please visit my archived page at seattle community media dot org slash node slash one two three seven four slash list shows and as always thank you for watching adventure t we're going to take a look around took a look at a few other people or so last year as well as some new ones and since the lights going to play tricks on my camera i thought i would show some and he always does very nice wor s we live in africa heavily and the ranch and the largest and the animals and of course as you see we come here every year to this wonderful chapter to present outfitting company and invite the members of the chapter to come and book with us and have a trip of a lifetime in africa and it's a it's a family event you love hunting you bring your wife you can bring your kids along and have a great time with us and we have full animals on the range beautiful rover great hunting great accommodation and i'm really fortunate enough to and they come over trust us and the result is basically what you could hear from them is a good feeling to do it now oh and i had one complain they made friends with people from another part of the world that gave them there's also people that talk about you know you're you're ruining the air you're listening to her or things like that but you guys you know there's other things going on behind the scenes there right right right but i mean just about work taxidermists at the top of the show here yes yes and so it's you know kind of a you know everybody gets a little something out of it you know or quite a few people in the animals or you know it's you woolworth's so hard for and then i was that age really scarce now two days visiting africa at a location like ours we have wonderful poor communities around us chef would take the best part of the animal like your lump that you shot and prepare that for dinner one evening and the rest of the meat the good quality meat the clients donate to the local village either to the school or the old age people and we once a week take the meat over there and that's actually a beautiful sight to see how they appreciate that and  your money and it's amazing to understand that for every one dollar that you spend you actually feed taney people back in africa it may sound a little bit crazy but each truth and why i think this is not just a fun industry a great industry or conservation industry but he does something that we should never forget that it goes full circle in the circle of life in africa way we feel we protect it we grow and at the end of the day we smile all with good heart and good faith one of the things that i want to make sure that the viewers understand is that the organization and the people that are involved like yourself are actually maintaining the herd to a certain level so that they can be hunted and then what kind of animals gets taken which is usually the one in the old days that would i the diet will be cooled by the lions those are the kind of animals that get shot and that actually makes it possible a bourbon and chips situation it's really a serious hands on operation that's going that's taking place in africa and of course with the help of the members ranch but you have a responsibility to do it in balance and i'm proud to say that ninety nine percent if not one hundred percent of four out for his that's involved with hunting  really seriously contributing to the health of gene pool more animals and i don't even want to touch the same subject of the rhino situation but if it is not for hunters these animals will never be protected and zimbabwe is a perfect example as as a young man i travelled zimbabwe extensively twenty thirty years ago and they were animals everywhere with hunting basically that controlled i'm team that came to a standstill because of political reasons you visit zimbabwe now and it's heartbreaking of a devastating effect you seen that there's not that many s back in africa isn't and if anybody out there looking at the program at the moment for a minute think that this kind of hunting contributes to killing all animals and getting rid of all animals and new generations not going to experience it it's because of this kind of hunting that we secure and that generations to come will be able to experience the animals in the wild abund africa south africa ok now i gotta come back over here for a moment because as a female going on the  was that like it was very interesting you got to see a lot of animals and you got to see the animals in the wild interacting with each other in ways that you don't you know it's not the same as going to the zoo whenever you do seem in the wild and did you actually hurt yourself or i was sort of i don't know i was a second hunter so i was first time i've ever hunted and i actually  so your husband's obviously been hunting for years and finally got you to go along on the safari and probably made all kinds of suggestions of what it would be like and sort of maybe not tricked you into it but got you to go though yes and it was a lot of hard work it's not that easy having an animal and making sure that you take a good shot you know that you put it down the first time and well what was that like being your first time doing all that it was kind of intense kind of intense and scary but i think i gained a lot from doing it is it something you'll do again i'm going to go again i'm not sure that i want to be the second hundred can but i'm going to go for sure so if you're the if you are the hunter then you actually have to do the getting in flaming and stuff like that no no i didn't have to do that all and you're going to but you know do it again but maybe not quite be the second one or i'd like to go and be the person who takes it would be fenced off and they'd be running cattle in there and kill all the animals all they'd be history so you know i can't wait to go back again and but it was you know it was for our first experience of what's going on so back in the main hall these are some silent auction items and with me i also have a new president and health and what do you do as the president of the organization as we take a look at some of the action items well i'm the president of a board and so the board jointly  even plates with animals so what do you do with the money is that you're a well as again as a board we have meetings and we have  quite a few different organizations that approach us for donations and annually we contribute to youth programs for conservation preservation animals and  you know for projects with farming fish and wildlife ok and what's one of the things that you want to make sure that the viewing public understands about the whole convention reintroduce them and you know we haven't had an open state for probably fifty years and we're scheduled to release some more animals here in eastern washington depend on the weather in nevada definitely starting to get more and more crowded in here it will likely be a one possibly two day event next year it is an annual event very likely very very interesting  if you're a hunter and maybe something that you may be interested in there's a lot of check out there is a lot of items to bid on as  well as you can tell there's a lot of women here too which is a little bit of a surprise to me but really there is definitely more guys here and they're not just surfing and they will have an auction going on over here after a while as well as it turns out i'm a little less on time but i thought so very interesting to see here and vendors quite a variety and we will have to end this episode without coming back again next year and of course we have all your travel  please visit my archive page at seattle community media dot org slash node slash one two three seven four slash list shows and as always thank you for watching adventure t