EP 009: Randy Newberg talks with conservationist Jim Pozewitz and podcast producers Dan Doty & Janis Putelis.

Hunt Talk Radio

Randy Newberg

Sports, Education, Wilderness, How To

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2015

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Hunt Talk Radio, Randy Newberg talks with conservationist Jim Pozewitz and podcast producers Dan Doty & Janis Putelis. Subjects discussed include the dirty thirties of hunting conservation, the birth of the Pittman-Robertson act, Teddy Roosevelt's 1883 bison hunt, how Concord Transcendentalists connect to Poz's own conservation epiphany, Roosevelt's "Road to Nowhere" that wasn't, Jay Norward "Ding" Darling and the flower in the desert, the king's deer becoming the peoples' game, how whiskey played a part in preserving the Yellowstone River, the Midnight Forests of 1907, shooting penned animals and the implications of "intensively managed game", addressing the premise of dividing the hunting community, the need to talk about the things that didn't happen, the missing wildlife of Kyrgyzstan, Cecil Garland and the heroes of conservation walking among us, and much more.

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0:00.0	Hey folks, Randy Newberg here, the Hunt Talk podcast, Randy Newberg unfiltered, and today we are unfiltered from Helena Montana.
0:09.0	And before I get into the long introduction of who our guest is today, I'm also going to tell you that we got Dan Dodie, the producer of this podcast from 0.0, and Yannis Patelis from 0.0 there here helping us.
0:25.0	But we are very honored to have this week's guest, and you can hear him chuckling in the background because he's so modest.
0:33.0	But Jim Pazowitz is, he is one of the guys when you talk about conservation history, when you talk about guys who've been there and done that.
0:45.0	And since everyone calls you Paz Jim, I think we're going to call it the Pazcast this time.
0:51.0	It works for me.
0:52.0	But hey Jim and I have a long relationship.
0:55.0	Jim founded Orion the Hunters Institute in 1993, after how many years with FWP?
1:02.0	Well I was with FWP steady for 32 years, a couple of seasonal years ahead of that, but from 61 through 93.
1:13.0	Yeah, FWP for us in Montana, that's our name for our fishing game agency for the rest of you, it's Fish, Wildlife and Parks.
1:21.0	And so after leaving FWP Jim hits the circuit talking about hunting behavior, hunting ethics, and then he starts all Ryan.
1:31.0	And I'm not sure how I got sucked in to be in on your board in 1995.
1:37.0	Well there was a gal, a common acquaintance, Denise Boggs was telling Gail and I, Gail Jocelyn, who's my partner and wife, about this accountant down in Boseman, who had an interest in this kind of stuff.
1:52.0	So that's where the connection was made from.
1:55.0	Denise Boggs, she sort of introduced you to us and the rest is, as you point out history.
2:04.0	Yeah, so Jim and I have been through so many discussions of, and I felt, all this time I felt like, and not to offend anyone who believes in the King James Bible, but in the conservation world there's also the King James Bible, it's the Jim Positwoods books of Beyond Fair Chase, Rifle and Hand, inherent the hunt, all those.
2:30.0	And I've been reading from those for years and then serving on your board for 15 years.
2:36.0	We go back a long ways I guess.
2:39.0	I guess we do.
2:40.0	Yeah, put it all in the, string out in order there.
2:44.0	Yeah, so anyhow, you guys are in for a treat out on our hunt talk forum.
2:50.0	We've asked people, who do you want for guests on the podcast?
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