Ep. 506: The Future of Alaska Hunting

Published: 2023-12-25 10:00:00

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Steven Rinella talks with Tyler Freel, Brent Reaves, Brody Henderson, Seth Morris, Chester Floyd, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider.

Topics discussed: Phil kissing; Tyler's Tundra Talk podcast; loud sandhill cranes; bull moose grunting; when Chris McCandless dies in your family's hunting camp bus; the crap people leave on public land; how the walleye cheater is also a deer poacher; cause for reflection on the things you did as a kid that were big no-nos; confessions; paying hunters to harvest bears in Japan; bounty fishing for pike minnow and winning $100,000; explaining "subsistence" hunting and who qualifies; the complexities surrounding land and resource management in Alaska; ANILCA; the Brooks Range; state vs. federal; and more.

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Referenced Books

Into the Wild

by Jon Krakauer

Steve Rinella mentions reading this entire book while watching an avalanche slide for black bears. The book is about Chris McCandless (Alexander Supertramp) who died in a bus in Alaska. A movie was made from the book, and Eddie Vedder made a song for it.

Referenced at 00:06:22

Dall Sheep Management in Alaska from Pleistocene to Present

by Wayne E. Heimer

Tyler Freel brought this book to give to Steve. It's described as Wayne Heimer's work - he was a longtime sheep research biologist in Fairbanks and one of the original sheep management and research biologists in Alaska. The book is referenced multiple times throughout the conversation about Dall sheep management.

Referenced at 00:43:15

Alaska's Wolf Man

by Jim Rearden

Tyler mentions this as one of his favorite books of all time, and Steve agrees. Jim Reardon wrote many stories for Outdoor Life over the years. Tyler mentions having the original copy and references a two-part article Reardon wrote pre-pipeline about what would happen with wildlife development.

Referenced at 01:47:03

None

by None

Tyler mentions there was a book on the creation of ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge) and how a specific area (the 10-0-2 area) was not originally supposed to be part of it. No specific title or author is provided.

Referenced at 01:56:40