Published: July 29, 2016, 11 a.m.
With the current political scene Mike and Dan decide to give their State of the Outdoors Speech.
Interview with Outdoor Writer Patrick Durkin
- Freelance Writer
- Writes for several publications
- Navy Veteran
- Was in the outdoors as a youngster
- Degree in Journalism and Minor\xa0English
- Worked at Oshkosh Northwestern during college on the sports desk
- Deer and Deer Hunting Magazine hired Pat
- After one year he became fulltime editor of the magazine
- When Dan won a chance to hunt with Pat and Greg Miller they forgot to buy his hunting license
- Work is competition
- Pat's view of the current media in the digital age
- How Classified ads and the internet killed newspapers
- How the internet has changed the magazine industry
- How far away is the demise of TV
- Content is King!
- Media is evolving
- Content needs to be compelling and valuable
- Pat's take on wolves impact in nature
- Wolves have a role in nature
- Wolves have made the whitetail deer intelligent over time due to the pursuit of deer as food
- Man wants to control nature or have a happy medium
- People believe the balance of nature is a flat line instead of huge peaks and valleys
- We need to utilize our forests better and do more logging to provide better habitat for deer
- Wolves can make us better hunters
- Talking logging, habitat and deer management
- Being a mouth piece between the hunters and the scientists
- Where media is headed