Brookes Outdoors featured in the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership "In the Arena" Series

"The TRCP’s “In the Arena” series highlights the individual voices of hunters and anglers who, as Theodore Roosevelt so famously said, strive valiantly in the worthy cause of conservation.

Retired Navy commander, national security veteran, and award-winning outdoor writer Peter Brookes didn’t pick up a fly rod or carry a rifle afield until adulthood. Now he’s chasing a goal of hunting or fishing in all 50 states.

Peter Brookes spent decades in national security, with stints in the Navy, at the State Department and the CIA, on Capitol Hill and as a senior Pentagon official. He traveled to 65 countries on five continents, including North Korea. But he didn’t cast a fly or carry a rifle afield until his future wife brought him home to Idaho to meet her family.

Today, Brookes is an award-winning outdoor and travel writer and photographer who covers destination fly fishing and hunting as Brookes Outdoors. He’s hunted or fished in 37 states plus the District of Columbia, and he credits public lands and waters, and the conservation work that sustains them, with making it possible.

Few hunters and anglers have seen as much of the world as Brookes, and that vantage point has given him a deep appreciation for what we have here at home. He talked with us about his late start, a memorable hunt, and why conservation should matter to the next generation."
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In the Arena Peter Brookes TRCP