In The Arena: Taylor Sledge
Sledge has hunted in the far north for Dall sheep and fished the mouth of the Mississippi River. These diverse experiences in wild places have instilled a desire to help conserve wild places so...
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In The Arena: Glenn Hughes
Hughes has been fortunate enough to fish across America, from salmon rivers to the deep ocean for tuna. These experiences have helped shape his conservation ethic, one that makes him proud to Step Into...
In The Arena: Ed Contreras
Ed Contreras is a biologist, hunter, angler, and occasionally a cowboy who takes inspiration from living in the West and his family's humble roots of living close to the land in Mexico. He works...
In the Arena: Alston Watt
Since her first, cold sit in a duck blind with her grandfather, Alston Watt has traveled across America experiencing the wild places our country has to offer. A lifetime in the outdoors has helped...
In the Arena: Capt. Chris Dollar
An all-purpose outdoors professional since 1994, Capt. Chris Dollar has three decades’ experience as an outdoors professional on the Chesapeake Bay who has held a fishing guide license and a U.S. Coast Guard Master’s...
In The Arena: Capt. Paul Dixon
Paul Dixon is a saltwater fly fishing guide who offers fly fishing for striped bass and bluefish off Montauk, N.Y., and for bonefish, permit, and tarpon in the Florida Keys. He is co-founder and...
In the Arena: Ryan Sparks
TRCP’s “In the Arena” series highlights the individual voices of hunters and anglers who, as Theodore Roosevelt so famously said, strive valiantly in the worthy cause of conservation.
In the Arena: Alex Harvey
Alex Harvey, founder of Legacy Land Management, is a registered professional forester in Mississippi and Alabama with a Master's degree in forestry from the Pennsylvania State University as well as a land management consultant,...
In The Arena: Dr. Bryan Watts
Dr. Bryan Watts studies a wide range of avian issues, from waterbirds on barrier island beaches to the effects of human-caused stressors on coastal birds. His ongoing research of osprey reproductive success in the...
In The Arena: Allegheny Native
Three central Pennsylvania friends—Joel, Caleb, and Nate—have been producing some of the finest native brook trout content on YouTube through their collaborative Allegheny Native. The films share the fish’s and landscape’s beauty and the...
