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Bear Grease

Ep. 38: Ducks - Saving the Legacy of Green Tree (Part 2)

Bear Grease

MeatEater

Wilderness, Sports

4.87.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Hunting flooded timber in Arkansas for mallard ducks is why this place is known as the Duck Hunting Capital of the World. On this episode, Clay interviews the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission director, Austin Booth, and waterfowl biologist Luke Naylor about why the trees are dying in the Green Tree reservoirs of Arkansas. There are some big decisions to be made about how to save them. Clay also talks with Bobby Martin -- a commissioner of the AGFC -- about the legacy of habitat conservation that waterfowlers have in this country. This is the final episode in our series on duck hunting.


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0:00.0

You're riding a boat together or you're walking out to a place together.

0:08.9

You're sitting and applying together and the conversations can just continue while you're

0:12.9

duck hunting.

0:14.5

On this episode of the Bear Grease podcast, we're back in the swamp in pursuit of understanding

0:21.3

the cathedral of the Mallard Duck, green tree reservoirs or GTRs as they're called.

0:29.2

This is part two in the final episode in our series on Arkansas Duck hunting.

0:34.4

We've explored the ancient Mississippi flyway and the unique culture of the waterfowlers

0:39.8

who dedicated their lives to ducks.

0:43.2

Get ready for some drama because the trees and the GTRs are dying.

0:49.6

We'll talk with Austin Booth, the director of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission

0:53.8

and Waterfowl biologist Luke Naylor will look into the complexity of conservation issues

1:00.6

on public lands which can be slow to navigate.

1:04.6

But in the end, we'll hear what the plan is to save these critical flooded bottomland

1:10.4

hardwoods.

1:11.4

I really doubt you're going to want to miss this one.

1:15.5

Do we want to tell our grandkids what it was like to hunt biometa or do we want to listen

1:20.9

to them tell us what it's like?

1:30.0

My name is Clay Nukem and this is the Bear Grease Podcast where we'll explore things

1:35.4

forgotten but relevant.

1:37.5

Search for inside and unlikely places and where we'll tell the story of Americans who

1:43.2

live their lives close to the land.

1:46.8

Started by FHF Gear, American-made, purpose-built hunting and fishing gear that's designed to

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