Ep. 340: Land Management Wisdom and the Coronavirus with Doug Duren

Wired To Hunt Podcast

MeatEater

Wilderness, Sports

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2020

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

Today I’m joined by the wise man of southwestern Wisconsin, Doug Duren, to discuss land management philosophies, achieving balance, improving the Back 40, and the impacts of the novel coronavirus on future conservation efforts.

Topics discussed:

How Doug and I are dealing with the impacts of the Covid-19 crisis
Weird parallels between the public's reaction to the coronavirus and CWD
How the pandemic, and resulting economic and attention crises, might impact future conservation efforts
How Doug Duren came to his current conservation ethic
How Doug would describe his conservation philosophy
Balancing wilderness preservation VS land management
Understanding why managing invasives or non-native species is important
Why managing for balance in an ecosystem makes sense
Doug's thoughts on the Back 40
Ideas for getting more trees on the landscape

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1:06.0	Today on the show, I'm joined by my buddy Doug Durant.
1:10.4	He's a frequent contributor to various media to your podcast and television episodes as
1:15.2	well as wildlife and habitat management consultant out of the Driftless region of Wisconsin.
1:21.9	He's also one of the experts we brought out to the back 40 last fall to review what
1:26.0	we had there and to talk through different ideas and to hunt the farm with me.
1:30.0	So in our conversation today, I want to cover a lot of topics on those lines.
1:34.4	We're going to discuss with Doug, you know, how he came to his current conservation ethic,
1:39.2	how he attempts to balance hunting and ecosystem goals on any property he works with, how to
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