Ep. 151 - Bill Avey, 40 Years in the Forest Service

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

Zack Williams

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

4.6 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2023

⏱️ 132 minutes

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BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 151: Bill Avey, 40 Years in the Forest Service

Retired Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest Supervisor Bill Avey is here to give us a clear view into the workings of the U.S. Forest Service – and what is arguably, for a public lands hunter or angler, the most important agency in America. Hal and Bill became friends on a snow survey ski trip through the Bob Marshall Wilderness in 2015, lost touch, then met again on a jury duty call-up last summer. It was a lucky meeting for Hal and for this podcast: Bill Avey has given his life to America’s public forests, and he knows the strengths and weaknesses, the joys and tribulations, of his agency and the work it does, from the roots to the crown.

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0:00.0	I saw the good that that position and that's what motivated me at that time to go be
0:09.5	a district ranger because of the good that Mark could do for the land and the people, not just the people in the agency, but the public he served.
0:17.0	Yeah.
0:18.0	Mark, Mark was not afraid to make a decision.
0:20.0	He had a lot of courage.
0:22.0	He was not afraid to deal with the political blowback of that and that really taught me the value of that job
0:29.7	A technician we called on the general district assistant at the time
0:33.6	with a 12 gate shotgun went down there and dealt with a guy
0:36.1	yeah ran them off yeah and I thought that's pretty cool it was like it was like
0:40.6	reading uh... louis le. Yeah, sure, sure.
0:45.6	For so long in the outfit, I knew what I was,
0:48.5	I always knew what I was asking my people to do
0:50.8	because I'd done it myself.
0:53.3	I always think that's a critical piece of leadership, right?
0:55.5	You never ask somebody to do something
0:58.2	that you're not willing or not capable of doing yourself.
1:00.7	Right.
1:01.7	Right. Right.
1:03.0	Hey everybody, Hal hearing, Back Country Hunters and Anglers podcast and Blast. 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
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