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Speaker 1: From Mediator's World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is

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Speaker 1: Kel's we can review with Ryan kel Kell in now

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Speaker 1: Here's Kel drop the moss balls, take me alive, Coppers

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Speaker 1: don't go it, And by drop I mean destroy destroy

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Speaker 1: the moss balls. Invasive zebra muscles have been found in

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Speaker 1: twenty one states, not in the water wells of boats,

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Speaker 1: but in pet stores. The invasive muscle has like a

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Speaker 1: truly successful parasite hidden inside moss balls, which are commonly

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Speaker 1: used in aquariums and distributed throughout pet stores. Hell of

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Speaker 1: a strategy. Zebra muscles, a highly adaptive invasive mollusk, were

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Speaker 1: first discovered in the Great Lakes. Since then, state and

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Speaker 1: federal agencies, including the U s GS, have spent millions

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Speaker 1: of dollars trying to mitigate their spread. Zebra muscles are

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Speaker 1: fingernail sized mollusks that are native to Eurasia. They filter

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Speaker 1: out algae that native species need for food, and they

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Speaker 1: attached to and incapacitate native muscles. As a reminder our

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Speaker 1: native freshwater muscles are for the most part threatened or endangered.

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Speaker 1: In addition, these muscles attached to boats, crops, power plants, ropes,

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Speaker 1: generally make a mess of things, which all cost pretty

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Speaker 1: presence of zebra muscles really do clean the water up.

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Speaker 1: But again, what may look good to us isn't necessarily

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Speaker 1: good for fish species. That change in the habitat allows

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Speaker 1: more light to penetrate, it warms the water faster, and

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Speaker 1: that tiny little life, that little zooplankton they filter out,

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Speaker 1: is what all of our fish, including all of our

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Speaker 1: So if you are in possession of these zebra balls,

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Speaker 1: or as the kids are saying, holding are you a knock?

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, are you a knock? Ah? I see, I see,

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Speaker 1: okay a narc don't just throw them away. Boil them

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Speaker 1: or freeze them solid for twelve hours. Do not flush

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Speaker 1: them down the toilet or throw them outside. Wrap them

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Speaker 1: in plastic and place them in a landfill bound dumpster.

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Speaker 1: This week we've got dog poop, ancient bacteria, wildlife, crime,

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Speaker 1: access issues, and so much more. But first I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: tell you about my week and my week as well

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Speaker 1: as This podcast is powered by Steel Power Equipment, steel

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Speaker 1: world's most powerful chainsaws. One question I get a lot

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Speaker 1: of is how long do the lithium ion batteries and

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Speaker 1: the electric saws last, which are very expensive. By the way,

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Speaker 1: currently there are a lot of batteries in the field

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Speaker 1: these batteries like they should be treated, which means running

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Speaker 1: them from a full charge to zero before charging and

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Speaker 1: keeping them stored in an area where they cannot freeze.

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Speaker 1: The steel lithium ion batteries will go one thousand charging

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Speaker 1: can use it a thousand times if you follow those

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Speaker 1: That is a heck of a lot of cutting, which

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Speaker 1: is why this stuff is expensive. All of that copper

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Speaker 1: in those batteries comes out of the ground and it's

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Speaker 1: a messy business. So we need those batteries to last

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Speaker 1: offset the cost of our natural resources. You dig it anyway,

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Speaker 1: real a big news because you know a lot of

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Speaker 1: really good people work on this stuff as a passion project.

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Speaker 1: Another season, season two, to be specific, of Col's Wee

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Speaker 1: both the meat Eater YouTube channel and the meat Eator website.

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Speaker 1: Very interested to see and hear what everyone thinks. We

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Speaker 1: tackle land access in the state of Maine while hunting

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Speaker 1: some woodcock and grouse. Uh no, Snort will not be

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Speaker 1: Brewer should say Captain Jarreau Brewer for a little triple

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Speaker 1: for hogs and gallon Yule got an eye level perspective

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Speaker 1: on saltwater intrusion and land loss, and the very first

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Speaker 1: White of World Cast out Fitters, to catch rainbow trout

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Speaker 1: and hopefully if you like it, where we should go next.

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Speaker 1: Check stuff out. I'm always learning you should be too.

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Speaker 1: Moving on to the mortality desk. In two thousand ten,

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Speaker 1: Japanese scientists sailed to the most remote spot in the ocean,

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Speaker 1: only thing you learned today. Nano fossil ouze. Pretty awesome, right,

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