Author: Mark Kenyon

Mark Kenyon works across outdoor writing, podcasting, hunting, angling, and conservation advocacy, with a focus on public land and wildlife. That Wild Country combines travel writing with an accessible history of America’s public-land system. Its full subtitle, An Epic Journey into the Past, Present, and Future of America’s Public Lands, describes the book’s movement between landscapes, policy disputes, and Kenyon’s own journeys. Little A released it in 2019. The places discussed include Yellowstone, Pictured Rocks, and Arches, but the narrative also asks how recreation, resource development, habitat protection, and federal stewardship can coexist. Kenyon hosts the Wired to Hunt podcast and contributes to MeatEater, giving him a platform within hunting and fishing communities as well as conservation circles. He has also served on boards connected to deer management and the Boundary Waters. That background shapes the book’s approach: personal experience opens each landscape, historical research explains how it became public, and interviews or competing viewpoints reveal why its future remains contested.