Oct 21, 2021
Long-time Artemis guest (and co-founder) Jess Johnson returns to the podcast this week after a trip to the International Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation’s annual meeting in Budapest, Hungary. On her way back to Wyoming, Jess got the chance to stop in Scotland for several days to hunt red deer and roe deer. She shares that experience with us, plus what it's like to bump heads with hunters and conservationists from across the world.
3:00 International Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation - aka "the CIC," which aims to preserve wild game and hunting across the world
6:00 Wolf perceptions worldwide
11:00 The rural-urban divide over predators
12:00 World Hunting Expo - an event that only happens every 50 years
17:00 Hungary's red stags in rut... it was a moving show for the world's sporting and wildlife advocates
21:00 Learning wildlife management models from neighbors abroad
28:00 The CIC has its own version of Artemis... and it's also called Artemis #twinningandwinning
29:00 And CIC's forthcoming cookbook featuring game recipes from around the world
33:00 The relationships/dialogue that comes from events like CIC are the real bounty
34:00 Modern Huntsman magazine & Into the Wilderness with Byron Pace podcast episode with Linzi Seivwright
35:00 Hunting Scotland's red deer and the rural-urban divide issue there; plus, values of the land-owners versus the public at large
42:00 Hunting with someone who's mastered being a predator on their own landscape
43:00 Hunting in tweed
45:00 Red stags "roar," they don't bugle
47:00 "We don't take long shots here... let's wait and get him in as close as we can."
49:00 You can buy red stag meat in Scotland's grocery stores, which means hunters can sell their bounty to butchers if they choose to
50:00 Sika deer - they sound like an elk bugle on helium
53:00 If someone wipes stag blood on your face, don't freak... it's a Scottish tradition called blooding
55:00 Scotland's roe deer
57:00 A landscape where humans are the only predator, and the ongoing discussion of whether you re-introduce eradicated predators
1:04 Converting other hunters to the cult of Those Who Eat Heart Meat
1:12 In lieu of agency-issued tags, hunting deer in Scotland is regulated by landowners, usually a partnership between the landowner and whomever leases the property for hunting
1:17 The U.K. (as yet) has no cases of CWD
1:22 NWF Outdoor Division's new climate report: A Hunter’s and Angler’s Guide to Climate Change