Joe Rogan

So market hunting almost wiped out all the whitetail.

It removed elk from most states.

You know, the states that are in, that have elk, wild elk right now, are a tiny handful of the states that used to have elk in like the 1600s, the 1700s.

It's all the settlers came from, you know, wherever and they shot them all.

And they shot them all and brought them all to market.

You know, that was a lot of it.

And so then they made market hunting illegal.

And then, you know, they designated areas, public land.

And, you know, this is the Teddy Roosevelt thing.

And what they did was really an amazing, what they did, an amazing example of conservation in North America that really doesn't exist anywhere else.

is our wildlife management and also our natural resources public land management so we have public land in north america where you can you could you could apply for a tag you could get it like like we did with that mule deer we shot that mule deer in montana we got a tag and went out into the missouri breaks and then we you know found that animal and shot it and ate it and

Anybody could do that.

It's part of you being an American if you fill out the right paperwork and pay for the tags and all that pays for the management of this land and for wildlife biologists and park rangers and all those kind of different people that game wardens that help keep all this stuff managed.

Yeah, man.

They were trying to sell off some public land.

It's a fucking dangerous, slippery slope.

And you can't let that happen ever.

I mean, it's deteriorating really badly right now in the UK.

Oh, it's an amazing thing.

Because this is new to me, you know?