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A new and excellent book from Amber and Joshua Niven and we chat with them about their Appalachian trail hiking backgrounds and of course,  about their new book.  They share their insights on making your Appalachian Trail experience the best there can be! 

From beginners to thru-hikers, Discovering the Appalachian Trail has something for anyone that wants a connection with the nation’s longest marked footpath at approximately 2,181 miles. Starting at Springer Mountain in Georgia and finishing far to the north in Maine’s Mount Katahdin, the A.T. crosses 14 states, 6 national parks, and 8 national forests. Taking on the A.T. is a pilgrimage because of both its beauty and accessibility. Let Joshua Niven and Amber Adams guide you across the best trails that the Appalachian Trail has to offer. Complete with full-color photography, you’ll also have hikes suited to every ability, mile-by-mile directional cues, sidebars, and maps.

You can find their book at your local bookstore (best option!) or on Amazon. 

John Waldron is Executive Director of the NY Chapter of the Brotherhood of the Junglecock (that's a bird who's feathers where once highly prized for fly tying if you were wondering!).  For over 25 years, the NY Chapter of BOJC has provided high quality fly-fishing and conservation-focused education to thousands of kids - many of them completing the seven year program and achieving the status of graduating in our Masters program, usually in their late teens. Our annual Campfire is our once a year, three-day event that is well supervised, safe, and most importantly - designed to for fun and learning at the same time. We've literally had generations of kids come through our program and become adults who cherish the world of fly-fishing and are keenly aware of their role in keeping our fisheries in excellent health for generations to enjoy. For many families and sponsors, the NY BOJC annual campfire is a calendared event each year!

If you have kids ages 5 - 17, we encourage you to contact us about our program and look forward to seeing you at our 2022 Annual Campfire - we are celebrating 25 years of service in 2022.

For more information: www.nybojc.org

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Much of the outdoors - especially in hunting - has been long dominated by rural, non-diverse groups.  Conservation and outdoor opportunities like hunting and fishing - depends wholly on future generations to support and actively influence them.  So the effort is on among many outdoor-oriented organizations who are recognizing the need to have hunting and other outdoor activities reflect the diversity of our great country.  

Great interview here with Hank Forester, Director of Hunting for the NDA and a newly recruited and urban based hunter, Avery Toledo - who lives in the NYC area and through an NDA-sponsored event - has discovered the adventures of hunting and the greater outdoors.  

Avery shares his path to hunting and how it has impacted his life - and gives us hope that we can open the outdoors and the opportunities it presents  - to those who live in urban areas around our country.  Very inspiring indeed! 

For more information:  www.deerassociation.com 

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Our recent interview with Aaron Kindle - Director of Sporting Advocacy with the National Wildlife Federation.  Great interview on key NWF initiatives and how people can learn about and support them.  

Be informed.  Get Involved.  Make a difference. 
The future of Conservation depends on it.

www.nwf.org

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When he is not practicing medicine - Dr. Worthing can be found either teaching, guiding or just on the water somewhere with his tenkara fly rod in hand.  He is also an outdoor writer and has contributed may articles on the subject of Tenkara - including some great articles that found there way into the books: Tenkara Fly Fishing and Tenkara Kebari.  

He is a foremost and well-known Tenkara fishing guide - and has partnered with two other exceptional Tenkara guides - EriK Ostrander and John Vetterli.  The trio formed Tenkara Guides LLC (www.tenkaraguides.com) which provides an array of tenkara teaching and guiding services in  the USA. 

Great interview where we discuss all things Tenkara - so if you want a solid update on Tenkara - this is the interview.  Enjoy! 

Where to find Dr. Rob Worthing: www.tenkaraguides.com 

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This is a second interview on the issue of crowding on the Delaware River system for trout anglers.  It all started with the blog post  that I caught from John Clark:

Here's the link to the blog post that started us on this discussion path:

https://bucketlistangler.com/the-delicate-question-of-whether-to-govern-boat-traffic-the-west-branch-of-the-delaware/

In this podcast, we give John a chance to explain his position on the issue of crowding - especially boat traffic - on the Upper Delaware River system, one of the best wild trout fisheries on the east coast of the United States.

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