The Urgent Fight to Save America's Last Wildlife (w/Donnie Vincent) - Change Agents 

Another great episode. Andy, you need to stop calling yourself a dummy. You have a very deep understanding of the world and yourself. Your ability to admit ignorance is a virtue.

I grew up in an area outside of Austin that used to be rural. It is now a super-suburb. My parent’s back fence line used to be a barbwire fence, and behind their house where there used to be wild untouched land to explore for miles, and a population of zero people, there are now tens of thousands of people, if not over 100,000. There are now very many roads and buildings where there used to be nothing but trees and fields. Every last trail that I explored on for miles as a kid are gone. Every single one. Most creeks in our area have gone dry. We used to have so much wildlife that it used to be a bit of a problem. Now, 95% or more of our wildlife is long gone, never to return. There were two small creeks in our neighborhood that used to support small fish like perch, wild crawfish, snakes, birds, many small animals, and it was a water source that supported all nearby wildlife. One dry summer while they were doing a lot of new home construction, part of that creek went dry and stopped flowing freely. They filled in the entire creek bed with dirt, grass, or concrete ditches, and turned the entire wildlife-supporting creek into a permanent water drainage runoff area. The creek is dead. Breaks my heart, the destruction to the natural world that I watched all around me growing up.

Preach brother!!🙌🏼 This man understands perfectly!

@26:26 onwards he expresses something very stoic, simple and yet profound! To be uncomfortable and introducing some form of discomfort and suffering ( for some it may be taking a cold shower in the morning) truly is beneficial for one’s life!!!!

There is more wilderness now in the US than at the turn of 1900, that is a fact look it up. Next, I'm an outdoorsman, I hunt and fish, additionally, I'm a land owner. We own our own land for hunting and fishing. Since we bought our place, we've done tons of habitat improvement as most private land owners have done, do and will continue to do going forward. Our place was old mature forest when we bought it, no sunlight hitting the ground. So no browse which means no deer or other wildlife. We cut the trees down, some areas we clear cut and others we select cut, allowed all of it to reestablish through natural regeneration. The we established roads and trails, started supplemental feeding, planting food plots, putting in ponds, stocking ponds, feeding the fish, and I could go on and on and on. The land is now full of squirrels, deer, turkey, rabbits, all types of game and in good numbers, ponds are full of fish, totally and completely different place. Sorry, but I couldn't agree more with Mr. Vincent, my eyes aren't lying to me.

We need a series of docs with stumpf, carr, rogan, rinella, vincent, and crew hunting around great places in the US.

I love the honesty. It's so true how the environment is being pushed to the brink and ppl are getting bigger and bigger and sicker and sicker. I also agree that ppl would pick the Wally. This msg needs to get out to more ppl in places like NYC Boston LA etc. Great show tyvm❤❤❤

Thank you Sirs! Shared.

49:00 is the best pitch in this episode and i've been onboard for this for years. Make young adults serve something greater than themselves early on and not only that, but move them away from the people and the social construct they grew up with. Big positive change could be gained from this.

Read Davy Crockett s book about traveling through the woods around the City he lived by and the Intelligence of the people knew about major issues of the Day including about the French Revolution. Public Education took the role away from the Church. I was born in 1950 and the teachers I had Honestly Cared about what they were telling us about would learn what each child was interested in. My 3rd grade teacher found out I was interested in trapping, rabbits were plentiful and I didn’t eat chicken till I was 12

Donnie is a wild dude! Great pod Andy!

Not the podcast I expected. Very good

Omg yesssss yesssss yesssss. I'm so glad you told him that he did the right thing not going into the military. What hes doing is extremely important and he may not be doing it if he had. Life may have gotten in the way you never know. And I have to agree w everyone should have to do 2 yrs of service. Not necessarily military but there should be a list of things that could be done that they would equate to military service. For instance my kids both have juvenile onset bipolar and my oldest son wanted to join marines but obviously he couldnt bc of it. He didnt know that at the time but how great if he could have done some form of civilian service maybe supporting the marines in some way. There is so much that would change in this cou try if we did do this. Omg imagine kids caring about ea other again and not gangs fighting ea other on streets bc they dont know any better. I also in 100% agreement about being brutally honest too. I'm so glad you told your friend he was an ass buying all the land and build that home just bc when it destroys the land etc. Omg I have always caught chit bc I'm the same way. Ppl dont like to hear the truth about themselves 💯 I guess we just need to do it nicer 😂😂😂😂

Welcome to the Industrial Age

We All have Achieved Our Outlook of Life from our Childhood Perspective:Good or Bad isn’t even the Question- it’s beyond All of that: read Walden Pond

The way Donnie is speaking is very interesting. He's being careful in his wording as not to cause keyboard outrage. But what he is ultimately saying about the human population, is that we should treat it the same way as we do with animals and agriculture. We should restrict the overpopulation or overgrowth of a species in areas from impacting the rest of the ecosystem. And we the humans are just as much to blame for this (actually are the most to blame) than any other species on this planet. Yet we feel we should set the rules and tell the other creatures that they need to move over here, or dial back their reproduction, or even possibly increase their reproduction for our benefit, like animal slaves or something. It's a belief that everything is here all for us. And if it doesn't serve us, then we get to choose to eliminate it. I can see that Donnie is trying to say that, but being as gentle as he can. We are not being good stewards of this land. As the dominant more capable species, we should be setting examples and good leaders to other other creatures, and also making sure what we take from the earth we put back in equal or more amounts instead of continuing to take without any repercussions. Also, we have caps on the number of animals or sizes/types of breeds in your apartments, but we don't have any limits to the number of people that continue to populate this earth, and taking all the resources from it, stripping the land of everything it has until we are all starving, and without clean air to breathe.

= `Davis Love 111 was a complete jerk. I worked at a convenience store as a kid on St Simons Island and he always treated all of the staff like slaves. Choose your friends wisely.`

The 15 AD'S before the video starts was a lil to much

I agree with universal service, but if buddy never served in the military then he can’t have that stance at 20:09. I mean c’mon lol

Sounds like he maybe taking dollars from the 30x30 land grab folks

To hell with this guy's ideas for stewarding the environment. We tried top-down, command-and-control systems of governmental regulation and it DOESN'T WORK!!! A laissez-faire, free market system produces better environmental stewardship despite the occasional mansion-building fool. There's plenty of room out there. Plenty of nature. It requires very little to maintain. Limiting the number of walmarts and development projects won't make a dent so don't waste your time.

Why is Ironclad so woke?