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Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, your guide to the White Tail Woods, presented by First Light, creating proven, versatile hunting apparel for the stand, saddle, or blind.

First Light, go farther, stay longer. And now, your host, Mark Kenyon. Welcome to

the Wired to Hunt podcast. This week on the show, I'm joined by the one and only Janus Patelis

to discuss his land management journey, going from ground zero all the way to the implementation of significant

wildlife habitat improvement projects, such as creating wildlife openings, oak savannas,

timber stand improvements, and much more.

All right, welcome back to the Wired to Hunt podcast, brought to you by First Light.

And this week on the show, I'm joined by my good buddy, the one and only, the Latvian

Eagle, Mr. Janus, Tellis, and we're talking about a topic that is near and dear to my heart

and something that in recent years has really come on for Yanni.

And that's habitat improvement. Wildlife habitat projects work on the ground, improving the landscape for deer and turkeys and other critters.

And this is something that, you know, Janus for a long time was, was not

interested in this at all. He has lived out west for many years, but in recent years, he has

had a kind of re-stirring of the soul around white tails, which has led to him spending more time

in Wisconsin at his family hunting property and in the last handful of years actually diving really deep

into the habitat side of things. So today's story is this really interesting look at someone

going from kind of, you know, not having any experience and really interest at the beginning

in improving a landscape for wildlife to then diving

in headfirst and learning everything he possibly could, talking to all sorts of people, consuming

every different resource he possibly could, and then starting to try these things on his own.

And now, you know, four or five years later, he has made some real changes on his property.

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