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Hey, everybody. Welcome to episode number 11 of the hunting collective.

I'm Ben O'Brien. We're joined this week by John Gale and John Gale is the conservation director for a group called backcountry hunters and anglers.

And John is a fifth generation Idaho and some of you just grew up hunting and fishing in the backcountry.

He's also engaged in politics. I think among all the topics that we'd want to touch on the hunting collective politics is not one of them.

But the politics of hunting the politics of public lands is one of them.

And maybe it's the most important thing we can talk about.

And what makes John so qualified to talk about public lands is that he's the conservation director for BHA.

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