Wilderness advocate and guide Bill Cunningham

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

Zack Williams

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

4.6 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2020

⏱️ 140 minutes

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Summary

Bill Cunningham caught his first cutthroat trout in Lolo Creek, a tributary of the Bitterroot River, with a willow stick, a hook and a piece of string at age five. That was 72 years ago. Since then, he has guided, hunted, fished and wandered from the Brooks Range to the Mojave Desert and beyond, all the while relentlessly, tirelessly fighting for wilderness, wild rivers and public lands. Listen in on this conversation with one of America’s most experienced and knowledgeable conservation advocates, recorded in Montana the day after Bill and Hal had summitted two 8800-foot peaks on one of Bill’s favorite traverses in the Bob Marshall Wilderness.

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0:00.0	Boned out caribou meets sitting on caribou antlers and
0:05.8	grizzly's walking right through camp. She said this is it for me. I'm not coming back.
0:11.3	So a little too rowdy. Well she me. I'm not coming back. So...
0:13.0	A little too rowdy.
0:14.0	Well, she's definitely has a lot higher IQ than I do.
0:18.0	Because I knew I had to keep coming back.
0:22.0	I just remember you had an encyclopedic knowledge of everywhere we stop.
0:26.0	Yeah.
0:27.0	Well, I guess that's what happens if you do something off and off, you know.
0:31.0	You stay around long enough.
0:32.0	Yeah. We can't get there by button heads and with extreme
0:36.3	polarization. That doesn't work. Right. Therefore, what can we do differently? The definition of
0:41.9	insanity is to just keep doing what we're doing button heads and
0:46.2	expecting results and getting nowhere.
0:48.2	Well that's what we keep doing.
0:49.5	We can't keep doing that if we actually want to achieve something and what is it we want to achieve
0:54.6	so let's agree on that and then work backwards from that.
0:57.6	Hey everybody I wanted to remind all the
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1:14.0	When the job demands protection from thorny brush and wet weather,
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