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.