Hey everybody and welcome back country hunters and anglers podcast and

blasts this is Hal hearing I have a guess today I wanted to record a quick

introduction to him so he wouldn't waste time there and embarrass him with the

accounting of his exploits, which are many.

I'm here today with Richard Manning.

I have been a fan of his work since 1992.

He's an Elkh Hunter and a journalist.

He's written and probably went to my account about nine books.

But my acquaintance with his work started in 1991 or two when he published a book called The Last Stand,

Logging Journalism and the Case for Humility.

It's an account of four years, Dick Manning worked for four years at the Missoulian newspaper in Missoula.

And during that time, two major timber corporations decided to go out of business and in doing so they liquidated

the timber that were their assets around Western Montana.

We have talked about the problem of the checker board on this podcast before where during the frontier days, the divestiture of federal land, the government would give a square mile to the railroad a square mile to a mining company a square mile to a timber company

and then keep a square mile for in what are now public lands.

And that was what happened around Western Montana

when the slogan corporations began to slick off

all of the timber with all the consequences that you might imagine with that.

And Dick Manning was a reporter then and was covering this and he was talking with the loggers who were

on the ground cutting themselves out of a job and they

didn't like what they were doing but they needed a job they knew that they were

cutting themselves out of a job but they needed a job right now and so in that way his

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