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Welcome to the Ducks Unlimited podcast, Reloaded, but we bring you the best of our past episodes.

Whether you're a seasoned waterfowler or curious about conservation, this series is for you. Over the years,

we've had incredible guests and discussions about everything from wetland conservation to the latest

waterfowl research and hunting strategies. And reloaded, we're revisiting those conversations

to keep the passion alive and the mission strong. So sit back, relax, and enjoy this reload.

Today I've got a very special guest. It's kind of unique, a little bit outside of our

realm that we've done in the past, but I've got Lieutenant John Norris. He's retired from

the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, and he's a game ward. John, welcome to the

show. Chris, so good to be on the show, man. Thanks for having me. And the main reason why we wanted

John to come on the show is he actually wrote a book and it's called The Hidden War and it's how

special operations game wardens are reclaiming America's wild lands from drug cartels.

And it's a fascinating story, which I read. And I kind of wanted to be able to bring this story

to our audience to see some of the just fascinating work that our game wardens are doing

throughout the country for wildlife conservation. But before we get into that discussion, John, can you just give everyone a background of kind of who you are, where you're located, where you've worked, how you became a game warden, and kind of your familiarity with Ducks Unlimited. Yeah, you bet, Chris. I mean, like all of you guys, all of our listeners and all of you guys over there, Ducks Unlimited, doing the great things you're doing for not only waterfowl, but conservation as a whole. I grew up hunting and fishing and shooting, angling, all of that, you know, from a very early age. My father, my grandfather, you know, both dedicated to lives of service. We have a lot of career military, a lot of law enforcement folks in our family.

My dad and granddad included, and, you know, they passed on that conservation tradition to all

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