The Hunter Conservationist Podcast

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In the episode Mark and Curtis talk turkey with Matt Besko, Director of Wildlife and Licensing for the province of Alberta. The topics they cover include the moving wild turkey from BC to Alberta, the difference in attitudes towards managing wild turkey in BC versus Alberta, the philosophy of non native wild turkeys in an altered landscape, valuing wild turkeys, wild turkey-human conflict, myths about wild turkey, adaptive management, Alberta’s wild turkey Minister tags, hunting wild turkey, iconic hunting cocktails to represent the regions of Canada and gator tails.

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Episode 8 – Hunting Content Censorship

In this episode Curtis and Mark talk about recent trends on social media platforms that are censoring hunting-related content. Recently Instagram pulled down some content off the Hunters of Color account citing their community guidelines and YouTube has developed a non hunting/trapping policy that even resulted in the locking of the popular Canadian-made Trapper’s Inc YouTube Channel. What does this level of censorship mean? Facebook/Meta thinks hunting is about explosives and prohibit certain hunting business ads. All while all these platforms are mining your personal data. Should private for-profit firms be allowed to do this? What to you the listeners think?

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In this episode Curtis and Mark discuss hunting clothes and their experiences with the modern synthetic and traditional wool hunting clothes. The guys go over the trade off between light weight and warmth, durability, cost, what happens when campfire sparks land on your clothes, breathability, layering systems, the camo conundrum, Icelandic handmade sweaters, hunting clothing tribalism, the cost of uniformity in the hunting community and affordable high-quality Canadian made hunting clothes that kicks ass.

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In this episode Mark & Curtis are joined by Tom Sewid, Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw grizzly bear hunter and guide from Northern Vancouver Island in British Columbia. Tom talks about what grizzly bears and hunting them means to him and why he named his son after the grizzly bear. Tom speaks about his bear viewing and eco-tours businesses and then delves into some controversial topics including, how the grizzly bear hunt impacted him and many of his friends, why the hunt was ended, celebrating a grizzly hunt, how First Nations, resident hunters and Guide-Outfitters can work together, a proposal to accommodate bear viewing and grizzly bear hunting as well as ethical grizzly bear hunting on coastal BC and his opinions on the prevailing narrative around First Nations support for the grizzly hunting ban.

The Hunter Conservation Podcast is supported by: J Martin Taxidermy

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Ben Berukoff is the president of Canadian Wildlife Capture, helicopter pilot, conservationist, and a hunter. Ben joins Mark to chat about aerial wildlife capture for scientific research and how being a hunter helps him find and safely capture animals. Ben describes a typical capture day, the nuances between capturing different species and how deep snow helps him do his job. As well Ben discusses how he helps explain the importance of wildlife research to others, why he might question the need to capture animals sometimes and who has to pick up lost capture nets on the mountain side.

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