Ep. 39 | Not all Public Lands are Created Equal – With Land Tawney and Jason Meekhof of BHA

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🗓️ 31 December 2018

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Land Tawney, President/CEO of Back Country Hunters & Anglers (BHA), and Jason Meekhof, BHA Great Lakes Chapter Coordinator, sit down with Mark and Jimmy to talk BHA’s history and mission, as well as breaking down the huge variety of state, local and federal public lands at your disposal and their different attributes. We discuss BHA’s current main objectives, the differences between state and federal public lands, the politics and behind-the-scenes action behind each type of public land and what you can do to protect and serve the public lands in your area and around the country. BHA is an organization committed to ensuring there’s ample access to public land and waters in the U.S. and healthy fish and wildlife habitat when you get there. Land and Jason were kind enough to join us for a morning of rabbit and squirrel hunting, followed by a podcast and one heck of a pint night locally in the Madison, WI area. If you’re not part of BHA, listen in to this podcast to hear what they’re all about and decide if joining is right for you. If your state has a local chapter, keep an eye out for their own pint nights to get together with fellow outdoors men and women for good times and great conversation. Your state doesn’t have a local chapter? Grab some like-minded buddies and contact BHA to see what it takes to get one started!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Vortex Nation podcast brought to you by lovers of hunting, shooting, public lands, the Second Amendment and good food. So are we just podcasting now?
0:14.0	Coming in hot.
0:18.0	Squirrel senses.
0:19.0	So are we just podcasting now?
0:21.0	Should we just...
0:22.0	Yep. Okay. We're in. Are we just, are just, should we just,
0:22.8	Yep, okay, we're in, coming in hot.
0:25.4	What's up everybody?
0:27.0	Continue on, Eric, you're already, you're saying something else.
0:28.9	Oh, yeah.
0:29.4	By nature of this, this is a soft open.
0:31.4	Yeah, soft launch. I was out last Sunday trying to shoot
0:35.3	squirrels and like you see squirrels all the time when you're out there bow hunting
0:38.8	deer hunting whatever I saw a squirrel specifically squirrel hunting and I was like,
0:43.5	Thumb Thumb Thumb Thumb Thumb, I'm like, oh my God, I might get a shot, he might come on.
0:47.4	And then he ran up the tree and I didn't get a shot at him.
0:49.6	I was super bummed out.
0:50.8	It changes everything about that encounter. Yeah. As far as like you know or even seeing a rabbit when you're your deer hunting and like you know you're hyper-focused on deer and that's what you're like okay cool rabbit like doesn't really
1:03.8	might not even register you know and heck I even I was deer hunting
1:09.0	the opening day of our rifle buck season and I looked down and then the jason tree it's like two feet away and
1:15.1	I'm like where did the squirrel come from like out of nowhere there's like
1:19.0	large squirrel like three pounder large and like, dude, how did he get there?
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