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And now, your host, Mark Kenyon.

Welcome to The Wired to Hunt podcast.

This weekend's show, I am joined by Professor, Ecologist, and best-selling author, Doug Ptolemy,

to discuss the fascinating ways that hunters can turn their properties into DIY wildlife

refuges that can help not only the species that we hunt, but also the entire natural world.

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

And today we are kind of putting a capstone on our spring of habitat conversations.

We've had these off and on over the last two or three months talking about how we can

improve our properties for better deer hunting or turkey hunting, how we can, you know, take maybe a tactical approach and also how we can take more of a holistic approach.

I think there's kind of two different ways of thinking about the work we do on our hunting properties and our land that we manage.

One of those is how do we tactically set up better hunting opportunities?

And the other one is how do we simply improve the landscape for wildlife and for animals of all kinds?

And that's something that over the years, as you've heard on this podcast, I've grown more and more interested in, kind of widening the aperture, zooming out a little bit, and looking at, you know, our

opportunities on the places that we own or manage and seeing the really interesting things we can do

there when we think beyond just, hey, how do I kill more deer? But instead, how do I have great

hunting, but also really healthy habitat and a strong

sustainable future for this place and those are the kinds of things that you know as someone

like you or I if we own land or lease land or managed land in any kind that's a huge privilege

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