Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, your guide to the White Tail Woods.

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And now, your host, Mark Kenyon.

Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast.

This week on the show,

joined by Nick Penizotto and Matt Ross

of the National Deer Association

to discuss the state of the White Tail Union in 2025.

All right, welcome back to the Wired to Hunt podcast, brought to you by First Light and their Camel for Conservation Initiative.

And today, we are kicking off our conservation month.

We do this every year for about one month worth of episodes. We specifically focus on conservation related issues that are relevant to deer hunters

and outdoors people of all stripes. And we're kicking it off here today with another

one of our annual traditions, I guess you could call it the State of the

Whitetail Union. I'm joined with representatives from the National Deer Association, the president

and CEO, Nick Penizotto, and the director of conservation, Mr. Matt Ross. Both of them have

been on the show in the past. They are friends of the show.

They are terrific, terrific is the word I'm looking for,

terrific representatives of the hunting community.

And both have just a wealth of experience and information to share with us when it comes

to this set of issues.

And what we're going to be talking about and what at least is going to lead us off is the

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