4.9 • 37.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2018
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Las Vegas, NV- Steven Rinella talks with Becky Humphries of the National Wild Turkey Federation, First Lite's Ryan Callaghan, along with Janis Putelis of the MeatEater crew.
Subjects discussed: The National Wild Turkey Federation; defining turkey habitat; the Lacey Act of 1900 and playing by the rules; the captive wildlife industry; the re-introduction of wild turkeys to the landscape; America's Big 6 habitats; timber sales as conservation stewardship; threats to habitat; making painful compromises; hunters and hunter's dollars and how they impact habitat work; why are dudes with hunting shows always hunting turkeys?; and more.
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0:31.0 | All right, Becky home freeze. |
0:33.0 | Thanks for coming on and talking to us my pleasure. |
0:37.0 | Can you can you in a super quick fashion or take as long as you want explain to people what the |
0:46.0 | national while turkey federation is and also you can also throw in there how you are is still fair to say new. |
0:54.0 | I hope so. |
0:55.0 | I hope so. |
0:56.0 | Yeah, the new sea. |
0:57.0 | It's less than a year. |
0:58.0 | So I mean, it started in April. |
0:59.0 | Got you. |
1:00.0 | Yeah, so I talk about the I talk about the end WTF people all the time and people listen to show have heard about it a fair bit. |
1:07.0 | But just yeah, give give sort of you like your standard breakdown. |
1:10.0 | Okay, well, the national wild turkey federation was formed back in 1973. |
1:16.0 | It was formed to restore the wild turkey and has grown to conserve our hunting heritage. |
1:22.0 | So we are a nationwide nonprofit conservation organization with volunteers and chapters in every state. |
1:30.0 | And we we work real hard on making sure there's really good active habitat management across the country and also that we are bringing in the next generation of hunter that we're maintaining that continuity in our hunting public and and growing the hunting sport. |
1:46.0 | So for this last 10 years, well, last five years on a 10 year initiative we've been working on save the habitat, save the hunt. |
1:54.0 | Where we put together some pretty lofty goals of restoring and conserving four million acres of habitat, creating a million and a half hunters and opening up a half million acres to hunting access. |
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