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Welcome to the wire to hunt podcast your home for deer hunting news stories and strategies and now your host Mark Kenyon

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Tane the show we are continuing with our focus on land improvement and conservation which we also tackled last week in our back 40 conversation and it's on that note that I want to start because last spring when I first started preparing for this whole back 40

Project of sorts this huge undertaking, you know, I set out to expand the boundaries of kind of what I know about land improvement and management for wildlife because you know up to that point

I had a pretty solid understanding of projects that could help me get more deer to use a property

I had a pretty good understanding of how to set things up to improve my hunting

But when it came to the bigger picture when it came to the larger environment, you know the soil the air of the water the plants

That whole ecosystem within which I was operating in the deer to that stuff. I wasn't so sure about and

Yeah, we like to talk a lot as hunters that hunting is conservation and you've heard me talk about this before

I love that idea

But it's easy for that to become just an idea and no action if we depend on

Hunting being conservation just by default. I worry that we're missing the boat. So I got to thinking you know

Is there more that I could be doing with the land than just killing deer off it and just trying to tweak a property to help me kill even more deer

That was that was this question that I have been asking myself more and more and more and it led to a whole bunch of reading and research

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