NRCS and Outdoorsmen

I asked National Conservation Service Chief Officer Terry Cosby on a recent visit to Boise if there's an official connection between NRCS and outdoorsman David Sparks, Sportsman Spotlight. Speaker2: I am the world's biggest sportsman. I'm a bow hunter. I'm an angler. I'm out in the field taking my grandkids hunting. I'm turkey hunting. I have a boat. I'm out fishing. So if we can take care of some of the resource issues we have on private property, which 70% of the land in this country is privately owned, we can help with that, with people that want to go out and hunt and fish, and farmers are willing to open their doors up for a lot of those type things. And a lot of states we married the farmers with their anglers and hunters that want to go out and it's a great relationship. I think we have room for both and if we can take care of these natural resource issues. And the thing you got to remember is a lot of the things we do have co benefits. If we go out and take our resource issue, we might be making habitat for that quail or that pheasant or that chucker or that elk. And one of the things I'm working on right now is migration corridors and looking at how do we help these animals migrate and get to where they need to be in the summer and get back to where they need to be throughout the winter. We have a big migration corridor thing going on. It's something that we're going to be doing here in Idaho. We started in Wyoming helping these animals get to where they need to be. We are wildlife friendly. Speaker1: That is so good to hear. Speaker2: You know, the old saying is what's good for the bird and some of this stuff is good for the herd. So a lot of the stuff that we do have co benefits and there's room for all of God's little creatures in this landscape. Love it.