Hey everybody and welcome back this is howl herring backcountry hunters and

anglers podcast and blast I wanted to introduce my guest tonight we wouldn't

not burn up a lot of time on the podcast with his kind of accolades or

whatever I'm with my buddy Don Thomas, he's a friend and a mentor to me.

He's one of America's great outdoor writers and he comes on a long end of a long career as a physician in

rural Montana and Alaska he's also been a bush pilot, a commercial fisherman,

and a hunting guide.

It's a packed life.

And I think outside of his circle of friends,

which is big, but outside of that he's best known as the altar of at least 15,

probably 20 books. He started out with one called Longbows in the far north.

I was in 1991, I think.

And he's gone on to write about Treadboe hunting, waterfowlen.

He has a beautiful collection of essays on waterfowlen.

By the way, you can find all this stuff at Don Thomas Books.com. But he has just lived a very rough and tumble life out there,

trad bow in hand or shotgun in hand, bird dogs at heel. I can't recommend the work enough.

How Sportsman Save the World is one of the most concise histories of the American restoration of wildlife and

fisheries that I've ever read. It's a primary reference for me, my own work. I've got it on the shelf right here near to hand. Don is still, he's editor or

co editor, a traditional bow hunter, Retriever Journal. He had Mass Ed positions at Gray's Sporting Journal, Fish, Alaska,

and other magazines.

But if there is probably nobody that has the experience Dawn has with the ability to ride it and just simply to live it in the wild places and with the indigenous hunters across the world I hope you'll enjoy

this conversation I'm I feel lucky to have gotten it. Thanks. We're in a post-truth era. Yeah. And you know as a physician and

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