1 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:06,880 Speaker 1: From Mediators World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is 2 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:11,360 Speaker 1: Cal's weekend review, presented by Steel. Steel products are available 3 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:15,200 Speaker 1: only at authorized dealers. For more, go to Steel Dealers 4 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:20,720 Speaker 1: dot com. Now here's your host, Ryan cal callahan. 5 00:00:22,520 --> 00:00:26,680 Speaker 2: The French Agricultural Ministry issued at Cree banning quote meaty 6 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:30,280 Speaker 2: names from being used to describe plant based foods, which 7 00:00:30,360 --> 00:00:33,479 Speaker 2: may be the best thing France has done since democracy. 8 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:38,199 Speaker 2: Naming mushed, dyed and molded plant product as steak is 9 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:42,840 Speaker 2: not a victimless crime people in two ways. Actually naming 10 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:46,479 Speaker 2: your vegetable goo in a meaty way, such as ribs, turkey, burger, 11 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:50,920 Speaker 2: et cetera, is like depriving someone of responsibility. It's saying 12 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:53,880 Speaker 2: you don't need to know what's in this, and isn't 13 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:58,280 Speaker 2: responsibility at the base of the vegan argument anyway. The 14 00:00:58,360 --> 00:01:01,480 Speaker 2: other way this mislabel as a crime would be if 15 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:06,120 Speaker 2: someone who shops online were to door dash or instacart 16 00:01:06,319 --> 00:01:10,640 Speaker 2: and get the wrong product. Imagine a hardworking individual covered 17 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:13,600 Speaker 2: in the day's layer of hard rot, sweat, and grime, 18 00:01:13,959 --> 00:01:18,160 Speaker 2: coming home unpacking their groceries, maybe cracking a cold beer. 19 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:22,760 Speaker 2: It's late for dinner. Eight thirty pm or so long, 20 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:26,559 Speaker 2: nasty commute home and the heat. And when this hard 21 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:29,480 Speaker 2: work and Joe or Jane gets to the protein portion, 22 00:01:29,959 --> 00:01:33,280 Speaker 2: they don't find pig or cow. They find the steak. 23 00:01:33,520 --> 00:01:37,360 Speaker 2: That is not. As I said recently on the Mediat podcast, 24 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:40,920 Speaker 2: if this is what government overreach is, I'll support it. 25 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:44,880 Speaker 2: According to the Guardian UK, the draft decree, which applies 26 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:48,600 Speaker 2: only to products made and sold in France, not European imports, 27 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:51,440 Speaker 2: bans a list of twenty one meat names to describe 28 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:57,560 Speaker 2: protein based products, including steak, escalope, spare, ribs, ham or butcher. 29 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:00,720 Speaker 2: More than one hundred and twenty other meat eat associated 30 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:04,080 Speaker 2: names such as cooked ham, poultry, sausage, nugget or bacon 31 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:08,360 Speaker 2: will still be authorized, but only if the products do 32 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:12,839 Speaker 2: not exceed a certain amount of plant proteins, with percentages 33 00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:16,519 Speaker 2: ranging between point five percent and six percent. This would 34 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:19,880 Speaker 2: effectively mean that products marketed with labels such as vegan 35 00:02:19,919 --> 00:02:24,800 Speaker 2: bacon or vegan cocktail sausages would have to change their name. Now, 36 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:28,079 Speaker 2: I truly have no interest in knocking the way anyone lives, 37 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:30,280 Speaker 2: which may not seem genuine. At this point in the 38 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:34,239 Speaker 2: opening used to be article and now as a monologue apparently, 39 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:37,440 Speaker 2: So let me finish the braze on this carrot and 40 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:40,960 Speaker 2: play it for you. Knowing where your food comes from 41 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:43,840 Speaker 2: is very important to me. Whether you grow it in 42 00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:46,920 Speaker 2: a garden or get it from a garden or a farmer. 43 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:50,799 Speaker 2: You know, this is critically important as we humans grow 44 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:54,600 Speaker 2: in population. If we lose the knowledge of where food 45 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:58,320 Speaker 2: comes from, whether it moves, oinks, or makes the creaking 46 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:01,280 Speaker 2: popping sound of corn grows one on a hot July day, 47 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:06,239 Speaker 2: we will lose the land, that viable, life giving land 48 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:09,520 Speaker 2: that we all depend on. Our farms and ranches make 49 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:14,080 Speaker 2: up a greater total acreage than all of our public lands. Combined. 50 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:18,640 Speaker 2: Agricultural lands in the United States total about eight hundred 51 00:03:18,639 --> 00:03:22,880 Speaker 2: and ninety three million, four hundred thousand acres, which, just 52 00:03:22,919 --> 00:03:27,119 Speaker 2: so you know, is a downward trending number. Food is important, 53 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:31,520 Speaker 2: where it comes from is more important. This week, we've 54 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:37,520 Speaker 2: got regulations CWD, follow up the BLM, bison, radioactive pigs, 55 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:39,760 Speaker 2: and so much more. But first I'm going to tell 56 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:45,320 Speaker 2: you about my week. And my week well, it will 57 00:03:45,440 --> 00:03:48,160 Speaker 2: be spent on a boat by the time you hear this. 58 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:53,000 Speaker 2: I'm going spearfishing for bluefintuna again, hoping to report on 59 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:56,880 Speaker 2: next week's podcast that I got one and now have 60 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:00,920 Speaker 2: to suffer through the burden of one hundred pounds or 61 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:03,920 Speaker 2: so of delicious blue fin tuna in my freezer. In 62 00:04:04,040 --> 00:04:07,120 Speaker 2: order to prep for this trip as a landlocked citizen 63 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:09,720 Speaker 2: of the US, I've been running the local trail systems, 64 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:12,600 Speaker 2: trying to tackle altitude and vertical with a high heart rate, 65 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,920 Speaker 2: lifting weights, which I have avoided for a lot of 66 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:19,040 Speaker 2: years because I find gyms to just be depressing places, 67 00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:22,080 Speaker 2: places where humans who work for a living should not 68 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:30,600 Speaker 2: have to visit. Damn you computers, Damn you term Anyway, 69 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:35,400 Speaker 2: once again, trading away a week of September, which could 70 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:38,640 Speaker 2: be elk season, could be spot in stock mule deer season, 71 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:42,680 Speaker 2: but I'm trading that week for diving in southern California. 72 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:46,000 Speaker 2: We'll see if it pays off. The reality is it's 73 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:48,520 Speaker 2: worth it. The ocean is a heck of a place. 74 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:52,600 Speaker 2: For those of you thinking is it smart or ethical 75 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:56,400 Speaker 2: to kill a blue fin tuna, well the answer is 76 00:04:56,760 --> 00:05:00,839 Speaker 2: I can't say for certain, but information from the National 77 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:04,960 Speaker 2: Oceanic and Atmospheric Association states that while the population is 78 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:08,080 Speaker 2: believed to be overfished, it is at a sustainable and 79 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:12,440 Speaker 2: growing rate. The reason for the you know vagary here 80 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:16,839 Speaker 2: that I don't knows is A it's the Pacific Ocean, 81 00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 2: which has an area of over sixty three million, eight 82 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:24,039 Speaker 2: hundred thousand square miles that's more than all of Earth's 83 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:28,560 Speaker 2: land mass combined. And B a significant portion of the 84 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:32,560 Speaker 2: Pacific bluefin tuna population migrates from the Western Pacific to 85 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:38,480 Speaker 2: the Eastern Pacific, or let's say fifty five hundred nautical 86 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:43,400 Speaker 2: miles from offshore California to the Sea of Japan, a 87 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:46,039 Speaker 2: journey blue fan have made in like fifty five days, 88 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:49,760 Speaker 2: and that migratory population is actually pretty much fished the 89 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:53,080 Speaker 2: entire way. Blue fan can live up to twenty five 90 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:55,680 Speaker 2: years of age and get huge topping scales at over 91 00:05:55,760 --> 00:05:58,360 Speaker 2: nine hundred pounds, but it takes them five years to 92 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:02,400 Speaker 2: hit sexual maturity, which means they are relatively slow to reproduce. 93 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:06,240 Speaker 2: And as we've said many times on this show, that's 94 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:11,400 Speaker 2: recipe for overfishing, depleting your resource, and this particular resource 95 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:16,480 Speaker 2: us people who want to practice responsible fishing. We only 96 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:20,800 Speaker 2: have a small impact on that resource as it travels 97 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:25,400 Speaker 2: into other jurisdictions, let's say, so a lot more to 98 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:28,120 Speaker 2: report on the back end of this one, and again, 99 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:30,760 Speaker 2: why does all the good stuff happen in September and October? 100 00:06:31,960 --> 00:06:36,839 Speaker 2: Moving on to the Regulations desk, South Dakota Game and 101 00:06:36,839 --> 00:06:39,640 Speaker 2: Fish is voted to essentially table the idea of expanding 102 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:42,520 Speaker 2: hound hunting for mountain lions in the Black Hills until 103 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:45,720 Speaker 2: further review and revision. At the end of twenty twenty three, 104 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:49,599 Speaker 2: hound hunters had expressed a need for increased opportunity, but 105 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:52,719 Speaker 2: what appears to be a fairly liberal take of female 106 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:56,440 Speaker 2: allions already has the population in check, and it seems 107 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:59,360 Speaker 2: like a fair amount of people who wrote in actually 108 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:03,880 Speaker 2: enjoy thebility to chase lions without dogs once the snow hits. Now, 109 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:06,720 Speaker 2: we're gonna move on. We're going to tackle some CWD 110 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:12,320 Speaker 2: questions in Texas. As we reported on a couple weeks ago, 111 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:14,880 Speaker 2: the folks over at the Ox Ranch made the news 112 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:21,000 Speaker 2: for defying Texas Parks and Wildlife Divisions order to euthanize 113 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:25,720 Speaker 2: deer on their property, this time in McLennan County. There's 114 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:28,440 Speaker 2: two deer breeders that were issued kill orders from the 115 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:30,840 Speaker 2: Texas Department of Fishing Wildlife for a shipment of deer 116 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:34,520 Speaker 2: consisting of twenty nine animals reportedly worth one million dollars. 117 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:37,720 Speaker 2: The breeders of the deer successfully won a restraining order 118 00:07:37,760 --> 00:07:42,000 Speaker 2: against TPWD. It seems one individual tested positive for the 119 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:45,560 Speaker 2: always fatal disease and the state requires post mortem testing 120 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:48,960 Speaker 2: of all of the associated deer from that facility. The 121 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:52,680 Speaker 2: breeders are angling for live testing and in a written 122 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:56,720 Speaker 2: statement say the fawns have been bred to be CWD resistant. 123 00:07:57,280 --> 00:07:59,280 Speaker 2: I'm gonna put an asterix next to that and we'll 124 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:01,880 Speaker 2: get back to why. Here are a couple of quotes 125 00:08:01,920 --> 00:08:07,040 Speaker 2: that came in from our last Texas CWD article. I'm 126 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:09,679 Speaker 2: from Texas and i don't have a problem with the changes. 127 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:13,720 Speaker 2: I'm interested to see the backlash from hunting operations if 128 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:18,040 Speaker 2: they can't remove the ear tag from deer they buy, 129 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:22,840 Speaker 2: meaning that the breeding facilities in Texas, once they transport 130 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:26,640 Speaker 2: deer to the high fence facilities where they can hunt, 131 00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:28,360 Speaker 2: they can remove the ear tags. And one of the 132 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:31,520 Speaker 2: changes that's proposed would be to keep those tags on 133 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:34,840 Speaker 2: these deer for tracking. This fellow goes on to say, 134 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:39,000 Speaker 2: seems like that may deter clients from hunting because an 135 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:42,280 Speaker 2: ear tag would remove more of the quote hunt from 136 00:08:42,280 --> 00:08:45,480 Speaker 2: their high fence experience. Another quote for you here, the 137 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:47,880 Speaker 2: deer breeder high fence game is definitely a pay to 138 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:50,480 Speaker 2: play thing and not something that is going to help 139 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:53,280 Speaker 2: wildlife as a whole, but it could make you rich. 140 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:56,720 Speaker 2: I just have to believe that captive deer sure aren't 141 00:08:56,760 --> 00:09:01,440 Speaker 2: helping the CWD thing. Signed just Texan's thought on this 142 00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:06,640 Speaker 2: whole thing. Then another you know, great and well written 143 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:11,680 Speaker 2: email citing a bunch of people Ox Ranch as an example, 144 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:19,120 Speaker 2: again stating CWD resistant deer seemingly low transmissibility rates of 145 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:23,160 Speaker 2: CWD in some of these captive facilities, namely the Ox Ranch, 146 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:27,240 Speaker 2: who may have had a CWD positive deear on site 147 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:31,079 Speaker 2: for two years while no other deer tested positive for CWD. 148 00:09:31,559 --> 00:09:34,760 Speaker 2: How could this be so? So we're gonna just quickly 149 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:37,720 Speaker 2: answer that one first. If you had a deer on 150 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:41,240 Speaker 2: site that tested positive for CWD and then none of 151 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:44,119 Speaker 2: the other deer it was around tested positive for CWD 152 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:48,040 Speaker 2: in two years, you know, CWD takes a long time 153 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:51,160 Speaker 2: to build up, which is why deer aren't tipping over 154 00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:56,360 Speaker 2: right away. So as the preons build up and up, 155 00:09:56,600 --> 00:10:00,880 Speaker 2: they become easier to detect later on in life. Consequently, 156 00:10:00,920 --> 00:10:04,400 Speaker 2: they are harder to detect earlier on in life, and 157 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:08,599 Speaker 2: there's always the super fun possibility of a false positive 158 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:12,920 Speaker 2: on that positive deer at the ox ranch. In regards 159 00:10:12,920 --> 00:10:19,720 Speaker 2: to the claims of CWD resistant, so far, CWD resistant 160 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:24,840 Speaker 2: doesn't mean that these deer aren't getting CWD. What it 161 00:10:24,920 --> 00:10:29,680 Speaker 2: means is it's taking longer for the deer to test 162 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:35,480 Speaker 2: positive for CWD. There have not been any known case 163 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:41,880 Speaker 2: studies of infected deer not dying from the disease. Furthermore, 164 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:46,720 Speaker 2: what we know from similar diseases such as a scrapie 165 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:52,400 Speaker 2: in sheep, for example, is when sheep breeders tried their 166 00:10:52,520 --> 00:10:58,880 Speaker 2: best to breed for scrapy resistant sheep, they were actually 167 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:03,439 Speaker 2: pretty darn successful, so much so that a new scrapeye 168 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:08,199 Speaker 2: prion popped up, which is now called atypical scrapie. And 169 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:12,599 Speaker 2: that is the fear of captive breeding facilities breeding for 170 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:17,800 Speaker 2: deer that are resistant to these prions. Currently, they're somewhere 171 00:11:17,840 --> 00:11:22,200 Speaker 2: between nine and twenty different pryon strains of CWD that 172 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:25,720 Speaker 2: are recognized. So as we know right like as we 173 00:11:26,120 --> 00:11:30,520 Speaker 2: build up these resistances to any disease, it takes generations 174 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:35,960 Speaker 2: and generations and generations, and while the affected animal or 175 00:11:36,040 --> 00:11:42,440 Speaker 2: human or whoever whatever changes, so does the disease. If 176 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:47,320 Speaker 2: you are interested in checking that stuff out, reference would 177 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:52,320 Speaker 2: be the USGS March twenty twenty three update for the 178 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:56,120 Speaker 2: North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference from the USGS 179 00:11:56,200 --> 00:12:01,520 Speaker 2: National Wildlife Health Center, and a super fun paper titled 180 00:12:01,640 --> 00:12:05,839 Speaker 2: Accurate Genomic Predictions for Chronic Wasting Disease in US White 181 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:10,000 Speaker 2: tailed Deer. The last question that I want to tackle 182 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:13,800 Speaker 2: is one that comes up a ton. CWD takes so 183 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:19,320 Speaker 2: long to kill a deer in the wild, sometimes longer 184 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:24,520 Speaker 2: than the average deer survives in the wild. Anyway, why 185 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:27,200 Speaker 2: is it something that we should worry about? And the 186 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:30,600 Speaker 2: answer is, and this isn't like a blanket answer for 187 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:35,000 Speaker 2: all deer, right, but the deer that are alive and 188 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:40,400 Speaker 2: positive for CWD but aren't exhibiting symptoms, aka they're not 189 00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:43,360 Speaker 2: stepping in front of trucks or hunter's bullets because they're 190 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:47,720 Speaker 2: not thinking, well, they're still spreading these preons around even 191 00:12:47,720 --> 00:12:52,040 Speaker 2: though they're exhibiting healthy behavior. So, yeah, you're right, there's 192 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:54,440 Speaker 2: a lot of things out there on the landscape that 193 00:12:54,480 --> 00:12:58,960 Speaker 2: are very confusing. It's very daunting as well, because these 194 00:12:59,040 --> 00:13:03,200 Speaker 2: preons are moved around by people and other animals to 195 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:08,440 Speaker 2: a certain degree and quote unquote healthy deer. So the 196 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:13,920 Speaker 2: fight against CWD for wild populations is the same for 197 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:17,120 Speaker 2: these private populations, right, It's like, try not to move 198 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:21,079 Speaker 2: them around. Why help it out? Hunters, That just means 199 00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:24,480 Speaker 2: butchering your deer in the field, getting a tested, testing 200 00:13:24,520 --> 00:13:26,720 Speaker 2: a deer, whether you want to consume it or not, 201 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:32,800 Speaker 2: does help our agency officials figure out how dense CWD 202 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:36,199 Speaker 2: is in a lot of areas and if it's popping 203 00:13:36,320 --> 00:13:40,720 Speaker 2: up in new areas. So it's all good data, citizen science. 204 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:47,880 Speaker 2: Embrace it, don't be afraid of it. Moving on to 205 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:51,480 Speaker 2: the bear desk, the three legged bear desk to be exact. 206 00:13:53,400 --> 00:13:56,120 Speaker 2: In Florida, a three legged bear was caught on camera 207 00:13:56,240 --> 00:13:58,560 Speaker 2: last week breaking into a home and helping himself to 208 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:03,040 Speaker 2: adult beverages. Locally known as tripod, this thirsty bruin ripped 209 00:14:03,040 --> 00:14:05,520 Speaker 2: through a screened in patio and made straight for the 210 00:14:05,559 --> 00:14:08,800 Speaker 2: mini fridge. The homes owners say he helped himself to 211 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:12,240 Speaker 2: three white claws, and he seemed to prefer mango and strawberry. 212 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:14,839 Speaker 2: He also sampled some of the fish food that was 213 00:14:14,920 --> 00:14:18,280 Speaker 2: left next to a fish tank and left a happier 214 00:14:18,360 --> 00:14:22,120 Speaker 2: and maybe less socially awkward bear. In case you're wondering, 215 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:24,680 Speaker 2: and I know you are, Bears probably don't go after 216 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:28,200 Speaker 2: booze on purpose, though their powerful noses can likely smell 217 00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:31,400 Speaker 2: the alcohol in the can. A Florida Wildlife biologist told 218 00:14:31,480 --> 00:14:36,080 Speaker 2: local media that the white claw choice was probably random. Quote. 219 00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:39,479 Speaker 2: Bears will test foods and bite cans to drink what's inside. 220 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:42,080 Speaker 2: We do not believe that bears choose cans that are 221 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:46,360 Speaker 2: filled with alcohol. It's just a random search for their part. 222 00:14:46,560 --> 00:14:49,320 Speaker 2: Local residents, including the owners of the home, appear to 223 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:52,240 Speaker 2: be taking the break in and stride. The owner, whose 224 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:54,960 Speaker 2: son was at home when Tripod broke in, said quote, 225 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:57,600 Speaker 2: I was not scared because we know the bear really well. 226 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:00,520 Speaker 2: He lives here. We respect their habitat as much as 227 00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:03,840 Speaker 2: we can. Which is odd, because well, Tripod made your 228 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:08,320 Speaker 2: back porch and fridge his habitat. Florida Wildlife officials have 229 00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:11,280 Speaker 2: no plans to catch Tripod at this point, noting that 230 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:13,600 Speaker 2: the bear only broke into a screened end porch and 231 00:15:13,640 --> 00:15:17,800 Speaker 2: the fridge was unsecured, because if you leave an unsecured fridge, 232 00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:21,800 Speaker 2: you're basically asking for it. I don't know whether Tripod's 233 00:15:21,880 --> 00:15:24,680 Speaker 2: lack of limb actually impacts his ability to eat a 234 00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:27,800 Speaker 2: natural diet, but it is true that predators who become 235 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:31,400 Speaker 2: disabled often wind up making trouble around towns and cities. 236 00:15:31,920 --> 00:15:35,000 Speaker 2: To take a far more deadly example, tigers in India 237 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:38,560 Speaker 2: that become injured can sometimes turn to easier two legged prey. 238 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:41,920 Speaker 2: One of the world's most famous tiger hunters, a man 239 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:45,240 Speaker 2: named Jim Corbett, explains it in his books how he 240 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:48,120 Speaker 2: often found that man eating tigers had some kind of 241 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:51,040 Speaker 2: injury that kept them from hunting their usual diet. This 242 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:54,040 Speaker 2: was sometimes a porcupine quill that got infected in a 243 00:15:54,040 --> 00:15:57,240 Speaker 2: cat's mouth or paw. You can read more about Corbett's 244 00:15:57,240 --> 00:16:01,360 Speaker 2: life and hunts at the meat eater dot com. Quick hack. 245 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:05,440 Speaker 2: I guess if you will. For securing things. Obviously, big 246 00:16:05,480 --> 00:16:09,480 Speaker 2: fan of Yetti coolers, had them forever. In fact, first 247 00:16:09,560 --> 00:16:13,680 Speaker 2: YETI cooler in the state of Montana verifiable, no doubt. Anyway, 248 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:18,520 Speaker 2: I've always liked them for the bear security right grizzly 249 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:22,080 Speaker 2: bear state here I have found and this may or 250 00:16:22,120 --> 00:16:25,160 Speaker 2: may not be helpful to you, But if you're someone 251 00:16:25,240 --> 00:16:29,120 Speaker 2: who gets a lot of guns. New firearms come with 252 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:32,640 Speaker 2: firearm locks, so you can lock up the action or 253 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:37,440 Speaker 2: trigger mechanism. Part of a child safe gun environment at 254 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:42,600 Speaker 2: the home, Well, I have a big lockable wall in 255 00:16:42,640 --> 00:16:46,320 Speaker 2: my house that no kid's going to get into or 256 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:48,880 Speaker 2: anybody who isn't willing to like rip through a wall 257 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:52,800 Speaker 2: to get in there. So several of my child safe 258 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:57,960 Speaker 2: locks have become locks for my YETI coolers, so once 259 00:16:58,040 --> 00:17:00,920 Speaker 2: pad locks on there, they're safe considered like a bear 260 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:04,840 Speaker 2: proof container, which is a real sweet deal. So just 261 00:17:04,840 --> 00:17:09,000 Speaker 2: a little something for you. Moving on to the conservation desk, 262 00:17:10,960 --> 00:17:13,440 Speaker 2: the Bureau of Land Management announced last week a twenty 263 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:17,280 Speaker 2: eight million dollar investment in six large conservation projects around 264 00:17:17,320 --> 00:17:19,959 Speaker 2: the country. The money for these projects is coming in 265 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:23,200 Speaker 2: from last year's Inflation Reduction Act, and the BLM will 266 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:26,880 Speaker 2: be partnering with several organizations you might recognize. Eight point 267 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:29,879 Speaker 2: nine million. For example, we'll be going to Trout Unlimited 268 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:33,679 Speaker 2: for a large scale watershed and aquatic restoration initiative across 269 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:37,680 Speaker 2: arid landscapes of the Upper Colorado Basin, California Great Basin, 270 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:42,520 Speaker 2: and Columbia Pacific Northwest regions. According to a BLM press release, 271 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:47,320 Speaker 2: This initiative will improve drought resiliency, promote aquatic connectivity, and 272 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:51,160 Speaker 2: conserve ecosystems, habitats and the species that depend on them. 273 00:17:51,680 --> 00:17:53,520 Speaker 2: Another three and a half million will be going to 274 00:17:53,520 --> 00:17:57,520 Speaker 2: the Mule Deer Foundation to improve and conserve important habitat 275 00:17:57,600 --> 00:18:00,719 Speaker 2: for mule deer and sage grouse on BLM line. This 276 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:04,440 Speaker 2: agreement will focus on defending and growing coarse sagebrush habitat, 277 00:18:04,520 --> 00:18:07,520 Speaker 2: which provides key winter and migratory habitats for mule deer. 278 00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:10,639 Speaker 2: Backcountry hunters and anglers will also be receiving two and 279 00:18:10,680 --> 00:18:14,000 Speaker 2: a half million dollars to employ and manage a team 280 00:18:14,119 --> 00:18:18,159 Speaker 2: to inventory, modify, and remove fences on BLM lands and 281 00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:21,840 Speaker 2: areas of identified need. Be sure to join your local 282 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:24,960 Speaker 2: bhachapter for a chance to join one of these teams 283 00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:29,400 Speaker 2: and help remove fences that sometimes injure and kill migrating animals. 284 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:33,280 Speaker 2: These aren't the only projects receiving money. The Nature Conservancy, 285 00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:36,280 Speaker 2: the National Fish and Wildlife Federation, and the Navajo Nation 286 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:39,399 Speaker 2: will also be receiving part of that twenty eight million 287 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:44,119 Speaker 2: dollars to fund other conservation projects. Volunteers and responsible hunters 288 00:18:44,119 --> 00:18:47,080 Speaker 2: and anglers are a crucial part of conserving our habitat 289 00:18:47,080 --> 00:18:50,480 Speaker 2: and wildlife, but sometimes it's necessary to throw a pile 290 00:18:50,520 --> 00:18:53,200 Speaker 2: of cash out of problem. When that money is used 291 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:56,040 Speaker 2: responsibly and efficiently, it can be a huge help to 292 00:18:56,080 --> 00:19:00,480 Speaker 2: the animals we love and the places they live. On 293 00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:05,320 Speaker 2: to the Bison Desk, the National Park Service has published 294 00:19:05,320 --> 00:19:08,920 Speaker 2: a draft Environmental Impact Statement for a bison management plan 295 00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:12,760 Speaker 2: at Yellowstone National Park. This plan describes three alternatives for 296 00:19:12,840 --> 00:19:17,000 Speaker 2: managing bison in the park, including population goals and hunting methods. 297 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:19,959 Speaker 2: Thanks to all of you who sent this one in. 298 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:22,159 Speaker 2: The Park Service says that this plan allows them to 299 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:27,840 Speaker 2: evaluate bison management based on new scientific information and changed circumstances, 300 00:19:28,080 --> 00:19:31,080 Speaker 2: explore ways to reduce bison being sent to slaughter, and 301 00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:35,200 Speaker 2: to continue working closely with tribal nations and agency partners 302 00:19:35,280 --> 00:19:38,199 Speaker 2: in management. The purpose of the plan is to preserve 303 00:19:38,240 --> 00:19:42,680 Speaker 2: an ecologically sustainable population of wild, wide ranging bison, while 304 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:46,800 Speaker 2: continuing to work with other agencies to address issues related 305 00:19:46,840 --> 00:19:51,160 Speaker 2: to brucellosis transmission, human safety, property damage, and to support 306 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:54,960 Speaker 2: tribal hunting outside the park. The plan outlines three alternatives 307 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:57,600 Speaker 2: for meeting these objectives, and the Service wants the public 308 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:00,480 Speaker 2: to weigh in if you live near Yellows Stone and 309 00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:03,000 Speaker 2: are impacted by bison, or you just want to have 310 00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:05,280 Speaker 2: a hand in crafting how we manage one of our 311 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:08,480 Speaker 2: country's most iconic animals. Now's the time to get out 312 00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:12,240 Speaker 2: a notepad and pay attention. Under the first alternative, the 313 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:15,040 Speaker 2: Park Service would keep the status quo. It would maintain 314 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:18,160 Speaker 2: a population range of bison similar to the last two decades, 315 00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:21,600 Speaker 2: which is thirty five hundred to five thousand bison after calving. 316 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:25,960 Speaker 2: It would continue hunt trap coordination to balance population regulation 317 00:20:26,080 --> 00:20:29,240 Speaker 2: in the park by using culling and hunting opportunities outside 318 00:20:29,240 --> 00:20:32,159 Speaker 2: the park, increase the number of bruce loosis free bison 319 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:34,720 Speaker 2: relocated to tribal lands, and work with the State of 320 00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:37,760 Speaker 2: Montana to manage bruce loosis spreading from bison to cattle. 321 00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:41,520 Speaker 2: Under alternative number two, bison would be managed for a 322 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:44,960 Speaker 2: slightly higher population ceiling, going up from five thousand to 323 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:49,560 Speaker 2: six thousand individuals. This alternative would also emphasize restoring bison 324 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:52,840 Speaker 2: to tribal lands and using tribal treaty hunting outside the 325 00:20:52,840 --> 00:20:57,200 Speaker 2: park to regulate numbers. Under the final alternative, the population 326 00:20:57,320 --> 00:21:00,919 Speaker 2: ceiling would be raised even further to seventh thousand individuals. 327 00:21:01,280 --> 00:21:04,879 Speaker 2: The Park Service would rely on natural selection, bison dispersal, 328 00:21:05,080 --> 00:21:08,639 Speaker 2: and public and tribal harvests in Montana as the primary 329 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:11,840 Speaker 2: tools to regulate the population. We'll post a link at 330 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:14,600 Speaker 2: the medeater dot com forward slash cow to the page 331 00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:17,960 Speaker 2: outlining these three alternatives if you weren't able to scribble 332 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:20,440 Speaker 2: any of that down in your car. We'll also post 333 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:22,760 Speaker 2: a link to where you can submit a comment if 334 00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:25,760 Speaker 2: you'd like to weigh in. The final data submit is 335 00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:33,000 Speaker 2: September twenty five. Moving on to the nuclear desk, Why 336 00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:36,679 Speaker 2: are Chernobyl pigs still radioactive? I know this is a 337 00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:38,680 Speaker 2: question that's been burning at the back of your mind 338 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:40,919 Speaker 2: for years, and I'm here to answer it. Thanks to 339 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:45,120 Speaker 2: listener Solomon Pomerantz for sending this one in. The Scientists 340 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:48,080 Speaker 2: have been wondering for years why wild boars in Germany 341 00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:51,959 Speaker 2: and Austria have continued to test positive for radioactive isotope 342 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:56,320 Speaker 2: nearly four decades after the Chernobyl disaster. Other animals, such 343 00:21:56,359 --> 00:21:59,520 Speaker 2: as deer have shown decreased levels of radioactivity, but in 344 00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:02,919 Speaker 2: what is become known as the wild bore paradox, bores 345 00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:06,320 Speaker 2: have maintained high levels of the isotope known as sessium 346 00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:10,040 Speaker 2: one thirty seven. A new study released last week may 347 00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:13,040 Speaker 2: have the answer to that paradox. Published in the journal 348 00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:16,720 Speaker 2: Environmental Science Technologies, the study finds that these wild bores 349 00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:20,480 Speaker 2: may not be radioactive due to Chernobyl after all. Instead, 350 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:23,640 Speaker 2: they believe the pigs are still contaminated from nuclear testing 351 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:27,439 Speaker 2: that was conducted before Chernobyl in the nineteen sixties. Working 352 00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:30,720 Speaker 2: with hunters collecting wild bore meat across southern Germany, they 353 00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:34,440 Speaker 2: measured ccium levels with a gamma ray detector. Only one 354 00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:37,159 Speaker 2: researcher was turned into a superhero during the course of 355 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:42,960 Speaker 2: this testing, and that's when zero and the nearly fifty 356 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:45,600 Speaker 2: collected meat samples the team found eighty eight percent of 357 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:49,640 Speaker 2: the samples were above Germany's regulatory limits for radioactive cesium 358 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:53,800 Speaker 2: and food. Calculating the ratio of cesium isotopes in the samples, 359 00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:56,480 Speaker 2: they found that the nuclear weapons testing accounted for ten 360 00:22:56,520 --> 00:22:59,520 Speaker 2: to sixty eight percent of the contamination. Some of that 361 00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:03,120 Speaker 2: candamine nation was from Chernobyl, but even if the accident 362 00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:05,399 Speaker 2: had never happened, some of the boers would still have 363 00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:08,960 Speaker 2: high levels of radiation. Bores have higher levels than other 364 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:14,080 Speaker 2: animals because they ingest radioactive material from contaminated deer truffle mushrooms. 365 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:18,760 Speaker 2: These mushrooms absorb sessium through the soil like nutrients, and 366 00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:21,359 Speaker 2: then the bores dig up and eat them during the 367 00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:25,240 Speaker 2: winter when corn and acorns are scarce. Researchers don't point 368 00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:28,560 Speaker 2: to one nuclear test in particular, these above ground tests 369 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:32,680 Speaker 2: affected the entire northern hemisphere. An enormous updraft occurs after 370 00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:36,280 Speaker 2: an explosion, pushing material higher. By the time the fallout 371 00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:40,440 Speaker 2: gets down to Earth, radioactive materials have evenly distributed higher 372 00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:44,360 Speaker 2: in the atmosphere to create a truly global fallout phenomenon. 373 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:47,960 Speaker 2: The good news is that, according to these researchers, you 374 00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:50,159 Speaker 2: need to eat a massive amount of pork chops to 375 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:53,800 Speaker 2: start glowing green. While technically unsafe to eat, the levels 376 00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:57,000 Speaker 2: aren't high enough to actually hurt people. Still, knowing your 377 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:00,959 Speaker 2: wild pig has radioactive material in it probably isn't what 378 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:03,680 Speaker 2: you want to hear. The question for you is would 379 00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:08,080 Speaker 2: you rather hear dinners canceled? Moving on to the hellbender desk, 380 00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:14,119 Speaker 2: biologists with the Indiana Department Natural Resources and Purdue University 381 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:18,360 Speaker 2: recently documented a very young hellbender salamander in the Blue River. 382 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:21,840 Speaker 2: This discovery is significant because over the past three to 383 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:25,840 Speaker 2: four decades, only adult hellbenders have been documented in the 384 00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:29,320 Speaker 2: Blue River. The presence of a young salamander suggests that 385 00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:33,240 Speaker 2: conservation efforts and rearing programs are accomplishing their goals for 386 00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:37,560 Speaker 2: the recovery of this endangered species. Finding hellbender larvae is 387 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:41,119 Speaker 2: a huge benchmark of the program's success, said d NR's 388 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:44,800 Speaker 2: Nate Ingrecht, the state herpetologist. It tells us that there 389 00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:48,280 Speaker 2: has been successful breeding, hatching, and recruitment in the wild. 390 00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:51,880 Speaker 2: It's a wonderful sign that captive, reared, and released hellbenders 391 00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:54,680 Speaker 2: are doing what we want them to do at this site. 392 00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:57,480 Speaker 2: Along with having the coolest name of any salamander, the 393 00:24:57,600 --> 00:25:01,440 Speaker 2: hellbender is also the largest aquatic sol in North America. 394 00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:03,920 Speaker 2: They can grow as long as thirty inches, though most 395 00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:07,960 Speaker 2: are between twelve and fifteen. They're mostly nocturnal and eat crayfish, 396 00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:12,720 Speaker 2: regular fish, toads, water snakes, and other hellbenders. Hellbenders have lungs, 397 00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:16,080 Speaker 2: but they mostly don't need them. They absorb oxygen from 398 00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:18,800 Speaker 2: the water through folds in their skin, and one hellbender 399 00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:22,679 Speaker 2: was documented as surviving without any lungs at all. Scientists 400 00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:25,479 Speaker 2: think they use their lungs for buoyancy rather than breathing. 401 00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:29,840 Speaker 2: Young hellbenders have gills, which they lose after about eighteen months. 402 00:25:30,359 --> 00:25:32,920 Speaker 2: It was one of these young guild hellbenders that they 403 00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:36,880 Speaker 2: found in Indiana. Hellbenders were listed as endangered in twenty 404 00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:39,280 Speaker 2: eleven and efforts are underway to grow their numbers. It 405 00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:42,280 Speaker 2: takes seven to eight years for hellbenders to reach sexual maturity, 406 00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:45,359 Speaker 2: so finding a young salamander is a great sign for 407 00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:48,840 Speaker 2: their recovery. That's why if you ever find a hellbender 408 00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:50,919 Speaker 2: on the end of your fishing line, just cut the 409 00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:54,160 Speaker 2: line let it go. The salamanders aren't poisonous, but you're 410 00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:57,760 Speaker 2: more likely to injure or kill it by handling it. Big. 411 00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:00,840 Speaker 2: Thanks to listener Caro Wagner for ascending and that's this story. 412 00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:04,800 Speaker 2: That's all I got for you this week. I'll try 413 00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:07,240 Speaker 2: to capture something really good from Tune to town and 414 00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:10,760 Speaker 2: get back to you next week. Thanks again, and remember 415 00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:13,919 Speaker 2: to write in to ask c a l that's an 416 00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:16,320 Speaker 2: asscal at the Meat Eater dot com and let me 417 00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:18,040 Speaker 2: know what's going on in your neck of the woods. 418 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:21,679 Speaker 2: On top of that, go to www dot steel dealers 419 00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:24,480 Speaker 2: dot com. Find a local, knowledgeable steel dealer near you. 420 00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:26,720 Speaker 2: We'll get you set up with what you need, and 421 00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:28,880 Speaker 2: they won't try to send you home. It's what you don't. 422 00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:38,640 Speaker 2: Thanks again and I'll talk to you next week.