Ep. 128 - Jimmy Stiles - Alabama Herpetologist

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

Zack Williams

Outdoors, Wilderness, Sports, Fishing, Outdoor, Hunting, Sports & Recreation

4.6 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2022

⏱️ 172 minutes

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BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 128: Alabama Herpetologist Jimmy Stiles

The Conecuh National Forest in south Alabama is known as the Heart of the Longleaf, a landscape of tall pine and wiregrass, restoration and recovery, humming with life and comprising a wild diversity of plants and wildlife found nowhere else. Field biologist, herpetologist, student of deep time, and full-time hunter and fisherman Jimmy Stiles lives and works in the Conecuh, leading efforts to recover the endangered indigo snake (North America’s largest and arguably most impressive snake species) and restore the longleaf forests that were once the southern U.S.-dominant ecosystem – all while having a rollicking good time way out there in the farthest reaches of the wild, hot, buggy and snaky Deep South. Hal caught up with Jimmy on Oak Mountain in Alabama this spring at the BHA Southeast Chapter Backcountry Jubilee.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, this is Sal Herring.
0:02.5	Backcountry Hunters and Anglers Podcasts and Blast.
0:05.2	I am still on a Southern Wonder,
0:08.4	but I wanted to remind everybody,
0:10.2	BHA's 11th annual North American rendezvous is going to be held again this year.
0:15.0	May 12th through 14th, 2022, Missoula, Montana.
0:21.0	You need to come out if you can. It was a big time last year, man. I just, I can't explain to you what it's like to have a travel gathering of that sort and that size
0:34.5	it kind of blew my mind so I hope y'all will come in it is going to be people from
0:40.1	across the continent it'll bears on tap from seek outside,
0:44.0	Vortex Guidefeiter from Black Duck Revival and Birch Barrel shows that grill
0:50.0	that we cook the muscocks on last year.
0:53.0	Chef Randy King gonna be there and more.
0:56.7	So bring you top chapters recipes out to BHA Wild Game cookoff. I mean that's been one of the biggest deals out there and that's coming
1:06.3	on again this year. Y'all have to go toe-to-toe head-to-head, mano-a-mano against last year's champion from Minnesota.
1:15.6	VHA Backcountry Brewfest is coming in.
1:18.4	That's going to be presented by Mystery Ranch and the Clearwater Credit Union be sponsoring that one.
1:25.0	There'll be plenty of beer to drink along with the BHA Wild game cook-off food.
1:30.0	You got Raffles, prizes, auctions, giveaways, little kids go crazy,
1:34.8	activities. People be camping out there dancing to the light of the biggest bonfire
1:40.2	Missoula that night, we hope.
1:42.1	Come on join us up in Missoula, man.
1:46.0	May 12 through 14.
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