So much of this can be fixed. That's what's kept me going on this and like you can have a population of gray wolves on the land. We proved that over and over and the people who hate that whole idea

are always going to be trying to push it back,

but that's a very American thing too.

I try to stick to facts,

and you know, what it really helps with that

is like using documents a lot and document-based reporting

and getting, because when you get like the

internal emails of a bunch of political appointees in the Interior Department talking

with their oil industry friends about you know this or that you know you don't really have to add much for

people to see what's going on sometimes you do need the power of something like

the federal government just to be like no you're not doing that you're not screwing up our incredible like one of a kind

wilderness resource that took years to protect you know.

Hey everybody, Hal hearing, backcountry hunters and anglers podcast and blasts.

Hey, I'm fired up this morning to announce that Savage Arms is going to be sponsoring this

podcast and on it has a special significance to me because I'm sitting here

holding the Savage Arms, Stevens Model 9, Theories M, 20-Gage single barrel shotgun that I got for my ninth

birthday.

I have had that since 1973. It is polished off. It's silvered up. It's scratched.

And I passed it on to my son when he was hen I think that would have been in 2010 and all I've done in all those years is to change the

Replace the ejector on that shotgun change the

shotgun has shot thousands upon thousands of thousands of rounds.

So this whole thing is very important to me.

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