VIDEO VERSION LINK: https://youtu.be/cZ1HDCvXAH8?si=-bWr-n5_fbd24RA8

Chester Moore sits down with Dustin Vaughn Warncke on this very special edition of The Best of the Outdoors podcast and talks about his new documentary coming out later in June 2025 on Great White Sharks in the Gulf.

Learn more about Chester Moore Here:

Higher Calling Wildlife http://www.highercalling.net/

Atlantic White Shark Conservancy http://www.atlanticwhiteshark.org/

Ocearch http://www.ocearch.org/

Coastal Conservation Association https://www.joincca.org/

Peter Benchley https://www.peterbenchley.com/welcome

Dark Outdoors Podcast (You Should Subscribe!) https://darkoutdoors.podbean.com/

Guest Biography

Chester has worked as a wildlife journalist since he was 19 years old. He is Editor-In-Chief of Texas Fish & Game an host of the Dark Outdoors® and Higher Calling Wildlife and podcasts and author of 15 books on fishing, hunting and wildlife. He has contributed to Sports Afield, Wild Sheep, Guy Harvey, Sport Fishing, Deer & Deer Hunting, Tide, In-Fisherman, Sport Fishing, Ducks Unlimited, Delta Waterfowl, Gulf Coast Fishermen, Hunter’s Horn, Game Trails, The ZAA Journal and dozens more. He is a highly sought after lecturer having given more than 500 speeches on everything from wild sheep conservation to flounder fishing. Chester is the author of two books on southern flounder Flounder Fundamentals and Flounder Fever. In 2008 he created Flounder Revolution, a conservation program promoting the release of flounder measuring 20 inches or more. Chester is the creator of the Gulf Great White Sharks website and blog that won the 2025 “Best Website” award from the Texas Outdoor Writer’s Association. His aim is to raise awareness of the growing number of great whites in the Gulf and support their conservation. At 20 years old Chester was given his first conservation award by the Sportsman’s Conservationist of Texas. It was their “Youth Conservationist Of The Year” award. Chester Moore won 10 awards for writing, photography and radio at the 2021 Texas Outdoor Writer’s Association “Excellence In Craft” competition. The next year he became the first person to win back to back awards receiving their “Conservation Communicator Of The Year” honor. Since then he has earned multiple accolades for his conservation work from the Texas Outdoor Writer’s Association, was named Conservationist of the Year by the Texas Soil & Conservation District in 2009, was given the Mossy Oak Outdoors Legacy Award for his work with kids an wildlife in 2017 and named a Hero of Conservation by Field & Stream magazine. Chester with a bonefish caught in Biscayne Bay near Miami, Fl. in 2021. Pursuing the “Flats Slam” of bonefish, permit and tarpon has become a passion for him and more importantly writing about the habitat conservation needs of these species. In 2020 he won the Advocatus Magni Award from the National Wild Turkey Federation for his work with wild turkeys as part of his Turkey Revolution project. In 2022, he won the “Service to Mankind” award from SERTOMA who held a special banquet in his honor at the Museum of the Gulf Coast in Port Arthur, TX. In 2023, Chester Moore the Outstanding Bighorn Teacher Award by the National Bighorn Sheep Center. This award recognized Moore’s efforts to educate youth about wild sheep conservation. Chester and his wife Lisa are founders of the Higher Calling Wildlife® outreach, the Wild Wishes® program and Kingdom Zoo Wildlife Center® that seek to bring the love of Christ to hurting children through wildlife encounters. They work with critically ill children, those in the foster system, victims of trafficking and children that have faced traumatic loss. You can contact him at [email protected].

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Learn more about Dustin Vaughn Warncke and connect with him the following ways. Text: (512) 497-7674 Email Dustin: [email protected] All the LINKS: https://linktr.ee/dustinwarncke

Some of Those Links:

https://BusinesswithDustin.com (Full-Stack Consulting, Marketing, and Business Scaling)

https://DustinsProjects.com (Creator Hub)

https://DustinsBooks.com (Amazon Author Hub)

https://thebestoftheoutdoors.podbean.com (The Best of the Outdoors Podcast)

https://DustinsPodcast.com (Personal Growth Podcast: The Empowered Life)

TPWD Wildlife Biologist Froylan Hernandez, head of the Desert Bighorn Sheep program in West Texas, sits down with Dustin and talks about the competition for resources among native and exotic game species and some of the issues it poses in the case of the Desert Bighorn versus the Aoudad (AKA "Barbary"). Dustin and Froylan talk about the exotic game industry in Texas, education, advocation, and so much more regarding balancing free ranging populations of native and exotic species in Texas and beyond.

Resilience in the Rocks Film:

Translocation of the Desert Bighorn Sheep Translocation Project: 

https://youtu.be/Pv4hh0ZIaqM?si=GIup2H3aEZmd-Ml8

Learn more about Dustin Vaughn Warncke and connect with him the following ways.

Text: [email protected]

All the LINKS:

https://linktr.ee/dustinwarncke 

Some of Those Links:

https://BusinesswithDustin.com (Full-Stack Consulting, Marketing, and Business Scaling)

https://DustinsProjects.com (Creator Hub)

https://DustinsBooks.com (Amazon Author Hub)

Jackson sits down with who he calls, "The Best Dad Ever", your humble host, Dustin, and they talk about hunting together for spring Turkey on a ranch in the Texas Hill Country and Dustin also features a BONUS Wild Turkey recipe from Catfish Radio in Luke Clayton, one of the other radio shows and podcasts that Dustin produces (CatfishRadio.Podbean.com and CatfishRadio.org)

Email Dustin: [email protected]

https://BusinesswithDustin.com (Full-Stack Consulting, Marketing, and Business Scaling)

https://DustinsProjects.com (Creator Hub)

https://DustinsBooks.com (Amazon Author Hub)

https://DustinsPodcast.com (Dustin's Personal Growth Podcast)

https://thebestoftheoutdoors.podbean.com (Podcast Hub for THIS SHOW!)

Wildlife journalist and legendary leader in conservation Chester Moore sits down with Dustin to talk about what he is up to these days in his personal and professional life. From the Kingdom Zoo Wildlife Center and Wild Wishes Program to a new documentary release to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the movie "JAWS", Chester talks about his passion for the future of the "wild things" and "what's out there".

Chester's Newest Podcast: Dark Outdoors: https://darkoutdoors.podbean.com/

https://highercalling.net

Chester has worked as a wildlife journalist since he was 19 years old. He is Editor-In-Chief of Texas Fish & Game an host of the Dark Outdoors® and Higher Calling Wildlife and podcasts and author of 15 books on fishing, hunting and wildlife.

He has contributed to Sports Afield, Wild Sheep, Guy Harvey, Sport Fishing, Deer & Deer Hunting, Tide, In-Fisherman, Sport Fishing, Ducks Unlimited, Delta Waterfowl, Gulf Coast Fishermen, Hunter’s Horn, Game Trails, The ZAA Journal and dozens more.

He is a highly sought after lecturer having given more than 500 speeches on everything from wild sheep conservation to flounder fishing.

Chester is the creator of the Gulf Great White Sharks website and blog that won the 2025 “Best Website” award from the Texas Outdoor Writer’s Association. His aim is to raise awareness of the growing number of great whites in the Gulf and support their conservation.

At 20 years old Chester was given his first conservation award by the Sportsman’s Conservationist of Texas. It was their “Youth Conservationist Of The Year” award.

The next year he became the first person to win back to back awards receiving their “Conservation Communicator Of The Year” honor.

Since then he has earned multiple accolades for his conservation work from the Texas Outdoor Writer’s Association, was named Conservationist of the Year by the Texas Soil & Conservation District in 2009, was given the Mossy Oak Outdoors Legacy Award for his work with kids an wildlife in 2017 and named a Hero of Conservation by Field & Stream magazine.

In 2020 he won the Advocatus Magni Award from the National Wild Turkey Federation for his work with wild turkeys as part of his Turkey Revolution project. In 2022, he won the “Service to Mankind” award from SERTOMA who held a special banquet in his honor at the Museum of the Gulf Coast in Port Arthur, TX.

In 2023, Chester Moore the Outstanding Bighorn Teacher Award by the National Bighorn Sheep Center. This award recognized Moore’s efforts to educate youth about wild sheep conservation.

Chester and his wife Lisa are founders of the Higher Calling Wildlife® outreach, the Wild Wishes® program and Kingdom Zoo Wildlife Center® that seek to bring the love of Christ to hurting children through wildlife encounters.

They work with critically ill children, those in the foster system, victims of trafficking and children that have faced traumatic loss.

You can contact him at [email protected].

 Dustin Vaughn Warncke makes a guest appearance in two different segments on Catfish Radio with Luke Clayton (www.CatfishRadio.org) which is a syndicated terrestrial radio that airs on more than 18 radio stations as well as drops as a new podcast episode every Saturday morning! Luke interviews Dustin on an affordable day lease opportunity for hunting Whitetail deer, wild hogs, turkey, Aoudad, Dove, and lots of our outdoor adventures. In another segment, Dustin also explores the exciting and wild world of Texas exotics and why they are such a popular year-round hunting opportunity with no season and few restrictions on hunting them.

Learn More About What Dustin Vaughn Warncke has been up to lately!

www.DustinsProjects.com

www.DustinsBooks.com

www.BusinessWithDustin.com

and 

www.HoggerBoys.com which will be coming to Carbon TV SOON!

Oh, and check out www.VineyardMax.net for a great natural deer attractant endorsed by Luke Clayton, Mr. Whitetail - Larry Weishuhn and Dustin, who also serves this company as a central Texas sales rep!

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Well folks, we are adding some new shows to this podcast after about a 4 year hiatus from new content. Dustin Vaughn Warncke makes a guest appearance on Larry Weishuhn's podcast and they talk about Dustin's early years in the outdoors and ponder some big questions about life and the great outdoors for Larry's 250th Episode on his podcast. Enjoy this show!

Learn More About What Dustin Vaughn Warncke has been up to lately!

www.DustinsProjects.com

www.DustinsBooks.com

www.BusinessWithDustin.com

and 

www.HoggerBoys.com which will be coming to Carbon TV SOON!

Oh, and check out www.VineyardMax.net for a great natural deer attractant endorsed by both Larry and Dustin!

On this recorded live episode from Southeast Louisiana, Dustin interviews the legendary musician and New Orleans area fishing guide Capt. Theophile Bourgeois at the Confluence Writers Summit in Venice, Louisiana and the two talk about his father, a fixture in the New Orleans fishing guide community and the legacy he left behind recently as well as many other outdoor topics.

Capt. Theophile Bourgeois

504-289-8288

[email protected]

www.neworleansfishing.com 

Event Host: Home Run Fishing Charters and Lodge

Event Sponsors:

Podcast Sponsored by OKUMA FISHING USA:

Host Dustin Warncke rolls out a new recorded live podcast episode in Venice, Louisiana as part of the annual Confluence Writers Summit and holds down the fort as he has the most guests ever in the history of the show at one time! Many companies were a part of this show such as OKUMA, BUBBA, SPRO, and more. The crew talked all about fishing freshwater and saltwater as well as other fun outdoor topics including how to work with some of the fishing brands you love and trust on the water.

Event Host: Home Run Fishing Charters and Lodge

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CONTEST RULES:

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On this live on-location show, Denis Breaud, John Pisa, Zack Brown and (later in the show) Instagram celebrity Nicole Spenc join Dustin Warncke at a media event in Venice, Louisiana talking about fishing inshore and off-shore and new products and innovations in the great outdoor gear showcased at this event. This is a fun, spirited show with lots of engaging conversation.

Check out Nicole Spenc on Instagram: @Nicole_Spenc 

Check out Nicole Spenc on YouTube: https://linktr.ee/nicolespenc 

Event Host: Home Run Fishing Charters and Lodge

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Guest Jeff Stewart joins up with host Dustin Warncke for a spirited conversation on how to hunt for trophy deer, starting kids out hunting the right way, how "hunt shaming" is hurting our sport and more.

https://www.facebook.com/jeff.stewart.505 

https://www.facebook.com/Alphadog-Blades-185251542245169/ 

Texas Jack's Famous Venison Recipe Book: Bringing Wild Game to the Kitchen (Paperback)

https://amzn.to/2XBvKS6 

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WATCH DUSTIN'S OUTDOOR ADVENTURE TV SHOWS ON THE MAC & PROWLER HUNTING ADVENTURES CHANNEL:

Read Dustin and Jeff at www.FishGame.com