The Lost Rider Podcast with Herman Brune

Farm Bureau Director Greg Buenger provides update information concerning screw worms found in Texas. Presently, 100 million sterilized larvae are flown from Panama and dispersed weekly. Buenger says that 500 million were dispersed weekly during the epidemic in the 1960's. A Texas facility to produce sterilized flies should be ready near the end of 2027. A Mexico facility is also being built. Bueng...

In a rare departure from issue related topics, Brune and Troy Fowler talk about the simplicities of knowing your archery equipment. Both gentlemen have experience hunting Big Game and guiding archery hunters. Fowler reiterates the importance of matching arrow and broadhead weights to game that's being hunted. Much like a person upgrades from a 270, 308, or 30.06 with whitetails - to a 300 Win Mag...

Texas State Representative Jeff Barry, is looking to rejuvenate the state sportsmen's caucus. Presently, he has 55 lawmakers signed up for the once largest bipartisan caucus in the Texas Legislature. Barry sits on the natural resource committee and the caucus is devised as a communications network to alert other lawmakers of pending legislation. It would also stay tuned with the U.S. Congressional...

Garret Edmonds lobbies for the Public Lands Council in Washington D.C. He discusses aspects of the public lands debate and agrees that the ensuing controversy is confusing to the general public. There are various categories of public lands. Discussing them as  one topic is disingenuous to the conversation. Edmonds represents 22,000 grazing allotment owners. This includes both cattle and sheep. He...

The Lost Rider Podcast featuring Aaron Weishuhn This episode of The Lost Rider Podcast features host Herman Brune sitting down with Aaron Weishuhn, the manager of the Colorado County Groundwater Conservation District (GCD). The two discuss the pressing realities of water management, local conservation efforts, and the political and environmental battles over Texas water resources. Key Topics Discu...

Texas Farm Bureau Director Greg Buenger gives us an update on the screw worm situation. Buenger describes the differences between the circumstances surrounding the screw worm outbreaks in the 1950's and '60's versus the current situation. The border is closed to Mexican beef. There are no plans that it be opened any time soon. Whenever that time may come it will assuredly be with preconditions of...

Dana Tassa is the representative for Women Hunt at Derek York's Podcast Summit. She is from Vancouver, British Columbia, and this is her first trip to Texas.  Dana elaborates how the Women Hunt organization is an off-shoot of the Wild Sheep Foundation, how she found the group, and what she does for them on social media. We learn a little of her background and gain insights into how Women Hunt help...

"Heroes on the Water" is an organization helping veterans and first responders heal. Camille Knowles tells us that putting folks in a kayak and sending them fishing has undeniable health benefits. The non-profit provides the experience and opportunity that aides people accustomed to the most stressful jobs to relax. "Often our participants come to us quiet and reserved. By the end of a weekend the...

The GOP candidate for HD85 joins us to discuss the Austin Swamp. With the odds, being $2M in lobbyist money, stacked against him, Dennis "Goose" Geeseman unseated the two-term incumbent with a landslide 15-point win. Geeseman knows he's bucking the Austin establishment and jokes that he'll get an office in the basement at the end of the hall. He only hopes that he gets put on a committee. In this...

Martha Spencer's first career choice was broadcast media. She worked her way up through the ranks to becoming the meteorologist at the ABC affiliate in New Orleans. However, she decided to change careers. Cajun Adventures suited her better and she became an offshore deep-water fishing guide. She loves the deep-water but ultimately moved to guiding the bays along the Louisiana Gulf Coast. Much of h...

Michael Scherer is a catalyst for Fishing's Future. It is a program that is active in 18 states with more than 35,000 participants. One of the largest groups is in Katy ISD with more than 14,000 students and their families. Scherer explains that it's all about getting families into the outdoors. He also says that they have the capabilities to accommodate anyone despite situations or handicaps. Sch...

Cole Payne is the new president of the Texas Brigades. These are the summer youth camps based on the academic teachings of wildlife conservation. Some of the themes are Coastal Brigades, Bobwhite Brigades, Buckskin Brigades, Water Fowl Brigades, Bass Brigades, etc. Payne came up through the ranks as a student and volunteer. The week-long schedules include as many class room studies as they do outd...

Russell Stacey is the new Executive Director of the Dallas Safari Club (DSC). He came up through the ranks of volunteers and has served as the president of the Dallas Safari Club Foundation. Stacey relates that while DSC is all about conservation, the Foundation is committed to education. Also, DSC has added another event to their annual offerings. The DSC Summer Expo and Foundation Gala will be a...

Matt Rice is the spokesman for the organization American Rivers. Rice's expertise concerns problems in the American West with the Colorado River that most U.S. citizens recognize. Meanwhile, American Rivers is coming to Texas, and Rice is interested in learning more about the Texas, Colorado River. Brune elaborates the loss of agriculture, and wildlife habitat as the Texas, Colorado River no longe...

James Bigley is an international ranch realtor based in New Braunfels, Texas. He operates in all 50 U.S. states, as well as, Mexico and South Africa. Bigley's concern is that he brokers large acreages to first time ranch owners who must learn conservation, land, water, and wildlife stewardship. Along with the basic tenants of rangeland management, Bigley knows that it's necessary to understand the...

Challenger to the HD85 state representative seat is Lt. Col. Dennis Geesaman. He says that the days of bipartisanship, as seen with George W. Bush and Bob Bullock, are gone. Geesaman feels that the Democrat left has moved so far that compromise is all but gone. He agrees that the MO of school funding should be removed from property taxes, and the homestead tax needs to be eliminated for everyone....

The Texas 2026 March primary season is heating up. But, State Representative Stan Kitzman is adamant that Austin is not Washington D. C. While many issues are decided down party lines, Kitzman says that without bipartisanship amendments and many issues high on constituents' radar would not be resolved. He also goes on to relate that "water issues" are looming larger than ever on the horizon. It is...

Chris Hall explains "fusion". It started, in the 1980's, with President Reagan and Premier Gorbachev at the end of the Cold War. in 2026, scientists feel that they may be within eight or nine years of producing cost effective energy from fusion. Nevertheless, don't expect to see it generating electricity until after 2039. When you hear the term think about hydrogen. Also, Hall injects the idea tha...

Chester Moore tells listeners about the Wild Sheep Foundation from their January show in Reno, Nevada. Moore is the executive managing editor of Texas Fish and Game magazine, as well as, a documentary producer for the Wild Sheep Foundation. Currently, he's filming and finding the answers to "how much money is raised for wild sheep conservation", and "what is the status of wild sheep populations"....

The Executive Director of the Texas Animal Health Commission and Texas State Veterinarian, Dr, Dinges, visits with us about the screwworm invasion moving upwards from Panama through Mexico. There were more than 13,000 cases of screwworms infecting animals in Mexico with 492 cases considered active, and 110 cases in people. Once again, eradication efforts are in motion. Sterilization facilities are...

Another candidate for the Texas Rail Road Commission is Hawk Dunlap. He has no hard feelings towards current commissioners but feels it's time to fix a few problems. Dunlap explains more about abandoned wells and how reinjection wells may effect groundwater. He says that not all reinjection wells are 10,000 feet or deeper. His view is to awaken the public to the technology available to recycle ind...

The Texas Rail Road Commission's main job is permitting drilling and pipelines in the oil patch. This election cycle a host of challengers are vying for Jim Wright's seat on the commission. One point of contention that  draws attention is also the permitting of "flares". This is when excess natural gas is burned because there is no place for storage. Candidate James Matlock discusses this conundru...

Social Media director, Justin Morissey, for the National Shooting Sports Foundation gives us a preview of the upcoming 2026 SHOT Show in Las Vegas. It is the hunting and shooting industry's trade show. It is an international show expecting more than 50,000 people and 2800 vendors. The booths cover approximately 18 acres with in the Venetian, Palazio, and Caesar's conference and exhibition space. M...

In an effort to untangle a hairball of information, Brune goes back for another interview with Nueces River Authority  Executive Director John Byrum. While folks are satisfied that the discharge from a seawater desal plant will go offshore into deep water, they're not as happy about brackish aquifer desal plants putting the discharge back into creeks. The hairball starts when CCA's Shane Bonnet sa...

The Charley Russel Museum is in Great Falls, Montana. Once a year the Western Art community gathers for an extended weekend to celebrate with "paintings in the park", a buffet and auction Friday night, and a banquet and auction Saturday night that includes pieces from eras gone by. The last evening is when nationwide museums and collectors gather to bid on selected pieces of Charley Russel artwork...