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The Hunter Conservationist Podcast

Wild Origins Canada Foundation

The Hunter Conservationist Podcast brings you nuanced content about conservation, science and responsible hunting in Canada, so you can stay topped up on issues concerning your outdoor, hunting and fishing lifestyle, stay current on the latest in wildlife conservation, science and responsible hunting and be entertained by conversations with intellectual thinkers. The Hunter Conservationist Podcast is a Made in Canada podcast.

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7:46

Short Truths Canada Ep 8.- What is Ethical Hunting?

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2024/04/08

Mark provides a way to define ethical hunting using 3 key questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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81:58

Episode 116 - Are Non-Native Species Bad? with Dr....

The Hunter Conservationist Podcast ·

2024/04/01

Dr Erick Lundgren from Aarhus University in Denmark joins Mark and Curtis to talk about a new research study he was part of. The study addresses the question of whether there’s a need to eradicate non-native large herbivores to protect ecosystems. Topics discussed include small picky eaters vs generalist bulk feeders, the role of individual body mass vs total mass of all animals, the millions of dollars spent on eradications, eradicating native species as well as eradicating endangered species and

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40:20

Ep. 13 - Our Stories Connect Us All - Levi Leyenhorst

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2024/03/29

Levi is a relatively new Dad, a Registered Nurse, and a hunter. He lives in British Columbia and shares how hunting is sometimes a means to unpack the events of work but how it mostly about getting into the backcountry to hunt for food. Levi talks about how he shares the world of hunting with others and how he is adjusting his longer hunting trips to balance hunting and family life. Levi discusses his passion for being involved with the Backcountry Hunters and Anglers, sharing the experience of

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51:56

Around Canada Ep. 72 - You Can't Make This Stuff Up

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2024/03/28

In this episode Mark covers the smoothing over an incident where endangered Peary caribou were killed in the high arctic, federal sabre rattling over Quebec caribou, whirling disease action and inaction, hunting bison in Banff, a very expensive way to deal with geese in BC, a not so peaceful bunny sanctuary, the predator attack that wasn't, protesting seafood price fixing in Newfoundland, the cost of the gun buyback program, and expenditures for the Sydney Island deer cull.Learn more about your ad

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44:40

The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation -...

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2024/03/26

In this special podcast, Mark explores the movement to abolish the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and what that really means for the citizens of the United States and Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:34

Short Truths Canada - Ep 7. - Is High-Tech Fair Chase...

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2024/03/19

How can high-tech tools be assessed against the principles of Fair Chase? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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82:05

Ep. 115 - Coyote Research with Courtney Anderson &...

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2024/03/15

Do you say KI-yote or Ki-Yo-Tee? Courtney Anderson and Abby Thiemkey from the Ohio Coyote Research Project are on the show to talk all things coyote ecology and research. The scientists explain what the coyote project is about and share some of the highlights that the data are starting to highlight including coyote diet composition, population dynamics, behavior and movements. Abbey and Courtney share how they work with livestock producers, hunters, and trappers, what the general social attitudes

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48:42

Around Canada Ep. 71 - Caribou Carnage

The Hunter Conservationist Podcast ·

2024/03/05

In this episode Mark covers a wasted meat crime in the NWT, the status of Alberta's caribou recovery program, the closure of the Nova Scotia and New Brunswick elver fishery, avian flu in Ontario, Saskatchewan hunter fines, the dilemma of elk in the Yukon, trapping coyotes in Vancouver and new agreement in BC for a First Nation and the implication for issuing tags for hunting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:25

Short Truths Canada - Ep. 6 - What is the Most Lethal...

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2024/03/04

Are larger wolf packs more effective at finding a killing prey than smaller packs? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Episode 114 - Hunting in Tahltan Territory with Chad...

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2024/03/01

Chad Day, President of the Tahltan Central Government returns to the podcast to provide updates on wildlife management and hunting in Tahltan Territory. Chad talks about his journey in becoming a hunter and teaching his kids to hunt. Chad provides updates on grizzly bear management and the challenges facing predator control in a vast remote area of BC. Chad also discusses the challenges facing the relationships between resident hunters, guide-outfitters and Indigenous People and offers some ideas

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45:29

Ep. 12 - Our Stories Connect Us All - Steve Hossack

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2024/02/29

Each year Steve Hossack volunteers in the winter bison hunt school program that takes place in the Yukon wilderness. Steve explains what this hunting program is about, the logistics that go into planning it, the immense life changing lessons the kids gain and the changes he sees the kids as they become leaders in their communities. Steve talks about why helping with the school bison hunt program is special to him and why he will keep volunteering as long as he can. This is an inspirational story and

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Short Truths Canada Ep. 5 - Which is Better Bear...

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2024/02/19

Is bear spray or a firearm better at stopping an aggressive charging brown bear?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Episode 113 - Hunting Induced Horn Evolution in...

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2024/02/15

Dr. Marco Festa-Bianchet from Sherbrooke University is back on the show with Mark and Curtis. Marco is an evolutionary scientist and population ecologist whose research includes mountain sheep and goats. Marco discusses his research on bighorn sheep in Alberta and BC which if often criticized by the hunting community. Marco explains how the mating biology of mountain sheep including the age when rams start mating and the intense removal of young rams is linked to the changes in horn size and ram

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42:48

Ep. 11 - Our Stories Connect Us All - Dr. Andrew...

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2024/02/15

Dr. Andrew Derocher is a polar bear researcher from the University of Alberta, and he is a hunter. He muses about the stress of researching bears and how research is his work, but hunting is his escape. Andy reflects on his hunting skills and whether they help him as polar bear researcher and explains what his favorite way to hunt is. He discusses the differences between how he hunted 20 years ago versus how he hunts today. Andy laughs at how dumb luck factors into hunting and whether being a hunter

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71:05

Around Canada Ep. 70 - First Nations Veto Powers in BC?

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2024/02/14

In this episode Mark does a deep dive into a controversial subject unfolding in British Columbia. The BC Lands Act is being amended to add decision making powers for First Nations People. Topics covered include the history of Canadian law that has led up to this, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the right to prior and informed consent, shared and consent-based decision making, what this amendment means for public land access, political framing, the fears about

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15:38

Short Truths Canada - Ep. 4 - Does Hunting Orphan...

The Hunter Conservationist Podcast ·

2024/02/05

The truth about spring black bear hunting with respect to the claims that hunters orphan thousands of cubs each year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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86:42

Episode 112 - Hunting Induced Horn Evolution in...

The Hunter Conservationist Podcast ·

2024/02/02

Dr. Mark Boyce from the University of Alberta joins Mark and Curtis in this episode. Dr. Boyce is an ecologist working on research areas that include wildlife habitat selection, cougar predation and effects of hunter harvest on wildlife including interactions between wildlife density and hunter harvests. Mark provides his perspectives on intensive selective hunting pressure as one of the causes of reported decreases in bighorn sheep horn sized and he outlines his ideas on how bighorn sheep hunting

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42:02

Ep 10. - Our Stories Connect Us All - Dr. Jessica Haines

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2024/02/01

Dr. Jessica Haines is a wildlife scientist, professor at MacEwan University in Northern Alberta and a hunter. Jessica shares talks about how being a scientist helps her as a hunter and vice versa as well as how her students and co-workers react to her being a hunter. Jess talks about the peacefulness of hunting, reading the subtle clues of nature, hunting with dogs and mentoring students who are interested in hunting. Jess is truly an inspirational leader-hunter in Canada's post-secondary education

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33:08

Around Canada Ep. 69 – Ontario’s Ribeye of the Sky

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2024/01/26

In this episode Mark covers migratory game bird hunting regulation changes, a sandhill crane hunt in Ontario, hunters who don’t like a proposed migratory game bird hunting regulation change in PEI, highlights of a new seal report, the end of self-replicating crayfish, how much forest is left for boreal caribou in Quebec, and a grizzly bear-rancher-farmer mitigation program in Alberta. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Short Truths Canada - Ep. 3 - Is Profiting from...

The Hunter Conservationist Podcast ·

2024/01/22

Are celebrity hunters, outfitters and companies that profit from hunting actually perpetuating market hunting that the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation condemns? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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