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Field Notes

Episode 21: Wild Game Cooking Geek Out

An all cooking episode with Wade Truong of Elevated Wild and Lori McCarthy of Cod Sounds. This is what it sounds like when you have three obsessive wild game chefs bounce ideas off each other.

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60 Min
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Field Notes

Episode 20: Desert Quail

If you haven’t noticed, Hunt Gather Talk is something of a quail podcast. This episode is all about the desert quail: Mearns and Gambel’s, with a smattering of scaled quail talk. Hank is joined by hunter-biologist Kirby Bristow of the Arizona of Game & Fish Department.

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Field Notes

Episode 19: Ruffed Grouse

To many, the king of all game birds is the ruffed grouse. In this episode, Hank talks with hunter-biologists Heather Shaw and Rocky Gutierrez about the biology of the grouse, its habitat, and why it is so tame in the West yet so tricky in the East. Plus a healthy conversation about cooking and eating them.

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60 Min
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Field Notes

Episode 18: Fall Wild Turkey

Hank talks wild turkey hunting with his friend Tony Caggiano of World Slam Adventures. Tony has done the world slam of turkeys and has guided turkey hunters for many years all over North America. He’s also a great game cook and runs a podcast called Wild Game Based.

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60 Min
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Field Notes

Episode 17: Mountain Quail

This is a very special episode of Hunt Gather Talk, as Hank gets the chance to talk with Rocky Gutierrez, one of the top three experts on mountain quail. They’ll talk a ton about this mysterious bird: how to find it, how it lives, and how to hunt it.

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60 Min
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Field Notes

Episode 16: Pheasant

Hank is joined by Bob St. Pierre of Pheasants Forever and outdoor writer Chris Niskanen as they talk in-depth about the history of this bird in America, its conservation status, how to hunt them both with and without a dog, which sort of dog works better for pheasants, where to hunt them, and of course how to cook them.

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60 Min

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Field Notes

Episode 15: American Woodcock

Hank is joined by A.J. DeRosa of Project Upland and Matt Soberg of the American Woodcock Society to talk about hunting and eating these chunky shorebirds.

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60 Min
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Field Notes

Episode 14: Scaled Quail with Game Bird Biologist and Hunting Outfitter Ryan O’Shaughnessy

Scaled quail are perhaps the quail that runs the most, making them especially challenging to hunt. Ryan knows these birds as well as anyone, and we go deep into how to chase them, what makes them tick and how to cook them.

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60 Min
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Field Notes

Episode 13: Band-Tailed Pigeons with Biologist Mark Seamans of the US Fish & Wildlife Service

Our last huntable native pigeon, the band-tailed pigeon is an obsession of Hank’s — he tries to hunt them every year. The limit is two per day and the season is only nine days long but hunting them puts you into the High Sierra in fall, a gorgeous time of year to hunt a gorgeous bird.

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60 Min
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Field Notes

Episode 12: Spruce Grouse with From the Wild’s Kevin Kossowan

Hank will be joined by Kevin Kossowan, host and creator of TV’s From the Wild, and Minnesota DNR biologist Bailey Petersen. They’ll talk about the spruce grouse — the odd member of the grouse family, which is largely taken for granted among American and Canadian hunters.

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60 Min
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Episode 11: Sage Grouse with Ed Arnett of the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership

Ed Arnett is an expert on the science and conservation of this iconic sagebrush species. In this episode, Hank and Ed focus not only on what can be done to preserve the sage grouse, but also how to hunt it ethically. 

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60 Min
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Field Notes

Episode 10: Dove Hunting with Jorge Ramirez and Biologist Owen Fitzsimmons

Jorge and Owen are avid dove hunters, and together they’ll dive deep into dove hunting: habitat, tips, necessary gear, food habits and the ecology of North American doves, from the common mourning dove to the elusive white-tipped dove.

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60 Min
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Field Notes

EPISODE 5: BOBWHITE QUAIL WITH HUNTER AND QUAIL
BIOLOGIST DWAYNE ELMORE

Dwayne Elmore is the Wildlife Extension Specialist and an Associate Professor in the Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management at Oklahoma State University. In this episode, Hank goes over all kinds of things surrounding the Bobwhite Quail, from folklore and the biology of these small, round birds, to hunting technique, gear, dogs—sprinkled with a couple of delicious recipes and preparations of these upland fowl.

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60 Min
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EPISODE 4: THE WILY HUN WITH NORTH DAKOTA HUNTER
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Tyler Webster hosts the podcast Birds, Booze and Buds, dedicated to giving advice and telling stories about bird hunting. In this episode Hank goes over all kinds of things surrounding these wily birds, from folklore, and the biology of Hungarian partridges, to hunting technique, gear, dogs—as well as plenty of delicious recipes and preparations of these upland fowl.

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60 Min
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A Guide to Overlanding the North Cascades

The North Cascade Mountains of Washington attract all types of recreationists during the spring and summer months, from locals to tourists, from hikers and climbers to high mountain anglers and bird watchers. But one type of recreationist gets overlooked and even sometimes gets a bad rap: the overlanders.

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Food

Filson Food: Field to Table Morel Mushroom & Ricotta Appetizer

As snow melts off mountain peaks, and yellow balsamroot bloom in valleys below, it’s time to take to the woods where an elusive delicacy of the season awaits. Introducing the morel mushroom. Morels are among the most beloved of our wild fungi.

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Field Notes

EPISODE 3: SNIPE HUNT

Scott Lindars runs Marshdoodle, a blog dedicated to the passion and pursuit of hunting snipe. In this episode Hank goes over all kinds of things surrounding these mysterious birds, from folklore, the word “sniper”, and an all-important guide to identifying the birds, to hunting technique, gear, dogs—as well as how to pluck, prep and cook your birds.

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60 Min
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Field Notes

A Soldier to the Last – Lieutenant Pierce and the Skagit Expedition of 1882

On July 18, 1882, a lieutenant in the US Army named Henry Hubbard Pierce received a letter from Brigadier General Nelson A. Miles, who was commanding the Department of the Columbia, which included the Washington Territory. This communication outlined Special Order no. 97, which charged Lt. Pierce with carrying out an expedition of the North Cascades. The primary goal of the expedition was to map his route of exploration, starting from Fort Colville on the east side of the mountain range to his terminus in Puget Sound by way of Lake Chelan and the Skagit River. As the instructions outlined, his “reconnaissance is to obtain such knowledge of the country and its occupants as may be valuable at present or in the future to the military service.”

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Conservation Northwest: Keeping the Northwest Wild

For the 7.5 million residents of Washington state, most, if not all, have used or will use I-90 at some point. This interstate connects the two largest cities in the state: Seattle to the west and Spokane to the east. It also runs right through the southern end of the North Cascade mountains, home to great populations of blacktail deer, Roosevelt elk, coyotes, and black bears, among other species. As you drive east from Seattle, you might notice a bridge with no roads connected to it that spans the interstate just before you get to the city of Easton. This bridge is a wildlife crossing that will help keep these animals safe from vehicles. The bridge is there thanks to a Seattle-based organization, Conservation Northwest, and is just one of many projects this organization has helped fund, design and implement in this region.

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How to Filson’s Guide to Conifers of the Cascades

Washington’s forests are home to more than 25 unique species of trees. We’ve put together a comprehensive guide on how to quickly identify the 5 key varieties in the North Cascades.

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The Glaciers of the North Cascades

North Cascades National Park counts more than 300 glaciers along this northwestern spine of mountains—and that’s just inside the park boundaries. The North Cascades are the most glaciated place in the country outside of Alaska, but this ice-clad range has remained relatively under the radar compared to places such as Montana’s Glacier National Park or Mount Rainier in the South Cascades. The landscape here feels wilder, at the edge of things, with a mystical feel of vastness and geologic time lent by the presence of these relics from the last ice age.

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5 Min
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Field Notes

Boots on the Ground: The History of the Combat Boot

“A-ten-hut!” Cue the sound of many warrior feet coming together at once. One of the most important pieces of gear in a soldier’s arsenal today, the U.S. Army’s combat boot has been through many iterations over time. In fact, over the past two hundred years, the combat boot was updated for almost every new war.

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3 Min
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Field Notes

EPISODE 2: PTARMIGAN AND SNOWCOCK WITH KANSAS
HUNTER JIM MILLENSIFER

Jim Millensifer runs the Kansas Ringneck Classic, focusing attention on the fantastic upland hunting in western Kansas. In this episode Hank covers everything surrounding these hard-to-get birds, from being physically fit enough to hike all the way up to 10,000 feet (and higher!), to gear, guns, biology, the history of the snowcock’s introduction into the United States—and of course how to pluck, prep and cook the birds.

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60 Min
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Profiles

Zech Bennett: The Undersea Tradesman

When you meet Zech Bennett, he seems like a pretty ordinary guy. Not too tall or too short, he seems somewhat in shape but is not a chiseled gym rat. The brown hair sticking out from underneath his baseball cap is slightly askew, and his face breaks into an easy smile. He is the type of person you could share a few beers with at the bar while swapping stories about ferrying kids to events or catching up on the latest scores. It’s only when you hear what the 32-year-old Homer, Alaska, resident does for a living that you realize there is more to him than you see at first glance.

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Profiles

Q & A With the Open-Fire Chefs of Portland’s Tournant

Tournant is an open fire cooking and events company. Based in Portland, OR, their business serves as a homage to the Pacific Northwest, to one another, and to all the things they hold dear: food, fire, nature, craft, connection, community, seasonality and sustainability.

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Field Notes

You Take What You Can Get: Or Suffer the Consequences

The stampede for gold into the Klondike of the Yukon territory reached a peak in 1898. In that same year, 1,200 other miners set out for other regions of the far north, including to the Koyukuk and Chandalar river drainages in the remote Alaska Territory interior, in a desperate search for similar riches. This region is situated in the northwestern part of Alaska, with the Koyukuk River flowing through it from the borders of the Arctic Ocean to where it enters the Yukon at Nulato.

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The Puzzle Master: Kathy Burek

Anyone who has ever spent hours huddled over a puzzle knows the joy of finally figuring it out. Whether it’s an obscure image coming together piece by piece, that head-scratcher of a rhyme finally making sense, or completing the last box in a crossword, the endorphin rush of finally getting the right answer makes all of the effort worthwhile. But imagine devoting your life to untangling complicated mysteries but rarely knowing if you have solved the puzzle correctly. Most people couldn’t handle it, it might even drive them mad. But, Kathy Burek has done this almost every day for the last twenty-five years, and she loves it.

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Profiles

Deep Sea Fishermen’s Union

Back at the turn of the last century, a hardy group of men roamed the wooden docks of Seattle. Grizzled and gruff, they would spend days out on the unpredictable and often dangerous waters of the Salish Sea and nearby Pacific Ocean.

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Field Notes

The History and Meaning of Maritime Tattoos

Standing out among a variety of styles and techniques, aesthetics, and traditions, perhaps nothing is more recognizable in the tattooing world than the sailor tattoo. Steeped in maritime lore and echoing a chorus of sea shanties across well-navigated oceans, the relationship between sailors and their ink has earned its place in the identity of modern Americana.

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Puget Soundkeeper: On the Water Every Week, Stopping Pollution Every Day

On any given day, Puget Soundkeeper’s boat patrol team can be seen monitoring the waters of Puget Sound for illegal pollution and activities that violate the health of our waterways. The signs are often masked and hard to catch but, if you know what to look for, you can find them.

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