Brandon Butler & POMA Conference This Week on Restless Native Podcast ~ LISTEN

Wichita, KS – -(AmmoLand.com)- “When I was working in the capital, it was heartbreaking to see how agriculture, conservation, and environmental issues worked against each other. It doesn’t matter what industry you’re in, you have opportunities to make an impact on conservation. Don’t just be a consumer. Make sure you’re giving back.” — Brandon Butler

Brad Luttrell, the host of Restless Native and co-founder, CEO of GoWild, rolled into Wichita with the goal of getting as many quality guests on his podcast as possible. It’s rare to find such a media-centric group, and the POMA conference makes for perfect podcast material.

The first of the podcasts released from the event launched today. Brandon Butler joins Luttrell to discuss his journey through the outdoor landscape as a writer, conservationist, and lobbyist. In doing so, he highlights many of the issues he uncovered along the way.

“Brandon Butler is one of the sharpest conservation communicators you will meet,” Luttrell said in the opening monologue. “I admire him because while this guy understands the ugly side of the state of things, he doesn’t let that take away from his own enjoyment of the outdoors. I think that says something special about his character, given the state of affairs.”

The “state of affairs” can look like gloom and doom if you’re in the industry. And we do have a problem on our hands, in that the volume of hunters is shrinking overall. We pay for conservation through hunting, fishing and firearms dollars. And we have movements attempting to counteract these participant declines with messages about how hunting is conservation.

But if a person doesn’t advocate for conservation, can they be a conservationist? How about if they’re not even aware their act of hunting is contributing to conservation?

Few people I’ve ever met understand the ins and outs of what it means to be a conservationist and to wrestle with these questions better than Brandon Butler.

Listen to Restless Native, Ep. 71, Brandon Butler.

Join Brandon on GoWild, and join in the conversation around conservation.

Did you miss our interview with other POMA members? See who we’ve chatted with here.

Brad Luttrell
Co-Founder, CEO
timetogowild.com

About GoWild

GoWild is the most active, fastest growing social media and activity tracking platform for outdoors enthusiasts. The GoWild app is free. GoWild is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky. Download the app for Android, iPhone or Garmin at timetogowild.com.

About POMA

POMA’s mission is to foster excellence in communications at all levels, help members build their businesses, connect media and industry, promote fair and honest communication of the traditional outdoor sports and conservation stories, and mentor the next generation of traditional outdoor sports communicators. For more information visit www.professionaloutdoormedia.org.

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