Ep. 930: The History and Threatened Future of Our Nation's Last Roadless Areas with Chris Wood
Wired To Hunt Podcast
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🗓️ 31 July 2025
⏱️ 79 minutes
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This week on the show I'm joined by Chris Wood, President/CEO of Trout Unlimited and former U.S. Forest Service official, to discuss how our nation came to protect 58.5 million acres of our last roadless areas, why the government today is trying to remove those protections, and what that will mean for hunters, anglers, and wildlife.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
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| 0:30.9 | button now. 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. |
| 0:56.9 | Today we are going to be discussing how we came to have 58.5 million acres of protected roadless areas here in the United States of America and how those same roadless areas, those best places to hunt and fish and get away from |
| 1:12.8 | the crowds, might very well be threatened in a new and profound way. And joining us for this |
| 1:18.8 | discussion is Chris Wood, a hunter, an angler, and the president and CEO of Trout Unlimited. |
| 1:29.7 | All right, welcome back to the Wired to Hunt podcast brought to you by Firstlight and their |
| 1:35.5 | Camo for Conservation Initiative. And today we are talking roadless areas, those spots on the |
| 1:43.4 | map that are left just a little bit more blank |
| 1:46.6 | than the rest, those places where you can get away from the crowds, those spots that we're all |
| 1:51.9 | looking for to try to find that last best honeyhole for white tails, or maybe deep in that |
| 1:58.0 | high mountain basin where you can find those bugling bowls or maybe where you want to |
| 2:03.0 | follow those little blue lines to find those high alpine cutthroat streams these last best places |
| 2:10.4 | that are protected from roads and everything that comes with them if you remember earlier this |
| 2:17.3 | spring we had a really interesting chat with Ben Goldfarb. |
| 2:21.3 | He's the author of a book called Crossings. |
| 2:23.4 | It was all about the impact of roads on wildlife and wild places. |
| 2:27.6 | And to sum that book up very, very succinctly, roads have a huge impact. |
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