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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 cal Callahan. Former

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Speaker 1: President Donald Trump outlined a proposal this week that would

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Speaker 1: convert three point two million acres of federal public land

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Speaker 1: into what he calls freedom cities, proving once again that

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Speaker 1: life is just one big Saturday night live skip and

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Speaker 1: we're all living in it. Here's President Trump explaining his huge,

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Speaker 1: very biggest idea monumental. Ever, we should hold a contest

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Speaker 1: to charter up to ten new cities and award them

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Speaker 1: to the best proposals for development. In other words, will

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Speaker 1: actually build new cities in our country again. These freedom

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Speaker 1: cities will reopen the frontier, reignite American imagination, and give

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Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands of young people and other people, all

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Speaker 1: hard working families, a new shot at home ownership and

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Speaker 1: in fact, the American dream. Freedom cities are part of

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Speaker 1: Trump's larger agenda to lead a quote quantum leap in

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Speaker 1: the American standard of living. He says that past generations

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Speaker 1: of Americans pursued big dreams and daring projects, and we

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Speaker 1: should be doing the same today. But this begs the

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Speaker 1: question in two and twenty three, is building a city daring?

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Speaker 1: We seem to be pretty darn good at urban sprawl.

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Speaker 1: If I could suggest something daring, let's dare for a huge, huge,

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Speaker 1: magnificent project like conserving our shrinking grassland ecosystem or funding

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Speaker 1: conservation projects for threatened species. That seems like a better

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Speaker 1: use of American hard work and ingenuity than building an

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Speaker 1: They're denver in National Forest or a desert eco system

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Speaker 1: or something that's already super valuable and amazing. Yeah, anyway,

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Speaker 1: this week we've got legislation which you need to focus on.

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Speaker 1: We are in the home stretch of state coverage at least.

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Speaker 1: But first I'm going to tell you about my week.

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Speaker 1: In my week, well, I'm just gonna wrap up Texas.

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Speaker 1: If you have not checked out the Old Cow four

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Speaker 1: h six Instagram feed, I posted a video from a

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Speaker 1: super cool thing that happened. My buddy Terry Huhen killed

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Speaker 1: a mount lion while we were in Texas. Odd thing

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Speaker 1: incredibly awesome animals are on many many people's bucket lists

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Speaker 1: of adventurous hunts. They are not considered a big game

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Speaker 1: animal in the state of Texas, therefore unregulated and can

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Speaker 1: be hunted year round in the lone Star state. On

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Speaker 1: top of this, Terry and I had been talking the

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Speaker 1: night before where he mentioned that he really wanted to

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Speaker 1: go on a lion hunt, and wouldn't you know it,

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Speaker 1: while we were out cruising ranch roads looking for avelina,

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Speaker 1: a mountain lion or a gotto Montez runs up the dry, rocky,

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Speaker 1: mistake on the cat's part and incredibly odd in my opinion. Typically,

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Speaker 1: if you see a mountain lion and the cat sees

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Speaker 1: time than it took to say, you see that cat,

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Speaker 1: and then it's gone. Anyway, Terry was able to get

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Speaker 1: to the ranch hole. Lion meat is fantastic and I

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Speaker 1: was very happy for my friend. Also, this type of

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Speaker 1: terrain is like lyon heaven, food everywhere, lots of room

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Speaker 1: In other words, and you know, very anecdotally, I felt

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Speaker 1: rinse and eating it. On average, a lion consumes about

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Speaker 1: are amazing animals and they taste so good. Also, next

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Speaker 1: week Missoula, Montana Backcountry Hundreds and Anglers Rendezvous. Be sure

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Speaker 1: to stop in tons of great speakers and outdoor skill

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Speaker 1: the BHA camp Fire Stories Event. We got an amazing

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Speaker 1: lineup of storytellers this year, including Randy Newberg. This is

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Speaker 1: all going to happen Saturday night, March eighteenth at the

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Speaker 1: Fairgrounds Missoula, Montana. Go Nights, Go Shout Out for you

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Speaker 1: hell Gators. Moving on to the legislative desk, the Utah

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Speaker 1: state legislature passed a bill this week that would allow

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Speaker 1: for a year round mount lion hunting. House Bill four

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Speaker 1: I reached out to Utah Representative Casey Schneider, who was

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Speaker 1: in the bill was a new one million dollar appropriation

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Speaker 1: for public access for hunting and fishing. Schneider wrote that

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Speaker 1: wildlife biologists have told him that the new year round

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Speaker 1: every year under this new rule. Finally, he pointed out

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Speaker 1: that the legislation still allows the Wildlife Board to impose

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Speaker 1: certain restrictions on the hunt. The bill says that the

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Speaker 1: residents may obtain a hunting license quote as provided by

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Speaker 1: the Wildlife Board's rules. This may not be enough to

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Speaker 1: so an additional one hundred lions every year is significant.

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Speaker 1: the gov. Over In Minnesota, legislators are considering a bill

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Speaker 1: to the Environment, Climate and Legacy commit Speaking of wolves,

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Speaker 1: a proposal from a state forestry task force recommends that

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Speaker 1: New Jersey introduce wolves to deal with its ever growing

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Speaker 1: deer population. The proposal was put forward by Ken Dolski

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Speaker 1: the New Jersey Forrest Stewardship task Force report. Dulski claims

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Speaker 1: would gladly pay the ship wolves out east. He's brother

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Speaker 1: right on that point. Once the wolves eat their way

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Speaker 1: through New Jersey's deer population, he says, they'll move to

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Speaker 1: report's appendix, so it's unlikely to be implemented. But the

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Speaker 1: forward sixteen official recommendations, one of which calls for the

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Speaker 1: commercial sale of venison to encourage more hunting and reduce

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Speaker 1: it pays off For them. In Georgia, HP three one

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Speaker 1: four would establish a new position within the Department of

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Speaker 1: Natural Resources called the Director of Outdoor Recreation. The legislation

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Speaker 1: say that this new director would be responsible for promoting

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Speaker 1: as quote active and passive, motorized and non motorized sports, education,

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Speaker 1: to develop the growth of new businesses in Georgia that

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Speaker 1: unclear why the Georgia Department of Natural Resources needs this

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Speaker 1: outdoor recreation. Georgia Outdoor News reports that anonymous sources in

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Speaker 1: Agin Bob, a Rhode Island legislator, is sponsoring a bill

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Speaker 1: to the great state of Montana. Now, I'm going to

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Speaker 1: read this list of things that are happening in this state, Okay,

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Speaker 1: and you need to be involved. That's the point of this.

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Speaker 1: incredibly irksome. Here we go with the list. HB two

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Speaker 1: Access Agreement laws. HB four five six Revise FWP supertag

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Speaker 1: into the Habitat Montana Fund. Habitat Montana Fund is a

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Speaker 1: H five to one Revising laws related to conservation licenses

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Speaker 1: on state lands. HB five to two provide landowner preference

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Speaker 1: it would give a landowner tag, starting with one tag,

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Speaker 1: sad state of affairs. Now, if you're non resident who

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Speaker 1: Conspiracy theory, you tell me, but I don't like it.

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Speaker 1: The Department of the Interior announced last week, a new

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Speaker 1: The effort to restore American bison has been ongoing for

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Speaker 1: thousand bison. These herds are relatively small their range restricted,

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Speaker 1: their cultures. About twenty five million from last year's Inflation

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Speaker 1: Reduction Act will be set aside to implement whatever plan

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Speaker 1: be worked out. Ranchers are likely to be skeptical. In

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Speaker 1: the meat eater dot com forward slash cow where you

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Speaker 1: can see all of these bills and get involved. Moving

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Speaker 1: deer trapping project he was involved with. The good people

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