National Wildlife Federation Outdoors

Jason Baldes, an Eastern Shoshone tribal member and the National Wildlife Federation's tribal buffalo coordinator, joins the National Wildlife Federation Outdoors Podcast to discuss buffalo restoration (or bison, if you prefer) on the Wind River Reservation, the historical and cultural importance of buffalo to the Eastern Shoshone, how his dad led efforts to restore pronghorn to the reservation, h...

Renowned conservationist Shane Mahoney, founder of Conservation Visions and the Wild Harvest Initiative, joins the National Wildlife Federation Outdoors Podcast and co-hosts Drew YoungeDyke and Aaron Kindle to discuss the impact of climate change on hunting, fishing, and the wild harvest of game, fish, and forage, as well as the critical role that hunters and anglers can play in addressing it.  Re...

The Great American Outdoors Act is on the cusp of passage in the U.S. Senate and has been introduced in the U.S. House. Hailed as the biggest conservation bill in a generation, the Great American Outdoors Act will permanently and fully fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund and address the maintenance backlog at National Parks and other federal public lands, putting people back to work. Co-host...

In this episode, Josh Corsey of the Muley Fanatic Foundation joins co-hosts Drew YoungeDyke and Aaron Kindle to talk about mule deer conservation, his organization, mule deer migration routes, how they're affected by oil and gas development, and the Bureau of Land Management's resource management plan for the Rock Springs Field Office in Wyoming. They also discuss the National Wildlife Federation'...

In this episode we talk with Jared Frasier, executive director of 2% for Conservation. He explains how 2% for Conservation certifies businesses which contribute at least 1% of their time and 1% of their profit to conservation, how he became involved with it, how conservation funding is being affected by COVID-19 and the cancelled events which generate significant funding for conservation organizat...

In this episode, we get to know Michael Cravens, the new Advocacy and Communications Coordinator for the Arizona Wildlife Federation. Michael is an avid hunter, angler, naturalist, and wild game cook who is also a brand ambassador for Hunt To Eat. We discuss his background in conservation, the bipartisan conservation approach of the Arizona Wildlife Federation, his return to hunting as an adult an...

On this episode, we're joined by Emily Wood, executive director of the Indiana Wildlife Federation, to talk about her organization and the Recovering America's Wildlife Act. Each state has a federally mandated list of species of greatest conservation need - essentially species at a higher risk of becoming threatened or endangered. Tallied together, this represents about one-third of all wildlife i...

We're back! After a hiatus while our host was on paternity leave, the National Wildlife Federation Outdoors Podcast is back for 2020 with new guests and new intro music from our friends at National Park Radio. In this episode, we talk with Cindy Stites, an avid hunter and conservation volunteer from Indiana. Cindy's story about getting into hunting as an adult is one that you have to hear, and the...

Jason Dinsmore, Director of Conservation Partnerships for the National Wildlife Federation covering Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota joined the podcast for this episode to talk about deer hunting, deer camp, deer regulations, how our deer seasons have gone so far, hunting with nonlead ammunition, the efforts of the Michigan DNR to reduce the spread of Chronic Wasting Disease, the bait ban in Mic...

On this episode, we catch back up with Artemis Sportswomen's Marcia Brownlee and Aaron Kindle, senior manager of western sporting campaigns for the National Wildlife Federation. We first interviewed Marcia when she started a year ago on Episode 2 and Aaron on Episode 5. On this episode we discuss how Artemis has grown in the last year, what they're working on now, how Artemis ambassadors are takin...

Tim Endsley is a bowhunter, filmmaker, cowboy, conservationist, owner of Livin the Brand and Wildhorse Motion, a brand rep for Badlands and Prime, and the host of the Badlands Film Fest. Tim joined the National Wildlife Federation Outdoors podcast in Little Rock, Arkansas to talk about bowhunting, how he got started hunting as an adult, his rodeo roots, the public perception of hunting, public lan...

In this episode, host outdoor writer and fisheries biologist Scott Mackenthum and Fish Stories' Buddy Seiner join host Drew YoungeDyke to talk about fly fishing in the Driftless Area. They talk about Minnesota's trout easement public access program, the fish, geology, and terrain of the Driftless Area, the heated rivalry between Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan about who has the most lakes, pres...

This past Saturday was National Public Lands Day, where Americans from all of the country celebrated our public lands by hunting, fishing, recreating, and volunteering for our shared spaces. At the recent Association of Great Lakes Outdoor Writers annual conference, we sat down with Curt McAllister of Toyota, which has sponsored National Public Lands Day volunteer activities through the National E...

John Bradley and Dave Brandt of the North Dakota Wildlife Federation join the National Wildlife Federation Outdoors podcast this week to talk about America's "Duck Factory," the Prairie Pothole region that occupies much of North Dakota, and how North Dakota farm policy affects waterfowl production for much of the country. John is the executive director for the North Dakota Wildlife Federation and...

Alec Underwood, federal conservation campaigns director for the Montana Wildlife Federation, joins the National Wildlife Federation Outdoors Podcast to discuss how climate change is affecting fishing and hunting in Montana, the public land wildlife impacts of the federal administration's energy dominance agenda, the Blackfoot Clearwater Stewardship Act and how it's brought together diverse interes...