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Speaker 1: From Mediators World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is

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Speaker 1: Cal's weekend review, presented by Steel. Steel products are available

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Speaker 1: dot com. Now here's your host, Ryan cal callahan. Blacktailed

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Speaker 1: deer living in the San Juan Islands off the coast

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Speaker 1: of Washington State have disappeared, and biologists think they know why.

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Speaker 1: Big thanks to James for sending this one in. Since

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Speaker 1: the extirpation of wolves in the mid nineteenth century, the

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Speaker 1: blacktailed deer living on the San Juan Islands have had

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Speaker 1: few natural predators. Populations have been controlled by food, limited hunting,

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Speaker 1: collisions with vehicles, fond predation by coyotes, and disease. That's

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Speaker 1: according to Ken Beavers of the Washington State d n R.

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Speaker 1: None of these threats were serious enough to limit deer numbers,

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Speaker 1: and the population boomed until two thousand twenty one. This year, however,

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Speaker 1: residents and biologists are reporting that the deer have all

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Speaker 1: but disappeared. The Washington State DNR believes the culprit is

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Speaker 1: a deadly and contagious disease known as adnovirus hemorrhagic disease

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Speaker 1: or a h D. A h D is usually fatal,

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Speaker 1: and fawns seem especially susceptible. It's spread through close contact

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Speaker 1: or exposure to bodily fluids like saliba or feces. It

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Speaker 1: poses no threat to people, pets, or livestock, but it

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Speaker 1: looks like it's done a number on this deer population.

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Speaker 1: Dense vegetation makes population estimates difficult, but Beavis reports that

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Speaker 1: he usually sees dozens of deer around homes or in

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Speaker 1: single deer during his four day trip to the islands.

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Speaker 1: Residents he spoke with reported a similar drop in sightings.

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Speaker 1: A h D was first identified in California all the

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Speaker 1: way back in but as of two thousand twenty, it's

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Speaker 1: only been found in West During State. It's like Oregon,

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Speaker 1: Washington State, and Wyoming. Unlike c w D, it's not

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Speaker 1: always fatal. It can kill both adults and fawns, but

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Speaker 1: adults sometimes survive about with the disease. Biologists aren't sure

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Speaker 1: how ah D arrived on the San Juan Islands, but

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Speaker 1: they hypothesize it traveled in infected deer from the nearby

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Speaker 1: Canadian Gulf Islands. Once in Washington State, the dense deer

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Speaker 1: populations provided the perfect environment for the disease to spread.

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Speaker 1: Hunters on the San Juan Islands may find success even

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Speaker 1: more elusive than usual over the next few years, but

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Speaker 1: I do have a few pieces of good news. First,

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Speaker 1: said that the healthier deer may have an innate resistance,

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Speaker 1: and even though future outbreaks may occur, the lead vet

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Speaker 1: for Washington Fish and Wildlife said the population will recover eventually.

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Speaker 1: It's unclear how long that recovery process will take or

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Speaker 1: what the population will look like, but the situation isn't hopeless. Second,

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Speaker 1: for those hunters who do manage to bag a deer

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Speaker 1: contract a h D by consuming meat. Proper meat handling

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Speaker 1: and preparation is always a good idea, but you shouldn't

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Speaker 1: worry about coming down with the hemorrhagic disease after eating

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Speaker 1: a San Juan Islands deer. To help spread the recovery process,

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Speaker 1: the Washington Department of Natural Resources advises hunters to avoid

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Speaker 1: concentrating deer with food plots or water, and report sick

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Speaker 1: or dead animals. Colin Symptoms of h D include rapid

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Speaker 1: or open mouth breathing, foaming or drooling at the mouth, diarrhea, weakness,

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Speaker 1: and emaciation. Doesn't that sound pleasant? This week we've got

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Speaker 1: you guessed at legislation good and bad, as well as

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Speaker 1: the crime desk. But first, I'm gonna tell you about

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Speaker 1: my week. And my week was, you know solid. I'm

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Speaker 1: actually prepping to head down to the Land of Enchantment

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Speaker 1: a k New Mexico, one of my all time favorite

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Speaker 1: states to take a look at firsthand the feral cattle

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Speaker 1: and sometimes wildcattle situation. As we've covered here, New Mexico

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Speaker 1: Wilderness by aerial gunning, as in shooting from a helicopter.

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Speaker 1: I won't be doing that. Instead, I'll be saddling up

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Speaker 1: you should be too. We'll have this captured, hopefully in

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Speaker 1: a future episode of Cal in the Field, the YouTube

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Speaker 1: series that really comes from you ask Cal listener emails,

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Speaker 1: so right in and let me know what you want

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Speaker 1: to get A deeper dive into and i'll, you know,

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Speaker 1: see about checking it out. Moving on to the legislation,

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Speaker 1: desk Alaskans, we are returning to an issue we mentioned previously,

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Speaker 1: the proposed amendment of Regulation five A A C. Chapter

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Speaker 1: rule change would make trap nowter release programs for feral

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Speaker 1: they're eating them, sometimes into extinction. These programs sustained feral

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Speaker 1: cat populations and all the damage they do. You have

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Speaker 1: one week left in the comment period, which ends March twelve.

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Speaker 1: Keep calling and emailing the Department of Fish and Game

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Speaker 1: to include more Canadian calls to action. The British Columbia

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Speaker 1: Chapter of back Country Hunters and Anglers recently called on

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Speaker 1: the Provinces Minister of Forest Lands, Natural Resource Operations and

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Speaker 1: Rural Development not to move bighorn sheep to a limited

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Speaker 1: entry hunt system in Region four. This is the Kote

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Speaker 1: Neat region of British Columbia. According to backcountry hunters and anglers,

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Speaker 1: there's not enough scientific evidence to show that a limited

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Speaker 1: entry hunt would benefit sheep populations. So if you'd like

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Speaker 1: to weigh in on this subject, send an email to

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Speaker 1: the honorable that's honorable with an oh you, Catron Conroy,

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Speaker 1: the minister overseeing the matter at f l N R

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Speaker 1: Moving on, Mississippians, keep your eye out for the House

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Speaker 1: version of Senate Bill to five zero six, which would

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Speaker 1: create a three day traditional archery or crossbow only antler

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Speaker 1: deer hunt every September in the Magnolia State. I don't

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Speaker 1: personally understand the apples two come quats weapons combination, but

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Speaker 1: I don't spend a lot of time in Mississippi. This

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Speaker 1: bill passed the Senate and as of this recording is

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Speaker 1: in committee in the House. So call your reps in

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Speaker 1: support of SB two five zero six if you want

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Speaker 1: a few more days of going after deer with bow

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Speaker 1: turn sideways and sit on your lap. Nebraskans watch out

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Speaker 1: for LB one five, which would limit conservation easements in

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Speaker 1: the corn Husker State to a period of ninety nine

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Speaker 1: to reject proposed ease months. If you want to put

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Speaker 1: your land into conservation easement and you don't consider ninety

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Speaker 1: nine years a legacy, call your reps to oppose LB.

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Speaker 1: New Yorkers S seven seven four seven would allow youth

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Speaker 1: hunters ages twelve through sixteen and senior hunters ages fifty

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Speaker 1: five and over to hunt with a crossbow during special

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Speaker 1: archery seasons. This bill's target is to reduce the barrier

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Speaker 1: S seven seven four seven. Oregonians forgive us, I mean neglected.

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Speaker 1: What's happening over there in the middle upper left hand

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Speaker 1: corner of the country. And the legislature session ends tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Row better late than never, call tomorrow right and early

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Speaker 1: on the following bills. H B four one three zero

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Speaker 1: will fund wildlife corridors. S B six establishes the Elliott

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Speaker 1: State Research for US. HB four one to seven requests

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Speaker 1: Proactive Trust Fund, and HB four zero eight zero would

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Speaker 1: renew the Predator Controlled District program. Finally, Initiative Petition three

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Speaker 1: a k a I P Three would make hunting, fishing, trapping,

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Speaker 1: and raising livestock against the law in the Beaver State.

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Speaker 1: It might sound absurd, but the fringe becomes mainstream with

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Speaker 1: you haven't been already, And when this initiative pops up,

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Speaker 1: I don't understand how they want people to eat food.

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Speaker 1: If you like food, be prepared to vote Vermonters. The

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Speaker 1: Department of Fish and Wildlife has proposed issuing one moose

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Speaker 1: hunting paramits in Wildlife Management Unit three to thin the

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Speaker 1: herd and bring the number of winter ticks down, which

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Speaker 1: would make life a lot better for the moose. If

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Speaker 1: back to episode one seventeen of the Week in Review

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Speaker 1: and get ready to shut her. This new hunt would

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Speaker 1: be up in an area called the Northeast Kingdom. Now

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Speaker 1: doesn't that sound whimsical. In order to get there, you

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Speaker 1: have to climb up Rapunzel's hair, hunting moose in a

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Speaker 1: cross a drawbridge to get there. I've had enough fun

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Speaker 1: with this. I wouldn't met. You have until March thirty

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Speaker 1: let's finish up not what's called action, but with a

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Speaker 1: job well done for you folks in Arkansas who last

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Speaker 1: the Pine Tree Research Station, a key piece of public

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Speaker 1: lands in the state, open to hunting. While you're back

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Speaker 1: there in episode one seventeen listening to the deep dive

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Speaker 1: on moose tick and how many ticks makes up a

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Speaker 1: full story on the epic campaign to prevent Pine Tree

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Speaker 1: Research Station from being sold by the University of Arkansas.

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Speaker 1: something good. Moving on the poaching desk has been busy.

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Speaker 1: In February last year, twenty two year old Trevor Istrae

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Speaker 1: of Jennings, Louisiana, chose to celebrate Mardi Gras, not by

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Speaker 1: Istra pled guilty this month to taking migratory birds with

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Speaker 1: Istra and his crew are small potatoes compared to Richard

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Speaker 1: LeBlanc and company, a group of poachers recently sentenced in

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Speaker 1: Montana's District Court. LeBlanc started racking up wildlife and fractions

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Speaker 1: in two thousand five, and Fish Wildlife and Parks built

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Speaker 1: a case against him in twenty three out of state

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Speaker 1: buddies who took at least forty eight game animals illegally

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Speaker 1: Investigators Steve Marks of FWP said, quote, their main focus

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Speaker 1: was the unlawful hunting of mule deer bucks in Hunting

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Speaker 1: District six fifty two. To those of you out there

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Speaker 1: who have applied for mule deer tags here in the

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Speaker 1: great state of Montana and you've been denied, think about

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Speaker 1: these jackwagons stealing your opportunities. Are opportunities. The reason things

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Speaker 1: like this happen is because these little groups of folks

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Speaker 1: it is that they can't go hunt when they want,

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Speaker 1: whenever they want, and it's just, you know, the world

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Speaker 1: coming down on them unfairly, and they refuse to think

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Speaker 1: about all of us who apply for the opportunity to

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Speaker 1: go hunt. It's theft, and it's incredibly selfish, and think

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Speaker 1: about the fact that they waste game. Mule deer is

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Speaker 1: delicious my favorite meat. Well Blanc will pay fifty dollars

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Speaker 1: in restitution and service six month suspended sentence. Moving on

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Speaker 1: be crystal clear, this bill, if allowed to continue, allows

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Speaker 1: and attempt to rear them to a releasable size then

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Speaker 1: place them back on the landscape, which is completely foreign

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Speaker 1: to these birds. They have no education in regards to predators.

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Speaker 1: A similar study done in the state of Idaho proves

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Speaker 1: that even for a short period of time, only four

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Speaker 1: to eight per cent of captive birds released on the

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Speaker 1: you believe in math, you could just say they don't

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Speaker 1: survive in the wild long enough to bolster a population,

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Speaker 1: they cannot be replaced. You absolutely should not be stealing

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Speaker 1: wild bird eggs. Again, vote no on s F sixte.

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