1 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:06,840 Speaker 1: From Mediators World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is 2 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:11,360 Speaker 1: Cal's weekend review, presented by Steel Steel products are available 3 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:15,160 Speaker 1: only at authorized dealers. For more, go to Steel Dealers 4 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:22,319 Speaker 1: dot com. Now here's your host, Ryan cal Callahan. The 5 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:28,720 Speaker 1: global Blitzkrieg hypothesis of animal extinctions asserts that hunting by 6 00:00:28,840 --> 00:00:35,320 Speaker 1: colonizing prehistoric human societies killed off several species way before 7 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:38,800 Speaker 1: the invention of the rifle. For example, there were a 8 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:42,519 Speaker 1: whole lot of enormous animals here in the America's tens 9 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:45,440 Speaker 1: of thousands of years ago, like the wooly mammoth, the 10 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:49,000 Speaker 1: Master don, the American horse, the American camel, as well 11 00:00:49,040 --> 00:00:51,959 Speaker 1: as the gampho theory, which is something I haven't heard of. 12 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:56,120 Speaker 1: It's an animal that descended from the order Probosity, of 13 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:59,800 Speaker 1: which the elephant is the only living member. If you 14 00:00:59,800 --> 00:01:02,800 Speaker 1: were mean kid and he wanted to remember that word 15 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:06,319 Speaker 1: probos city A, you could pick on someone with a 16 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:09,640 Speaker 1: tooth that sticks way out by calling them a member 17 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:13,240 Speaker 1: of the order probos city A. I don't understand, and 18 00:01:13,319 --> 00:01:16,760 Speaker 1: I won't respond to it anyway. Humans showed up in 19 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:21,319 Speaker 1: the America's a new species unknown to the aforementioned megafauna, 20 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:25,440 Speaker 1: and now none of these animals remain. So many scientists 21 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:29,320 Speaker 1: have claimed that US, bloodthirsty Homo sapiens did them all 22 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:32,959 Speaker 1: in before they could figure out that we were killing them. 23 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:37,280 Speaker 1: Other hypotheses, ones that I find more convincing, pin the 24 00:01:37,319 --> 00:01:41,080 Speaker 1: blame on several factors, including a changing climate around the 25 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:44,120 Speaker 1: same time. What we do know for almost certain is 26 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:48,320 Speaker 1: there's no such thing as a simple explanation in nature. 27 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:52,200 Speaker 1: The odds of finding a singular answer such as do 28 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:56,040 Speaker 1: you know who killed the wooly mammoth Bob, Well, you 29 00:01:56,080 --> 00:01:58,960 Speaker 1: know it just doesn't exist. So if you want to 30 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:01,080 Speaker 1: get even more common plex and say you know who 31 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 1: killed the wooly mammoth, the wooly rhino and all those 32 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:07,640 Speaker 1: other members of the probost city a order, well that 33 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:11,080 Speaker 1: gets more complex. You're just not gonna find it. However, 34 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:13,919 Speaker 1: a new team conducting a study out of the Tel 35 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:17,200 Speaker 1: Aviv University in Israel, as opposed to you know, the 36 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:20,240 Speaker 1: Tel Aviv Night University down there in Queens, New York, 37 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:23,800 Speaker 1: is reviving the humans as killing machines theory. And I 38 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:27,320 Speaker 1: will admit this team has done their homework. They collected 39 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:31,640 Speaker 1: all available data from every excavation since nineteen thirty two 40 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:35,239 Speaker 1: in the area that is now Israel, Palestine, Syria, Jordan 41 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:38,440 Speaker 1: and Lebanon, and they've been tracking the animal bones that 42 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:42,320 Speaker 1: were found in one d and thirty three distinct dirt layers, 43 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 1: each layer representing a different archaeological era. Eighty three different 44 00:02:46,919 --> 00:02:51,000 Speaker 1: species were discovered, and the size of those species kept 45 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:55,480 Speaker 1: going down as time went on. The scientists therefore concluded 46 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:58,720 Speaker 1: that from as far back as one point five million 47 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:02,560 Speaker 1: years ago the day is of Homo erectus, people targeted 48 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:06,680 Speaker 1: the biggest animals first wipe them out, then the next biggest, 49 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:09,359 Speaker 1: and the next biggest, and so on. The Tel Aviv 50 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:13,440 Speaker 1: study tracks a progression from ancient elephants that weighed more 51 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:17,040 Speaker 1: than twice as much as modern African elephants all the 52 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:21,560 Speaker 1: way down to gazelle's hairs and turtles as species after 53 00:03:21,639 --> 00:03:25,600 Speaker 1: species vanished. What do you think of that? Now, I 54 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:29,960 Speaker 1: didn't analyze findings from every archaeological dig across an entire 55 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:33,400 Speaker 1: geographical region from the last ninety years, but I would 56 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 1: like to offer the flip side to this one. If 57 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:41,320 Speaker 1: let's say this region of Israel, Palestine, Syria, Jordan and 58 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 1: Lebanon went through I don't know, some sort of warming 59 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:48,400 Speaker 1: trend that changed the food and water sources in the 60 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:53,760 Speaker 1: region from ones of abundance to scarcity. Wouldn't that also 61 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:57,800 Speaker 1: change the landscape from one that favored a multitude of 62 00:03:57,960 --> 00:04:02,200 Speaker 1: large animal species animals that, let's say are twice the 63 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:06,080 Speaker 1: size of African elephants, to a landscape that was more 64 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:10,400 Speaker 1: conducive to smaller animals that required less food and water 65 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:13,520 Speaker 1: and had a greater ability to hide from a scorching sun. 66 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:20,640 Speaker 1: What to sciencey for you? Go ahead, believe that your 67 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:24,440 Speaker 1: ancient ancestors were such incredible hunters that they were able 68 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:28,680 Speaker 1: to eradicate whole herds of wooly mammoths and Gampo theoris 69 00:04:28,839 --> 00:04:33,640 Speaker 1: from entire continents with rocks and brains slightly larger than rocks. 70 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:38,840 Speaker 1: This week we've got fox fisticuffs, wandering wolves, and the 71 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:41,840 Speaker 1: policy desk. But first, I'm gonna tell you about my week. 72 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:48,120 Speaker 1: And my week was a cold and fairly miserable type 73 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:50,880 Speaker 1: of week. Really, I went all the way out to 74 00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:55,360 Speaker 1: Devil's Lake, North Dakota, caught exactly to perch at negative 75 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:59,040 Speaker 1: thirty degrees, which is cold cold enough to send a 76 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:02,880 Speaker 1: little tickle of fight or flight response. Deep into our 77 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:08,440 Speaker 1: cave person brains, that little tickle I believe, says, be careful. 78 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:13,960 Speaker 1: You shouldn't be messing with this. Be careful, no mistakes. Certainly, 79 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 1: don't lick that. No mistakes. You screw up, you might die. Now. 80 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:23,680 Speaker 1: I know that sounds very dramatic, but it's actually pretty accurate. 81 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:27,520 Speaker 1: It's that little voice that says, put on your big boots, 82 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:31,320 Speaker 1: grab that really big jacket, and grab your mittens, even 83 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:34,080 Speaker 1: though you're just running into town for a jug of milk, 84 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:38,960 Speaker 1: because if things go wrong, well, you're gonna freeze, maybe 85 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:42,760 Speaker 1: lose some digits. And if I'm being honest, I enjoy 86 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:46,840 Speaker 1: that type of weather. I like that feeling. But the 87 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:50,560 Speaker 1: part that I was not enjoying was getting COVID and 88 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:55,240 Speaker 1: spending forty eight hours alternating between crazy fever dreams, bathed 89 00:05:55,279 --> 00:05:58,039 Speaker 1: in sweat and chills so bad that I thought the 90 00:05:58,040 --> 00:06:01,880 Speaker 1: furnace had seized up and quit, all while my joints 91 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:05,120 Speaker 1: felt like someone had come in and crucified me. In 92 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:08,640 Speaker 1: the back of a double wide trailer. The only highlight 93 00:06:08,880 --> 00:06:12,400 Speaker 1: was bumping into Matthew McConaughey, which was cool, but I 94 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:16,440 Speaker 1: couldn't think of anything good to say, So I unfortunately 95 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:21,359 Speaker 1: and embarrassingly lied about like in his book. He apparently 96 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:24,680 Speaker 1: knew that I was lying and wandered off to take 97 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:28,200 Speaker 1: a blatantly fake phone call, one of those things where 98 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:31,200 Speaker 1: you don't want to talk to someone so bad that 99 00:06:31,279 --> 00:06:34,680 Speaker 1: you actually fake getting a phone call and pretend like 100 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:36,400 Speaker 1: you just got to take it in order to get 101 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:40,240 Speaker 1: out of talking to that person. Like I said, embarrassing, 102 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:43,320 Speaker 1: but if I'm being honest, he looked kind of tuned 103 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:46,920 Speaker 1: up at the time, so maybe you won't remember. And 104 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:49,560 Speaker 1: all this happened while I was in the back of 105 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:53,960 Speaker 1: that double wide trailer in North Dakota, so anything's possible, right. 106 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:57,719 Speaker 1: I didn't do it to be cool. I didn't do 107 00:06:57,760 --> 00:07:03,159 Speaker 1: it to make a statement. I just liked it. Only 108 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:06,760 Speaker 1: other highlight or low light from that alternating sweaty and 109 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:10,320 Speaker 1: frozen bed was not being able to operate the child 110 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:12,760 Speaker 1: proof cap on a bottle of Nike will to the 111 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:15,240 Speaker 1: point that I had searched in the darkness from my 112 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:18,320 Speaker 1: bench made pocket knife in an attempt to vent the 113 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:22,200 Speaker 1: bottle by force. I think I think I'll just remember 114 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:25,320 Speaker 1: my October trip to North Dakota when it rained four 115 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:32,200 Speaker 1: inches moving on an update on our UK fox hunting coverage. 116 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:36,520 Speaker 1: On December, in the village of Laycock in northern England, 117 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:39,160 Speaker 1: starting point for one of the oldest fox hunts in 118 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:43,320 Speaker 1: the world, an enormous brawl broke out between hunt participants 119 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:47,840 Speaker 1: and members of the Wiltshire Hunt saboteurs. For anyone who 120 00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:50,840 Speaker 1: remembers the part of European vacation where the English guy 121 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:53,960 Speaker 1: is so polite that he apologizes for getting hit by 122 00:07:53,960 --> 00:07:56,800 Speaker 1: the car, the videos of the encounter may come as 123 00:07:56,800 --> 00:08:01,040 Speaker 1: a surprise. Lots of hard punches landed scream very bad 124 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:06,720 Speaker 1: manners in general, like soccer hooliganism. Hunt opponents have presented 125 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:09,640 Speaker 1: video evidence of two dead foxes that they say were 126 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:13,720 Speaker 1: killed illegally on Ministry of Defense property, and three men 127 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:17,840 Speaker 1: on the saboteur side have been arrested as of early January. 128 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:20,880 Speaker 1: On this side of the pond, conflict between hunters and 129 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:25,640 Speaker 1: antis has also been cropping up. On December, agents for 130 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:29,040 Speaker 1: Louisiana Partment of Fish and Wildlife arrested thirty two year 131 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:32,480 Speaker 1: old Brendan Nolan on charges of harassment of a person 132 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:36,640 Speaker 1: lawfully hunting, as well as simple assault, criminal damage to 133 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:40,360 Speaker 1: property and illegal discharge of a firearm. No One was 134 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:43,520 Speaker 1: caught on tape plowing his boat into the decoy spread 135 00:08:43,760 --> 00:08:47,600 Speaker 1: of a group of nearby duck hunters, shouting at said hunters, 136 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:50,880 Speaker 1: then pulling out a pistol and shooting some of the decoys. 137 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:55,720 Speaker 1: Tempting to think that maybe Nolan uh was socially awkward 138 00:08:55,880 --> 00:08:58,559 Speaker 1: and wanted to join in on the hunt, but was 139 00:08:58,679 --> 00:09:03,400 Speaker 1: very confused about duck shaped objects. Yeah, that's a bit 140 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:05,840 Speaker 1: of a stretch. I don't think that defense is going 141 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:12,520 Speaker 1: to uh hold water. Meanwhile, in Vermont, and this is 142 00:09:12,640 --> 00:09:16,640 Speaker 1: taken directly from the Vermont Department of Fishial Wildlife, Topsham 143 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:20,640 Speaker 1: resident Theodore Shelmway and two companions were hunting black bear 144 00:09:20,679 --> 00:09:23,160 Speaker 1: with hounds in the twenty six thousand acre Groton State 145 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:27,440 Speaker 1: Forest near Noise Pond on October nine two. One a 146 00:09:27,480 --> 00:09:30,600 Speaker 1: bear lead the hounds onto private property before climbing a tree. 147 00:09:31,040 --> 00:09:34,320 Speaker 1: The hunters entered the woods from Buzzies Road and retrieved 148 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:37,400 Speaker 1: the hounds, leaving the bear in the tree. All of 149 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:42,160 Speaker 1: this totally legal. On returning to his truck with leashed hounds, Mr. 150 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:46,600 Speaker 1: Shelmway encountered Donna Baback and Betty Eastman, releasing air from 151 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:50,240 Speaker 1: the tires of his truck. Following an argument between the parties, 152 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:52,920 Speaker 1: one of the two women allowed a German shepherd out 153 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:56,400 Speaker 1: of their vehicle. The loose German shepherd attacked and injured 154 00:09:56,440 --> 00:10:00,040 Speaker 1: one of the leashed hounds, which required veterinary care. The 155 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:04,439 Speaker 1: game warden side Miss Babbock and Miss Eastman with violations 156 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:09,000 Speaker 1: of Title ten v s A eight. Interfering with hunting, fishing, 157 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:12,760 Speaker 1: or trapping. Managing Vermont wildlife for a public with the 158 00:10:12,920 --> 00:10:18,200 Speaker 1: verse values is challenging and a privilege, said Commissioner Christopher Herrick. 159 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:22,320 Speaker 1: I encourage all Vermonters to join me in remembering our 160 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:26,600 Speaker 1: shared passion for wildlife, no matter how different our practices 161 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:30,839 Speaker 1: or approaches maybe, and to remain civil and respectful as 162 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:35,320 Speaker 1: we discuss these important conservation issues. Babback and Eastman where 163 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:37,800 Speaker 1: each find two d and sixty two dollars and we'll 164 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:41,679 Speaker 1: lose their license privileges for fishing, hunting, and trapping for 165 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:45,040 Speaker 1: a year, which I'm sure we'll sting. I hope they 166 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:49,040 Speaker 1: also began acting neighborly and paid for the hounds vet bill. 167 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:54,959 Speaker 1: Maybe Mr Shelmway will return that neighborly kindness with a 168 00:10:55,040 --> 00:11:00,199 Speaker 1: nice pie baked with bear fat. I've got a sulky bottom. 169 00:11:01,080 --> 00:11:05,400 Speaker 1: Speaking conflict, Yellowstone wolves are in the news again. This time, 170 00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:08,600 Speaker 1: media outlets around the country picked up a shocking headline 171 00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:12,000 Speaker 1: proclaiming that the long term viability of the gray wolf 172 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:16,560 Speaker 1: species is in danger after hunters killed twenty Yellowstone wolves 173 00:11:16,559 --> 00:11:19,880 Speaker 1: this year, the most since the canines were reintroduced in 174 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:24,320 Speaker 1: Of course, they weren't killed in the park, which would 175 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:28,320 Speaker 1: be illegal, but since Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming all wolf hunting, 176 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:32,480 Speaker 1: sometimes wolves are killed when they cross that national park boundary, 177 00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:35,840 Speaker 1: and that's what happened this year. Fifteen wolves were killed 178 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:39,199 Speaker 1: in Montana and another five were killed in Idaho and Wyoming, 179 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:42,920 Speaker 1: according to the AP. Some park officials told the AP 180 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:47,120 Speaker 1: that the killings of this year represented a quote significant 181 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:51,079 Speaker 1: setback for the species long term viability. This struck me 182 00:11:51,120 --> 00:11:54,320 Speaker 1: as strange, mostly because the gray wolf population in the 183 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:57,520 Speaker 1: Lower forty eight has risen from virtually zero to more 184 00:11:57,559 --> 00:12:01,559 Speaker 1: than two thousand in the last twenty years. Call me skeptical, 185 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:03,800 Speaker 1: but I'm not sure how the death of twenty wolves 186 00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:07,520 Speaker 1: represents a setback for the entire species. It's also worth 187 00:12:07,600 --> 00:12:10,720 Speaker 1: noting that there are still about ninety four wolves in Yellowstone, 188 00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:15,120 Speaker 1: which is consistent with the population levels since two thousand eight. 189 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:18,280 Speaker 1: The population spiked in the early two thousand's to greater 190 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:21,280 Speaker 1: than one hundred and fifty individuals, but since about two 191 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:24,839 Speaker 1: thousand eight has remained steady at around one hundred wolves. 192 00:12:24,880 --> 00:12:28,000 Speaker 1: In two thousand eighteen, the population shrank down to about 193 00:12:28,040 --> 00:12:35,280 Speaker 1: eighty individuals, but has since recovered. Moving on to the 194 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:39,520 Speaker 1: lab grown meat Petrie dish. After much fanfare from the industry, 195 00:12:39,559 --> 00:12:42,959 Speaker 1: a ton of hopeful media coverage and an influential report 196 00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:45,640 Speaker 1: from a think tank called the Good Food Initiative, a 197 00:12:45,760 --> 00:12:49,560 Speaker 1: separate and very exhaustive and potentially damning study by the 198 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:53,720 Speaker 1: group Open Philanthropy was just released that concludes that lab 199 00:12:53,760 --> 00:12:58,200 Speaker 1: grown meat uh inc and work. David Humbird, the chemical 200 00:12:58,240 --> 00:13:01,240 Speaker 1: engineer who led the Open Philanthropy be studies, said, quote, 201 00:13:01,559 --> 00:13:04,120 Speaker 1: it was hard to find an angle that wasn't a 202 00:13:04,240 --> 00:13:08,160 Speaker 1: ludicrous dead end. The report concluded that on pretty much 203 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:13,240 Speaker 1: every front biological, thermodynamic, technological, economic, there is no way 204 00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:16,880 Speaker 1: to make fake meat viable, and Humbard went on to 205 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:19,679 Speaker 1: call the effort not just a no go, but a 206 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:24,040 Speaker 1: fractal of nose, which incidentally was the name of my 207 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:35,160 Speaker 1: Pink Floyd cover band in college. You know we could 208 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:38,840 Speaker 1: have made a big anyway. You may be thinking, fine, 209 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:41,240 Speaker 1: so a bunch of rich investors waste a bunch of 210 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:44,160 Speaker 1: money on the boondoggle of fake meat. Who cares? But 211 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:48,640 Speaker 1: what's at steak? Get it at steak? Fake meat? Anyway, 212 00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:52,800 Speaker 1: Just like a bad band getting funding, it pulls funding 213 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:56,040 Speaker 1: away from the real talent out there. The competition that 214 00:13:56,160 --> 00:13:59,480 Speaker 1: lab grown meat is competing in, as you know, is 215 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:04,000 Speaker 1: not best burger, but excuse the roast there. But the 216 00:14:04,040 --> 00:14:07,839 Speaker 1: climate change competition and the massive government funding that has 217 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:10,160 Speaker 1: gone to lab grown meat could have been going to 218 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:14,520 Speaker 1: a much better band. A fractal of yes is perhaps well, 219 00:14:14,559 --> 00:14:17,000 Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll see rebuttal in the lab grown meat industry. 220 00:14:17,360 --> 00:14:20,080 Speaker 1: This story does give me the opportunity to bring this 221 00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:24,760 Speaker 1: up one more time. Petree dishes do not need green grass, 222 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:29,640 Speaker 1: clean water and space. But you know what does cattle. 223 00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:32,880 Speaker 1: You've heard me say it before. I'm a cow's not 224 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:37,280 Speaker 1: condos type of guy, and I fear hopefully baselessly, but 225 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:39,520 Speaker 1: I don't think so that if the world were to 226 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:43,960 Speaker 1: shift to synthetic meats, that connection to the soil to 227 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:49,040 Speaker 1: the grass and yes to the animals would also shift 228 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:52,360 Speaker 1: and go away, and where the hell would we be? Then? 229 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:59,160 Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna move on. Quit proselytizing here, moving 230 00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:04,040 Speaker 1: on to thegislation desk. Over the next few weeks, I'll 231 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:06,320 Speaker 1: be running through some of the most important changes to 232 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:10,880 Speaker 1: hunting and fishing regulations around the country. State legislatures are reconvening, 233 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:14,160 Speaker 1: wildlife commissions are handing down new rules, and I'm here 234 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:17,560 Speaker 1: to keep you in the loop. In Colorado, the Parks 235 00:15:17,560 --> 00:15:21,239 Speaker 1: and Wildlife Department has considered a proposal that would require 236 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:24,840 Speaker 1: archery hunters to wear blaze orange during the overlapping dates 237 00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:30,760 Speaker 1: between archery and muzzleloader seasons in September. Since only two 238 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:34,040 Speaker 1: archers have diet after being shot by muzzleloader hunters, but 239 00:15:34,160 --> 00:15:37,440 Speaker 1: one of those incidents occurred this year. The tragic shooting 240 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:40,240 Speaker 1: has prompted the commission to consider a rule change that 241 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:43,480 Speaker 1: would require archery, deer, elk, bear, and moose hunters to 242 00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:47,480 Speaker 1: wear orange or pink on all public land west of interstate. 243 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:53,040 Speaker 1: As you know, it just isn't right to say only 244 00:15:53,120 --> 00:15:58,320 Speaker 1: on public land because the wildlife hunters pursue is not 245 00:15:58,600 --> 00:16:02,440 Speaker 1: decided by public or private land that is a public 246 00:16:02,560 --> 00:16:07,080 Speaker 1: resource managed by the state. Alternatives to this new rule 247 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:10,840 Speaker 1: include requiring hunter orange on public and private land, or 248 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:14,640 Speaker 1: separating archery and muzzleloader seasons by date. This last option 249 00:16:14,680 --> 00:16:19,360 Speaker 1: may require shortening archery season and extending muzzleloader season into October. 250 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:22,320 Speaker 1: But the die has been cast. We'll figure out what 251 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:26,040 Speaker 1: the decision is, hopefully by the next episode. Hats off 252 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:29,240 Speaker 1: to the Colorado bo Hunters Association for getting the news 253 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:32,000 Speaker 1: out when you could. Unfortunately it got to me late. 254 00:16:32,280 --> 00:16:36,280 Speaker 1: I'll let you know what they decide. If that's not 255 00:16:36,320 --> 00:16:41,640 Speaker 1: crazy enough. Colorado SB to two zero three one. That's 256 00:16:41,720 --> 00:16:44,960 Speaker 1: twenty two DASH zero three one has been introduced by 257 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:51,000 Speaker 1: Representatives Sonja Jacquez Leuis, Joe m Gainel, Jody Amabile, and 258 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:54,560 Speaker 1: Monica Durham, which would make it illegal to hunt or 259 00:16:54,640 --> 00:16:57,880 Speaker 1: trap bobcat, mountain lion, or links in the state of Colorado. 260 00:16:58,320 --> 00:17:01,920 Speaker 1: These reps have some collective cat fancy. I would call 261 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:05,280 Speaker 1: them and other members of the Colorado House Natural Resources 262 00:17:05,320 --> 00:17:08,000 Speaker 1: Committee and let them know what you think about that. 263 00:17:09,840 --> 00:17:13,119 Speaker 1: In Utah, the Wildlife Board just adopted a rule that 264 00:17:13,160 --> 00:17:16,520 Speaker 1: will prohibit the use of all trail cameras, both transmitting 265 00:17:16,600 --> 00:17:20,000 Speaker 1: and non transmitting, on both public and private land from 266 00:17:20,119 --> 00:17:24,000 Speaker 1: July thirty one to January one. As I've covered previously, 267 00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:28,120 Speaker 1: Arizona has banned cellular trail cam use since two thousand eighteen. 268 00:17:28,359 --> 00:17:31,240 Speaker 1: In the state recently banned all trail camera use on 269 00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:35,160 Speaker 1: all public and private land. Montana, New Mexico, New Hampshire, 270 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:39,000 Speaker 1: and Nevada have also placed restrictions on trail camera usage. 271 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:42,639 Speaker 1: According to surveys of hunters conducted by the Utah dw R, 272 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:46,240 Speaker 1: forty nine point nine percent of survey respondents said that 273 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:50,480 Speaker 1: trail camera use impacts fair chase, and sixty seven point 274 00:17:50,560 --> 00:17:54,440 Speaker 1: four percent opposed the use of transmitting cameras during big 275 00:17:54,480 --> 00:17:58,359 Speaker 1: game hunting seasons. However, fifty six point five pc of 276 00:17:58,440 --> 00:18:02,760 Speaker 1: hunters opposed a year long ban on all trail camera 277 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:07,359 Speaker 1: use like that in Arizona. The Utah Wildlife Board voted 278 00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:12,480 Speaker 1: four three to impose the band. In Montana, the Fish 279 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:15,680 Speaker 1: and Wildlife Commission is seeking public comment on over two 280 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:20,119 Speaker 1: hundred changes to current wildlife regulations. According to the Helena 281 00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:24,199 Speaker 1: Independent Record, these policies include restricting a hunter who has 282 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:28,040 Speaker 1: awarded a limited bull permit to hunting in that district, 283 00:18:28,119 --> 00:18:32,679 Speaker 1: eliminating all limited permits for cow elk and offering extra licenses, 284 00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:35,919 Speaker 1: and offering and over the counter cow elk license that 285 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:39,400 Speaker 1: could be used on private land in any district. Many 286 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:43,080 Speaker 1: of these policies are aimed at reducing elk populations, which 287 00:18:43,119 --> 00:18:47,320 Speaker 1: some say have grown too large to complicate matters even further. 288 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:50,280 Speaker 1: Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is working on updating the 289 00:18:50,280 --> 00:18:53,680 Speaker 1: state's elk management plan, which hasn't been updated since two 290 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:57,000 Speaker 1: thousand five. That new plan won't be ready until two 291 00:18:57,040 --> 00:18:59,960 Speaker 1: thousand twenty three, and some folks would rather the Wildlife 292 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:03,520 Speaker 1: Commission wait until the new management plan is finalized before 293 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:08,200 Speaker 1: moving forward on new elk regulations, As previously discussed here 294 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:10,200 Speaker 1: on the Weekend Review, at least one of these new 295 00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:14,880 Speaker 1: regulation changes has been abandoned after a backlash from hunters 296 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:19,159 Speaker 1: and other concerned groups. Under that proposal, uh, let's just 297 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:22,760 Speaker 1: say it didn't make any sense, and groups like Montana 298 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:25,960 Speaker 1: back country Hunters and anglers strongly opposed the measure. They 299 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:28,399 Speaker 1: got the word out, and the Montana Fish Wildly in 300 00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:32,639 Speaker 1: Parks dropped the proposal in December. If you live in Montana, 301 00:19:32,920 --> 00:19:36,399 Speaker 1: or really any state, there are two takeaways here. First, 302 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:39,399 Speaker 1: hunters and anglers have a real voice when it comes 303 00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:43,280 Speaker 1: to wildlife regulations. If you care about a topic, let 304 00:19:43,280 --> 00:19:47,720 Speaker 1: your voice be heard. It can make a difference. Second, 305 00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:51,280 Speaker 1: your state might be considering major changes to hunting and 306 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:54,720 Speaker 1: fishing regulations. I'll give you a little hint they are. 307 00:19:55,320 --> 00:19:58,199 Speaker 1: Pay attention. I'll do my best to cover some of 308 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:00,800 Speaker 1: those changes over the next few weeks, but I can't 309 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:04,920 Speaker 1: touch on everything. Pay attention to your local news Join 310 00:20:05,119 --> 00:20:08,200 Speaker 1: rod and gun clubs in your state. At a minimum, 311 00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:11,000 Speaker 1: sign up for their newsletters. You don't have to become 312 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:15,440 Speaker 1: a member. Don't let legislators and lobbyists change the laws 313 00:20:15,640 --> 00:20:18,880 Speaker 1: without hearing from you. You have to be a part 314 00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:24,920 Speaker 1: of this process. Finally, one legislative bright spot. You are 315 00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:28,480 Speaker 1: now legally permitted to harvest road kill in the Great 316 00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:32,720 Speaker 1: State of Wyoming as of January one, The quality state 317 00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:37,280 Speaker 1: joins neighbors in Idaho, Utah, Colorado, South Dakota, and Montana 318 00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:41,040 Speaker 1: and allowing residents and those just passing through to dine 319 00:20:41,040 --> 00:20:43,880 Speaker 1: at the grit cafe or the road kill Cafe, whatever 320 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:47,720 Speaker 1: you wanna call it. Interestingly, Nebraska to the East has 321 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:50,919 Speaker 1: no laws on the books allowing or outlying salvage of 322 00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:54,600 Speaker 1: road kill. Only a few states, including Montana, allow people 323 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:58,160 Speaker 1: to take road kill with no restrictions whatsoever. Most require 324 00:20:58,280 --> 00:21:00,639 Speaker 1: a license and tag the same him as if you 325 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:04,000 Speaker 1: were taking the animal with a rifler bow, which you know. 326 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:07,840 Speaker 1: I'll admit it has seemed strange, as though the state 327 00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:11,439 Speaker 1: we're including the grill of your camera or escalated as 328 00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:14,800 Speaker 1: a llegal means of take not the most preciser cost 329 00:21:14,840 --> 00:21:18,720 Speaker 1: EFFECTI approach, I would argue. In Wyoming, this new harvest 330 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:21,720 Speaker 1: permission is not broker through fishing game, but through the 331 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:27,600 Speaker 1: Department of Transportation. The state's app now provides traffic weather updates, 332 00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:30,560 Speaker 1: road closures, as well as the green light to take 333 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:33,600 Speaker 1: those antelope backstraps. This is a great thing to know 334 00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:36,760 Speaker 1: about wherever you live. Search online and find out what 335 00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:39,879 Speaker 1: your state requires. Then sign up and keep your knife, 336 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:44,000 Speaker 1: rubber gloves, a steel battery operated chainsaw with canola oil 337 00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:46,399 Speaker 1: in place of your bar and chain oil, and a 338 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:49,200 Speaker 1: couple of pillow cases in the car. In no time 339 00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:52,440 Speaker 1: you'll be saying, I swear, officer, it's for road kill. 340 00:21:56,800 --> 00:21:59,920 Speaker 1: There are around one point five million car on deer 341 00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:03,159 Speaker 1: collisions in the us and salvaging some of that resulting 342 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:07,679 Speaker 1: food makes the best out of a bad situation. Moving 343 00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:12,680 Speaker 1: on to the crime desk, Idaho Fishing Game recently announced 344 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:16,240 Speaker 1: the sentencing of fifty five year old Paul Coward. That's 345 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:20,560 Speaker 1: CEO W A r D. It's spelled just like it sounds. Coward, 346 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:24,280 Speaker 1: who pled guilty to a pile of poaching charges from 347 00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:28,680 Speaker 1: the previous ten years across multiple jurisdictions, including a felony 348 00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:31,760 Speaker 1: offense for killing a mountain goat in Washington State then 349 00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:35,320 Speaker 1: hiding said goat in his home in the Idaho Panhandle. 350 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:39,000 Speaker 1: Often the sentences for poaching make us scratch our heads. 351 00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:41,560 Speaker 1: When a guy gets caught with a hundred deer heads 352 00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:43,520 Speaker 1: in a single bag of meth, he tends to get 353 00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:46,240 Speaker 1: harsher punishment for the drugs than for the killing of 354 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:50,920 Speaker 1: our collective wildlife. So the Coward case caught our I 355 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:55,160 Speaker 1: for a very neat piece of sentencing. Coward will serve 356 00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:58,720 Speaker 1: ninety days in prison, but instead of serving those days 357 00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:01,439 Speaker 1: all in a row, he'll be in the cooler for 358 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:04,720 Speaker 1: the thirty days of archery elk season this year as 359 00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:09,680 Speaker 1: well as in and if he doesn't show up for 360 00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:13,760 Speaker 1: one of those stretches, or if he commits any further offenses, 361 00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:18,720 Speaker 1: he'll serve five solid years in the clink. Many of 362 00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:22,800 Speaker 1: Coward's offenses were for illegally guiding and hunting over bait 363 00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:26,840 Speaker 1: during archery elk season, and so keeping Coward out of 364 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:30,480 Speaker 1: the woods when he could reoffend during that specific time 365 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:33,360 Speaker 1: makes a ton of sense, like locking up a bank 366 00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:36,200 Speaker 1: robber from nine to five on week days and ten 367 00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:40,119 Speaker 1: to four on weekends. Coward was a notorious offender, and 368 00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:43,040 Speaker 1: a lot of people in the Idaho Panhandle wondered why 369 00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:46,480 Speaker 1: it took so long to put him away. Wildlife crimes 370 00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:49,560 Speaker 1: take place in the middle of nowhere, away from surveillance 371 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:53,400 Speaker 1: cameras were physical evidence to Kay's almost right away, and 372 00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:57,040 Speaker 1: so building a coaching case is much much harder than 373 00:23:57,080 --> 00:24:00,560 Speaker 1: the typical hotel room shooting on your favorite op show. 374 00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:05,640 Speaker 1: Oh and you know, your eyewitnesses typically our wildlife, so 375 00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:10,040 Speaker 1: outside of bugles, ground scrowls, and chuckles, their statements can 376 00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:13,359 Speaker 1: only be interpreted so far. But you know a mountain 377 00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:15,800 Speaker 1: goat killing on c S I, maybe c S I 378 00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:26,160 Speaker 1: Vegas that I'd be willing to watch. That's all I've 379 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:28,920 Speaker 1: got for you this week. 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A L. 389 00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:03,720 Speaker 1: Let's ask Cal at the meat Peter dot com and 390 00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:05,480 Speaker 1: let me know what's going on in your neck of 391 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:08,480 Speaker 1: the woods. Thanks again, I'll talk to you next week.