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

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Speaker 1: dot com. Now here's your host, Ryan keal Callahan.

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Speaker 2: A team of Turkish scientists analyzed three pieces of birch

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Speaker 2: pitch that had been chewed by ancient humans in Scandinavia

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Speaker 2: almost ten thousand years ago. Their findings, which they recently

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Speaker 2: published in scientific Reports, offer a fascinating window into the

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Speaker 2: mouths of these ancient humans. Birch pitch is a sticky

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Speaker 2: substance made by heating birch bark. It has been used

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Speaker 2: by people for medicinal purposes for thousands of years and

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Speaker 2: can be chewed like gum. As it turns out, it's

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Speaker 2: also a great repository for ancient DNA. The team of

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Speaker 2: researchers extracted DNA from these very old pieces of chewing

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Speaker 2: gum and discovered, as you might expect, that Mesolithic humans

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Speaker 2: could have used a dentist in a toothbrush. They analyzed

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Speaker 2: the oral microbiome profile and pathogen burden of the birch

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Speaker 2: pitch and found that it was similar to modern day

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Speaker 2: people who suffer from periodontitis. Periodontitis is a serious gum

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Speaker 2: infection that damages the soft tissue around teeth. Without treatment,

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Speaker 2: periodontitis can destroy the bone that supports your teeth and

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Speaker 2: lead to tooth loss. The researchers believed ancient hunter gatherers

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Speaker 2: likely suffered from bad oral health in part because they

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Speaker 2: use their teeth for gripping, cutting, and tearing, and were

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Speaker 2: exposed to a wide array of pathogens. The birch pitch

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Speaker 2: also gave researchers a window into other things these ancient

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Speaker 2: individuals had been doing with their mouths. They found DNA

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Speaker 2: sequences of red fox, hazelnut, red deer, and apple, which

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Speaker 2: were likely some of the things they'd been gnashing on

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Speaker 2: just before chewing on the pitch. I don't know how

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Speaker 2: they make gum these days, Frankly, I don't know. I

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Speaker 2: don't know. But next time you stick a piece of

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Speaker 2: trident or juicy fruit underneath your chair at a movie theater,

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Speaker 2: ask yourself, what will this say about me in ten

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Speaker 2: thousand years. If you're doing things right, your diet might

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Speaker 2: not look too different from those Scandinavian hunter gatherers, hopefully

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Speaker 2: without the gum disease. Of course, this week we've got

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Speaker 2: legislation federal and state, double buzz and so much more.

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Speaker 2: But first I'm gonna tell you about my week. In

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Speaker 2: My week was nicely balanced by this strange temperature swing

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Speaker 2: of going from negative thirty to fifty above and still

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Speaker 2: climbing well. Musky chat and I hit the ice, or

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Speaker 2: for you real tough sons of guns, the hard water.

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Speaker 2: It was a great morning, sun was shining, no wind

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Speaker 2: and cold. We drug sleds for a couple of miles,

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Speaker 2: drilling holes, looking and feeling for fish with our jigs

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Speaker 2: and electronics. We eventually found some fish and got a

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Speaker 2: and you know, bsum, plus a little exercise towing those

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Speaker 2: sleds across the ice. I gotta tell you one funny

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Speaker 2: deal that happened to We parked next to this fellow

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Speaker 2: around the ice and we're talking about ice fishing. Of course,

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Speaker 2: I was like, oh, that's a nice looking dog and

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Speaker 2: let's snort out and he's like, oh, that's a nice

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Speaker 2: looking dog. You like bird hunt and said yeah, and

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Speaker 2: he's like, yeah, this is what we do for post

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Speaker 2: season depression. And I said, oh, yeah, the dog's like

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Speaker 2: running around out here on the ice. They seem to

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Speaker 2: get a kick out of it. And he goes, oh, no,

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Speaker 2: I wasn't talking about the dog. It was about talking

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Speaker 2: about post bird hunting depression for me, and I know

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Speaker 2: there's a lot of you out there that feel the

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Speaker 2: same way. Just hard to get real excited about much else,

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Speaker 2: but we'll get there. We'll make it through anyway. After

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Speaker 2: they had an unbelievable amount of geese out in the field,

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Speaker 2: which never happens. It's a tiny place, it's a great

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Speaker 2: absolutely is. And these birds just migrated in. It's wild.

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Speaker 2: You'd think these resident birds would have a lot more

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Speaker 2: It was heartbreaking, heartbreaking until next season a little girl.

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Speaker 2: And in between those, I've been cleaning up the freezers,

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Speaker 2: if you're tuning into the old cal Instagram account, you

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Speaker 2: may have seen the end result of a Korean fried

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Speaker 2: upland bird thigh recipe that I've been working on, which

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Speaker 2: is like good for grouse species and pheasants. Drumsticks on

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Speaker 2: cooking wine, soy sauce, ginger, salt, pepper, brown sugar, garlic

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Speaker 2: beef tallow and let them drain on old paper sacks

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Speaker 2: five minutes per batch. It's a killer recipe. You won't

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Speaker 2: ever feel bad for throwing a bird thigh away because

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Speaker 2: you'll covet them from here on out. Now, word to

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Speaker 2: the listener. We're heading back into the state legislative cycle.

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Speaker 2: Oddly enough, this is where I get more excited about

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Speaker 2: the week in review, because we got stuff that really

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Speaker 2: to cover as much of this as we can, but

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Speaker 2: we are counting on you to write in and keep

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Speaker 2: us informed on what's going on. You can type in

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Speaker 2: NCSL dot org to see what states are in session

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Speaker 2: and when. That's the National Conference of State Legislatures. And

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Speaker 2: if you hear about something that really grinds your gears,

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Speaker 2: really ticks you off, what I'm going to say next

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Speaker 2: just isn't going to help whatever it is. Whatever that

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Speaker 2: issue is, it was probably preventable. If we all get

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Speaker 2: better at advocating consistently for the things we enjoy public land,

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Speaker 2: access to hunting and fishing, open spaces, habitat, and we

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Speaker 2: are proactive about it, a lot of this stuff won't

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Speaker 2: come up. So don't wait for things to go on

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Speaker 2: the chopping block before you get involved. If you are

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Speaker 2: just dipping your toe into this, join a local and

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Speaker 2: national rod and gun club today. That's a great start.

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Speaker 2: Then set a goal of testifying at your state legislature

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Speaker 2: this year. It's not as scary as it sounds. You

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Speaker 2: good work on something that's positive. In the world of

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Speaker 2: hunting and fishing and outdoor rights, the sidelines are full.

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Speaker 2: We need players on the field. Moving on to the

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Speaker 2: legislative desk, a Kentucky state senator has introduced a bill

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Speaker 2: that would legalize the killing of Cooper's and redtail hawks.

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Speaker 2: More specifically, it would prohibit the Department of Fish and

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Speaker 2: who pursues or kills a hawk. Killing hawks would still

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Speaker 2: be illegal under federal law, and violators face serious fines

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Speaker 2: and even jail time. The Senator's name is Gary Boswell,

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Speaker 2: and you'd be forgiven for asking what he has against

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Speaker 2: two of America's most common native birds of prey. Boswell

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Speaker 2: have told him about having trouble with hawks killing their

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Speaker 2: chickens and cats and preying on songbirds at their bird feeders.

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Speaker 2: Boswell claims that there is an overpopulation of hawks, and

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Speaker 2: he implies that they're contributing to declining turkey numbers. As evidence,

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Speaker 2: he posted a video from his trailcam of hawks killing

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Speaker 2: turkey polts. There's just one problem, as many of his

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Speaker 2: commenters on the post pointed out, what Boswell calls hawks

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Speaker 2: are actually European starlings. How that actually happened. I don't

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Speaker 2: know anyone whose own backyard chickens knows how frustrating it

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Speaker 2: and running and producing. And it's certainly true that hawks

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Speaker 2: prey on smaller birds, but covered chicken runs can solve

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Speaker 2: the former problem, and taking down a bird feeder for

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Speaker 2: a period of time can discourage hawks from whacking too

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Speaker 2: many backyard tweety birds. Hawk populations have increased substantially over

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Speaker 2: the Cornell Lab of Ornithology found that the presence of

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Speaker 2: Cooper's hawks have increased fourfold at the feeders they monitor.

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Speaker 2: But to say that there are too many hawks as

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Speaker 2: a matter of opinion, and the solution should come from

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Speaker 2: someone who knows the difference between hawks and starlings. Over

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Speaker 2: in Wisconsin, where it's always a hot spot for outdoor legislation,

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Speaker 2: and this year is no different, a group of Republican

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Speaker 2: legislators have introduced a bill that would ban dough hunting

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Speaker 2: in the northern third of the state. They say they've

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Speaker 2: heard from hundreds of constituents complaining about this year's poor

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Speaker 2: and in that zone. These restrictions would last four years,

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Speaker 2: after which the DNR would assess the population of deer

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Speaker 2: in the Northern Forest Zone. It is true that the

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Speaker 2: deer harvest this year was down in northern Wisconsin. Hunters

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Speaker 2: killed fourteen point seven fewer bucks in the zone during

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Speaker 2: November's nine day gun season compared to the five year average.

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Speaker 2: According to the DNR. The dough harvest in the zone

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Speaker 2: was also down twenty seven point two percent from the

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Speaker 2: five year average. However, the cause of that decline is

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Speaker 2: hotly debated. Biologists with the DNR blame last year's harsh winter.

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Speaker 2: On the other hand, many hunters say that wolves are

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Speaker 2: driving the decline. If winter is the true culprit, major

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Speaker 2: changes to the hunting regulations likely aren't necessary. But if

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Speaker 2: and residents would like to see more drastic action to

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Speaker 2: help settle this debate. I reached out to longtime outdoor

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Speaker 2: writer in Wisconsin, resident Pat Dirkin. Pat explained the deer

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Speaker 2: numbers have been down across the entire north Woods, including

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Speaker 2: northwestern Ontario and the northern counties of Michigan's Lower Peninsula

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Speaker 2: since a quote nutbuster winner in twenty thirteen, but wolves

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Speaker 2: were in Ontario prior to that winter, when deer herds

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Speaker 2: Michigan's lower peninsula. If wolves were the primary driver of

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Speaker 2: in Michigan and poor in Ontario. In reality, the population's

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Speaker 2: track with bad winners far more closely than with wolves.

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Speaker 2: Pat says quote. My prediction would be that if they

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Speaker 2: get this bill passed, everyone will still be complaining of

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Speaker 2: too few Northwoods deer in January twenty twenty eight. Wolves

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Speaker 2: certainly impact deer populations, but a long term view of

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Speaker 2: the problem indicates that it would be better to address

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Speaker 2: habitat degradation and leave harvest quotas to biologists and hunter

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Speaker 2: advisory groups. This bill has not yet been assigned number

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Speaker 2: as of this recording, but any concerned hunters should get

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Speaker 2: in touch with their Wisconsin state representatives. Staying in Wisconsin,

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Speaker 2: anglers are fighting to keep sturgeon spearing legal in the

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Speaker 2: Lake Winnebago system. Thanks to listener Ryan Ebert and a

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Speaker 2: about this one, The US Fish and Wildlife Service is

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Speaker 2: set to decide whether to list Lake sturgeon under the

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Speaker 2: Endangered Species Act. After receiving a petition to list sturgeon

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Speaker 2: Get used to this. Bills are being proposed in Washington

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Speaker 2: Jason Zorda posed as a female wildlife photographer on Facebook.

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Speaker 2: All this is due to the hard work of doctor

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Speaker 2: Thanks to doctor Edwards for her work managing wildlife around

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