Eric Goode
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Well, the amount of money because of the Pittman-Robertson Act, the amount of money that gets I think it's 10 percent of all sales of outdoor activities gets donated towards wildlife preservation. And this is the reason why we can have these enormous national forests. where you have wildlife biologists establish what the healthy numbers of these animals are and how many people can go hunt them.
Well, the amount of money because of the Pittman-Robertson Act, the amount of money that gets I think it's 10 percent of all sales of outdoor activities gets donated towards wildlife preservation. And this is the reason why we can have these enormous national forests. where you have wildlife biologists establish what the healthy numbers of these animals are and how many people can go hunt them.
Well, the amount of money because of the Pittman-Robertson Act, the amount of money that gets I think it's 10 percent of all sales of outdoor activities gets donated towards wildlife preservation. And this is the reason why we can have these enormous national forests. where you have wildlife biologists establish what the healthy numbers of these animals are and how many people can go hunt them.
And they also know because you have to when you say if you shoot a deer, you have to register that you shot the deer. You have a tag. They make sure that your tag is right. You got the right species. You got the right sex, the whole deal. And so they have a very accurate number of how many animals in there, and they spend a lot of money doing this.
And they also know because you have to when you say if you shoot a deer, you have to register that you shot the deer. You have a tag. They make sure that your tag is right. You got the right species. You got the right sex, the whole deal. And so they have a very accurate number of how many animals in there, and they spend a lot of money doing this.
And they also know because you have to when you say if you shoot a deer, you have to register that you shot the deer. You have a tag. They make sure that your tag is right. You got the right species. You got the right sex, the whole deal. And so they have a very accurate number of how many animals in there, and they spend a lot of money doing this.
And these wildlife biologists do an absolutely incredible job. There's more white-tailed deer in this country right now than there were when Columbus landed. Wow. Part of that is because of agriculture. That's where it gets weird. So agriculture particularly – I have a good buddy of mine who is – he's an archer, a professional archer, and he lives in Iowa. Okay. I always get those confused.
And these wildlife biologists do an absolutely incredible job. There's more white-tailed deer in this country right now than there were when Columbus landed. Wow. Part of that is because of agriculture. That's where it gets weird. So agriculture particularly – I have a good buddy of mine who is – he's an archer, a professional archer, and he lives in Iowa. Okay. I always get those confused.
And these wildlife biologists do an absolutely incredible job. There's more white-tailed deer in this country right now than there were when Columbus landed. Wow. Part of that is because of agriculture. That's where it gets weird. So agriculture particularly – I have a good buddy of mine who is – he's an archer, a professional archer, and he lives in Iowa. Okay. I always get those confused.
In Iowa, it's all farmlands, right? And they have enormous deer, and they set these ranches up. He has a place that's like 600 acres. There's no fences. The animals come and go. But they establish these food plots, and they put these things in to make it a good place for deer to be so they can hunt them. So it's this weird sort of...
In Iowa, it's all farmlands, right? And they have enormous deer, and they set these ranches up. He has a place that's like 600 acres. There's no fences. The animals come and go. But they establish these food plots, and they put these things in to make it a good place for deer to be so they can hunt them. So it's this weird sort of...
In Iowa, it's all farmlands, right? And they have enormous deer, and they set these ranches up. He has a place that's like 600 acres. There's no fences. The animals come and go. But they establish these food plots, and they put these things in to make it a good place for deer to be so they can hunt them. So it's this weird sort of...
sort of ethical bastardization of the wild right it's like dealing with the reality of what you have you have untold thousands and thousands of monocrop agriculture acres so thousands and thousands of acres of monsanto corn and they're all these deer thrive there because when they chop down the corn they don't chop it all down and you know these deer they go there after fresh feedings they go there you see them eating corn and
sort of ethical bastardization of the wild right it's like dealing with the reality of what you have you have untold thousands and thousands of monocrop agriculture acres so thousands and thousands of acres of monsanto corn and they're all these deer thrive there because when they chop down the corn they don't chop it all down and you know these deer they go there after fresh feedings they go there you see them eating corn and
sort of ethical bastardization of the wild right it's like dealing with the reality of what you have you have untold thousands and thousands of monocrop agriculture acres so thousands and thousands of acres of monsanto corn and they're all these deer thrive there because when they chop down the corn they don't chop it all down and you know these deer they go there after fresh feedings they go there you see them eating corn and
They eat grass. There's grass everywhere. There's plenty and plenty of food and a very low number of predators. Like Iowa does not have a lot of – they don't have wolves. They don't have a lot of animals that would sort of balance out the population of these animals. And so you have insane amounts of car accidents.
They eat grass. There's grass everywhere. There's plenty and plenty of food and a very low number of predators. Like Iowa does not have a lot of – they don't have wolves. They don't have a lot of animals that would sort of balance out the population of these animals. And so you have insane amounts of car accidents.