Mother-Hunter-Mentor with Jillian Kilborn

Artemis

Jillian Kilborn is a wildlife biologist in Vermont whose species of focus include pine marten and lynx. Jillian is also a mother, and watching her kids fledge as sportsmen and women has been a rewarding journey. The fulfillment she feels in watching them forge their own paths is part of what drew her to Artemis. What it means to be a hunter looks different for every person -- sometimes it's about the quarry, or the camaraderie, or just being outside. All 'whys' are valid here.

1:00 That moment when you say, 'You know what? I'm good with a little AC in my life.'

3:30 Bird parts in the freezer for training a bird dog

5:00 Ground sniffers vs. air sniffers

7:00 Lab-griffon mix

10:00 Pine marten recovery in Vermont after the trapping boom a century ago

11:00 Lynx recovery in the Northeast (yep, also in Vermont!)

12:00 Trapping pine marten

14:00 Handling the "furry vipers"

17:00 Building the Artemis community

22:00 Being an add-on vs. an integral member of the hunting crew

25:00 The 'why' of hunting varies person to person

30:00 Baby's innate berry radar

35:00 Being an active outdoorsman/woman and then having kids -- sometimes you have to split your time in the field so someone can tend to the offspring

36:00 Watching your kids fledge as their own selves in the hunting world

37:00 The most epic, 90-minute turkey show... at 80 yards

40:00 How many sporting lessons do we learn in hindsight? #somany

41:00 Turkey breast marinated in pickle juice

43:00 Becoming an Outdoors Woman (BOW) program

46:00 Introducing women to trapping

48:00 NTA Convention in Ohio

53:00 Ground blind visibility... like Harry Potter's invisibility cloak

56:00 Temperature tolerance

1:01 Artemis program manager job

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