Mule Deer Foundation - Talking Mule Deer Podcast
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MDF Podcast - Talking Mule Deer with Steve Belinda and Jodi Stemler
S2 E30 - Eric Dinger with Powderhook and Outdoor Life Hunting Editor Andrew McKean
This week on Talking Mule Deer, we are visiting with Eric Dinger and Andrew McKean about mentoring new hunters. We open by talking with Andrew about his journey as a conservation journalist – as well as his journey to live in “the middle of nowhere” in Glasgow, Montana. Then Eric tells us about Powderhook, the technology company he founded that is making it their mission to add 3 million new hunters in the next five years through mentoring. He jokingly refers to Powderhook as the hunting mentor “match.com” because it’s intended to help connect new hunters with experienced hunters to get more people in the field. This new social technology is tapping into what more people are using for acquiring information and helping to reduce the barriers that people who might be interested in hunting may be facing. Andrew, who is renowned as a tremendous storyteller, is helping Powderhook to communicate our outdoor heritage and build the mentor network willing to take someone new out in the field. We hear about the experiences he’s had mentoring his daughter to hunt, featured in an article in Outdoor Life, then mentoring a man in his community who never had the opportunity to hunt before, and this year mentoring three different hunters he had never met before. We wrap up by talking about how it’s a responsibility for those of us who love to hunt to share this love with people who might not otherwise have the opportunity to get outdoors. As Eric says, the start of mentorship is an invite – he calls on all of us to take that step and ask someone to go with us this hunting season.
S6 E1 - Welcome Back Mule Deer Fans
S5 E3 - Skullbound Chronicles with Jana Waller
S5 E2 - WCHE Recap, and MDF Social media
S5 E1 - Western Hunting & Conservation Expo with Ray Crow and MDF CEO Joel Pedersen
S4 E14 - Wyoming Habitat Partnership Coordinator Nicole Reed, and Wyoming Updates
S4 E13 – Mapping the Herd with AZ Biologists Lucas Olson and Jackson Miller
S4 E12 – Nevada Department of Wildlife Director Tony Wasley and Game Division Chief Mike Scott
S4 E11 - Montana Mule Deer with MT Game Division Chief Brian Wakeling, and MDF Regional Director Chris Fortune
S4 E10 - 2021 Range-wide Status of Black-Tailed and Mule Deer with Jim Heffelfinger and Joel Pedersen
S4 E9 - Randy Morrison MDF Habitat Partnership Coordinator
S4 E8 - John Nosler Talks Nosler Ammo and the State of the Industry
S4 E7 - BYU Wildlife Ecology Lab with Professor Brock McMillan, Professor Randy Larsen, and Tabitha Hughes
S4 E6 - Conservation Crossing with Sam Soholt and Marshall Johnson
S4 E5 - New MDF President/CEO Joel Pedersen
S4 E4 - Jason Matzinger Talks Shed Hunting, Off-Season Prep, and Hunting with Your Kids
S4 E3 - Idaho Conservation Efforts with MDF state habitat coordinator, Jessie Shallow
S4 E2 - MDF Magazine Redesign with Chet Hervey of the Northwoods Collective, and MDF’s COO Brian Fienhold
S4 E1 - Looking Back and Looking Forward, with Miles Moretti
S3 E16 - 2020 Mule Deer and Black-tailed Deer Rangewide Status
S3 E15 - Pre-season Prep with Amy Ray and Chris Belinda
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