MeatEater's Cal in the Field

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From elk hunting on the vast Zumwalt Prairie Preserve to noodling for catfish in Tennessee, MeatEater's Director of Conservation Ryan Cal Callaghan is known to have some interesting weeks.

Idaho Goose With Brad Leone

S5 E2

Ryan Callaghan teams up Brad Leone to hunt honkers in Idaho.

Texas Aoudad With Kimi Werner

S5 E4

Kimi Werner trades in her speargun for a rifle and joins Cal in West Texas to hunt aoudad sheep.

Big Island Jungle Fowl

S5 E5

Ryan Callaghan hunts the Big Island for turkey and peacock with Danny Bolton.

Florida Turkey Hunting

S4 E1

Cal heads to Tall Timbers in the Florida Panhandle to hunt Eastern's and learn more about the benefits of fire.

Wrangling Wild Cattle

S4 E2

Cal puts his cowboy skills to the test when he joins professional wild cattle wrangler Cody Fahrion on a public land round up in New Mexico.

South Dakota Pheasant

S4 E3

Ryan Callaghan visits Aberdeen, South Dakota for the state's festive pheasant season opener; Cal and Weatherby's Luke Thorkildsen join Pheasants Forever's habitat guru, Matt Morlock for an opening weekend of upland hunting.

Idaho Perch

S4 E4

Ryan Callaghan and Fritz head to Idaho for some ice angling. Cal, Fritz, and Snort target jumbo perch in Idaho's Lake Cascade.

Rice Field Duck Hunting, Managing for Wildlife and Way of Life

S3 E1

Cal heads to California's Sacramento Valley, a waterfowl mecca; he joins Sean Doherty and local guide Scott Feist for a mixed-bag hunt in the heart of the nation's largest agricultural area.

Spearfishing for White Sea Bass

S3 E2

Cal goes spearfishing for white sea bass; he joins Joel Oelnik and Ryan Moore in Southern California's kelp forests.

Salmon vs. Striper on California's Coastal Waterways

S3 E3

Cal returns to California's Sacramento Valley.

Is CWD Changing Midwestern Deer Hunting?

S3 E4

Cal goes to Doug Duren's farm outside of Cazenovia, Wisc., to hunt deer and discuss Chronic Wasting Disease; Cazenovia is also ground zero for CWD, a fatal and highly transmissible prion-based disease.

Idaho: Living With Grizzlies

S2 E1

Ryan Callaghan joins Idaho Fish and Game in an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the science of grizzly population dynamics.

Rewards for Rainbows: Fishing the Snake

S2 E2

Cal joins Idaho Fish and Game as they tag rainbow and cutthroat trout on the South Fork of the Snake River as part of an effort to help native Yellowstone cutthroat trout on the biomass ladder.

Paradise Lost: Louisiana Hog and Tripletail

S2 E3

Cal joins Captain Gjuro Bruer to take part in citizen science by catching and tagging Atlantic tripletail; he then meets with Jared Serigne to hunt hogs and Cajun pheasant while getting a look at the effects of land loss and saltwater intrusion.

Maine: Private Ground and Public Woodcok and Grouse

S2 E4

Cal checks up on Shiloh Pond to see what access means in Maine.

Elk on the Prairie

S1 E1

Ryan Callaghan heads to the Zumwalt Preserve.

Mule Deer by Canoe With OnX

S1 E3

Ryan Callaghan and Eric Siegfried navigate around the crowds and into a hard-to-access piece of public land in Montana for a mule deer rifle hunt.