Ep. 390: Special Conversation with Hal Herring of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers
Cal of the Wild
MeatEater
4.8 • 9.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2025
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
This week, Cal catches up with Hal Herring at the Backcountry Hunters and Anglers Rendezvous. Hal is the host of the Podcast & Blast Podcast, and he may be the only man in the country who knows as much as Cal about public lands, conservation, and what we need to do to protect the wild places we love. Give it a listen, and while you're at it, subscribe to BHAs Podcast & Blast.
This episode was recorded by the Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast, hosted by Hal Herring.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.2 | Steve Rinella here. |
| 0:05.5 | The American West with Dan Flores is a new podcast production on the Meat Eater Podcast Network. |
| 0:12.4 | It's hosted by author and historian Dan Flores, who happens to be mine and our own Dr. |
| 0:19.5 | Randall's former professor. |
| 0:22.5 | By focusing on deep time, wild animals, native peoples in the West's unique environments, |
| 0:30.4 | Flores will challenge your understanding of the American West, |
| 0:34.3 | and he will help to explain why it is the way it is today. |
| 0:39.2 | I count Dan Flores as a friend. |
| 0:41.4 | We do not agree on everything, but he has had a massive impact on my understanding of American |
| 0:49.4 | history. |
| 0:50.6 | And I invite you to get challenged by him in the same way that I have. |
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| 1:33.5 | From Meat Eaters World News Headquarters in Bozeman, Montana, this is Cowell's Week in Review with Ryan Cowell-Callang. |
| 1:38.7 | Here's Cal. |
| 1:41.1 | Hello, everybody. |
| 1:43.0 | Hal Herring. |
| 1:59.9 | I'm at rendezvous, Backcountry Hunters and and anglers rendezvous in Missoula, Montana, June 15th. And I am with Ryan Callahan. I told him I was going to say he was a man who needs no reintroduction. He's not like a wolf. He's been reintroduced |
| 2:02.4 | To his natural habitat |
| 2:04.7 | I like the idea of that |
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