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Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

Mike Neiduski, the regional director of the Ruffed Grouse Society and American Woodcock Society

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

Zack Williams

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

4.6853 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2021

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

On this second podcast focusing on the Eastern forests and upland game birds, Hal catches up to Mike “the Polish Hammer” Neiduski, the regional director of the Ruffed Grouse Society and American Woodcock Society, to talk habitat, public and private lands restoration, small scale timber harvest, and the heart-stopping explosion of wild birds flushing from dense cover, in front of the world’s best bird dogs- our own. The talk is public lands bird hunting from the Uwharrie National Forest to the Pisgah and the Nantahala, the Cherokee, and beyond. Join us for a conversation that springs straight from the wild richness of the southern forests, where there is a path to a better future for these iconic gamebirds.

Transcript

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0:00.0

We don't want a hundred thousand acre clear cut to then in 15 years create a

0:06.7

hundred thousand acre block of early successional habitat that's prime for rough grouse.

0:11.8

How can we do that in a in a like a stair-stepped

0:16.0

mosaic fashion across the landscape so that there really is the diversity?

0:29.0

If we kind of freed ourselves from the concept of below cost timber sales or whatever, and really said we are going to sell some timber but the primary focus of this action is going to be

0:38.1

rough grouse habitat and warblers or whatever right?

0:47.0

No one can discredit our ability to look back on the things we've done and learn from them. The opportunity to save Rough Grouse in American Woodcock, in my my opinion can be my generation's opportunity

0:54.8

at a conservation success story.

0:56.2

Hey everybody, this is Hal Harry, backcountry hunters and anglers podcast in Blast.

1:02.8

I wanted to start out, got a little promo to kind of read and put together here because we are

1:09.6

coming up on the 10th annual BHA North American rendezvous and it's going to be in

1:16.0

Missoula, Montana. We are going to be there June 3rd through June 5th and it is going to be a kind of the opening up of the world after the pandemic

1:26.8

shut down. It's all going to be outside. It's it as I'm reading this all if they're getting together in the great outdoors and that is what's going to be happening

1:37.7

You can camp on site. You got all the great components of a rendezvous.

1:42.7

It's all outside.

1:44.0

You don't ever have to go inside.

1:46.2

You got campfire stories, wild game cookoff as always.

1:50.4

The new edition is like a bison breakdown.

1:53.0

I'm not sure what that is.

1:54.1

I'm hoping they're going to cut a bison up

1:55.8

and then we get to eat it.

1:57.2

Conservation carnival, as always,

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