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Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

Jim Posewitz of the Orion Hunters Institute

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

Zack Williams

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

4.6853 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2017

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

Hal Herring talks with Jim Posewitz, writer and ethicist, and founder of Orion: The Hunters Institute, as well as Andrew Posewitz and Land Tawney.

The four gentlemen discuss the history of conservation, Jim's first deer, why we see the animals we see on public lands today, balancing sports and hunting season, the North American Wildlife Conservation Model, the power of people within a democracy, trophy animals and what they represent, how to write a college paper, protecting fisheries in 1864, the pull of Montana and the West, and much more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

No matter kind of what roles people are playing big or small like all of us have

0:10.5

built what we have now and all of us have the responsibility to carry it forward.

0:14.4

The gullibility of all of us to misinformation, disinformation, we'll have a cost.

0:22.0

Well, yes, it's serious and you, I mean all you've got to do is take a shot of Lambo Field and everybody

0:26.2

in their hunters orange and imagine a time where there was no deer in the state for them to hunt.

0:32.0

Planet needs a restoration program of sufficient magnitude to save itself.

0:37.0

And we say, well, we did it once in our democracy.

0:41.0

But the people do it.

0:43.0

Good morning. This is Hale hearing. I'm an outdoor writer in Montana. We're doing the podcast and blast sponsored by

0:55.8

back country hunters and anglers and we've got an interesting crew and assembled

1:01.7

here on this snowy day. We've got Jim

1:05.1

Pazewitz and Andrew Pazewitz and Lantoni and we're going to be talking

1:11.8

about Jim's work and life as a hunter and conservation leader,

1:16.3

American conservation, one of the top lights really in our country. Andrew Boswick is his son.

1:25.0

He's going to be in here for fact-checking.

1:28.0

And...

1:31.0

In some corners that still matters. Some corners that still matters.

1:34.0

Some corners that still matters even in an Alt-Fac universe.

1:37.0

That's right.

1:38.0

We, uh, Land and I have known Jim for years.

1:42.0

Jim has been a mentor to... I've known Jim for years.

1:43.0

Jim has been a mentor to Lain since he was a child or a baby.

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