Picking up from our last episode, Wayne continues his conversation with Alaska Wildlife Trooper Chris Johnson. Come along as Chris shares more stories from his years patrolling the vast and sometimes unforgiving Kenai Peninsula as a US Fish and Wildlife officer, and looks forward to many more years of service to the people and wildlife of America’s true “Last Frontier.”
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Wildlife Heritage Foundation of NH
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Here’s what we discuss:
- Chasing illegal baiters
- Truck through the ice!
- Recovering vehicles from water
- A lifetime of physical fitness
- Teaching HIIT classes as co-owner of Tides Yoga Studio
- Small injuries can cause big problems
- Exceed expectations when training
- Consistency is paramount
- An uneasy encounter in a remote village
- The balance between enforcing wildlife laws and respecting indigenous lifestyles
- Treaties have since changed subsistence living rules
- A significant bear snaring case
- Evidence showed it had been going on for years
- Multiple scenes were discovered
- Poachers were taking only the gall bladders
- The illegal gall bladder trade
- Alaska State Troopers are currently recruiting
- Survivor Island
- Your most important survival tool is your brain
Credits
Hosts: Wayne Saunders and John Nores
Producer: Jay Ammann
Art & Design: Ashley Hannett
Research / Content Coordinator: Stacey DesRoches
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