing is very important to me.
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