1 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:13,520 Speaker 1: From Mediator's World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is 2 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:17,479 Speaker 1: Kel's we can review with Ryan kel Kelly and now 3 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:21,880 Speaker 1: here's kel Hey. Why does a male apossum have a 4 00:00:21,920 --> 00:00:26,840 Speaker 1: forked penis because the female apossum has a bifurcated vagina. 5 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:30,440 Speaker 1: Of course, I honestly don't know why apossums are built 6 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:33,239 Speaker 1: this way, but it does sound fitting if you think 7 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:37,560 Speaker 1: about it. The apossum is the largest marsupial found in 8 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:41,479 Speaker 1: the Western hemisphere, and it is the only marsupial found 9 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:44,720 Speaker 1: north of Mexico. Mexico, on the other hand, has seven 10 00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:49,000 Speaker 1: marsupials to North America's one. Apossums are known for a 11 00:00:49,080 --> 00:00:52,600 Speaker 1: defense mechanism brought on by stress. They emit a foul 12 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:56,280 Speaker 1: odor from their anal glands and appere comatose. To play 13 00:00:56,360 --> 00:01:00,400 Speaker 1: possum is, of course, to play dead. Everybody knows that one, 14 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:03,120 Speaker 1: So here a couple of apossum facts that you may 15 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:06,559 Speaker 1: not know. The possum or a possum has a total 16 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:10,400 Speaker 1: of fifty teeth, which is a lot likely. The first 17 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:13,959 Speaker 1: European description of the apossum was in sixteen eleven by 18 00:01:13,959 --> 00:01:18,640 Speaker 1: the brief Jamestown inhabitant William strakey strike, he said, and 19 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:23,360 Speaker 1: quote beast in bigness of a pig and in taste alike, 20 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:27,920 Speaker 1: they must have produced a big possum in Jamestown. The 21 00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:31,880 Speaker 1: gestation period of a joey, which is a generic baby 22 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:35,440 Speaker 1: marsupial name, in this case a joey a possum, is 23 00:01:35,480 --> 00:01:40,440 Speaker 1: only thirteen or fourteen days. The newborn crawls into the pouch, 24 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:43,160 Speaker 1: and if the youngster finds a tea, it will be 25 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:46,520 Speaker 1: wean as in not relying on mother's milk, between seventy 26 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:49,680 Speaker 1: and a hundred and twenty five days, which, when you 27 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:53,200 Speaker 1: consider the life expectancy of a wild possum, which is 28 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:56,240 Speaker 1: less than two years, is a lot of time dedicated 29 00:01:56,240 --> 00:01:59,680 Speaker 1: of carrying and feeding young. Roughly one six of the 30 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:05,240 Speaker 1: female allopossums life for one litter. Apossums have surprisingly wide diets, 31 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:07,760 Speaker 1: but what makes them a pretty darned good neighbor is 32 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:11,040 Speaker 1: that they will eat an estimated five thousand ticks per season. 33 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:14,800 Speaker 1: Considering my history with ticks and tickbourn illness, I wouldn't 34 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:18,840 Speaker 1: mind having a few apossums around in the spring. One 35 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:23,440 Speaker 1: more apossum fact for you. Apossums have a particular molecule 36 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:27,519 Speaker 1: or peptide in their blood that can neutralize snake venom. 37 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:31,800 Speaker 1: When tested, the North American possum peptide worked against both 38 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:35,720 Speaker 1: the western diamondbacked rattlesnake and the Russell vipers venom, a 39 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:40,160 Speaker 1: poisonous snake native to India. Another interesting bit of possum history, 40 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:43,400 Speaker 1: the folks from Peta People for the Ethical Treatment of 41 00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:47,400 Speaker 1: Animals lobby to take down the loftiest of apossum festivities, 42 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:52,600 Speaker 1: the Possum Drop in Andrew's, North Carolina. Brasstown, North Carolina, 43 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:56,720 Speaker 1: as everyone knows, is the typical center of possum events, 44 00:02:57,160 --> 00:03:00,920 Speaker 1: Brasstown being the unofficial possum capital of the US and 45 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:04,400 Speaker 1: the original site of the Possum Drop. The event was 46 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:08,160 Speaker 1: started by Clay logan local proprietor of Clay's Corner Store, 47 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:11,760 Speaker 1: who quote wanted to draw some attention that wouldn't get 48 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:15,720 Speaker 1: him thrown in jail anyway. In this region of North Carolina, 49 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:18,680 Speaker 1: New Year's is rung in by partying under a possum 50 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:22,320 Speaker 1: hoisted high above the crowd in a plexiglass box, just 51 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:25,440 Speaker 1: like the ball in Times Square. The possum is lowered 52 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 1: to a countdown at the stroke of midnight. Now you 53 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:32,360 Speaker 1: may be defensive, thinking what's wrong with people raising a 54 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:35,080 Speaker 1: little cane on New Year's And the answer is nothing. 55 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:38,080 Speaker 1: But here, in this case, people are raising a live 56 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:40,520 Speaker 1: possum to the top of the Cane Law Firm building, 57 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:44,240 Speaker 1: so you know it's different. Peter obtained a video of 58 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:47,800 Speaker 1: the event and pasted it to their YouTube page, garnering 59 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:51,760 Speaker 1: such comments as I was preparing for this possum to 60 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:54,080 Speaker 1: be hurled out of the cage above the crowd, but 61 00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:57,280 Speaker 1: they literally raised it up and down and I was 62 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:00,440 Speaker 1: dropped from a forty story building once in a device 63 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:04,280 Speaker 1: they call an elevator, and I thought they would actually 64 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:08,600 Speaker 1: drop the possum. They just lowered it down. And misleading 65 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:13,400 Speaker 1: title and anticlimactic and you get the gist kind of 66 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:16,120 Speaker 1: telling of the people that tune into the PA YouTube channel, 67 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:19,360 Speaker 1: It's like they want to see something bad, and you know, 68 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:21,920 Speaker 1: this probably isn't the way a possum wants to spend 69 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:24,440 Speaker 1: a day, be it New Year's or not. But this 70 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:29,400 Speaker 1: is oddly the only congressionally endorsed possum event in the 71 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:33,440 Speaker 1: United States. You can thank North Carolina's former Congressman Keith 72 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:36,320 Speaker 1: Shooler for that. You can find more on the former 73 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:40,679 Speaker 1: congressman under an article titled years Ago, the Redskins picked 74 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:44,000 Speaker 1: the wrong QB. That one's in the Washington Post. The 75 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:47,080 Speaker 1: most disturbing part of this situation, aside from just messing 76 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:49,800 Speaker 1: with wildlife, is that the state of North Carolina actually 77 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:53,440 Speaker 1: passed a series of bills around two thousand thirteen, including 78 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:57,040 Speaker 1: the quote a Possum Right to Work Act or SP 79 00:04:57,240 --> 00:05:01,520 Speaker 1: sixty and the Clay County of Awesome Exclusion Law that 80 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:06,200 Speaker 1: apparently briefly suspended trapping laws and wildlife protection surrounding the event, 81 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:09,840 Speaker 1: which gang I just have to say, North Carolina is 82 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:12,640 Speaker 1: a big state. I find it hard to believe lawmakers 83 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:16,000 Speaker 1: in that state don't have anything better to do. Aside 84 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:19,360 Speaker 1: from that, you North Carolinians, look at all the awesome 85 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:23,039 Speaker 1: facts I just rattled off about a possums prehensile tails 86 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:27,960 Speaker 1: naturally containing anti venom, are only marsupial, tastes like a pig, 87 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:30,200 Speaker 1: and takes care of five thousand ticks that could be 88 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:33,280 Speaker 1: sucking on your blood. Not to mention again the ever 89 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:37,800 Speaker 1: popular uh you know, bifurcated genitalia. If you think about it, 90 00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:40,880 Speaker 1: we should be raising these creatures up in celebration. Let's 91 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:45,320 Speaker 1: just make sure they're comfortable when we do it. You 92 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:48,719 Speaker 1: may be saying at this point, geez cal, what is 93 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:51,760 Speaker 1: with all the possum facts? Where did this come from? 94 00:05:51,839 --> 00:05:55,120 Speaker 1: The answer is A listener sent in a video of 95 00:05:55,360 --> 00:05:58,240 Speaker 1: an apossum picking ticks off of the head of a 96 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:01,640 Speaker 1: white tailed deer and asked the question is this tool 97 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:04,880 Speaker 1: use The answer is, of course no. The apostum is 98 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:06,960 Speaker 1: not a tool. It is an animal, and therefore a 99 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:09,360 Speaker 1: deer letting the apossum pick the ticks off of its 100 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:13,280 Speaker 1: head is an example of symbiotic relationship mutual is um. 101 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:16,960 Speaker 1: The apossum gets a meal delivered in the form of ticks, 102 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:20,320 Speaker 1: and the deer gets rid of annoying parasites. Then I, 103 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:22,440 Speaker 1: you know, found the rest of this stuff digging around. 104 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:28,040 Speaker 1: So you're welcome this week Australia lawbreakers, mountain goats and 105 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:30,760 Speaker 1: so much more. But first I'm gonna tell you about 106 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:35,440 Speaker 1: my week. My week is powered by Steel Power Equipment, 107 00:06:35,520 --> 00:06:39,159 Speaker 1: the maker of all fantastic things that cut, spray, snap, sheer, 108 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:42,640 Speaker 1: and occasionally blow your yard and lawn clean. That's just 109 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:45,360 Speaker 1: in addition to their line of both gas and battery 110 00:06:45,360 --> 00:06:49,760 Speaker 1: powered chainsaws. Give him look, I sure like them. As 111 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:52,400 Speaker 1: it is still waterfowl season, I rolled out to my 112 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:56,200 Speaker 1: ma's place outside of Billings still just an incredible amount 113 00:06:56,200 --> 00:06:58,800 Speaker 1: of geese flying around, none of which wanted to come 114 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:01,240 Speaker 1: sit in the field, But through a combination of calling 115 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:04,520 Speaker 1: and flagging, I managed to persuade a few to come 116 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:08,840 Speaker 1: check out my dozen decoys. Which man dozen decoys does 117 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:11,440 Speaker 1: not look like a lot of birds. Maybe been a 118 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:17,160 Speaker 1: little undergunned anyway. Flagging, which is waving a black flag 119 00:07:17,320 --> 00:07:19,480 Speaker 1: or a black flag in the shape of a goose 120 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 1: in order to get the attention of passing birds, is 121 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:24,200 Speaker 1: a technique. I find it's gone a little out of style. 122 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:26,920 Speaker 1: I don't see it that often, but that may be 123 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:29,800 Speaker 1: because the folks I see with giant goose spreads is 124 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:32,600 Speaker 1: and lots of decoys also have spots that the birds 125 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:36,520 Speaker 1: actually won't be in and find it unnecessary. Anyway, A 126 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:38,800 Speaker 1: morning of laying in the field under a pile of 127 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:41,720 Speaker 1: old grass hay resulting in three geese, one of which 128 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:44,920 Speaker 1: was a lesser as in a smaller goose for our purposes, 129 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:47,760 Speaker 1: and two were quite large. I cleaned the geese like 130 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:49,600 Speaker 1: I do a lot of my ducks. I plucked breast 131 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:52,240 Speaker 1: and thigh and filet the meat off the bone, leaving 132 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:54,880 Speaker 1: the skin on. I wrapped and froze a couple of 133 00:07:54,920 --> 00:07:57,880 Speaker 1: breasts and the thighs are currently in the suvie, making 134 00:07:57,920 --> 00:08:00,760 Speaker 1: a comb feet. There's a great way to do suvie 135 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:03,200 Speaker 1: as you can either leave the skin on the birds 136 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:05,280 Speaker 1: and cook them in their own fat, or if you 137 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:07,800 Speaker 1: want to skin the thighs and legs, you can add 138 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:10,840 Speaker 1: only a couple of spoonfuls of the fat of your choice. 139 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:13,440 Speaker 1: Either way of cooking in the bag is much cleaner 140 00:08:13,480 --> 00:08:16,080 Speaker 1: and way more hands off than simmering a vat of 141 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:18,720 Speaker 1: fat for hours in the oven around the stove top. 142 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:21,840 Speaker 1: The whole fatty pouch of goose, legs and thighs can 143 00:08:21,840 --> 00:08:24,840 Speaker 1: be thrown directly in the freezer as is. Then when 144 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:26,840 Speaker 1: you want them, it's nice to put them on a 145 00:08:26,880 --> 00:08:29,280 Speaker 1: cookie sheet on top of a cooling rack and heat 146 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:31,760 Speaker 1: them up until the fat drips off. Then you can 147 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:34,640 Speaker 1: use the pulled meat on anything, and being as it's 148 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:38,400 Speaker 1: cooked in fat, it will not disappoint anyone. I also 149 00:08:38,520 --> 00:08:41,679 Speaker 1: cooked a whole breast skin on by salting and scoring 150 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:44,480 Speaker 1: the skin so the fat would melt off in order 151 00:08:44,480 --> 00:08:47,200 Speaker 1: to melt the fat, I placed the breast skin side 152 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:50,040 Speaker 1: down in a cold pan and brought it up too hot. 153 00:08:50,120 --> 00:08:52,560 Speaker 1: Then flip the breast and seared the skin less side. 154 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:55,960 Speaker 1: Then I threw this in a bag in the suvie. 155 00:08:56,360 --> 00:08:58,839 Speaker 1: I guess if you're not hip to suvie, look it up. 156 00:08:58,920 --> 00:09:02,400 Speaker 1: It's a French word for crock pot, I believe. Anyway, 157 00:09:02,679 --> 00:09:05,120 Speaker 1: brought the breast up two d thirty four degrees over 158 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:08,319 Speaker 1: the course of about two hours, then took it out 159 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:11,160 Speaker 1: of the bag, browned it so it looked real pretty 160 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:13,960 Speaker 1: in the leftover goose fat, and served at like a 161 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:18,200 Speaker 1: gorgeous piece of beef. Eating this was a mental treat. 162 00:09:18,679 --> 00:09:21,920 Speaker 1: Your tongue said beef, but the mind knew that this 163 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:26,480 Speaker 1: medium rare, delicious, nous previously honked, not mood. You can 164 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:29,880 Speaker 1: find Danielle pruett steakhouse goose recipe at the meat eater 165 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:33,880 Speaker 1: dot com. I think it's worth a shot. 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An area closure began January twelve, 180 00:10:32,880 --> 00:10:35,959 Speaker 1: starting on the south side of the south middle Grand 181 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:40,199 Speaker 1: Teton mount owen t wanat Mountain Peaks, on the west 182 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:43,000 Speaker 1: by the park boundary, on the east by the western 183 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:47,280 Speaker 1: shores of Jackson Lee, String and Jenny Lakes, and on 184 00:10:47,320 --> 00:10:50,600 Speaker 1: the north by Rolling Thunder Mountain and Eagle Rest Peaks. 185 00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:54,400 Speaker 1: In between all that stuff, it's all closed. No public 186 00:10:54,440 --> 00:10:57,120 Speaker 1: access will be allowed in the area during this time, 187 00:10:57,280 --> 00:10:59,800 Speaker 1: the park said in a news release. And if you 188 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:02,240 Speaker 1: won't listen to Cal's weeken review, there's gonna be signs 189 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:06,199 Speaker 1: posted at the big access points. The issue here is 190 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:09,640 Speaker 1: rocky mountain bighorn sheep. Although iconic or kind of sissies, 191 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:13,760 Speaker 1: they're very susceptible to disease. They like beating each other up, 192 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:16,320 Speaker 1: but they kind of get pushed around by other critters, 193 00:11:16,559 --> 00:11:19,520 Speaker 1: such as the mountain goat. Now, the mountain goat is 194 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:22,040 Speaker 1: native to North America, but it's not native to the 195 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:26,760 Speaker 1: Teton Range. The goats apparently migrated into the Teton Range 196 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:30,640 Speaker 1: from the neighboring Snake River Range. We transplanted mountain goats 197 00:11:30,679 --> 00:11:33,160 Speaker 1: into the Snake River Range because a they're fun to 198 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:36,559 Speaker 1: check out and be their incredible animals to hunt and eat. 199 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:40,800 Speaker 1: At this point, the mountain goats do overlap with the sheep, 200 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:44,720 Speaker 1: meaning they're competing for food and posing a potential risk 201 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:51,040 Speaker 1: of disease. M ov or restrain thereof is incredibly crippling 202 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:55,960 Speaker 1: to sheep. Oftentimes, this disease is incredibly hard to eradicate 203 00:11:56,080 --> 00:12:00,560 Speaker 1: from a sheep herd and the effects can be irree versible. 204 00:12:01,040 --> 00:12:03,600 Speaker 1: Nobody wants to see these goats killed. Costs a lot 205 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:06,920 Speaker 1: of money to capture and transport the goats elsewhere, and 206 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:10,040 Speaker 1: this is the option the park has at its disposal. 207 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:14,000 Speaker 1: Now it costs money to leafy remove goats from a 208 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:18,400 Speaker 1: helicopter or shoot goats from helicopters as well. Many people 209 00:12:18,400 --> 00:12:21,040 Speaker 1: in the hunting community have voiced their frustrations over the 210 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:24,240 Speaker 1: fact that hunters pay money, sometimes lots of money, just 211 00:12:24,320 --> 00:12:27,640 Speaker 1: for the opportunity to hunt and hopefully harvest a mountain goat, 212 00:12:27,920 --> 00:12:31,960 Speaker 1: and here are the Feds using our money to kill them. Well, 213 00:12:32,280 --> 00:12:35,560 Speaker 1: there's a difference. Ay, this is a national park gets 214 00:12:35,640 --> 00:12:39,040 Speaker 1: lots of visitors, which is why they're using helicopters at 215 00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:41,280 Speaker 1: this time of year where the goats have retreated up 216 00:12:41,280 --> 00:12:45,600 Speaker 1: to their winter range. Is extremely difficult, extremely dangerous to 217 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:48,160 Speaker 1: go find goats in their winter range. That's why a 218 00:12:48,160 --> 00:12:51,000 Speaker 1: lot of goat tags don't get filled. Even in November. 219 00:12:51,559 --> 00:12:54,720 Speaker 1: There's a lot of traffic in Grand Teton National Park. 220 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:58,200 Speaker 1: So the odds of having a controlled hunting season for 221 00:12:58,240 --> 00:13:00,920 Speaker 1: the general public even in the fall, all when all 222 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:04,760 Speaker 1: the other interest groups out there are overlapping, is very 223 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:08,000 Speaker 1: very low, And in my opinion, it's just a bad 224 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:10,920 Speaker 1: pr situation for hunting if that were to be allowed. 225 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:14,280 Speaker 1: Because the main point here is this is not a hunt. 226 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:18,320 Speaker 1: This is an eradication, and there's a big difference between 227 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:21,920 Speaker 1: hunting and eradicating. So what has been determined to be 228 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:25,680 Speaker 1: the best for the native wildlife and habitat is eradication 229 00:13:25,880 --> 00:13:28,640 Speaker 1: of a non native species, not the hunting of a 230 00:13:28,679 --> 00:13:31,680 Speaker 1: non native species. Keep in mind, I love mountain goats. 231 00:13:31,679 --> 00:13:34,440 Speaker 1: I've been on several hunts, and I encourage anyone to 232 00:13:34,440 --> 00:13:38,280 Speaker 1: go have that experience. But hunting and eradication, again, are 233 00:13:38,360 --> 00:13:41,360 Speaker 1: not one and the same. To quote First Light founder 234 00:13:41,480 --> 00:13:45,160 Speaker 1: Kent Caruth, eradication maybe a job, but it's not my job. 235 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:50,200 Speaker 1: Moving on to the law enforcement desk, Texas Parks and 236 00:13:50,200 --> 00:13:53,200 Speaker 1: Wildlife makes a whopper of a fine stick. A North 237 00:13:53,240 --> 00:13:57,640 Speaker 1: Padre Island recreational boat captain was issued seventeen citations for 238 00:13:57,679 --> 00:14:00,560 Speaker 1: going over the limit on red snapper last worth of July. 239 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:05,040 Speaker 1: An additional thirty citations were later issued for failing to 240 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:09,880 Speaker 1: complete wildlife resource documents after a tip was received regarding 241 00:14:09,920 --> 00:14:12,800 Speaker 1: the captain in question, suggesting that he was going over 242 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:15,760 Speaker 1: the daily bag limit of four red snapper per person 243 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:18,720 Speaker 1: per day. Game wardens located the vessel near North Padre 244 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:22,120 Speaker 1: Island was seven anglers on board when the boat was searched. 245 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:26,280 Speaker 1: They discovered forty five red snapper in possession. The captain 246 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:30,280 Speaker 1: was convicted and find more than twenty six thousand dollars 247 00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:35,000 Speaker 1: that's five and seventy eight dollars per fish, moving over 248 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:37,520 Speaker 1: to Kansas and sticking with the crime beat. Apparently, the 249 00:14:37,520 --> 00:14:39,880 Speaker 1: state of Kansas and a landowner have been in a 250 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:42,920 Speaker 1: feud over the ownership of a deer Shoulder Mountain. The 251 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:46,400 Speaker 1: fourteen point o Sage County buck is the second largest 252 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:49,080 Speaker 1: typical white tailed deer in the state. The buck was 253 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:52,880 Speaker 1: killed in two thousand eleven on Tim Nadow's property illegally 254 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:56,120 Speaker 1: a poacher who apparently shot it out the window of 255 00:14:56,120 --> 00:14:58,880 Speaker 1: his vehicle with a nine millimeter handgun at fifty yards, 256 00:14:59,120 --> 00:15:04,440 Speaker 1: which is see shooting the pistol packing. Poacher eventually had 257 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:06,840 Speaker 1: to show off as stolen buck, and did so by 258 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:09,960 Speaker 1: placing it in a big buck contest in Topeka, where 259 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:12,840 Speaker 1: it was seized by wildlife officials in two thousand twelve, 260 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:15,720 Speaker 1: who must have gotten a tip. At this point, the 261 00:15:15,840 --> 00:15:19,400 Speaker 1: landowner sought out a salvage permit for the buck, and, 262 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:22,760 Speaker 1: apparently being denied, appealed to the governor sometime in two 263 00:15:22,800 --> 00:15:26,520 Speaker 1: thousand thirteen for the deer Then, in two thousand fourteen, 264 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:30,320 Speaker 1: the Kansas state legislature passed a bill granting landowners the 265 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:34,320 Speaker 1: ability to claim animal parts taken illegally from their land. However, 266 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:38,040 Speaker 1: this bill was not retroactive, meaning that what was in 267 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:41,560 Speaker 1: the past did not apply. Further, Department of Parks and 268 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:44,560 Speaker 1: Wildlife found more reason to deny and to do when 269 00:15:44,560 --> 00:15:46,960 Speaker 1: they found that the property in which the buck was 270 00:15:47,040 --> 00:15:50,760 Speaker 1: illegally taken actually belonged to Nadu's mother, who was not 271 00:15:50,880 --> 00:15:54,040 Speaker 1: making the claim. Now at this point, I'm just gonna 272 00:15:54,040 --> 00:15:56,280 Speaker 1: give you my opinion. Keep in mind this as an 273 00:15:56,280 --> 00:15:59,920 Speaker 1: ownership of property rights type of situation. I get very 274 00:16:00,040 --> 00:16:03,359 Speaker 1: at odds when situations like this arise with wild animals 275 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:07,600 Speaker 1: being argued as property. My altruistic view of wildlife in 276 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:10,840 Speaker 1: North America is that states managed the animals by collecting 277 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:14,200 Speaker 1: accurate data for health and population. Then they say how 278 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:17,640 Speaker 1: many animals can be proactively taken as in not killed 279 00:16:17,640 --> 00:16:20,400 Speaker 1: by accident or winter kill. I'm talking hunting, of course. 280 00:16:20,800 --> 00:16:23,440 Speaker 1: The buck was killed fifty yards from a road on 281 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:27,440 Speaker 1: the corner of th Street and Wanta Maker Road during 282 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:29,840 Speaker 1: what I think is possibly the best day of the 283 00:16:29,920 --> 00:16:35,200 Speaker 1: rut November eleven taking a look at on X and landownership. 284 00:16:35,560 --> 00:16:38,320 Speaker 1: If indeed this is where the deer was taken, this 285 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:41,800 Speaker 1: corner has several property owners around it, and if you 286 00:16:41,880 --> 00:16:45,800 Speaker 1: think about how much a deer moves a buck deer 287 00:16:45,840 --> 00:16:48,560 Speaker 1: moves during the rut, they put on a lot of miles. 288 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:51,440 Speaker 1: It would be hard to say that this buck spent 289 00:16:51,560 --> 00:16:56,360 Speaker 1: any more time on nadus property or Nadu's mother's property 290 00:16:56,440 --> 00:16:59,360 Speaker 1: than any of the other landowner's property if you just 291 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:02,920 Speaker 1: take into consideration where the buck was killed. So based 292 00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:06,480 Speaker 1: off that, what constitutes legal claimer ownership If it's just 293 00:17:06,640 --> 00:17:10,359 Speaker 1: a finder's keeper scenario. The state found the illegally killed 294 00:17:10,359 --> 00:17:13,399 Speaker 1: deer at the big Buck contest in Topeka, no matter 295 00:17:13,600 --> 00:17:16,119 Speaker 1: if you think the buck belongs to the landowner or 296 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:19,800 Speaker 1: the State of Kansas. Here's what happened, a possible happy 297 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:22,800 Speaker 1: ending if you believe in the free market. The landowner 298 00:17:22,920 --> 00:17:26,280 Speaker 1: outbid a representative of Bass pro Shops in a closed 299 00:17:26,320 --> 00:17:30,960 Speaker 1: auction consisting of two bidders. The price sixteen thousand and 300 00:17:31,119 --> 00:17:34,640 Speaker 1: one dollars. Proceeds go to wildlife in the State of Kansas. 301 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:38,040 Speaker 1: Right or wrong, I do not know, but that is 302 00:17:38,080 --> 00:17:42,399 Speaker 1: what happened. Congrats tim to do moving on but sticking 303 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:44,959 Speaker 1: with crime only this time. The crime may be in 304 00:17:45,080 --> 00:17:50,600 Speaker 1: progress as of this recording. As previously mentioned here on 305 00:17:50,640 --> 00:17:53,040 Speaker 1: the Weekend Review, the State of Minnesota Department of Matural 306 00:17:53,080 --> 00:17:57,000 Speaker 1: Resources issued a temporary moratorium on the transport of farmed 307 00:17:57,119 --> 00:18:00,240 Speaker 1: deer in the state after the most recent discovery of 308 00:18:00,240 --> 00:18:03,800 Speaker 1: a dead captive white tailed dough and confirmation of cause 309 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:06,240 Speaker 1: of death is c w D or chronic wasting disease. 310 00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:09,439 Speaker 1: The temporary order was imposed on December twenty three, two 311 00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:15,399 Speaker 1: thousand nineteen, and is scheduled to expire January. Minnesota Department 312 00:18:15,440 --> 00:18:18,240 Speaker 1: and Natural Resources is currently working with the Minnesota Board 313 00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:21,320 Speaker 1: of Animal Health to track pass movements of deer in 314 00:18:21,480 --> 00:18:23,560 Speaker 1: and out of the farm facility where the eight year 315 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:26,520 Speaker 1: old dough was found dead and confirmed with c w D. 316 00:18:27,119 --> 00:18:29,760 Speaker 1: These measures are being taken in order to prevent the 317 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:32,680 Speaker 1: further spread of the disease. Keep in mind, a deer 318 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:34,400 Speaker 1: on a truck moves a heck of a lot faster 319 00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:38,639 Speaker 1: than a deer on the hoof. Now for the crime, 320 00:18:39,119 --> 00:18:43,160 Speaker 1: a captive servant farmer who raises selectively bred monster white 321 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:47,399 Speaker 1: tail bucks has broken the transportation moratorium, insisting that his 322 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:52,240 Speaker 1: contractual obligation to the Minnesota Sportsman Show is more important 323 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:56,800 Speaker 1: than the transportation band. His business is based on producing 324 00:18:56,880 --> 00:19:00,560 Speaker 1: deer lure attractants and selling the experience of shooting is 325 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:04,240 Speaker 1: farmed deer. Because this gets confusing, I'm gonna get refer 326 00:19:04,359 --> 00:19:07,040 Speaker 1: to these farm deer as live stock for the rest 327 00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:09,480 Speaker 1: of this report. I don't want people thinking that these 328 00:19:09,520 --> 00:19:11,399 Speaker 1: deer are just deer that we're found on a farm. 329 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:14,760 Speaker 1: This is a farm with high fences where captive deer 330 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:19,760 Speaker 1: raised as you would live stock. Clear clear. Part of 331 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:22,720 Speaker 1: this operation is allowing individuals who would like to shoot 332 00:19:22,760 --> 00:19:25,520 Speaker 1: the live stock to come out and do so for fee. 333 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:29,200 Speaker 1: This next part is directly from the operation's website. Each 334 00:19:29,280 --> 00:19:31,680 Speaker 1: hunt takes place in our hundred and forty acre hunting 335 00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:35,160 Speaker 1: preserve that consists of tall oaks, poplar trees, thick underbrush, 336 00:19:35,240 --> 00:19:39,240 Speaker 1: diamond willows, and food plots. Are prices are now better 337 00:19:39,359 --> 00:19:42,119 Speaker 1: than ever. When we first started our hunting preserve, it 338 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:45,600 Speaker 1: took us four to five years to grow a hundred buck. Now, 339 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:49,960 Speaker 1: with better genetics through artificial insemination, our two year old 340 00:19:50,040 --> 00:19:53,760 Speaker 1: bucks are routinely over two hundred inches. Then there is 341 00:19:53,760 --> 00:19:57,119 Speaker 1: a list of prices. Final price determined upon the total 342 00:19:57,240 --> 00:20:00,840 Speaker 1: score of the deer. For quick reference, these deer are 343 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:03,879 Speaker 1: measured by the size of the antler they grow. You 344 00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:06,200 Speaker 1: can go check out the Boone and Crockett Club website 345 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:08,359 Speaker 1: and there will be a full diagram as to how 346 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:13,240 Speaker 1: to measure antler's or horns. A hundred eighty inch whitetail 347 00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:16,680 Speaker 1: buck for your average hunter wandering around the woods is 348 00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:19,240 Speaker 1: kind of like seeing a celebrity in the locals gas station. 349 00:20:19,720 --> 00:20:21,879 Speaker 1: You may have heard of it, but it hasn't happened 350 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:25,240 Speaker 1: to you or anyone you know personally, but you hear 351 00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:28,320 Speaker 1: the stories. That's the small end of the spectrum of 352 00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:32,840 Speaker 1: this particular dear operation. The big end of the spectrum, 353 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:35,480 Speaker 1: which they state they grow to two hundred and seventy 354 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:39,840 Speaker 1: five plus inches. For your average hunter wandering around the woods, 355 00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:42,879 Speaker 1: that would be the equivalent of um, not trying to 356 00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:45,879 Speaker 1: be blasphemous here, but like seeing Jesus in the woods 357 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:49,680 Speaker 1: shaking his hand, and then before parting, he stops you 358 00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:52,520 Speaker 1: and says, hey, you look like you could use a 359 00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:57,080 Speaker 1: cold beer. My friends Johnny Cash, Lady Gaga, Bruce Springsteen, 360 00:20:57,119 --> 00:21:00,040 Speaker 1: and Bill Murray are having some really cool folks overlay it. 361 00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:03,080 Speaker 1: Why don't you come by and uh, go ahead and 362 00:21:03,119 --> 00:21:06,160 Speaker 1: bring some friends. Oh, and uh, I saw a really 363 00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:08,879 Speaker 1: nice buck right over the hill. In other words, it 364 00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:12,320 Speaker 1: ain't gonna happen again. These animals are livestock, and there's 365 00:21:12,359 --> 00:21:14,440 Speaker 1: no difference between you or I going out to the 366 00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:17,000 Speaker 1: nearest rancher and saying, hey, I would like to go 367 00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:19,760 Speaker 1: shoot one of your calves or lambs for dinner. How 368 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:22,680 Speaker 1: much and the rancher responding with, well, here's the going 369 00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:24,840 Speaker 1: price per pound to go shoot. One will weigh it 370 00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:27,720 Speaker 1: and I'll charge you appropriately. The difference we should be 371 00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:30,760 Speaker 1: focusing on here is the part of the story where 372 00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:34,719 Speaker 1: the crime is committed. For whatever reason, this livestock grower 373 00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:37,920 Speaker 1: has decided to go directly against a state agency trying 374 00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:42,720 Speaker 1: to control the spread of fatal and infectious disease. The 375 00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:46,240 Speaker 1: regulatory body in Minnesota for captive servants like these white 376 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:48,800 Speaker 1: tails is the Minnesota Board of Animal Health, who was 377 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:51,520 Speaker 1: asked by Minnesota d n R to enact a temporary 378 00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:56,040 Speaker 1: captive dear shipment closure, which they declined. This flies right 379 00:21:56,080 --> 00:21:58,080 Speaker 1: in the face of anything I have read from the U. 380 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:01,200 Speaker 1: S d A regarding disease transmit. The d n R 381 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:03,879 Speaker 1: states that they are trying to protect the state's wild 382 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:07,920 Speaker 1: deer population. The dear farmer states that his business has 383 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:12,680 Speaker 1: maintained a c w D free facility. Fifteen years ago, 384 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:15,639 Speaker 1: he stopped shipping outside deer to his farm, and the 385 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:19,399 Speaker 1: transportation of his dear to sportsman shows are what keeps 386 00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:22,240 Speaker 1: him in business. The deer do not leave the trailer, 387 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:25,000 Speaker 1: They do not come in contact with any dear, what 388 00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:28,760 Speaker 1: is the problem. This is a misdemeanor violation of which 389 00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:32,480 Speaker 1: this farmer is guilty. It's punishable by a thousand dollar 390 00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:36,240 Speaker 1: fine and ninety days in jail. One last interesting thing 391 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:40,320 Speaker 1: about this is the deer farmer apparently spent thirty years 392 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:43,919 Speaker 1: as law enforcement, which he references here in a statement 393 00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:48,040 Speaker 1: provided by the Star Tribune. Quote almost thirty years protecting 394 00:22:48,119 --> 00:22:51,840 Speaker 1: victims of crime. And now I'm raising livestock, dear, and 395 00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:56,120 Speaker 1: they say they are going to make me into a criminal. Now, 396 00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:58,680 Speaker 1: I'm no legal expert, but I did like to raise 397 00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:01,520 Speaker 1: little cane in my youth, not like the apostle. Folks 398 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:03,480 Speaker 1: in North Carolina have just been a law a bit. 399 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:07,959 Speaker 1: And this defense of the law made me into a criminal. Uh, 400 00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:10,600 Speaker 1: and my experience. I don't think that's gonna work out 401 00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:14,960 Speaker 1: for you, at least it never did for me. You see, Officer, 402 00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:20,000 Speaker 1: if Law didn't say, then I wouldn't. I mean, you 403 00:23:20,119 --> 00:23:23,760 Speaker 1: get it right last, but not least. And I'll be 404 00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:26,119 Speaker 1: honest because I have not wrapped my head around this 405 00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:28,920 Speaker 1: one yet, and it will be a while before I do. 406 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:33,639 Speaker 1: Australia is burning currently over twenty six million acres roughly 407 00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:37,920 Speaker 1: forty thousand square miles have burned. That's the entire state 408 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:41,240 Speaker 1: of Tennessee on fire, all at once. From Afar, it 409 00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:44,960 Speaker 1: seems the country hit a critical mass this fire season 410 00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:47,720 Speaker 1: when a long drought combined with the record breaking heat, 411 00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:52,080 Speaker 1: arson and yes, the evermore noticeable effects of climate change. 412 00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:55,159 Speaker 1: We still aren't out of the woods yet. Fire season 413 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:58,520 Speaker 1: traditionally peaks in late January, but this year has been odd, 414 00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:01,240 Speaker 1: to say the least asked mets in terms of wildlife 415 00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:03,760 Speaker 1: impact are very hard to know, but loss of over 416 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:07,920 Speaker 1: a billion animals, ranging from kangaroos to fruit bats and 417 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:13,200 Speaker 1: amphibians is already likely, if not certain. It is difficult 418 00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:16,120 Speaker 1: to know how to help. But fires like this leave 419 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:20,399 Speaker 1: lasting scars and reclamation, and more importantly, future prevention of 420 00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:23,359 Speaker 1: fire on this scale will be critical not to mention 421 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:27,280 Speaker 1: the habitat left. If anyone listening, haw's a good way 422 00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:30,200 Speaker 1: to help, please let me know I did see that. 423 00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:33,680 Speaker 1: That big badass of a rugby player and seemingly all 424 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:37,440 Speaker 1: around good guy, David Pocock of the Australian national team 425 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:41,359 Speaker 1: is matching donations through his Instagram page. He is a 426 00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:44,280 Speaker 1: friend of Meat Eater, but that's just one small source 427 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:47,520 Speaker 1: I trust, and we're looking for a lot more good 428 00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:51,159 Speaker 1: luck over there. Thanks, That's all I've got for you, 429 00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:53,600 Speaker 1: and as per usual, let me know how I'm doing 430 00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:57,040 Speaker 1: by writing in to ask Cal that's a s k 431 00:24:57,280 --> 00:25:00,119 Speaker 1: C a L at the Meat eater dot com. If 432 00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:02,440 Speaker 1: you like what you're hearing, tell some friends and leave 433 00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:05,000 Speaker 1: me a review by hitting that furthest right hand star. 434 00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:06,560 Speaker 1: I'll talk to you next week.