Will Staats, Hunting Biologist...Redux!

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Erica Heilman / Rumble Strip

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🗓️ 6 May 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Will Staats worked for both Vermont and New Hampshire for forty years as a wildlife biologist. He’s also a passionate hunter. He knows the back country of the Kingdom right up through Maine and into Labrador. One day in October he took me bird hunting deep in the unorganized town of Ferdinand. We talked about birds. And we talked about the growing divide between traditional hunting culture and people who don't like certain kinds of hunting here in Vermont. But it was more interesting than that...it was also about how people harden against each other then alienate each other...something we do a lot of these days.

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0:00.0	This is Rumbel Strip, I'm Erica Heilman.
0:02.0	East Hill Tree Farm, blessing of the earth
0:07.8	with bare roots.
0:10.0	I saw Nico this weekend over at East Hill Tree Farm in Plainfield.
0:15.5	He is flush with Blueberries this year.
0:18.3	And if you live in Vermont, or if you live in Massachusetts or New Hampshire or, you know, anywhere within driving distance
0:25.7	and you have not planted blueberries yet, you should come.
0:28.6	You should go to East Till Tree Farm and get some blueberry plants because it's fun. The farm is
0:35.9	packed right now with plants ready to go into the ground. Everything is
0:38.9	budding out and beautiful Easthill tree farm.com and it's open Saturday 9 to 4.30 right now and Sunday 10 to 4.30 or by appointment.
0:50.8	East Hill.
0:51.8	Tree Farm equally good. appointment. but I wanted to run a story that I made a few years ago
1:03.9	because it seems relevant right now, exactly now.
1:08.3	So, welcome.
1:17.0	This is what it sounds like driving across Victory Bog. Victory is in Essex County, the most unpopulated part of Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, and the town of victory is the smallest organized town in Vermont.
1:27.0	It's at least a half an hour from any store, and it's surrounded by big forest land that's mostly owned by the state.
1:34.5	I was meeting up with Will Stats who worked for both Vermont and New Hampshire for 40 years
1:40.0	as a wildlife biologist. He's also a passionate hunter. He spends every hour he can in the
1:45.8	woods. He knows the backcountry of the kingdom right up into Maine and up to Labrador. And by that
1:52.0	I mean he has hunted and explored so much of it that he can
1:56.0	connect Ridge to softwood bowl to bog. He can picture how the land lays. On this
2:02.1	day he was taking me bird hunting. We met up at his house and then we
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