1 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:14,160 Speaker 1: From Meat Eaters World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This 2 00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:19,120 Speaker 1: is Col's Week in Review with Ryan cal Calahan. Here's 3 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:24,120 Speaker 1: cal After much fanfare, the scientists who created what they 4 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:28,120 Speaker 1: call dire wolves now appear to be walking back their claims. 5 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:32,640 Speaker 1: Colossal Biosciences launched a media campaign in April claiming that 6 00:00:32,680 --> 00:00:36,600 Speaker 1: the company had successfully de extincted three dire wolves, but 7 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:41,120 Speaker 1: other scientists, including our pal Jim Heffelfinger, disagreed. They pointed 8 00:00:41,159 --> 00:00:44,640 Speaker 1: out that the three puppies, dubbed Romulus, Remus, and Kalisi, 9 00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:50,199 Speaker 1: aren't real dire wolves genetically speaking. Now, Colossal's chief scientist, 10 00:00:50,479 --> 00:00:53,520 Speaker 1: Beth Shapiro appears to be howling from the same songbook. 11 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:56,279 Speaker 1: She said in a late May interview with The New 12 00:00:56,320 --> 00:00:59,840 Speaker 1: Scientist quote, it's not possible to bring something back that 13 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:03,080 Speaker 1: is identical to a species that used to be alive. 14 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:07,440 Speaker 1: Our animals are gray wolves with twenty edits that are cloned, 15 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:11,479 Speaker 1: and we've said that from the very beginning. Colloquially, they're 16 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:15,640 Speaker 1: calling them dire wolves, and that makes people angry. That 17 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:19,920 Speaker 1: word colloquially is doing a lot of work in that statement. Basically, 18 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:23,000 Speaker 1: Colossal is saying that they never really hid what these 19 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:26,679 Speaker 1: wolves are. They claimed how they created them for mostly 20 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:29,240 Speaker 1: gray wolf genes, and they just called them dire wolves 21 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:33,280 Speaker 1: as a kind of fun and informal publicity stunt. It worked. 22 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:35,120 Speaker 1: It reminds me a bit of a story from the 23 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:37,440 Speaker 1: last year when a zoo in China got caught painting 24 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:40,119 Speaker 1: chow chow dogs black and white and pretending they were 25 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:43,880 Speaker 1: pandas it's not exactly the same thing. Colossal scientists are 26 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:46,600 Speaker 1: the real deal, and they did in fact copy some 27 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:49,920 Speaker 1: genetic material from dire wolves and put it into these puppies, 28 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:53,680 Speaker 1: but in the public rollout of this project still strikes 29 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:58,520 Speaker 1: me as somewhat deceptive, even if it wasn't totally false. Anyway, 30 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:01,240 Speaker 1: this is hopefully the last Game of Thrones reference I'll 31 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:03,320 Speaker 1: make for a while on this podcast, But if you 32 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:05,720 Speaker 1: want to learn more, Steve and the crew spoke with 33 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:09,080 Speaker 1: Colossal Chief Animal Officer Matt James in a recent episode 34 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:11,839 Speaker 1: of the Media podcast. They dive into all of these 35 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:15,960 Speaker 1: issues and it's worth listen. This week we've got the 36 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:18,720 Speaker 1: crime Desk, public Lands, Fisheries, and the Bear Desk. But 37 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:20,280 Speaker 1: first I'm going to tell you about my week, and 38 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:24,359 Speaker 1: my week was great, hot footed it over to sue Fall, 39 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:26,240 Speaker 1: South Dakota to hang out with all the good folks 40 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:28,960 Speaker 1: at Shields. If you don't know what the heck Shiels is, 41 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:32,920 Speaker 1: it's a I would say it's a growing chain, like 42 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:36,120 Speaker 1: box store chain. You know. It's kind of got everything 43 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:39,280 Speaker 1: from soccer balls to firearms, and a hell of a 44 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 1: fishing section, archery, all the good stuff. On top of 45 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:45,240 Speaker 1: all that, they do a heck of a good job, 46 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 1: very impressive job finding into retaining nice, knowledgeable people to 47 00:02:50,919 --> 00:02:53,359 Speaker 1: work there. Spent a bunch of time in the fishing 48 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:56,600 Speaker 1: department and the archery department. I shot a compound bow 49 00:02:56,639 --> 00:02:59,120 Speaker 1: for the first time and close to a decade, and 50 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:01,880 Speaker 1: it was the first ever Matthews bow. I think I've 51 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:05,200 Speaker 1: shot just a loner. Not traveling back over to the 52 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:09,519 Speaker 1: wheel assistant side of hunting anytime soon. All Jeff from 53 00:03:09,520 --> 00:03:11,959 Speaker 1: the man Cato Shiels got me set up and slinging 54 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:15,480 Speaker 1: arrows at sixty yards in under an hour, which to 55 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:20,440 Speaker 1: me is pretty damn crazy, brand spanking new bow all assembled. 56 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:23,760 Speaker 1: Shot at like five yards, then at twenty and then 57 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:28,560 Speaker 1: apparently if you shoot at three yards with the bottom pin, 58 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:30,639 Speaker 1: that's kind of close to where you're gonna be at 59 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:32,600 Speaker 1: sixty yards. And then sure enough we went out and 60 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:36,520 Speaker 1: shot at sixty yards. I would say I was hitting 61 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:41,520 Speaker 1: something the size of like my old yetty backpack in 62 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:45,760 Speaker 1: a five shot group at sixty yards, which is you know, 63 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:50,360 Speaker 1: it's deep. Another special thing happened on this trip. While 64 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:54,160 Speaker 1: I was away, my next door neighbor walked across the street, 65 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:57,320 Speaker 1: jumped in my truck, drove my truck to his shop, 66 00:03:57,440 --> 00:04:00,920 Speaker 1: which is called Freedom four Wheel out in Four Corners, Montana, 67 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:03,640 Speaker 1: and put new tires and wheels on my twenty year 68 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:06,560 Speaker 1: old pickup. It's a long time coming. The rubber was 69 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:10,080 Speaker 1: getting thin. I paid for it, don't worry. I got 70 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:12,480 Speaker 1: to bring up the fact that it's just so freaking 71 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:14,960 Speaker 1: nice to have something done that you didn't have to 72 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:18,800 Speaker 1: do yourself because we're busy. Big thank you to Joe 73 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:21,039 Speaker 1: and the crew at Freedom four Wheel. I appreciate you. 74 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:25,880 Speaker 1: I'm gearing up for Independence Day activities, mostly trying to 75 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:28,880 Speaker 1: cook for a bunch of folks and kids. So I'm 76 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:32,039 Speaker 1: in beta testing on what I want to make, and 77 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:35,240 Speaker 1: I'm thinking of a couple of big plates of turkey 78 00:04:35,279 --> 00:04:39,520 Speaker 1: thigh enchiladas. I got a big store of wild turkey 79 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:42,760 Speaker 1: thighs from this season and just recently. I want to 80 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:45,880 Speaker 1: do smash burgers for everybody, because everybody's got those big 81 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:48,800 Speaker 1: flat top grills these days. I mixed up a big 82 00:04:48,839 --> 00:04:51,920 Speaker 1: batch at Burger and test rove a couple of variations 83 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:55,680 Speaker 1: of smash burgers, and it's fun like fresh mixing burger 84 00:04:55,680 --> 00:04:58,599 Speaker 1: because you just drop the onions and garlic and stuff 85 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:01,120 Speaker 1: that you want in your burger. Adding the g an 86 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:04,520 Speaker 1: onion does a pretty good job of cleaning out the 87 00:05:04,640 --> 00:05:08,520 Speaker 1: barrel of your grinder too, just like Celery does. Just 88 00:05:08,640 --> 00:05:11,719 Speaker 1: you know, a hot tip for you. Anyway, I was 89 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:15,400 Speaker 1: solicited in the local Town and Country grocery store due 90 00:05:15,440 --> 00:05:19,159 Speaker 1: to my buns. I was walking by the deli counter 91 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:21,840 Speaker 1: with a bag of hamburger buns and the gal, who 92 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:24,279 Speaker 1: I would guess is you know, not to be rude, 93 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:27,240 Speaker 1: but older than me just by a scoche, says, hey, 94 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:30,560 Speaker 1: I see you got nice buns there. Probably need some cheese, 95 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:34,000 Speaker 1: and I thought, yeah, I do. So I picked out 96 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:36,839 Speaker 1: smoked Gouda which was sitting there, and I got a 97 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:40,120 Speaker 1: taste test of it was real good, but it man alive. 98 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:44,400 Speaker 1: Doubled up on a smash burger way too overpowering, and 99 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:47,200 Speaker 1: that is why you test things out, no matter how 100 00:05:47,279 --> 00:05:51,640 Speaker 1: nice your buns are. Lastly, I'll see everybody at backcountry 101 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:55,080 Speaker 1: Hunters and Anglers Rendezvous and Missoula, Montana looking forward to it. 102 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:58,920 Speaker 1: Lots to celebrate and lots to discuss, learn and laugh about. 103 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:03,920 Speaker 1: Can't wait to get to everybody together and talk public lands. 104 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:09,839 Speaker 1: Moving on to the crime desk, a fishing captain in 105 00:06:09,839 --> 00:06:12,160 Speaker 1: Florida has been sentenced to thirty days in prison and 106 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:14,679 Speaker 1: will be forced to pay a fifty thousand dollars fine 107 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:17,880 Speaker 1: for poisoning and shooting dolphins. The story comes just a 108 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:20,560 Speaker 1: few weeks after officials in North Cakilac He found it 109 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:23,839 Speaker 1: decapitate a dolphin washed up on a beach. These incidents 110 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:26,160 Speaker 1: are unlikely to be related, but it goes to show 111 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:30,479 Speaker 1: not everyone loves the playful, squeaky ocean animals. Thirty one 112 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:33,640 Speaker 1: year old Zachary Brandon Barfield is a charter and commercial 113 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:37,080 Speaker 1: fishing captain operating out of Panama City, Florida. The US 114 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:40,479 Speaker 1: Department of Justice says Barfield got frustrated with dolphins eating 115 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:43,039 Speaker 1: red snapper from the lines of his charter fishing clients, 116 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:46,039 Speaker 1: so he started placing metha mill inside bait fish to 117 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:49,159 Speaker 1: poison the dolphins that surface near his boat. Metha mill 118 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:52,839 Speaker 1: is a highly toxic pesticide that can cause paralysis and 119 00:06:52,920 --> 00:06:56,640 Speaker 1: respiratory failure on at least two occasions in twenty twenty two. 120 00:06:56,640 --> 00:07:00,000 Speaker 1: In twenty twenty three, Barfield also shot and killed doll 121 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:02,760 Speaker 1: dolphins with a twelve gage shotgun as the animals were 122 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:05,440 Speaker 1: eating fish from his client's lines. He did this in 123 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:08,920 Speaker 1: front of two elementary school aged children in one instance 124 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:12,120 Speaker 1: and in another while there were over a dozen anglers 125 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:16,040 Speaker 1: on board. Hot tip for you, if you charter a 126 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:18,400 Speaker 1: fishing trip and the captain whips out a twelve gauge 127 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:21,520 Speaker 1: for anything other than the shark from Jaws, leave a 128 00:07:21,520 --> 00:07:24,120 Speaker 1: bad review when you get back to shore. If you 129 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:27,160 Speaker 1: make it back to shore anyway. These actions did not 130 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:30,960 Speaker 1: go unnoticed, and the FEDS launched a prosecution. That prosecution 131 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:33,880 Speaker 1: was successful, and Barfield was convicted of three counts in 132 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:37,720 Speaker 1: violation of the Marine Mammal Protection Act and the Federal Insecticide, 133 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:41,760 Speaker 1: Funguside and Rodenticide Act. He'll serve one year of supervised 134 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:46,040 Speaker 1: release after he gets out of the Slammer and Bada 135 00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:48,240 Speaker 1: man was hit with a five thousand dollars fine for 136 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:50,640 Speaker 1: killing a trophy class bull elk in the Great Basin 137 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:53,960 Speaker 1: National Park. Members of the public alerted game wardens that 138 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:56,320 Speaker 1: someone had killed the animal a half mile inside the 139 00:07:56,400 --> 00:07:59,480 Speaker 1: National Park boundaries. A quick look on on Act shows 140 00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:02,440 Speaker 1: me that these seventy seven thousand acre park is bordered 141 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:05,200 Speaker 1: all the way around by state game units. Sounds like 142 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:07,480 Speaker 1: this fella, who was not named in the press release, 143 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:10,640 Speaker 1: wandered into the National Park from the property and shot 144 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:13,280 Speaker 1: his elk. There's a really no excuse for that these days, 145 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:15,720 Speaker 1: which is probably why he was hit with twelve months 146 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:20,640 Speaker 1: of probation along with his fine. Listener Grant Ben sent 147 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:22,720 Speaker 1: me a story about a Virginia man who was fined 148 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:25,280 Speaker 1: at nearly ten thousand dollars for killing at least twenty 149 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:28,560 Speaker 1: birds of prey, including a bald eagle. William Custa Smith 150 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:31,120 Speaker 1: is a big waterfowl hunter, and he had built a 151 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:33,720 Speaker 1: small pond on his property to attract ducks. But he 152 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:36,880 Speaker 1: wasn't the only critter eager for a duck. Dinner hawks 153 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:39,280 Speaker 1: and eagles were killing the waterfowl he wanted to hunt, 154 00:08:39,559 --> 00:08:42,640 Speaker 1: so he hit up a brilliant solution. He poisoned dead 155 00:08:42,679 --> 00:08:46,560 Speaker 1: fish with a band insecticide called carbo furin and set 156 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:49,280 Speaker 1: those fish out for the birds. Not satisfied with that, 157 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:52,080 Speaker 1: he also set out traps to catch whatever birds didn't 158 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:54,880 Speaker 1: succumb to poison, and then bludging them to death with 159 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:57,840 Speaker 1: a pole. It is against federal law to kill hawks 160 00:08:57,840 --> 00:09:00,000 Speaker 1: and eagles in the United States, so once Virginia was 161 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:03,680 Speaker 1: Wildlife Agency got wind of Smith's actions, they brought in 162 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:06,720 Speaker 1: the US Fish and Wildlife Service. They collected evidence of 163 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:10,080 Speaker 1: the Virginia man's wrongdoing, including video of the bird killing 164 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:13,520 Speaker 1: and the carcass of a poisoned eagle, and successfully prosecuted 165 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:16,560 Speaker 1: the case. Along with a ten thousand dollars fine. Smith 166 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:19,800 Speaker 1: will serve one day in jail, fifty hours of community service, 167 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:24,600 Speaker 1: and beyond probation for two years. Moving on to the 168 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:30,040 Speaker 1: Neanderthal finger painting desk. Speaking of collecting evidence, the forensics 169 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:33,199 Speaker 1: team of the Spanish Police Force recently made an impressive 170 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:36,560 Speaker 1: pull of an old fingerprint off a challenging surface. This 171 00:09:36,720 --> 00:09:39,040 Speaker 1: wasn't a clue on a doorknob from a couple months ago. 172 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:42,200 Speaker 1: We're talking about a fingerprint that is forty three thousand 173 00:09:42,360 --> 00:09:46,040 Speaker 1: years old. In the San Lazaro Rock shelter in Segovia, Spain, 174 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:50,079 Speaker 1: archaeologists had uncovered an unusual oval rock about the size 175 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:52,800 Speaker 1: of a big butternut squash, with a dot of red 176 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:55,800 Speaker 1: pigment right in the center. The rock has natural creases 177 00:09:55,840 --> 00:09:57,559 Speaker 1: at the top and the bottom that look a bit 178 00:09:57,640 --> 00:09:59,880 Speaker 1: like eyes in a mouth, and the dot sits right 179 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:03,640 Speaker 1: where the nose would be. Neanderthals occupied this particular shelter 180 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:06,960 Speaker 1: for thousands of years, and so the archaeologist speculated that 181 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:10,720 Speaker 1: maybe the dot was made intentionally to create a human image, 182 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:14,160 Speaker 1: possibly one of the earliest works of art ever discovered, 183 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:17,200 Speaker 1: But they couldn't be sure, so scientists brought the rock 184 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:20,040 Speaker 1: to the Spanish National Forensics Lab, where the police scanned 185 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:23,520 Speaker 1: the dot of pigment using multi spectrum analysis. The scan 186 00:10:23,640 --> 00:10:27,440 Speaker 1: revealed the distinctive ridge pattern of a human fingerprint, what's 187 00:10:27,480 --> 00:10:32,120 Speaker 1: known in the BIZ as a quote unquote dermatoglyphic image. 188 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:38,160 Speaker 1: Hey you're dermatoglyphic. Not too long ago, scientists believed there 189 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:42,040 Speaker 1: wasn't really that much happening inside a Neanderthal's head, just 190 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:45,240 Speaker 1: grunting and ripping meat off of bones. But the Sand 191 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:47,839 Speaker 1: Lazaro Rock means that one of these ancient people was 192 00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:50,880 Speaker 1: able to imagine a human face in the random shapes 193 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:54,240 Speaker 1: of a particular stone. They mixed up red ochre pigment 194 00:10:54,280 --> 00:10:57,040 Speaker 1: for mineral deposits in the environment and added the mark 195 00:10:57,080 --> 00:10:59,360 Speaker 1: of a nose to make the object even more human, 196 00:10:59,640 --> 00:11:02,000 Speaker 1: and then carry it back to the shelter to show 197 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:05,360 Speaker 1: their buddies. Add that to the impressive list of Neanderthal 198 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:08,320 Speaker 1: abilities like catching birds with their bare hands and killing 199 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:11,480 Speaker 1: reindeer and hand to hand combat. The fossil evidence that 200 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:14,839 Speaker 1: suggests that they dove for food in the ocean. And 201 00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:17,240 Speaker 1: you know, he got some pretty cool critters to hang 202 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:20,480 Speaker 1: out with. All of you who did your twenty three 203 00:11:20,480 --> 00:11:24,199 Speaker 1: and meteris and came back with Neanderthal ancestry, you got 204 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:32,280 Speaker 1: another little flagged way. Congrats. Moving on to the public 205 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:36,839 Speaker 1: land desk, Utah Senator Mike Lee doesn't seem to be 206 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:39,920 Speaker 1: able to take a hint. The anti public land senator 207 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:41,760 Speaker 1: told The E and E News last week that he 208 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:45,160 Speaker 1: plans champion of public land sale amendment in President Trump's 209 00:11:45,280 --> 00:11:48,760 Speaker 1: quote big beautiful budget bill. If this sounds like deja 210 00:11:48,840 --> 00:11:51,959 Speaker 1: vu all over again, join the club. Just a few 211 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:54,920 Speaker 1: weeks ago, public land advocates defeated a measure that would 212 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:58,640 Speaker 1: have disposed over five hundred thousand acres of federal land 213 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:01,760 Speaker 1: in Utah and Nevada. That provision was inserted by two 214 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:05,439 Speaker 1: House members from those states, but Republican House leadership, led 215 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:08,240 Speaker 1: by Montana Rep. Ryan Zinky, removed it before he got 216 00:12:08,280 --> 00:12:10,959 Speaker 1: to the House floor. Now, Senator Lee has vowed to 217 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:14,240 Speaker 1: reinsert public land sale provision into the Senate version of 218 00:12:14,280 --> 00:12:17,080 Speaker 1: the bill. The Utah Senator was asked by a reporter 219 00:12:17,160 --> 00:12:19,640 Speaker 1: whether he planned to bring back the public land provision 220 00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:22,200 Speaker 1: that were cut from the House package. He was on 221 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:24,439 Speaker 1: his way to another committee meeting, but he said, quote, 222 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:27,560 Speaker 1: I got to go vote, but yes, So it's unclear 223 00:12:27,640 --> 00:12:30,440 Speaker 1: right now exactly what those sales will look like. Maybe 224 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:32,560 Speaker 1: they won't be as broad as the House amendment, and 225 00:12:32,600 --> 00:12:34,960 Speaker 1: maybe they'll allow the funds to be used for conservation. 226 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:38,440 Speaker 1: But given Senator Lee's long and storied history of advocating 227 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:42,440 Speaker 1: against federal public lands, I'm not holding my breath. Rather 228 00:12:42,480 --> 00:12:45,480 Speaker 1: than fight this fight after it gets reinserted into this bill, 229 00:12:45,760 --> 00:12:48,559 Speaker 1: I'd rather convince Senator Lee that new public land sales 230 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:50,680 Speaker 1: are dead on arrival. To do that, we need to 231 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:53,840 Speaker 1: contact other members of the Senate, especially members of the 232 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:57,320 Speaker 1: Energy and Natural Resources Committee, where Senator Lee is the chair. 233 00:12:57,400 --> 00:13:00,120 Speaker 1: The Republicans on that committee need to tell Lee that 234 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:02,560 Speaker 1: they won't vote for the package if he shoe horns 235 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:06,200 Speaker 1: public land sales back in another great opportunity for our 236 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:11,240 Speaker 1: Republican representatives and senators to be heroes. A little more 237 00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:13,560 Speaker 1: than a year ago, we reported on a rule issued 238 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:16,840 Speaker 1: by the Department of the Interior maximizing protections for thirteen 239 00:13:16,880 --> 00:13:20,640 Speaker 1: million acres of the National Petroleum Reserve Alaska, also known 240 00:13:20,679 --> 00:13:24,360 Speaker 1: as the NPR. That rule limited future oil and gas 241 00:13:24,440 --> 00:13:27,640 Speaker 1: leasing and industrial development on the largest single area of 242 00:13:27,679 --> 00:13:30,800 Speaker 1: public lands in the United States. This week, the Trump 243 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:34,400 Speaker 1: administration reversed that rule, opening all of the NPRA to 244 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:37,520 Speaker 1: oil and gas drilling and mineral extraction, as well as 245 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:40,800 Speaker 1: allowing the roads and other infrastructure necessary to get those 246 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:45,000 Speaker 1: resources and transport them out. Yes, a lot of people's 247 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:48,200 Speaker 1: livelihoods in this area depend on oil and gas, but 248 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:51,199 Speaker 1: there aren't many places like the NPRA left on Earth, 249 00:13:51,559 --> 00:13:54,440 Speaker 1: and the critters we want to have around, like Cariboo 250 00:13:54,440 --> 00:13:57,640 Speaker 1: and Rock term again depend on those undeveloped places to live. 251 00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:03,280 Speaker 1: The consequences of encroaching on public lands. This week, Thai 252 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:07,080 Speaker 1: billionaire pre yued Mahagad Siri was sentenced to twenty four 253 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:09,840 Speaker 1: years in prison for expanding his golf course into seventy 254 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:13,640 Speaker 1: four acres of protected conservation land. The Metals in Coffee 255 00:14:13,640 --> 00:14:16,800 Speaker 1: tycoon colluded with government officials to obtain deeds for his 256 00:14:16,920 --> 00:14:20,520 Speaker 1: Mountain Creek golf resort, which, according to its marketing materials, 257 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:24,400 Speaker 1: promises and I quote, a sensory multiplex for those with 258 00:14:24,520 --> 00:14:28,440 Speaker 1: lofty desires. I think I understand what this guy means, though, 259 00:14:28,920 --> 00:14:31,880 Speaker 1: Like if you go lay down in mid September when 260 00:14:31,920 --> 00:14:34,320 Speaker 1: the elker buglin and just kind of chill out on 261 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:37,760 Speaker 1: a mountain side, that's a sensory multiplex for those with 262 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:42,360 Speaker 1: lofty desires. Thankfully, law enforcement noticed that the Mountain Creek 263 00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:46,120 Speaker 1: Resort contained actual mountain creeks belonging to the people of Thailand. 264 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:49,080 Speaker 1: The case is, of course being appealed, but it's good 265 00:14:49,120 --> 00:14:50,840 Speaker 1: to know that we hear in the United States aren't 266 00:14:50,880 --> 00:14:54,119 Speaker 1: the only ones fighting the good fight. I'm protecting wildlife habitat. 267 00:14:54,400 --> 00:14:56,080 Speaker 1: But it does lead to you to imagine what the 268 00:14:56,080 --> 00:14:59,160 Speaker 1: golf course encroaching on the NPRA in Alaska would look 269 00:14:59,240 --> 00:15:01,840 Speaker 1: like there would it certainly be some wicked water traps 270 00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:04,880 Speaker 1: up there as well as one hole that's a par 271 00:15:05,280 --> 00:15:12,440 Speaker 1: ten million. The Maryland Department of Natural Resources recently proposed 272 00:15:12,440 --> 00:15:15,680 Speaker 1: lifting a ban on stripe bass fishing during spring spawning 273 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:19,040 Speaker 1: season in the Chesapeake Bay. This opening would be balanced 274 00:15:19,080 --> 00:15:23,240 Speaker 1: by closing fishing entirely during August, when heat related fishing 275 00:15:23,280 --> 00:15:26,360 Speaker 1: deaths have been on the rise. We've covered Atlantic stripe 276 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:29,400 Speaker 1: bass before, and we always highlighted the tough trade offs 277 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:33,560 Speaker 1: involved here. Allowing spring fishing will of course benefit recreational 278 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:36,360 Speaker 1: anglers and the tackle shops and guides who depend on them. 279 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:39,200 Speaker 1: The Maryland dn R hopes to get more people engaged 280 00:15:39,240 --> 00:15:41,800 Speaker 1: with stripers and out on the water year after year. 281 00:15:42,160 --> 00:15:45,400 Speaker 1: This change would also bring Maryland's regulations more in line 282 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:48,680 Speaker 1: with rules in nearby areas, reducing the kind of confusion 283 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:50,800 Speaker 1: that causes a lot of people to throw up their 284 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:55,240 Speaker 1: hands with fishing altogether and try pickleball instead. We know 285 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:57,960 Speaker 1: that when more people are invested in going after a 286 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:02,440 Speaker 1: particular species, the resulting money and advocacy helps that species thrive, 287 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:05,600 Speaker 1: and by protecting fish later in the summer, Maryland hopes 288 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:09,160 Speaker 1: that overall fish populations will start growing as a result 289 00:16:09,240 --> 00:16:13,080 Speaker 1: of the change. On the other hand, stressing fish populations 290 00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:15,600 Speaker 1: when females are carrying their eggs back to rivers to 291 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:18,920 Speaker 1: spawn is an extra risky thing to do. Even though 292 00:16:18,960 --> 00:16:22,040 Speaker 1: policy makers are working to find a more precise measure 293 00:16:22,160 --> 00:16:24,200 Speaker 1: of how many fish die as a result of being 294 00:16:24,240 --> 00:16:27,360 Speaker 1: caught and released back into the water, the generally accepted 295 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:29,920 Speaker 1: number is a nine percent death rate, or around two 296 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:32,680 Speaker 1: and a half million fish a year. Unfortunately, there's no 297 00:16:32,680 --> 00:16:34,680 Speaker 1: way to control the sex of the fish you catch, 298 00:16:34,920 --> 00:16:38,360 Speaker 1: and so losing that many reproducing females could be disastrous 299 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:42,680 Speaker 1: for population numbers. Female fish who do survive catch and 300 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:45,240 Speaker 1: release often have a harder time land eggs, and the 301 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:49,440 Speaker 1: resulting larvae often have a harder time reaching reproductive age. 302 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:52,760 Speaker 1: Strip bass as a species already facing uphill battle when 303 00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:55,160 Speaker 1: it comes to making more little fish, as females have 304 00:16:55,240 --> 00:16:58,480 Speaker 1: to reach six years of age before they produce significant 305 00:16:58,560 --> 00:17:01,880 Speaker 1: numbers of eggs. Speak Bay is also the most important 306 00:17:01,920 --> 00:17:05,320 Speaker 1: spawning area for this entire species, so the stakes here 307 00:17:05,440 --> 00:17:08,479 Speaker 1: are pretty high. This fall, there will be a public 308 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:11,879 Speaker 1: comment period before the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, so 309 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:14,040 Speaker 1: you got to show up and make your voices heard. 310 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:19,480 Speaker 1: Moving on to the bear desk. Florida is likely to 311 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:22,680 Speaker 1: get a bear season this fall, and Connecticut might follow suit. 312 00:17:22,760 --> 00:17:25,840 Speaker 1: Connecticut bear hunters assumed that possibility was off the table 313 00:17:25,920 --> 00:17:28,600 Speaker 1: after a state Senate committee removed it from Senate Bill 314 00:17:28,680 --> 00:17:32,040 Speaker 1: one five three two, but a bipartisan group of legislators 315 00:17:32,080 --> 00:17:34,359 Speaker 1: proposed an amendment to the bill that would allow, but 316 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:37,119 Speaker 1: not require, the governor to propose a bear hunting season 317 00:17:37,280 --> 00:17:41,520 Speaker 1: in coordination with the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Specifically, 318 00:17:41,520 --> 00:17:44,000 Speaker 1: the amendment allows the governor to call a hunt only 319 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:47,240 Speaker 1: if the agency has found that bear conflicts with people, pets, 320 00:17:47,280 --> 00:17:50,000 Speaker 1: and livestock in the state have reached a level that 321 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:53,800 Speaker 1: poses a public safety threat. In doing the assessment, the 322 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:57,760 Speaker 1: Wildlife agency must consider factors like bear entries into occupied 323 00:17:57,800 --> 00:18:01,920 Speaker 1: buildings and bear attacks on people and livestock. This really 324 00:18:02,040 --> 00:18:04,320 Speaker 1: is the motivation for allowing a bear hunt in the 325 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:07,359 Speaker 1: first place, as in many states in the Northeast, the 326 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:10,840 Speaker 1: black bear populations have grown so large that they're getting 327 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:14,600 Speaker 1: into people's homes, hurting their dogs, and just generally causing mischief. 328 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:17,239 Speaker 1: Residents have been calling on their elected officials to do 329 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:19,399 Speaker 1: something about it, and a bear hunt is one of 330 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:22,480 Speaker 1: several management tools that can be used. Would also help 331 00:18:22,520 --> 00:18:26,240 Speaker 1: if people stopped leaving out trash and dangling bird feeders 332 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:28,560 Speaker 1: in places where bears can get them. But I'll never 333 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:31,560 Speaker 1: complain about a new hunting opportunity. The bill passed the 334 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:34,840 Speaker 1: Connecticut State Senate by a huge margin and now heads 335 00:18:34,880 --> 00:18:36,760 Speaker 1: to the House. If you live in the land of 336 00:18:36,760 --> 00:18:40,600 Speaker 1: Steady Habits, which is no kidding one of Connecticut's nicknames, 337 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:42,520 Speaker 1: get on the horn with your state reps and tell 338 00:18:42,560 --> 00:18:44,560 Speaker 1: them how you feel about Senate Bill one five three 339 00:18:44,560 --> 00:18:46,960 Speaker 1: to two. You can bet that the anti hunting crowd 340 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:51,560 Speaker 1: will be doing the same. Speaking of problem bears, the 341 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:55,760 Speaker 1: Eastern European country of Slovakia is maintaining its aggressive posture 342 00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:58,760 Speaker 1: towards its brown bear population. A few weeks ago, I 343 00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:01,120 Speaker 1: told you about Slovakia's plan to call about a quarter 344 00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:04,280 Speaker 1: of its thirteen hundred brown bears. They made the decision 345 00:19:04,359 --> 00:19:07,359 Speaker 1: after several fatal attacks in the last few years, which 346 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:10,359 Speaker 1: is understandable in a country smaller than West Virginia that 347 00:19:10,480 --> 00:19:13,920 Speaker 1: hosts over one thousand of the large, sometimes aggressive ruins. 348 00:19:14,160 --> 00:19:16,320 Speaker 1: Now the country's government is trying to make that move 349 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:19,760 Speaker 1: more palatable by allowing the meat from those cold bears 350 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:22,600 Speaker 1: to be sold after this week. According to the BBC, 351 00:19:22,920 --> 00:19:26,359 Speaker 1: organizations under the Environment Ministry can offer the meat for 352 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:29,800 Speaker 1: sale provided that all legal and hygiene conditions are met 353 00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:32,800 Speaker 1: to put things that will more perspective. Slovakia has seen 354 00:19:32,840 --> 00:19:35,680 Speaker 1: on average ten bear attacks per year over the last 355 00:19:35,680 --> 00:19:38,080 Speaker 1: few years. That might not sound like a lot, but 356 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:41,480 Speaker 1: the country's population is only about five point four million people. 357 00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:43,720 Speaker 1: If you take that ratio and apply it to the 358 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:46,600 Speaker 1: three hundred and forty million people in the United States, 359 00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:49,400 Speaker 1: we'd be seeing six hundred and thirty grizzly bear attacks 360 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:52,320 Speaker 1: every single year. As it is, we only hear about 361 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:55,919 Speaker 1: twenty or so each summer and fall. If you ask me, 362 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:58,760 Speaker 1: I'd say the Slovakians have shown a remarkable level of 363 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:01,439 Speaker 1: restraint to have weighted the this long to harvest some 364 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:05,520 Speaker 1: of these bears. Bear meat isn't commonly eaten in Slovakia, 365 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:08,919 Speaker 1: but we know it tastes good. Oddly enough, here in 366 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:12,400 Speaker 1: the US, if you are killing animals in the name 367 00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:15,440 Speaker 1: of depredation, as in getting rid of them because they're 368 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:19,320 Speaker 1: destroying crops or property, typically you cannot eat that animal, 369 00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:23,199 Speaker 1: which is of course a waste, so I applaud the 370 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:26,800 Speaker 1: Slovakians here. That's all I got for you this week. 371 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:29,080 Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening. 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