Ep. 919: The Parable of America’s Wildlife Past and Future with Dan Flores
Wired To Hunt Podcast
MeatEater
4.6 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2025
⏱️ 95 minutes
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This week on the show I’m joined by renowned historian, best-selling author, and now podcaster, Dan Flores to discuss the rollercoaster history of wildlife and people in America and what that past can teach us as we move forward into the future as hunters, anglers, and people who simply value wildlife and wild places.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.2 | Steve Rinella here. |
| 0:05.5 | The American West with Dan Flores is a new podcast production on the Meat Eater Podcast Network. |
| 0:12.4 | It's hosted by author and historian Dan Flores, who happens to be mine and our own Dr. |
| 0:19.5 | Randall's former professor. |
| 0:22.5 | By focusing on deep time, wild animals, native peoples in the West's unique environments, |
| 0:30.4 | Flores will challenge your understanding of the American West, |
| 0:34.3 | and he will help to explain why it is the way it is today. |
| 0:39.2 | I count Dan Flores as a friend. |
| 0:41.4 | We do not agree on everything, but he has had a massive impact on my understanding of American |
| 0:49.4 | history. |
| 0:50.6 | And I invite you to get challenged by him in the same way that I have. |
| 0:57.5 | Catch the premiere of the American West with Dan Flores on Tuesday, May 6th on the Meat Eater podcast network. |
| 1:05.9 | Subscribe to the American West with Dan Flores on Apple, Spotify, IHeart, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:13.7 | Listen to Dan and it will stretch your brain all out. |
| 1:18.0 | And I mean that in a very good way. |
| 1:21.0 | Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, your guide to the White Tail Woods. |
| 1:26.3 | Presented by First Light, creating proven, versatile hunting apparel for the stand, saddle, or blind. |
| 1:32.7 | First Light, go farther, stay longer. |
| 1:36.1 | And now, your host, Mark Kenyon. |
| 1:39.0 | Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast. |
| 1:42.3 | This week on the show, I am joined by a renowned historian, a best-selling |
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