I'm going to Welcome to the Hunts Backcountry podcast. This is episode number 442 and we are

continuing in our series where we're speaking directly with game and fish agencies from several of the Western states.

And today up we have Idaho. Our guest is Toby Boudreau.

He has actually joined us in previous episodes where we've talked about wolf management and other topics in Idaho and there will be a link in the show description to that previous episode.

Today we talk about Idaho and get an update on the

recent non-resident tag sale, the status of deer elk, the management of wolves, the

status of grizzly bears, and a whole lot more. We cover so much in here, e-bikes, just all kinds of stuff.

So if you have any interest in hunting Idaho, almost regardless of species or season, there's something in here for you.

As always, I hope you are enjoying these episodes as much as we have benefited from them.

And if you have any questions for us, send an email to

podcast at exomogear.com. We'd love to hear from you and consider answering those

questions on a future episode. Right now, let's dive into this conversation with Toby Boudreau. Toby welcome back to the back to the podcast. Thanks for joining us again as you

have in the past and for listeners we will have links to the previous shows that we've

done with you but for people who maybe didn't catch those previous episodes Toby

can you just go ahead and provide some information context for who you are, what you do with Idaho

Fish and Game, and anything you want to share about your background as well?

Sure, Mark, thanks.

My name is Toby Boudreau, and I am the statewide deer and elk coordinator for Idaho Fish and Game. I'm stationed in Boise.

And I've been a biologist for over 30 years in Idaho and I first started out in Alaska.

And I have another task on my plate other deer and elk and that is I work on

on grizzly bear policy issues because I have a long history working on grizzly bear stuff.

So yeah, it's a good job and I enjoy what I do

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