Ep 76 - Size Matters with Keith Balfourd and Justin Spring of The Boone and Crockett Club

Living Country in the City hops on the line with Keith Balfourd, Director of Marketing and Justin Spring, Director of Big Game Records for The Boone and Crockett Club to talk about the founding of Boone and Crockett, "The Era of Extinction", establishment of the term "conservation", the stigma of the term "trophy" and the conservational roots of trophy scoring, the creation of decades worth of data sets to use in the management of wild game and the concept of fair chase hunting.

See the show notes page at livingcountryinthecity.com/76.

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WEBSITES MENTIONED:

Boone and Crockett Trophy Search

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GUEST INFO:

boone-crockett.org instagram.com/booneandcrockettclub facebook.com/BooneAndCrockettClub twitter.com/BC_Club1887 youtube.com/BooneCrockettClub bcclub@boone-crockett.org

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