Grahame Jones, Former Director of Law Enforcement for Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

Zack Williams

Outdoors, Wilderness, Sports, Fishing, Outdoor, Hunting, Sports & Recreation

4.6 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2021

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

Texas offers a diversity and abundance – of topography, fish and wildlife, and experiences – that few other states can match. Grahame Jones, recently retired as the director of law enforcement with Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife, as well as chairman of BHA’s Texas chapter, knows this landscape intimately. Jones, a fifth-generation Texan, is a veteran of over 27 years in the field, starting as a game warden in the wild piney woods of east Texas and working his way up to chief of special operations, targeting big game poaching rings and illegal commercial fishing operations along the coast. Jones is one of Texas’ most deeply informed voices for coastal and other conservation. His passion comes from his early years hunting and fishing from Houston’s Katy Prairie to the Mexican dove fields in Tamaulipas – and from a lifetime spent in the woods and waters across his native state. Join Hal and Grahame for a discussion of critical conservation challenges, for edge-of-your-seat stories about backcountry Texas lawbreakers, and for an exploration of some of the best of the Lone Star State.

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0:00.0	This lady had asked him a question and asked him, so you did all that and you did that trip, you know, alone.
0:08.0	And then he kind of drifts away, his mind drifts away, and at the end he comes back and said,
0:12.4	I wasn't alone, I had a dog.
0:14.0	Right.
0:15.0	Yes.
0:16.0	Yeah.
0:18.0	You could live 10, 20 lifetimes in the United States of America and not touch the edge of it, you know?
0:25.0	That place proved it to me.
0:27.0	Wouldn't it been nice if we just kept the rivers open and clean and had the original native salmon runs.
0:35.0	There you go.
0:36.0	I see with this nightmare.
0:38.0	Yes.
0:39.0	I mean, I just like, is it too much trouble just to keep the river clean?
0:43.6	This wave of conservation is not just restricted
0:47.1	to my daughters or to kids.
0:50.4	I mean, it's it crosses the generational lines as well and I think that speaks to the sort of the level of importance that people perceive it to be.
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