This week we get the scoop on hunting in South Dakota with hunters Emily Kiel, Marketing and Outreach Director for the South Dakota Department of Game, Fish, and Parks, and Taniya Bethke, Director of Operations for the Council to Advance the Hunting and Shooting Sports. South Dakota is most famous for its pheasant hunting (meet the ditch parrot, everyone!) -- but there's an abundance of sporting opportunities. Plus, we talk about some of the initiatives from the state's Game, Fish, and Parks department that aim to roll out the orange carpet for new and visiting hunters, like HuntTheGreatestSD.com.

3:00 An upbringing in the outdoors/sporting world can nudge you toward a career that values/protects those things

9:00 Starting a family and realizing you'd like to make hunting a part of your family's culture, even though it wasn't part of your own childhood

11:00 Finding your community of people in the sporting world

12:00 Sometimes "mentoring" can be as simple as inviting someone over for a wild-game dinner, or inviting them to process an elk quarter

13:00 South Dakota Second Century Habitat Fund, a non-profit works with private landowners and other stakeholders to support pheasant habitat (and other wildlife habitat, too)

14:00 "Habitat is the foundation of wildlife management."

16:00 Pheasant country

20:00 South Dakota lion hunting with a distressed rabbit call

27:00 The Artemis Podcast Facebook group... come hang with us for extras! 

28:00 South Dakota's Learn to Hunt events

29:00 Pheasant 101 class: where we try EVERYTHING... breasts, thighs, feathers for fly-tying, gizzards, organs... it's an adventure :) 

30:00 South Dakota's "apprentice tag" - it's a $5 OTC tag for beginners

36:00 Hunting out the back door with kids; plus, MOJO decoys

39:00 Bringing up the next generation of hunters

42:00 South Dakota as a destination hunt for pheasants; South Dakota Public Hunting Atlas ... over a million acres to explore!

45:00 Harvesting and preparing gizzards

52:00 "Be where my hands are"... or, to be present in the moment

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