James Nash helps his mother, Liza Jane McAlister, run 6 Ranch. He’s always loved fishing and has started a fly fishing guide service there since returning from his service in the Marine Corps in Afghanistan.

Ashley Ahearn, KUOW

The way James Nash recalls it, a bull hippopotamus charged at him out of the Tanzanian brush. It nearly killed him — he fired the last shot with his gun barrel touching it.He killed the animal in self defense, Nash said, and supplied the meat to Maasai families near the Selous Game Reserve. He skinned a bit of the hide to make a pair of boots for his father. The money from his hunting trip aided the fight against poaching.

That’s not the image environmental advocates saw when they looked up Nash’s Instagram account. They saw him standing…