Oct 28, 2021
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