A Courage Experiment

The famed Jicarilla in Northern New Mexico is world renowned for its giant mule deer bucks and robust elk population. Wildlife biologist, Kyle Tator of the Jicarilla Apache Nation sits down with us for some insight on their success.

After months of planning, we finally get a chance to talk wolves with Nic Riso. He works exclusively with the rare Mexican Wolf and offers up some real gems about this gray wolf sub-species.

My first solo mule deer hunt is in the books. What happened? Thank you for listening to A Courage Experiment.

Dr. Tatman is another great example of the talented folks at New Mexico Game & Fish. She studied Elk for her Ph.D and manages the famed plethora of big game species in the state of New Mexico.

This is an interesting conversation at Maine Bear Camp 2023 with Smoking Rivers owner Jason Cross and his father Randy, a former Bear Biologist for the State of Maine Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Department. I learned a ton about tracking bears, making camp and the value of sleeping on the land for days by a campfire.

This episode we talk with PETA's Klayton Rutherford, Manager of Research and Content for Captive Animal Law Enforcement. We talk plainly about PETA's position against hunters and the killing of animals.

In this episode we talk with Dr. Matthew Buchholz at Michigan State University. Dr. Buchholz is a wildlife biologist, hunter and leading expert on Axis Deer in the the U.S. We chat about his past research with the species and the contrasts with the white-tailed deer in his current endeavors.

Nathan is Maines Deer Biologist and his wife Brittany is a passionate wildlife biologist for the State of Maine and an adult onset hunter. We talk about deer in Maine, late onset hunting, some hunting politics and about their sweet Australian Shepard.