This is Hal Herring with Backcountry Hunters and Anglers podcast in Blast.

I'm here in Corbin, Kentucky with a guy I've known for years and years.

I hadn't met, sat down with him in years and years.

It's David Leftert of the Appalachian Wildlife Foundation.

And I've been trying to get down here to see David's work

for a long time in which we'll talk about today but I think I first met David and we were working I was working on Elkree

introduction stories for bugle magazine I don't know what three maybe holy smokes

Yeah, it could have been oh two. Oh, yeah, it could been oh two with the

elk restoration and then we had a we help with a big land acquisition project in

Tennessee in the elkrant. Right, we were on the Royal Blue,

Wal-Life Management.

Yep.

And I was down here right.

I went to Catalucia Valley,

and we saw the elk actually.

I have ancestors that were kicked out of that valley to create the national park.

There you go.

And if my uncle Melvin had still been alive when them elk were stocked, they wouldn't have lasted two weeks.

Yeah, that's true.

Do your relatives look at the daffodils in the park and say,

they hadn't got rid of us yet?

Uh, yeah.

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