Welcome to the Gritty Podcast. I am your host Brian Call and on today's podcast. I'm going to talk a little bit about conservation

A lot of folks just aren't aware of what the different game

Fishing game agencies game fish agencies across the nation do

for wildlife and they're often getting

Bad press from anti-hunter's along with our own hunting community who kind of always dissatisfied with their hunter

You know how it's being managed

So I think it's

Beneficial to talk about how game agencies work and some of the work that they do and also talk about what hunters do and how they contribute because

These are the things that aren't covered in mainstream that are often overlooked and instead

You know what gets targeted or promoted is anti-hunting type of content

So I wanted to take a little information and share it with you from Arizona wildlife views which is

Periodical that I get in the mail that I appreciate. It's good stuff

Here's a little picture of it. I know some of the folks that work at in Arizona

I've done work with them and projects with them and I really do like how Arizona manages their game

We've had Jim Deer a deer biologist on the podcast a few times from Arizona game of fish

He's great Arizona fishing game. I'm gonna read a little bit about this conservation effort on water that

Arizona has gone through so it says water for wildlife

Arizona is in its 22nd year of long-term drought for wildlife

This means less drinking water and a bigger fight for survival especially during dry summers

The Arizona game fish department maintains 3000 water catchments or man-made watering sites built in remote

Locations around the state to provide necessary hydration for wildlife

That's 3000 water catchments. Arizona's been going through it says 22 years of long-term drought

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