Welcome to the Jay Scott Outdoors podcast. I have Pete Simelero of the

conserve and protect Arizona.org Pete how you doing?

Doing great Jay thank you.

You know, Pete, over the last few days since our first podcast aired, we have had, I've had a lot of emails, I've talked to a lot of people obviously the word is getting

out there how important is it to you contrary to you you know maybe what some people are saying out there how important is it to

you to get this word out there and to get input and feedback from sportsman, Arizona-wide.

Well, Jay, that's why we did it.

I mean, that's why we get together with you and put it out because we recognize

with your reach, we would get to as many people as quickly as possible.

So this is, we hope everybody understands is this is our effort to get it out

to answer as many questions as possible, provide as much information as possible because

we recognize this is not an issue that it's not an easy one it's going to be controversial to some and it is

one of those that is so important that we don't want to be accused of trying to do something behind the scenes so that's why

we're talking. There was a little bit of I think miscommunication I don't know if it

was on my part, but we had announced that there was going to be a talk prior to the Arizona Desert Bighorn Sheep Society meeting the other day and I think I even put out on my social and maybe even out on some

other websites that it was at 7 p.m.

You then told me on the podcast which people have to understand took place about two hours before that and you said well

we're actually we don't want to interrupt the Arizona Desert Big Horn Sheep Society

normal board meeting but we're going to show up at six o'clock in essence to give

an hour ahead of time and there was some that accused saying oh we're trying to do it behind

closed doors they announced seven o'clock, but they actually did 6 o'clock. Can you speak a little bit to, you know, how that happened and was it truly just a simple mistake of you know not wanting to

interrupt so to speak the normal course of business with the Big Horn Cheap

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