Wildlife journalist and legendary leader in conservation Chester Moore sits down with Dustin to talk about what he is up to these days in his personal and professional life. From the Kingdom Zoo Wildlife Center and Wild Wishes Program to a new documentary release to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the movie "JAWS", Chester talks about his passion for the future of the "wild things" and "what's out there".
Chester's Newest Podcast: Dark Outdoors: https://darkoutdoors.podbean.com/
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About Chester Moore
Chester has worked as a wildlife journalist since he was 19 years old. He is Editor-In-Chief of Texas Fish & Game an host of the Dark Outdoors® and Higher Calling Wildlife and podcasts and author of 15 books on fishing, hunting and wildlife.
Chester glassing for bighorn sheep in southern Colorado.
He has contributed to Sports Afield, Wild Sheep, Guy Harvey, Sport Fishing, Deer & Deer Hunting, Tide, In-Fisherman, Sport Fishing, Ducks Unlimited, Delta Waterfowl, Gulf Coast Fishermen, Hunter’s Horn, Game Trails, The ZAA Journal and dozens more.
Chester loves flyfishing. Here he is with a brown trout caught in the Big Thompson River in Colorado in 2020.
He is a highly sought after lecturer having given more than 500 speeches on everything from wild sheep conservation to flounder fishing.
Chester is the author of two books on southern flounder Flounder Fundamentals and Flounder Fever. In 2008 he created Flounder Revolution, a conservation program promoting the release of flounder measuring 20 inches or more.
Chester is the creator of the Gulf Great White Sharks website and blog that won the 2025 “Best Website” award from the Texas Outdoor Writer’s Association. His aim is to raise awareness of the growing number of great whites in the Gulf and support their conservation.
At 20 years old Chester was given his first conservation award by the Sportsman’s Conservationist of Texas. It was their “Youth Conservationist Of The Year” award.
Chester Moore won 10 awards for writing, photography and radio at the 2021 Texas Outdoor Writer’s Association “Excellence In Craft” competition.
The next year he became the first person to win back to back awards receiving their “Conservation Communicator Of The Year” honor.
Since then he has earned multiple accolades for his conservation work from the Texas Outdoor Writer’s Association, was named Conservationist of the Year by the Texas Soil & Conservation District in 2009, was given the Mossy Oak Outdoors Legacy Award for his work with kids an wildlife in 2017 and named a Hero of Conservation by Field & Stream magazine.
Chester with a bonefish caught in Biscayne Bay near Miami, Fl. in 2021. Pursuing the “Flats Slam” of bonefish, permit and tarpon has become a passion for him and more importantly writing about the habitat conservation needs of these species.
In 2020 he won the Advocatus Magni Award from the National Wild Turkey Federation for his work with wild turkeys as part of his Turkey Revolution project. In 2022, he won the “Service to Mankind” award from SERTOMA who held a special banquet in his honor at the Museum of the Gulf Coast in Port Arthur, TX.
In 2023, Chester Moore the Outstanding Bighorn Teacher Award by the National Bighorn Sheep Center. This award recognized Moore’s efforts to educate youth about wild sheep conservation.
Chester and his wife Lisa are founders of the Higher Calling Wildlife® outreach, the Wild Wishes® program and Kingdom Zoo Wildlife Center® that seek to bring the love of Christ to hurting children through wildlife encounters.
They work with critically ill children, those in the foster system, victims of trafficking and children that have faced traumatic loss.
You can contact him at chester@chestermoore.com.
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