Some wildlife organizations contain seemingly contradictory beliefs that support both conservation and hunting. This duality of purpose has its origins in the early Americans whose survival depended upon their ability to understand their environment and the linkage between man, the environment and the wildlife within it.

The men who later became known as the legendary hunter-carvers of the Delaware River were such men, living off the land, pursuing wildfowl as a lifestyle and carving decoys that would later become highly collectable folk art.

Hear the story of these men, and the way the environment and the wildlife within shaped not only their craft, but their lives and their beliefs, and how over the decades that followed this uniquely American lifestyle was tragically lost.


David F. Giannetto is author of two books, The Decoy Artist (Pelican, 2006), nominated for NJCH Book of the Year 2011,
and The Performance Power Grid (Wiley, 2006, business theory).

Professionally he is considered one of today’s leading business theorists in the areas of enterprise-level strategic execution, performance management, risk management and social media, and was named a thought-leader by Business Finance Magazine.

He is CEO is the management and technology consulting firm The Telos Group, a senior fellow at the Global Strategic Management Institute, a former professor at Rutgers University’s MBA program and Chairman of the Board of the Spina Bifida Resource Network.

The son and formal apprentice of world-class decoy carver Vincent Giannetto, III, David has won awards as both a decoy carver and wildlife photographer.

He was raised in Edgewater Park, NJ, and currently resides in Basking Ridge, NJ.