Bob St. Pierre, Andrew Vavra and Anthony Hauck of Pheasants Forever & Quail Forever

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

Zack Williams

Outdoors, Wilderness, Sports, Fishing, Outdoor, Hunting, Sports & Recreation

4.6 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2018

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

In St. Paul, Minnesota, with bird dogs whining in the hall outside, Hal visits the headquarters of Pheasants Forever to interview a trifecta of America’s most committed and passionate upland bird hunters and habitat and public access advocates. Bob St. Pierre, PF vice president of marketing and communications, tells it like it is: “We’re in trouble. Habitat is being plowed under and wetlands drained, we’re failing to ensure the future of upland bird hunting, and with that failure we’re letting a whole host of ecosystems and wildlife – all of it hard earned in the wildlife restorations and conservation efforts of the last decades – go down. But we’re not going to let that happen.” Bob is joined by fellow PF staffers Andrew Vavra and Anthony Hauck, who tell us what it’s really like to hit the Rooster Road Trip: thousands of miles of travel, worn-out dogs, cold camps and bad motels, and a whole lot of public land bird hunting opportunities that way too many hunters are convinced do not exist.

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0:00.0	Francis Bacon said it. I said it all time. For nature to be commanded it must first be obeyed.
0:07.6	And for us to understand how to obey it it must first be understood.
0:12.0	And we're gonna, that's what we're going to do.
0:14.8	A half mile away at the doorstep is not a place to put a mind that can irreparably
0:21.8	damage one of the greatest jewels that this country has.
0:27.0	I never thought people would want to put a mind by that.
0:30.0	Like if you don't think it can happen, it's just because you haven't thought hard about it enough.
0:36.0	What is it worth? What is it worth to you? Are these things worth just making a 30 second phone call?
0:42.0	Are these things worth supporting your local conservation groups?
0:45.5	They should be.
0:46.5	And stop assuming that other people are going to carry your weight
0:49.4	because they're not.
0:50.4	We all need to join together,
0:51.9	whether it is the Bounder Waters or it is these public access programs because we're out number
0:57.2	We're outgunned so stand up and make some noise
1:01.0	All right gentlemen we had some technical difficulties, but now we have prevailed over them.
1:09.5	I'm here in St. Paul, Minnesota at Quill Forever and Fezas Forever.
1:15.0	National World Headquarters.
1:17.5	National World Headquarters.
1:19.5	In a nondescript industrial park in White Bear Lake, Minnesota.
1:23.4	But inside here is kind of a shrine of North American hunting,
1:26.6	everything from art to the White Tails to Ammo.
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