Ep. 158: Hunting at American Prairie

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

Zack Williams

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

4.6 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2023

⏱️ 106 minutes

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BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 158: Hunting at American Prairie

American Prairie is 455,840 sprawling acres of Montana grasslands and breaks that represents one of the largest expansions of publicly accessible hunting opportunities in the West— and one of America’s largest public/private land conservation projects. A longer story deserves to be told about American Prairie – how their work began and also what their plans for the future hold. This discussion features AP’s Director of Public Access & Recreation Mike Quist Kautz and Director of Bison Restoration Scott Heidebrink, who are here to talk history, bison, cattle, grasslands, watersheds, and hunting and the logistics of getting 1000 pounds of meat and 150 pounds of hide out of the field. Listeners who want to apply for a bison permit on AP lands, or who might be interested in the Block Management Program hunting access opportunities on AP lands, won’t want to miss this conversation, recorded at AP headquarters in Montana.

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0:00.0	Hello,
0:02.0	howl Herring, Back Country Hunters and Anglers podcast and blasts.
0:05.0	Thanks for being here.
0:07.0	A short intro today.
0:09.0	I kind of pushed, we pushed this podcast up because the entry for this bison hunt is coming up real soon and didn't want to wait.
0:29.4	I was making that very clear. So, but all of this takes place this story about public access to tens of thousands of new country here.
0:36.4	It's not new, but it's tens of thousands of acres of public access and entry for the chance to hunt or shoot a bison is all taking place on the lands of
0:51.1	the American Prairie Reserve and the Associated Public the behind the American Prairie Reserve that I have been following since I wrote a feature for
1:06.5	A Round magazine back many years ago when the American Prairie Reserve began.
1:15.0	So, and I want to assure folks that if this podcast kind of lands kind of seems to come out of the middle of nowhere you don't
1:24.6	know what the American Prairie Reserve is you can look it up online you can look
1:29.3	up the story I did for around years ago. It's still out there. But I have got a podcast set up where we're
1:39.0	going to talk about the American Prairie Reserve and interview the principles there and I've spent quite a bit of time in that country and it is a big big
1:50.8	conservation and public land story.
1:53.0	There's a lot of controversy surrounding it and we're going to get through some of that
1:58.0	in the podcast interviews that we do here very soon.
2:02.0	So if you don't know what the APR American Prairie Reserve is, you can kind of look it up online and then listen to this podcast about the plot management areas, the hunting access, and the
2:16.4	bison hunt.
2:17.4	That's all I got.
2:18.8	I hope you enjoy this podcast.
2:20.5	This is a lot of fun for me to go and talk with these folks in Lewestown, Montana, about one of the largest private land and public land conservation stories going on in the United States.
2:36.0	Thanks.
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