(Wenatchee, WA)…If you live in the Wenatchee Valley, you’ve probably heard of Eric Wulf Landscaping. You may know Eric Wulf as a COUG through and through. But what you may not know is that Eric Wulf and two partners are on the cusp of hitting it nationally with a waterfowl hunting TV show.
Wulf says he and two hunting buddies decided to put together a company. “We formed Banded Productions that has taken our Fowl Life addiction to another level and created a television show based upon guys from the Northwest that travel Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Colorado chasing around waterfowl.” The buddies are Chad Belding and Brian Bowers. In fact, the television show is called “The Fowl Life with Chad Belding.” Wulf laughs at recalling the ignition point of the idea. “Last June, we (Wulf, Belding & Bowers) were down working on our property, Greenhead Springs that we own down in the Othello area and Chad’s driving the ATV when he stops right in the middle of everything and says, “Guys, we’re gonna start a business…we’re going to start a TV show!” Three weeks later, all the corporate papers were written up and Alex Langbell, Kris Swanson and Chad Prawitz were added to the crew and “The Fowl Life” was born.
Wulf has been a hunter since he was a teenager. “I got my first shotgun from selling subscriptions to Fishing & Hunting News Magazine when I was 14.” Aside from his passion for hunting waterfowl, Eric found quite a zeal for fighting off foul balls behind home plate as a baseball catcher. He was an All American at Washington State University and drafted by the Colorado Rockies in 1992 and then traded to the Florida Marlins where he played for the Kane County Cougars (A) in 1993 before injuries forced him out of baseball. Wulf said it was time to figure out what to do for a living, “I got into the irrigation business just by needing money to pay rent. I decided to take it to the next level (Eric Wulf Landscaping) and hired a few key people and Wenatchee’s been very good to us and it’s been a good ride for about 13-years.” Eric said the landscaping business worked perfectly with his passion for hunting, “I can do landscape through October-November and hunt in the wintertime.” Wulf guided waterfowl hunters on his family’s property in the Brewster area for a number of years but has decided to forego that so he can concentrate on the TV show.
Wulf says he and his production company began shooting video last fall and worked extremely hard on putting together enough footage to create some shows. Evidently, their work has paid off. “Brian and Chad went down to the Shot Show in Orlando, Florida in January (Shot Show is an industry trade show hosted by the National Shooting Sports Foundation) and showed our pilot (brief snippet video of The Fowl Life) and received phenomenal feedback from the who’s who of the industry.”
Wulf and his partners originally signed a contract with the Sportsmen’s Channel and the Pursuit Network and have more recently been approached by The Dish Network about airing their program. Wulf said the debut of The Fowl Life will air on June 25th on the Sportsmen’s Channel, “we have Direct TV and if you’re looking for the Pursuit Network it’s under H-U-N-T, the Hunt Channel.” As they say, check your local listings!
