![]() ![]() Hunt and Meyers got to know one another as Hunt, new to the conservation arena, but interested in shining a light on important conservation issues that involved wild and native trout, met frequently with Meyers and pitched him often on important stories. Deeter and Meyers connected through their mutual work at Field & Stream and became fast friends. Hunt grew up in Littleton, and can remember reading Meyers’ work as a kid. Deeter lived in little Pine, Colo., about an hour west of Denver in the mountains. Over the course of their careers, both journalists had the good fortune to interact with Charlie Meyers, the longtime outdoors editor and writer for the Denver Post. The author of several successful books, he, too, was carving out a national name for himself in the fly fishing and outdoor writing communities. Eventually, he and a business partner started Angling Trade magazine, a publication that honed in on the business end of the fly fishing industry. He’d written, over the years, on heady topics, like steroids in sports, and three years earlier, he took on an editor-at-large position with Field & Stream, where his focus shifted to writing about fishing - fly fishing in particular. He was, by all counts, ascendent in western journalism circles.Ībout the same time, Kirk Deeter was busy forging a career as writer and reporter in his own right. Over the years, his work in environmental and conservation journalism was recognized by the Society of Professional Journalists, the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Association and the Associated Press. Three years earlier, he won the prestigious Dolly Connelly Award for Excellence in Environmental Journalism for a series of articles that examined the state of the West’s native cutthroat trout. Hunt had been an award-winning writer and reporter for over 15 years as a newspaperman. Two years earlier, Idaho journalist and author Chris Hunt left his post as the managing editor of the Idaho State Journal in Pocatello to take a job with Trout Unlimited as the communications director for the organization’s Public Lands Initiative. But it wasn’t your traditional battle, it was the beginning of a new brand of conservation, and two longtime journalists - strangers to one another - found themselves on the front lines. It was the summer of 2006, and a battle was brewing in the mountains of western Wyoming.
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