Who is paying for outdoor recreation and conservation?

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🗓️ 6 September 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Land Tawney is president/CEO of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, a North American membership-conservation organization based in Missoula, Montana. BHA is dedicated to serving as the voice for our wild public lands, waters and wildlife. As BHA president/CEO since 2013, Tawney has overseen expansion of the organization from 1000 members and a handful of chapters to nearly 40,000 members and chapters that cover 48 states and Washington, D.C., two Canadian provinces, and one territory. Tawney w...

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0:00.0	This episode of Pop Bear Hikes has been brought to you by Avalon Publicity.
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0:16.4	That's www.AvalonBusiness.org
0:19.4	Hello, welcome to another episode of Pop Bear Hikes.
0:33.2	We all love to go out and enjoy the great outdoors.
0:35.6	We see these beautiful trails.
0:38.1	Sometimes we hike through the woods in fact as past weekend.
0:41.0	I was on a trail where we saw some trees that just freshly been cut and moved off to
0:45.0	the side.
0:46.0	And we also got to take in some incredible projects that have probably been done over
0:50.3	the last 50, 60, 70 years.
0:53.5	Volunteers do a lot of this work, but a great deal of it needs to be funded.
0:57.6	Where does the money come from?
0:59.8	Some organizations put money into this.
1:03.2	Is it our tax dollars?
1:04.7	Well, my tax dollars are tax dollars.
1:07.2	Probably don't even tell half the story of where the funding comes from for these conservation
1:10.8	or recreation projects.
1:13.2	To help us with that, the answer to where this money comes from and how we can be looking
1:17.3	at this down the road is a gentleman who is a career in conservation spanning two decades.
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