There are actually lots of people working to do good stuff on the land.

It's a great time to be a fisherman and hunter. Part of that is the sheer

absolute freedom of being able to go wherever you want. You can't call yourself a hunter

if you're not a conservation. This is Hal Herring. I'm in Missoula, Montana.

The Backcountry Hunters and Anglers rendezvous with Anthony Lakata, who's the executive editor.

A editorial directoritorial director.

Editorial director.

Field and Stream, and what else?

I'm the editorial director of what we call the Bonnier Lifestyle Group,

and that includes Field and Stream, Outdoor Life, Popular Science, and Subur.

But we're here mostly to talk about Field and Stream.

Yeah, we are.

Yeah, we are.

And this is the podcast and blast. We've done a few of these. Got a few of them

backward. And we're looking forward to doing this one and a bunch more. So I was, so Anthony, I've, you and I have known each other sort of through work and stuff for quite a while,

but I've never known how you came to be at Field and Stream or what, was that your early desire?

Well, it was my early desire, but it was seemed so far-fetched to me that I was like being an astronaut.

I didn't think I would really do that.

You know, I grew up in Northeastern Pennsylvania

in a rural area and grew up hunting fishing.

My father taught me to hunt and fish,

my older brothers hunted and fished. I had one of those great schools where you

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