I sit down with Kimberly Kaufman and Jasmine Cupp of Black Swamp Bird Observatory and discuss the Biggest Week in American Birding, conservation efforts in NW Ohio, Issues facing bird migrations, genius tactics on how to raise money for wildlife and much more! I do want to apologize for some of the audio issues occurring in this episode. Recording offsite comes with a unique set of challenges, all of which cannot always be accounted for no matter how much you prepare!

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Renée Thornton of the Wild Sheep Foundations Women hunt Program sits down and details why hunting is so important to her, why more people would give it a try, what we can do to aid in conservation efforts and much much more on this episode of the Aptitude Outdoors Podcast

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Well, after over two years straight of doing the Aptitude Outdoors Podcast, I have learned a lot from a ton of amazing people and I decided after some difficult soul searching that it is time for a change.

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Aaron Owens Mayhew is the owner and founder of Backcountry Foodie. In this episode we discuss why nutrition is so important while in the backcountry, how to create an outdoors business, van life, backpacking, minimalism and much more.

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On this episode I sit down with Jonathan of Red Beard Outdoors. We talk discipline, mentality, fitness, hunting, archery and much much more.

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For many Americans wilderness stands as the last remaining place where civilization, that all too human disease, has not fully infected the earth. It is an island in the polluted sea of urban-industrial modernity, the one place we can turn for escape from our own too-muchness. Seen in this way, wilderness presents itself as the best antidote to our human selves, a refuge we must somehow recover if we hope to save the planet. As Henry David Thoreau once famously declared, “In Wildness is the preservation of the World.”

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Alex Goetz has worked with National Geographic, the BBC, PBS and many conservation organizations to make amazing documentaries highlighting wildlife from around the world. Alex also lives in my hometown of Toledo, Ohio and we finally were able to sit down and discuss his travels around the globe.

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Story of the Wild - Nat Geo Wild: www.vimeo.com/209673734 

Saving the Tasmanian Devil: www.vimeo.com/162526236 

Resilience: Story of the American Red Wolf - Director’s Cut: www.vimeo.com/388512960 

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Derick Lugo aka Mr. Fabulous, thru-hiker, author of "The Unlikely Thru-Hiker" and host of the Unlikely Stories Podcast and I discuss his established passion for the outdoors after thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail, how difficult it was doing his audiobook narration and have a lengthy discussion on what the convoluted and confusing topic of inclusion means in the outdoors community.

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Leigh Calvez and I discuss her passion for conservation, studying owls, whales and all sorts of creatures all over the Pacific Northwest and the world. There is rumored to be talk of sasquatch in this episode as well. Only one way to find out! Leigh is a scientist, naturalist and author of two great reads, The Breath of a Whale: The Science and Spirit of Pacific Ocean Giants and The Hidden Lives of Owls: The Science and Spirit of Nature's Most Elusive Birds which I have linked below.

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James Appleton and I discuss our deer hunting season of 2021-2022 and all of the ups and downs we experiences throughout that time. Failures were had, lessons were learned, deer were killed.

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