Ted Nugent is a rock & roll guitarist, bow hunter, and American icon. He talked to The Epoch Times about his childhood in Detroit, conservation, wanton waste laws, legendary bowhunter Fred Bear, and his own environmental war cry—“Get out there and heal thyself!” The Epoch Times: How did you become so passionate about nature? Where do you think it comes from? Ted Nugent: I am extremely thankful that our little Detroit neighborhood where I was born in 1948 was at the edge of a wildlife paradise along the winding, enchanted Rouge River where the “Spirit of the Wild” immediately grabbed me hard. Like all kids in those days, my cousin Mark Schmitt and I couldn’t get enough of bowhunting and exploring the woods and swamps near our homes in southern Michigan. We didn’t play baseball, hockey, football or anything else. We hunted and explored, period. We were driven to learn how …