EP 114: Fair Chase & Self-Restraint

Hunt Talk Radio

Randy Newberg

Sports, Education, Wilderness, How To

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2019

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

In this episode (114) of Leupold's Hunt Talk Radio Randy is joined by Keith Balfourd, Marketing and Communications Director at Boone & Crockett Club. Topics covered include the history and origin of Fair Chase, self-restraint as the foundation of species recovery, conservation founded on the Fair Chase principles, hunting image, codes, standards, behavior, why it matters, wise use of resources requires restraint, hunting in a diverse society, conservation through a single species lens, databases used for conservation, harvesting older or male species is conservation, and many other sticky hunting topics on which B&C is leading the discussion.

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0:00.0	Hey folks, Randy Newberg here with another episode of Lou Pold's Hunt Talk Radio.
0:09.1	It is summer.
0:10.6	Yeah, summer is just moving right along here in Bozeman, Montana.
0:16.7	Today I'm joined by a past guest, communications, marketing, messaging.
0:23.3	You name it at Boon and Crocket Club.
0:25.9	Keith Balford.
0:27.9	Keith is in town and he and I always enjoy some good conversations about what they're seeing,
0:33.2	what they're doing, Boon and Crocket Club.
0:36.2	Has a tendency to push the discussions out there a little further to get people to think more.
0:44.8	And I always enjoy that.
0:47.4	I love reading what they produce, what they put out in their Fair Chase magazine.
0:52.5	And I think when you get down listening to this, if you haven't already been made aware,
0:58.7	you will be of how influential the Boon and Crocket Club has been, the oldest conservation
1:04.7	group of any of the hunting conservation groups.
1:08.3	Going back to 1880 something, Keith will have the exact date.
1:14.7	The topic I wanted to talk about today is, in Keith is his background.
1:23.1	I don't know if there's such a term as expert, but if there is an expert, it's Keith.
1:28.4	On the topic of how the Fair Chase principle that is embodied with the idea of self-restraint
1:37.6	was also the principle that got us this conservation recovery in America.
1:44.8	How it was self-restraint, it was thinking about the next generation, about giving more than you took.
1:53.3	All those things are almost a parallel between the concept of Fair Chase and the conservation
2:02.5	ethic that's built the conservation recovery in our country.
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