Ep. 407: Backwoods University - New Year's Conservation
Bear Grease
MeatEater
4.9 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
There's no better time than now to set some new year's resolutions. In this episode, we are going to learn about how you,me, and really anyone can get involved in conservation. We'll learn about the Farm Bill and how it effects wildlife, wild habitat, and even hunting quality. We'll learn about conservation incentive programs like CRP and EQIP. Most importantly, we will learn how all of us can get involved and get some actual, tangible conservation in motion.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Backwoods University, a place where we focus on wildlife, wild places, and the people who dedicate their lives to conserving both. |
| 0:13.0 | Big shout out to Onyx Hunt for their support of this podcast. I'm your host, Lake Pickle. And hey, happy New Year. |
| 0:20.2 | 2026 already. Man, who could have seen this coming? |
| 0:23.7 | With the new year comes all kinds of exciting possibilities and opportunities. It's also around |
| 0:29.7 | the start of a new year that you always hear folks making their so-called New Year's resolutions. |
| 0:35.1 | Well, today I'm going to challenge all of us, myself included, to a wildlife conservation-minded New Year's resolutions. Well, today I'm going to challenge all of us, myself included, to a |
| 0:39.4 | wildlife conservation-minded New Year's resolution. In this episode, we're going to be focusing |
| 0:44.6 | in on the conserving wild places mantra of this podcast as we dive into learning about how |
| 0:50.5 | you, yes, you and me, can make a real intangible difference on the ground that we hunt, |
| 0:57.0 | fish, or recreate on by learning about things like conservation programs, the farm bill, easy ways |
| 1:03.0 | to get involved with both, and learning from folks that have walked to this path themselves. |
| 1:09.0 | Let's dive in. |
| 1:22.5 | It's a picture perfect winter day in central Mississippi. |
| 1:25.9 | Bright, clear, sunny skies, crisp air. |
| 1:28.7 | It's the kind of day that when you step outside and the wind hits you, you immediately start thinking about how you can get into the woods in some form or |
| 1:33.1 | fashion. And I'm with my longtime friend Josh Thrash. We're riding through his property and he's showing |
| 1:39.1 | me the various amounts of wildlife habitat work that he's done on his place. I'm asking about his prescribed burning and how the Bob White Quill have responded to it. |
| 1:48.7 | It was around this time that we pulled up on something that I don't believe I've seen in my |
| 1:52.7 | lifetime. |
| 1:54.1 | Yeah, those are long lease and those were, we were assisted through the equilp program EQIP um in planting and site |
| 2:06.3 | prepping and planting those and I just kind of had an inkling that I don't know I just always |
| 2:13.1 | like the story of the long leaf because all this used to be long leaf before the number |
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