Mule Deer Foundation - Talking Mule Deer Podcast

Episode 8 - MDF Habitat Stewardship Program (Stan Baker, MDF Habitat Stewardship Coordinator & Kevin Zieman, USFS) This episode of Talking Mule Deer focuses on habitat stewardship projects that the Mule Deer Foundation is involved in across the West. MDF’s Stan Baker, who helps coordinate these projects with federal land management agencies, discusses what stewardship agreements are, what makes th...

Episode 7 - Skullbound TV’s Jana Waller Today on Talking Mule Deer, we are talking to Jana Waller of Skullbound TV. Jana tells us about her days as a “tomboy” in Wisconsin and her start hunting with her dad, and how hunting has allowed her to connect with her dad and with many other people over the years. Her career life began in investments, but she started writing articles for outdoor publicatio...

Episode 6 -Mule Deer Foundation Senior Field Staff On this episode of Talking Mule Deer, Jodi and Steve talk to a few of MDF’s field staff including Director of Field Operations Mike Laughter, and senior regional directors Randy Morrison (California and Eastern Nevada) and Marshall Johnson (North and South Dakota). These guys are the lead boots on the ground for MDF helping our chapters grow and r...

Episode 5 - WAFWA Mule Deer Working Group Chair - Jim Heffelfinger Jim Heffelfinger is the wildlife science coordinator with the Arizona Game and Fish Department, chair of the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (WAFWA) Mule Deer Working Group, and a renowned expert on western deer management. Jim describes how WAFWA developed the Mule Deer Working Group in the 1990s to help coordina...

Episode 4 - Bass Pro founder - Johnny Morris This week, Steve and Jodi spend time with a conservation icon – Bass Pro Shops Founder and CEO, Johnny Morris, and his son John Paul. We learn a little bit about Johnny’s upbringing in the outdoors thanks to his parents, the start of Bass Pro Shops, and the reason why supporting conservation is so important to him. We also talk about the opening of Wond...

Episode 3 - Secretary of Interior - The Honorable Ryan Zinke We were honored to have the opportunity to sit down with Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke just minutes before he signed the historic Secretarial Order 3362 for big game corridors and winter range. We talk about the Secretary’s morning experience helping MDF with the urban deer transplant project, the department’s focus on restoring s...

Ladies of MDF – Episode 2 Today Jodi kicks Steve off the table to gather some of the ladies helping the Mule Deer Foundation to actively engage women and families in the outdoors. Julie Moretti, wife of MDF President/CEO Miles Moretti, talks about the Ladies Luncheon at the Western Hunting & Conservation Expo. New Mexico MDF Regional Director Colleen Payne tells us about a new program in New Mexic...

Episode 1 - MDF President/CEO Miles Moretti Our first episode of the official MDF Podcast, "Talking Mule Deer,"  features MDF President and CEO, Miles Moretti. Miles gives us an inside look at how the Mule Deer Foundation got its start 30 years ago and how it’s evolved. He also provides perspectives on how the organization has grown, and future plans for MDF. We talk about how MDF is structured, w...