NRCS Terry Cosby

A visit with one of the big guys at the Natural Resources Conservation Service, Chief Terry Cosby. I kind of knew this, but I didn't know how much Natural Resources Conservation Service officials were committed to. The great outdoors, as in for outdoorsman had a talk with Chief Terry Cosby. What's the nexus between you and people who are interested in hunting and fishing and mining the natural resources of our great country? Speaker2: Well, one of the messages is we can do all of that. And I am the world's biggest sportsman. I'm a bow hunter. I'm an angler. And so I'm out in the field. I'm out taking my grandkids hunting. I'm turkey hunting. I have a boat. I'm out fishing. You can have all of those things. So if we can take care of some of the resource issues we have on private property, which 70% of the land in this country is privately owned, we can help with that, with people that want to go out and hunt and fish. Farmers are willing to open their doors up for a lot of those type things. And a lot of states we married the farmers with their anglers and hunters that want to go out and it's a great relationship. And so I think we have room for both. And if we can take care of these natural resource issues, the thing you got to remember is a lot of the things we do have co benefits. If we go out and take our resource issue, we might be making habitat for that quail or that pheasant or that chucker or that. Speaker1: Elk, something I kind of knew. But great to have it reaffirmed by a major player in the NRCs.