Ryan Bingham

And, you know, a lot of that was just for tongues.

No, man, that's crazy.

Yeah, they would send them back east.

They would pickle their tongues.

Yeah, I think his book's called American Buffalo, but it's really good.

The first hunting regulations appeared in colonial laws in the 1600s, mainly as seasonal closed seasons for certain game-like deer.

In terms of nationwide U.S.

law, the first major federal game protection statute was the Lacey Act of 1900, which targeted commercial and market hunting and interstate trade in illegally taken wildlife.

Yeah, there was elk in every state.

And we wiped them out.

And there was deer in every state.

But now there's more deer than there ever has been before, which is interesting.

Congress passed the Lacey Act.

When modern regulations start, so the 1900s, most states had game and fish commissions, hunting seasons, bag limits and license requirements all reinforced by federal laws like the Lacey Act and later migratory bird protections.

Wow.

It's amazing that they did that.

We have an amazing system too.

The fact that the United States has so much public land, there's so many different places where people can go and they can hike, they can whitewater raft, they can fish, they can hunt, they can camp.

I mean, we're unlike any country when it comes to that.

It's like the amount of land that we have that's available to Americans