Steven Rinella's manager is Katie Finch. For Rinella, it was to create content around a central idea: exploring an active relationship with the natural world, whether behind a rifle in Michigans deer-filled woods, digging clams on a tidal beach, or chasing Coues deer in the desert Southwest. I think my grandpa is really proud, he says, his voice shaky with adrenaline and emotion; his grandfather, who died a few years earlier, took him hunting and fishing as a boy. The podcast now gets more than 600,000 downloads per month. We ended up in a tiki bar in Nashville talking to the waitress about opossums, he said. In three years, MeatEater has grown to 120 employees from 10, and its revenue has more than tripled. Natalie Ivis is a photographer who focuses on personal narratives as well as human intervention and interaction with nature. It was mid-November, and I had come to watch the taping of a future MeatEater episode at the peak of the white-tailed deer rut. These elite sportsmen were instrumental in passing the nations first wildlife-protection laws, starting with the Lacey Act of 1900, which made the interstate trafficking of illegally harvested wildlife a federal crime. Even in Bozeman which checks a number of boxes for a parent looking to raise kids in an uncomplicated, outdoor-oriented way Rinella smells a different sort of anxiety hanging in the air. Meateaters mix of content is appealing to a large and diverse enough audience that big media companies have taken notice. And mac-and-cheese. Hunting and fishing stories are Rinellas way of sending out a kind of plea. Things got serious fast. His wanderlust for tracking, hunting, cooking and storytelling has generated a multiplatform empire that includes his reality show, "MeatEater." Steven Rinella (left) and companions after an early-morning hunt in Louisiana on the marsh south of Bayou Dularge. Hes thin, man, Rinella said, running his hand down the bucks rib cage the way youd pet a sleeping dog. In his television show and book, MeatEater, Steven Rinella details the hunting gear he uses on his various adventures. He sits on the board of the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, a nonprofit that lobbies policymakers to put more money toward restoring wetlands, defending the Clean Water Act and halting the sale of public land. We chatted up old men in bait shops for tips. They discussed that time Rinella ate parasite-infected bear meat and got toxoplasmosis; whether animals can get PTSD; hearing loss from gunshots; the music of Gordon Lightfoot; boat-ramp etiquette; a man who swallowed a live, spiky fish to impress his children.
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