Steven Rinella

which people, small farmers come in, they cook the forest, they burn it, they grow a crop.

They don't have money for inputs.

They don't have money for fertilizer and other things.

And so when you cook the soil after a couple of rotations, what do you do?

You burn the next chunk.

It devours the wildlands, slash and burn ag does.

But you're able to come in and say with these areas and all of a sudden now the government is able to make money

off of preserving habitat.

Next to the place we hunted, there's this big national park.

Guess how many, like, I'm not gonna make you guess, because you never guessed the right number.

There's a huge national park of equal size, almost equal size, next to this concession.

Last year, that national park had 14 visitors.

One four.

What?

It had 14 visitors.

to a national park almost the size of Yellowstone National Park.

14 people went and paid a visit to that national park.

Meanwhile, the hunting concessions meant money.

For the government.

So it's like you can, and that's where like a dude, as a dude growing up in America with holding certain American ideals about wildlife management,