Watching Marty Stouffers Wild America on YouTube. Wonder how long it took to film this.

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Watched it every Sunday on pbs,,, then wild safari came on afterwards.
Wild safari was narrated by David Attenborough.
Austin city limits was after that.
When Austin city limits was actually good

Marty Stouffer is a big-time anti. I used to know a guy who Stouffer would contract with to provide canned wildlife video content. Nearly all of his stuffed was staged.
See if you can find "Marty the Marten". The squirrel, the hawk, and the marten were all captive, staged shots.
The title might actually be a little different, I'll see if I can find it.

In one of his movies there is a scene of a trapper walking up to a trapped otter that drowned in about 5 inches of water on a shoreline of a river that was just cobble. No obvious reason to put a trap there nor an otter in a foot hold drowning in shallow water. What a staged hoax. Then the narrator spewed some drivel about the fur trade decimating otters or something.

"Enjoy our WILD America"

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I was always wondering how he captured such great footage. Then I started to figure out at least some of it had to be staged. Soon after my suspicions were confirmed by reports of him filming captive/tame animals and passing it off as "wild" footage.

I remember being surprised by his anti rhetoric on one of his shows. Torqued me off enough to write letters to the advertisers...last time I ever watched him.

Yep I used to love watching Wild America, until some anti rant showed up in one of his shows. I never wrote any letters but I forever stopped watching him.

Met someone that knew him and said he was an all around phony

I'm sure he don't like to hear that.

I read a Book likev that by a Woman who lived with beavers for years.

I ended up buying the book that I had read from the rice lake wisconsin library.I bought the book online and hardcover, and it's one of my most cherished books because it taught me so much about beaver.And especially about beavers that don't eat bark

I watched him every week. Scenes might have been staged but the animals were real. You think those clint eastwood scenes were staged? John wayne? Heck I but chuck norris movies even had staged scenes... But people love them..

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Eastwood, Wayne and Norris weren't trying to pass their movies off as "documentaries" of "wild" animals.

And Eastwood, Wayne and Norris weren't anti-hunting, Stouffer most definitely was.

Same era as Disney's crap.

I think it was the show on bobcats, stopped watching him after that too.

I never saw any thing he did on domesticated animals. Just wildlife living in the US.
OK I spent last night and today looking for evidence of his "anti hunting". In fact most of what I found was some of his Alaska hunts. Quite the opposite. Yes he might used tame "WILD" animals in some of his shoots. But the one i watched most of them had dens in the ground. That wasn't tame animals. Scenes of predators hunting tracking and killing wild game wasn't staged. If you guys have evidence of his anti hunting, share it. But won't change the fact he educated a many of young outdoorsman growing up and wanting to know animals habits and environment.

In fact only thing i founfd he was accused of was cutting a trail through a national forest to gain access to an elk migration route.
Of course it was probably some rancher drove his herd passed so he could film it

I bought his whole set of CDs at least one of them has anti trapping in it he also tried to establish grizzly bears in Colorado.

and in at least one show, he indoctrinated youngsters against trapping.

I saw it, wrote the letter.

But, everyone knew the Eastwood, Wayne, and Morris movies were all fiction. Not so with Stouffer's films. He passed them off as non-fiction.

The VCR was my friend in teaching high school biology and I would record many different programs off the cable and show snippets from them to strengthen the lesson. Even Wild America. Yea, he was an anti, but there was film footage in these shows that couldn't be beat by most other programs at the time. White Marlin, in my first semester Wildlife class (juniors & seniors) I included a three week trapping unit that culminated in 3-4 dozen students in a private marsh with two stoplosses and a #110 bodygrip apiece for one night. Muskrats were taken back to the classroom, hung to dry for a day, then put up on 'rat boards I had clamped to each station. 'Rats were sold to fund the trip. Last day of this unit I played Marty's anti-trap video. You would have been pleased with their reactions.

One of my favorite Marty Stauffer programs was near the tail end of his show on Weasels Part I. I used this short segment early first quarter in 10th grade biology in the predator/prey subunit. Run this out to 23:40 and play to see what they saw. Always interesting to hear students' reaction.

Is that a domestic ferret ????

Sure looks like one...

Used to love those as a kid.

Was heartbroken to learn most of it was staged in enclosures.

Definitely lost its appeal when I found out it was staged. No different than shooting a 200" buck in a high fence compared to the excitement and achievement of killing a wild one that big.

…. Some serious cope right here lol

My friend with the grizzlys told me he was paying him to use his bears to look like it was in the wild.

… when I was a kid … Marty stoufer touched me in places I wasn’t comfortable with

**** in other news,,, trapperman personality “ savell” is facing lawsuit from Marty Stouffer productions. From incidents that Mr stouffer denies..stouffer claims staged fabrications,, because he has a extensive knowledge of this practice ****

… ok .. you win … he just stood unnecessarily close to me at one of those trough style urinals

Yes sir, I felt the same way about professional wrestling . . . and Santa Claus.

In regards to the latter part of your statement.
Many of the deer hunting shows by big name professional hunters were shot inside a high fence area.
It's known.
Along that line, there are also some trapping videos that were also staged.
Seldom spoken out loud . . .but a number of people know it

^^^^
I heard that in Texas, all whitetails, ibex, mouflon, oryx, and all those other zoo animals are shot behind high fences.

… absolutely…. All the time … big money .. I hate it

If there's $ to be made there's always those that will take the shortcut to make it including but not limited to deception

I dont like it either and sure dont have much respect for those who do it but part of me wishes more would do it and maybe lessen the pressure on getting places to hunt for those who want the real challenge

…. Naw … them boys wouldn’t hunt at all if it wasn’t easy

…. Hey yessir… go check out that Iran post… I just laid one on you that’s gonna make for a tough rebuttal lol

… you better hurry before it gets deleted lol

The Wild America on Mt. Lions has a handler running through the trees on the clip of the mt. lion attacking a skier or hiker.

And dont lie, you glanced didn’t you?

For sure...same with all the wildcat trapping down there....

I remember watching one episode about fox. The fox chasing a kangaroo rat, if the fox caught it, the starving kits would be fed. I found myself rooting for the fox.

Another episode was about kangaroo rats. Same footage, but if the rat got caught, the baby rats in the nest would starve and die. I found myself rooting for the rat. Same exact footage but different narration. Thought that was always funny. Facts of nature.

In my mis-spent youth I worked at a custom rifle shop in Phoenix. We built a rifle for him. I remember it cause I was suprised that he was a hunter.