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East Meets West Hunt

Ep. 017: BHA Collegiate Program with Kansas State University

East Meets West Hunt

Beau Martonik

Sports, Wilderness

4.9796 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2018

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, I am joined by Dr. Adam Ahlers, a professor at Kansas State University and Ian Burrows, the Collegiate BHA Club President at the University. We are talking about all things Backcountry Hunters and Anglers, as well as what the goals of their collegiate program are in regards to recruiting, retaining and reactivating the hunting lifestyle in young adults. Topics: Intro to Ian Burrows and Dr. Adam Ahlers What the BHA Collegiate Program is about Why BHA is so successful with reaching young adults Goals of the club in connecting like minded people and help them achieve their goals Bringing millennials into hunting through R3 efforts - Recruitment, Retention and Reactivation  Resources: Instagram: @bha_at_kansasstate                  @eastmeetswesthunt                  @beau.martonik Facebook: East Meets West Outdoors                 BHA at Kansas State Supporting Articles: http://www.ahlerswildlifelab.com/people.html                               R3 Efforts https://www.backcountryhunters.org/ www.eastmeetswesthunt.com Heather's Choice Affiliate Link Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Are you an adventurer looking to take your hunt to the next level, then you're in the right

0:05.2

place.

0:05.8

Welcome to East Meets West Hunt with your host, Beaumartonic.

0:18.8

All right, we are live.

0:20.8

We're back for another episode of the East Meets West Hunt podcast.

0:24.8

And today I have a couple guests on the line from Kansas State University.

0:32.0

So I have Adam Allers as well as Ian Burroughs.

0:36.1

How are you guys doing?

0:38.0

We're doing well. Doing greatroughs. How are you guys doing? We're doing well.

0:39.1

Doing great.

0:40.5

Awesome.

0:41.7

So I want to, before we get started here, I want to have both of you introduce, introduce yourselves

0:51.2

basically, and kind of show what your role is within Kansas State University

0:57.5

and also backcountry hunters and anglers. So Ian, would you like to get started there?

1:03.3

Yeah, absolutely. So my name is Ian Burrow and I'm the club president for backcountry hunters

1:08.3

and anglers at Kansas State University. And our club is one of 25 in the nation that's part of BHA's collegiate program.

1:19.6

And so a little bit broader strokes on that, backcountry hunters and anglers or BHA.

1:25.6

That's a national conservation organization.

1:28.3

And Bo, I know you're a member and a big advocate, but just in case we have some new

1:33.0

listeners this go around, just a quick overview.

1:36.6

BHA started in 2004.

1:38.4

It's the youngest conservation organization in the country.

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