WCM member Dan Small has released four new videos and made them available for WCM member stations to download and air. The target audience for these videos is adults who want to get started in hunting or fishing. The topics covered are hunting wild turkeys, upland birds, and small game, and stream fishing for trout.
Suzy Limberg, narrator of the turkey video, with a wild turkey bagged on a spring hunt. Photo by John Motoviloff
Small teamed with Paul Zwicker, of OCA Media, Oregon’s PEG access media center, to produce these videos for the National Wild Turkey Federation (www.nwtf.org), a non-profit conservation organization dedicating to maintaining healthy habitat for wildlife and preserving the hunting heritage. John Motoviloff, former recruitment, retention and reactivation coordinator for NWTF, served as executive producer for the series.
The videos follow a similar format, using narrators who, in three cases, came to their respective sport as adults. Each video depicts adult newcomers learning the basics in actual hunting or fishing situations under the guidance of seasoned mentors.
“We wanted to offer novice hunters and anglers a usable reference that covers the basics without diving in too deeply,” Small said. “We designed these videos for adults who want to try out these sports or who want to see what it might be like to hunt grouse, turkeys, or rabbits, or catch trout in a stream.”
Numerous studies have shown that adults of all ethnic backgrounds are interested in finding local sources of nutritional, organic food, including wild game and fish. Accordingly, each video contains a section on preparing the harvest for the table.
The videos were all shot in Wisconsin but depict typical scenes and habitat throughout much of North America. The trout video was shot in the Driftless Region of Vernon County on tributaries of the Kickapoo River. The grouse/woodcock video was shot on county forest land in Florence County. The turkey video was shot in Dane County. The rabbit/squirrel video was shot in Dodge County.
Two anglers fly fish for trout in the trout fishing video. Photo by John Motoviloff
