Craig Jourdonnais is the Hunt Coordinator and Big Game Research for the MPG Ranch, a 15,000 wildlife and conservation focused ranch in Western Montana. Prior to this, he spent 33 years with Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks as a game warden, biologist, and video production specialist.  The bulk of his study was in the Madison, Gallatin, and Bitterroot Valleys focusing on the impacts that elk have on the landscape.  It was during these studies Craig began to document the mortality hunters have on populations and animals that are hit but not harvested. 

Topics Discussed:

• Hunting grasshoppers with rubber band guns
• Growing up hunting Montana
• Defining wounding loss
• CSI of an animal kill site
• Hunter impacts to elk populations
• Hunters’ responsibility to know their equipment

Chasing Rabbits

• Wounding Loss Study
• Craig’s work at MPG Ranch 
• JJ Outdoors with Jake Jourdonnais

You can find more about Everett Headley, your host, at his website or Instagram.

Intro Music: Jason Shaw- Back to the Woods
Outro Music:  Bumy Goldson- Keep Walking

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