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Speaker 1: Do you ever wonder what happened to the hundreds of

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Speaker 1: thousands of buffalo that used to call the eastern US home?

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Speaker 1: Or what caused the rise and fall of Bob white quail?

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Speaker 1: Or who in the world is Fanny Cook? And why

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Speaker 1: should we care? Welcome to Backwoods University, the latest addition

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Speaker 1: to the beargreas feed on Meat Eater's podcast network. I'm

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Speaker 1: your host, Lake Pickle at Backwoods University. We'll explore the

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Speaker 1: land and learn from the people who have dedicated their

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Speaker 1: lives to wild animals and their habitats. Where did grizzly

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Speaker 1: bears fit into the modern landscape? How did all those

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Speaker 1: exotic species of wildlife end up in Texas? What led

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Speaker 1: to the demise of the once thriving population of bison

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Speaker 1: east to the Mississippi?

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Speaker 2: The most common evidence that we have a bison in

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Speaker 2: the east of the most common historical conductation with people

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Speaker 2: killing them.

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Speaker 1: How one woman single handedly saved the natural resources of

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Speaker 1: her home state through introducing wildlife conservation. Could we bring

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Speaker 1: Bob white quail back if we learned how to better

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Speaker 1: manage the land.

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Speaker 3: We need plants that are going to produce food. In June, July,

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Speaker 3: August September, et cetera. And so the plant community needs

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Speaker 3: to be diverse enough, that is, producing food twelve months

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Speaker 3: out of the year and cover twelve months out of

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Speaker 3: the year and thermal cover twelve months out of the year.

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Speaker 3: Monotypic plant communities can't do that. The question then becomes,

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Speaker 3: how do we get it? How do we create those

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Speaker 3: resources and conditions?

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Speaker 1: Join me at Backwoods University to seek out a deeper

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Speaker 1: understanding of wildlife, wild places, and the people who have

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Speaker 1: dedicated their lives to conserving. Both pencils down, let's get outside.

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