Ep. 395 | Mule Deer and the Mule Deer Foundation

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🗓️ 2 June 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Trevor Hubbs from the Mule Deer Foundation jumps on to chat about mule deer, threats they face, and the great work MDF is doing to ensure a prosperous future for these amazing critters. Habitat, overpasses, funding, and the new Blacktail Deer Foundation, he migrates through interesting information you’ll want to know.

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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.
0:17.6	What is up, everybody? Mark on the mic here, joined by Trevor Hubs. We are in Salt Lake City, Utah at the Western Hunting Conservation Expo. Trevor, you are of the Mule Deer Foundation wearing a lot of hats out there. You're doing a bunch of podcasting as well here.
0:34.6	Yeah, yeah, that's a great time at the show. And it's, yeah, it's super cool. And
0:37.9	I'm stoked to have you on and just learn a little bit more about mule deer and tell people about
0:42.3	your mission and, you know, what the mule deer foundation focuses on, why it's so darn important,
0:49.0	cool projects you guys have worked on. Yeah. And maybe some new stuff that you have going on as well.
0:54.7	Always, yeah.
0:55.6	So I found out pre-podcast fellow Wisconsinite.
0:59.4	Yeah, absolutely.
1:00.4	Just ended up moving away from Wisconsin about six months ago.
1:04.2	But we own a cabin in Taylor County, me and my wife, and I was just back up there doing
1:08.9	a bunch of ice fishing and do a little bit of
1:11.0	beaver trapping and yeah I plan on land to go up there as much as I can good deal good deal that's
1:15.6	awesome it's always it's always nice to get back home did you get any beavers yes all the time that's
1:20.0	after five or six years of doing it I'm finally like on the call list for locals that are having
1:26.0	problems and because it's not quite I mean it's in the middle of the
1:29.2	shormigan national forest so there's plenty of public land beaver
1:31.8	trappin to do but now I mean you do it so often and you drive a truck
1:36.0	through through the little the one road with 10 or 16 beavers on the back
1:41.2	and people like oh I'm gonna call that guy next time I have a beaver problem. And yeah, so I ended up doing all right and make a bunch of beaver coosies
1:48.1	and give them to the friends family. Makes a good little Christmas. Make easier.
1:52.7	That's awesome, man. So, well, how did you end up at the Mule Deer Foundation? Yeah, so I got out of the Army in 2016 as a former 11 Bravo infantrymen,
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