Ep. 1029: How You Can Help Save 4000 Acres of Prime Public Hunting Ground with Travis Morehead
Wired To Hunt Podcast
MeatEater
4.8 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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This week on the show, we’re diving into an exciting project to save 4,000 acres of prime hunting ground in the Southeastern United States and help make it public land in perpetuity.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.3 | Listen up, Mother Scratchers. |
| 0:05.6 | If you listen to this show, you know how I feel about public land. |
| 0:08.9 | Well, right now, there are 4,000 acres along the Tucker Town Reservoir in North Carolina. |
| 0:15.7 | That could either go to developers or they could become public game lands forever. |
| 0:22.1 | We've teamed up with our friends at OnX to make sure it's the latter. |
| 0:26.5 | We want them going public. |
| 0:27.6 | Here's the deal. |
| 0:28.7 | Meat Eater and OnX have each put up $100,000 to match your donations. |
| 0:34.1 | That's $200,000 in matching funds on the table, but this only runs from April 14th to |
| 0:40.1 | May 14th. When the money's gone, it's gone. Go to savetuckertown.org. We're raising money |
| 0:47.9 | to help keep it public. Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, your guide to the White Tail Woods, presented by First Light, |
| 0:58.0 | creating proven, versatile, hunting apparel for the stand, saddle, or blind. First Light, |
| 1:04.0 | go farther, stay longer. And now, your host, Mark Kenyon. Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast. This week on the show, we are discussing |
| 1:14.0 | an exciting project ongoing right now to save 4,000 acres of prime hunting ground down in the |
| 1:21.0 | southeastern United States and to make it public in perpetuity. |
| 1:35.1 | All right, welcome back to the Wired to Hunt podcast, brought to you by Maltry. |
| 1:43.9 | Today we've got a fun episode, a different kind of show, but one full of, I think, promise and good news and opportunity. |
| 1:50.8 | You know, if you've been paying attention to public land related news and updates and proposals and government policy over the last year or so, give or take, you're probably overwhelmed. |
| 1:57.4 | There's been a deluge of changes and policies shifts and bad bills and |
| 2:02.1 | concerning headlines. It's a lot to take in. And many of these things have been, you know, |
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