All right, folks, today we have a really interesting chap with us. This is Toby Boudreau.

He's got a long history in Alaska and Idaho as a biologist, and he's a registered big game guide

in Alaska as well. And he's a gun enthusiast and a rifle stock

maker so Toby has a lot to offer to our world this backcountry hunter

enthusiast welcome to the show today Toby thank this backcountry hunter enthusiast.

Welcome to the show today.

Toby, thanks for joining us.

Thanks, Joseph.

It's good to be here.

Why don't you go ahead and just introduce yourself a little bit to our listeners,

starting with your history in Alaska, if you don't mind?

Yeah, so I moved to Alaska when I was 19 years old to go to college and ended up going to the

University of Alaska Fairbanks and I ended up working on grizzly bears for my master's degree.

I spent four years working on grizzly bears in the Alaska Range and up on the north slope of Alaska.

And then I got a real job with them and spent 14 years full time working for the Alaska Department

Fish and Game as an area management biologist in several different

locations out on the Alaska Peninsula. But most of my time was spent in the interior of Alaska and Fairbanks, and then the last place I was stationed was a little village in Western Alaska called McGrath.

I worked on a variety of species there, but of course carnivores and predation is a big issue in Alaska, and so I did get to spend quite a bit of my professional time working on those species along with

moose and caribou and doll sheep.

And then about 2005, I moved to Idaho and became a the Mulder initiative biologist in southeast Idaho and worked on mule deer.

And one of the funniest stories that people like to tell here is that I came to Idaho to be a mule

dear biologist and I had never seen one before.

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