Ryan Callaghan

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The MeatEater Podcast · Ep. 892: Ryan Callaghan on Public Lands and Conservation · 22 Jun 2026 podcast

I want the whole political spectrum, the whole working class spectrum to be invested in their public land, public water, and public wildlife.

Even if you never step foot or interact with those things,

I got lots of arguments as to why they should matter.

Yeah.

But if you show up to these community events, you get to meet these people firsthand and you may not have a thing in common other than the fact that you appreciate this stuff.

But it turns out that's a lot, right?

So stewardship in some areas may never get beyond a public land trash pickup.

But oftentimes we'll make them...

You know, it's like what we talk about a lot, right, is like you can have a really strong message as long as it's like 80% fun.

So we'll have a biologist come out and talk about turkeys and why what you're doing, picking up trash in this area is a good thing for that resource or talk about burning or ecology, stuff like that, have giveaways, but make it like a family-friendly event.

There's this thing that I think has gotten us in trouble over the years, which is like somebody else will do it for us.

And that is part of the benefit of a membership organization.

Like we have people at the state house, at the Capitol, because you have a job and you

And you cannot be there.

But we work our asses off to empower volunteers to be there too and get that feeling of empowerment and ownership of, I get to represent myself and my community at the Fish and Game Committee or in front of Congress even, right?

But...

I feel really strongly that we kind of got in this like, oh, the ranger will come by and pick that up type of mindset.

The government's going to do it for me.

And it's like now we're in this crazy political football age where you can take whole programs of the government doing it for you and they're gone in the blink of an eye, right?

And then it's like, okay, well, is everybody going to get so...

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