4.6 • 853 Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2020
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Join Hal and writers David Quammen and Betsy Gaines Quammen for a bonus episode of the BHA Podcast & Blast. As we enter the season of giving thanks, of family in a time of social distancing, of reading good books by the fire, we hope you enjoy this wide ranging conversation, a love letter to writing and partnerships and the West.
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0:00.0 | I love taking three years of research into an esoteric area of science, talking with scientists, |
0:11.8 | reading journal papers, traveling to places where they're working in the field |
0:16.4 | and bringing back all those journals and notebooks and piling them up on the desk and |
0:20.9 | then sitting down and trying to take those bits of real solid accurate |
0:26.0 | factual information and make a beautiful interesting shape out of it. |
0:31.3 | It's just like there's no end like I sometime don't want to go back to things because there's so many things that I haven't seen |
0:38.5 | Amen. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Any things that I love. |
0:44.0 | And we looked down and he said, I got, oh, I got a python here. |
0:47.0 | And I'm standing, you know, like five big paces away and I looked down and said, that's weird I got one here too and then we realize it was the same snake |
0:58.2 | Woven in under the grass |
1:01.1 | Hey everybody as people probably know by now, we are in a great partnership with the |
1:07.0 | Filson Company. They help support the podcast and they support BHA and Conservation all across America. |
1:14.0 | Our friends over at Filson have made the absolute best clothing and gear for backcountry working and hunting and fishing now since 1897. |
1:22.0 | A new collection of Filson products at support BHA is available on |
1:27.2 | Philson.com right now. It's worth going over there and checking it out. They have a |
1:31.9 | best that I'm particularly interested in. I just |
1:36.2 | I roused an old down vest out of a closet recently and was amazed at how effective it is to keep your torso warm while letting your arms and legs run around and do their thing. |
1:48.0 | So just hitting the Filson site is a new Denham collection they've got. They've got over a hundred years of |
1:55.1 | manufacturing experience for denim alone, which should be great stuff. While you're |
2:00.4 | there, don't miss the new wax cotton waterfowl wading jacket, which comes in a mausio |
2:05.9 | cavalage. It's kind of an old school deal for a wet weather waterfowlen, |
2:12.0 | and as well as Wilsonson's ethically sourced goose down vests and |
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