Trout Unlimited Podcast - TU and Field & Stream's Best Wild Places Tour

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James Hathaway

Bass, Fishing, Bonefish, Wilderness, Flyfishing, Trout, How To, Steelhead, Bluegill, Fly, Orvis, Sports, Salmon, Panfish, Education, Rosenbauer

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2010

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

This summer, Trout Unlimited partnered with Field & Stream to showcase the Best Wild Places in America. The tour highlights six spots out West where people can experience some of the best hunting and fishing and most spectacular wilderness in the country. By fishing and hunting in these places, the goal is to inspire people to visit these places--all of which are located on public land.

Also, we hope to raise awareness about how special these places are so that they may receive the protection they deserve. Each one of the places on the tour faces some threat--development, energy disputes, or other threats that has the potential to rob future generations from the chance to experience the landscapes and wildlife. In this podcast, TU's President and CEO, Chris Wood, talks with Chris Hunt, of TU's Sportsmen's Conservation Project, about the tour.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Trout Unlimited's podcast, where we talk about everything related to fishing, rivers, and conservation, all issues that are core to TU's mission of conserving, protecting, and restoring North America's cold water fisheries
0:15.8	and their watersheds.
0:18.1	I'm Chris Wood, the President and CEO of Trout Unlimited.
0:22.2	Today we will talk about six wild places in the West that need protection.
0:26.2	TU, along with Field and Stream magazine, has identified these places because they are such incredible places to hunt and fish.
0:35.0	And they are, for one reason or another, at risk of disappearing.
0:39.0	Joining me to talk about this effort is Chris Hunt.
0:42.0	He is the communications director of TU's Sportsman's Conservation Project.
0:47.0	Hi, Chris.
0:48.0	Hi Chris, how are you? I'm great. Thanks for being here today.
0:51.0	Oh, I'm happy to do it.
0:52.0	Chris, tell me, before we talk about... for being here today. Oh, I'm happy to do it.
0:53.0	Chris, tell me, before we talk about some of these special places, how did TU get together
0:58.6	with Field and Stream and it's 1.6, I think, million subscribers on this project.
1:04.8	It is 1.6 million subscribers per issue,
1:08.2	and it's something like half a million web hits per month.
1:11.9	And that right there is the reason that I worked really hard to
1:16.2	foster this relationship with Field and Stream. It's a magazine that reaches out to
1:20.9	the average hunter and angler, maybe the guy who maybe hunts once or twice
1:25.8	a fall, maybe takes his kids fishing, you know, two or three times over the course of the summer
1:30.4	or even less, they're sort of the average sportsman who maybe doesn't quite
1:35.3	have that conservation ethic fully developed yet. For us it was important to reach that
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