Its a fairly recent one I was listening to hiking. Trying to find it. I think it was in beginning of Jan but not sure. Rinella sold out and went to wheer the money is. There is no arguing that the sportsmen's community is being overtaken by left wing anti gun and anti predator hunting well funded groups
Look at Sitka ( who got slammed for hiring an anti gun activist) , Meat eater, Newburg( who recently just had the same sitka anti gun, anti predator hunting activist on his show praising him)
The you have "sportsmen" working for the likes of Ted Turner who bought a huge ranch and thinks he owns the wildlife in Montana and donated tens of million two anti gun groups.
So what other American values do you not like?
So what if Rinella maximized his income potential, did you work for free? Do you not roll around in the stock market looking to "sell out" for corporate profits? WTF is the difference? You sound jealous if anything.
I also don't buy your crap about sportsmen being over-run by any particular group. Believe it or not, there are people that care more about wildlife than to just have them around to run a hook or bullet through them. I don't see the anti-predator hunters you keep harping on about...just don't. There's a difference between managing predators and looking to wipe them out...in your delusional world, if a hunter doesn't want to kill every last predator, they're somehow anti-predator hunting. That's just not true, most hunters I know like having bears, bobcats, wolves, coyotes, lynx, wolverine, mountain lions around. They also don't have any problem killing some either.
As far as Ted Turner is concerned, you're clueless. He didn't buy a "huge" ranch, he's bough dozens of huge ranches. I worked on 4 of this properties in Montana alone. Ted doesn't think he owns the wildlife on his ranches. For the record, he allowed public hunting on the D for a number of years for cow elk. I know lots of Montana residents that filled elk tags on that place year after year...for free. I also saw youth hunters shoot some nice buck deer on the Snowcrest, where I spent a lot of my time. Again, all local kids from Alder, Sheridan, etc. and they never paid a penny. Same with the Redrock ranch.
As far as his land and wildlife management practices on his ranches, tough to top. His riparian management practices are second to none, allowing rivers to function as they should, decreased grazing, increases in deep minding root mass, plant species diversity, increased water quality, less hard bank stabilization, decreased water temperature, more macro-invertebrates, healthier fish, bigger fish. Great increase in habitat for ungulates, bank erosion was back to normal, proper point bar development, better spawning habitat...could go on all day.
Interesting as well, he never complained once about the stream access law, and people fished the Ruby, Red Rock, etc. all the time as long as they stayed within the bounds of the law, nobody said a word to legal fishermen.
He also demanded that his Ranch Managers shop locally for everything, meaning paying higher prices to make sure they did. His ranch trucks were bare bone vehicles, nothing fancy. The State of Montana also made out like a bandit on a land exchange that TEI did that expanded the Robb/Ledford wildlife management area, and increased public access to it as well. In exchange for landlocked State lands on the D, that would never have any form of public access.
He also donated a lot of money to the MTFWP, including a grayling rearing pond on his redrock ranch, providing a lot of funding for the Cherry Creek project, and countless other wildlife related projects.
He also personally bought a few MT governors moose permits, his whole family hunts their ranches every year as well.
Guys like you like to bitch about what you don't know. What you don't know, you guess about. You post articles about a fence problem, that WAS in fact a problem that NOW is not a problem. There was a learning curve with bison management, including what it takes to keep them home...and its not just fences, by a long shot.
If you can show me a land owner with better quality habitat on their ranches, more abundant wildlife, point them out, I'd be interested in seeing how they go about it.
Finally, if you don't like how other people conduct business, well, start your own. Start your own business to compete with Rinella, buy some large ranches and show Ted how its done, get off your duff and off the computer and hunt some predators.
No, not your style, easier to whine on the 'net and trash people you know NOTHING about. Must suck to go through life as miserable as you sound...