Hey folks, Randy Noberg here.

Welcome to Loot Fold's Hanthac Radio.

Hey folks, Randy Noberg here with another episode of Loot Fold's Hanthac Radio.

I hope that you are doing wonderful on this July day.

Today I have with me a guest who I met 20 years ago through my work volunteering for almost three years to be on the governor's

Grizzly Bear roundtable.

I was one of the five people appointed from Montana, along with five from Idaho, five from Wyoming.

And we worked with the Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee to help craft the conservation strategy that would be implemented upon the possible de-listing of Grizzly Bears and the greater Yellowstone Region.

Chris Servene, who is our guest today, has spent his entire life researching, studying, leading, coordinating, all the things related to Grizzly Bears.

He got a PhD doing research work on Grizzly Bears and then became the coordinator of the US Fish and Wildlife Service efforts to get bears recovered.

Grizzly Bears in the lower 48.

So the fact that Chris would take time today to talk about this topic to me is I'm very grateful to him.

He's such a source of knowledge. There's nobody you will talk to about Grizzly Bears who has been involved in more of it than Chris Servene.

So I think you're going to get a lot of benefit out of this one.

Anyone who has interest in not just Grizzly Bears but the process of the endangered species act, the process of how it gets determined whether or not the state, if you want to call it infrastructure or the state.

Or state protocols or whatever term you want to put to it, if states are ready and have plans in place, we're going to back cover every bit of that and touch on all that.

So anyhow, before I turn it over here and Chris is sitting in the chair right across from me, I want to thank Lou Pulld for making this podcast possible.

They are huge supporters of conservation, of access, of shooting, of everything that is near and dear to me.

Lou Pulld is involved in family owned business based in Beaverton, Oregon.

I go to Lou Pulld.com.

And if you're in the business or I guess in the market looking for optics, I hope you'll check them out.

And almost a twin of Lou Pulld is Nozzler, another family owned legacy business that's been around forever producing amazing ammunition, supporting all the things that are so near and dear to us.

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