Cspan, creative by private industry, americas cabletelevision company, as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Mark kenyon was born outside of detroit, michigan, and raised there. Introduced to the outdoors and young age he grew up hunting, fishing, hiking and camping. After college he worked for google and started the blog and podcast wired to hunt. His ratings has appeared outdoor life and field stream, a member of the lifestyle meet eater inc. Pickiest hike, camp, rafted come hunted, fished his way across public lands in montana, wyoming, michigan, california, arizona, utah, nevada, colorado, north dakota and elsewhere. Without further ado, mark kenyon. [applause] thank you, samantha. Thanks all for being here. This is terrific. I am thrilled to be here to tell you all about my first book, and i thought to myself that it would be appropriate to start with a funny story, i thought was funny, and this being my first book and my first book tour, i got
Television company and brought you today by your television provider. Mark kenyon was raised in michigan, introduced to the outdoors at a young age by his family he grew up hunting, fishing, hiking and camping. After college he worked for google and started the blog and podcast wired, his ratings of appearing outdoor life and field and stream, a member of the lifestyle can become he has hikes, rested, hunted, fished and bagged his way across public land in montana, wyoming, michigan, california, arizona to utah, nevada, colorado north dakota and elsewhere. Without further a do, mark kenyon. [applause] thank you, samantha. Thank you all for being here. This is terrific. Im thrilled to be here sharing with you my first book. I thought to myself it would be appropriate to tell a funny story that i thought was funny. This being my first book and my first book tour i got to thinking about my first public land adventure. The story quickly came to mind, it is perfect, funny, its subject is a
My wyoming, utah and nevada north dakota arizona and elsewhere. And with no further ado, mark kenyon. [applause]. Mark acute samantha. Thank you all for being here. It is terrific. I am thrilled to be with yall about my first book i thought to myself it would be appropriate to chat here with or tell you about a funny story. I thought it was funny. This was my book first tour and i got to thinking about my first public trip. My first public land adventure. In the story quickly came to mind. With this myself, this is perfect because it is funny and is subject textual, its a winner. So before getting here i decided maybe i should passes through my common sense filter. I think it was a decent wage is described that. That would be my wife. So last night i sit down bed and i say thankfully, they want to start with the story and very funny one what you think. So i walked her through it. So the further and further get to the story, the experience i had out in wyoming a number of years ago, you
Government. Next, a book tv exclusive. Our cities tour visits charleston, West Virginia, to learn more about its literary history. For years, we have traveled to u. S. Cities bringing the book seem to our viewers. You can watch more of our visits at cspan. Org citiestour. Booker t. Washington for 20 years was the spokesman and leader of africanamericans in america. At the time, we had horrible jim crow race codes in the south. That didnt happen here in West Virginia. It was a different sort of race relation. What he observed with his boyhood heroes was the building of a black middleclass, and that became his path, his career path, as he went from tuskegee to being a National Celebrity. Booker was born in a place called hill sport. It is about 225 miles from here. In those first nine years, he was a slave boy. He did not have pants. He wore a slave boy shirt. He wanted very much to go to school. He saw white children going to school but he wasnt unable to do those things. They leave the
People hate wolves because they think they see them as a threat to their livelihood. Wolves are a pretty good killer. Only a few places in the lannett have made accommodations for the wolves and we are one of them. In this area, wolves represent government gone wrong. The removal l of the wilillsm the federal endangered species has been done poorly. Wolves survive right along ranchers. It wont be easy, but there is that opportunity. [howling] the wolves were reintroduced in 1995 and 1996 into phases. There were lands for future introductions of necessary, but they took to yellowstone right away. It took decades of work to bring them back here. We are in the 18th year of our Research Program and having the wolves back on the land. We have been studying them ever since the beginning. To me, wolves mean wildlife and wild nature. Much of aing so connection as an American Society to what our Wildlife Heritage is and wolves are at the core of that. We know its a female. And we have the upper