I have Jeff Foxworthy and welcome to Gamekeeper Podcast.

If you want to learn more about farming for wildlife and habitat management, then buddy,

you are in the right place.

Join the gamekeeper crew direct from Mosey Oakland Enhancement Studio as they discuss the latest

wildlife and habitat management practices, news, and of course hunting.

There's no telling what you'll learn, but I'm going to tell you, I bet it's interesting. Enjoy it. We're live in three, two, one. All right, everybody. Toxy, have you ever been on, I know you have, you've been on Dough Shoots, you go pick up a bird, you drop it at the stool. Oh, look, I've lived my life. That's everything. You know, we're in the middle of the Black Belt Prairie. I think this has to be the epicenter of fire ants. We got them. You just drive by a pasture everywhere. And it's literally, you said 15 minutes. Literally in two minutes, they're starting to cover up your dove no matter what every time you try to

plant a tree they build a nest around it instantly the garden it's like again and again and again

and the thing about it is it's like almost like the more you do something to them the more there

are they're amazing.

They're a pain at the nursery.

We have to get inspected by the USDA.

I'm looking forward to finding out more about them, you know, maybe ways we can do a better job.

But the effect they have, too, because I'm not sure I heard anything but kind of anecdotal evidence of how bad they are on certain wildlife. Sure. Yeah. So I have a feeling it has to be bad, though. Well, they shouldn't have been brought here to begin with. No. And they are. Like a lot of stuff we have.

Well, let me get our guest to introduce. Let's do it. We've got Dr. Johnny Wilson. Great to be here, real. Thanks for having me. I mean, what a great, Bobby, kudos to you learning this up. But what a great topic for Gamekeepers to listen to. Yeah, well, you know, we've been wanting to do this one and trying to figure out the right person to talk to and to learn all that we can about him. Turns out, Johnny's a big hunter himself. So he cares about the habitat. He's an upland hunter. He's really interested in trying to have more quails, more pheasant. So this is kind of right in his.

He's somebody that's paying attention to this. And look, let me go ahead and properly introduce

him because he's got some credentials. So he was educated at Kansas State University. And he also

schooled at the University of Gahint in Belgium.

Did I pronounce that right?

Ghent.

Ghent.

But they say it's six different ways, so I don't even know.

It was a lead pipe since Bobby would mispronounce that.

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