Women Who Hunt
In Episode 3 of the Outdoor fEAST Podcast Todd sits down with Katrina Talbot who operates the BOW program in New York. BOW (Becoming An Outdoors Woman) provides opportunities for women to explore hunting and determine if it's right for her. This is a great conversation about all the work being done in New York state and really developing women who hunt.
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Introduction 00:10
Welcome to the outdoor feast by modern carnivore. If you're new to hunting, fishing or foraging, we welcome you to the conversation. Get ready for stories and insights that start in the northeast, but range to the south, Far West and wide-open spaces in between. Now, here's your host, Todd Waldron.
Todd Waldron 00:30
Welcome to the outdoor feast. This is Todd thanks for joining us this week. Welcome back. I am thrilled to be talking this week with Katrina Talbot from New York's Becoming an Outdoors Woman program. Katrina is the state coordinator with the Department of Environmental Conservation in Albany, New York and I had the chance to sit down with her back in November at the Albany headquarters for DC and we had this great conversation about becoming an outdoors woman and what it means to the participants and all the great mentors and the teachers out there and how it contributes to their personal hunting stories and to the future of conservation in New York State. why it's important. So, Katrina is a she's a Hunter, she's a conservationist, she started hunting as an adult. She was a vegetarian in high school. So, she's going to be sharing her story about what the program is, and how she got involved with it. And also, a little bit about her hunting season this last year, and the deer that she harvested so I'm absolutely thrilled anytime I have a chance to sit down with Katrina. It's always a great conversation. Becoming an outdoors woman's doing great things in New York State for a lot of my friends, and I just asked you to support it. So, thanks for listening. If you haven't subscribed yet to the outdoor feast podcast by modern carnivore, please do so. Wherever you listen, please Also, consider subscribing to the modern carnivore podcast with my good friend Mark Norquist, and thanks for checking us out on the social channel. Animals at modern carnivore and on the website at mod carne. com. So without further adieu, here's a conversation with Katrina Talbot, New York director becoming an outdoors woman program with Department of Environmental Conservation. We are in Albany, New York at the Department of Environmental Conservation building with Katrina Talbot. And Katrina is a wildlife biologist and you are the program director for becoming an outdoors woman right for DC.
Katrina Talbot 02:25
Yes. Yes, I am.
Todd Waldron 02:27
Thank you for being on the podcast. It's great to have you.
Katrina Talbot 02:29
Yeah. It's great to be here. Thanks, Todd
Todd Waldron 02:31
So, let's just jump right in. Tell us a little bit about yourself and your hunting season this year, and then we'll get into what you do and some hunting trends.
Katrina Talbot 02:39 - Women Who Hunt
Sure. Yeah. So I am, like you said a wildlife biologist in the hunter education program at DC and I am the statewide coordinator for New York's becoming an outdoorsman program. So, I took over the program a little over a year ago now last September, and Bo has actually been in New York for 27 years, 26 years now we're going into our 27th year. So,
