The wildlife human encounter is getting greater and not less.

So although we are being able to be proactive, we've got to move at record pace to kind of keep up with the growth and the infrastructure and you know keeping wildlife connectivity

healthy. The community is out there now deciding like wildlife crossings are a

priority of ours. We're going to fundraise at a community level to be able to try and protect wildlife and

eliminate some of these conflicts.

Those sort of things are just super exciting to see, especially in combination with this emphasis

that's provided from the highest level of government saying yeah

this is something that matters so when you have something from the bottom and the top happening you

understand that there's a huge opportunity to be had.

There's never hopeless it's always this is great. a huge opportunity to be had.

There's never hopeless.

It's always, this is great.

What's going on right here is the future.

It's great.

It's a great problem to have, but we need to seize that opportunity and not sit around and watch it go by and then wonder why

didn't we think about that before it actually imploded on us.

We'd like to thank Sitka Gear, maker of the most effective hunting and outdoor apparel in the world for their

sponsorship of this podcast. We wouldn't be here without them and I really

appreciate it. Thank you. Hello everybody and welcome back to Backcountry Hunters and Anglers podcast and Blas.

I'm Hal Herring and I am recording this introduction to this podcast because while recording it live in front of a pretty

much sold-out crowd, a new Belgian Brewing Company in Fort Collins, Colorado. We turned off the recorder for

the first three minutes or so, and I didn't notice until we got underway that the little red light wasn't on.

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