1 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:06,840 Speaker 1: From Mediator's 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 --> 00:00:15,200 Speaker 1: only at authorized dealers. For more, go to Steel Dealers 4 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:22,360 Speaker 1: dot com. Now here's your host. Ryan cal Callahan, a 5 00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:26,920 Speaker 1: dentist from Pennsylvania, is being charged with murder after prosecutors 6 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:30,400 Speaker 1: say he killed his wife on a hunting trip in Africa, 7 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:34,159 Speaker 1: somehow covered it up and collected five million dollars in 8 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:43,520 Speaker 1: life insurance. You have a talents thing. Back in two 9 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:47,400 Speaker 1: thousand sixteen, sixty seven year old Lawrence Rudolph and his 10 00:00:47,479 --> 00:00:51,000 Speaker 1: wife Bianca took a trip to Zambia so Bianca could 11 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:54,760 Speaker 1: hunt leopard. While they were there, Bianca was shot in 12 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:58,120 Speaker 1: the chest with a twelve gage Browning shotgun. According to 13 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:02,000 Speaker 1: reporting People magazine, Lawrence told the police it was an accident. 14 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:04,399 Speaker 1: He was taking a shower when it happened, and he 15 00:01:04,440 --> 00:01:07,120 Speaker 1: said his wife shot herself while trying to put the 16 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:09,600 Speaker 1: shotgun in its case, which had been loaded from the 17 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:13,360 Speaker 1: hunt the previous day. At the time, Zambian police, as 18 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:17,000 Speaker 1: well as insurance investigators, determined that the doctor's story checked out. 19 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:20,360 Speaker 1: But that's not where this story ends. Lawrence had his 20 00:01:20,360 --> 00:01:23,440 Speaker 1: wife's body cremated right away, which, according to one of 21 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:27,000 Speaker 1: Bianca's friends, was against her wishes as a strict Catholic 22 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:30,680 Speaker 1: at the time. This friend asked the FBI to investigate 23 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:35,080 Speaker 1: Bianca's death because she suspected foul play. She claims Lawrence 24 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:37,960 Speaker 1: had been cheating on his wife and was verbally abusive. 25 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:41,840 Speaker 1: The situation also aroused the suspicion of the consular chief 26 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:45,240 Speaker 1: at the U. S Embassy and Zambia. He told prosecutors 27 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:49,080 Speaker 1: he had a quote bad feeling about the situation, and 28 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:51,320 Speaker 1: he took photos of the body before Lawrence had a 29 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:54,880 Speaker 1: chance to cremate it. He didn't ask the husband's permission, 30 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 1: and Lawrence was quote livid when he found out. Investigate 31 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:03,280 Speaker 1: ters have also cast out on Bianca's ability to shoot herself. 32 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:06,800 Speaker 1: With the shotgun question, a Colorado medical examiner said it 33 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:10,440 Speaker 1: would have been quote physically impossible to fire this particular 34 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:13,840 Speaker 1: shotgun from its case and produced the wound seen on 35 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:17,560 Speaker 1: the body. In addition, the consular chief who examined the 36 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:20,520 Speaker 1: body told the FBI the wound did not appear to 37 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:23,320 Speaker 1: have burn marks on it, meaning the shotgun was fired 38 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:26,760 Speaker 1: from some distance away from the body. As you might imagine. 39 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:31,399 Speaker 1: Doctor Lawrence had vociferously denied these allegations. He's pointed out 40 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:34,440 Speaker 1: through his lawyers that none of the initial investigators accused 41 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:39,280 Speaker 1: him of anything. He called the current investigation outrageous prosecution 42 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 1: and accused the government of manufacturing their case against him. 43 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:46,960 Speaker 1: Lawrence is being charged with foreign murder and mail fraud, 44 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:49,640 Speaker 1: and the case has been filed in a federal court 45 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:52,880 Speaker 1: in Colorado, where one of the insurance companies has an office. 46 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:58,519 Speaker 1: The trial is scheduled for February, and remember innocent until 47 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:03,320 Speaker 1: proven guilty. In related news, cat loving animal rights groups 48 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:06,840 Speaker 1: are strangely silent about the dental profession after this trip 49 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:10,400 Speaker 1: to Africa, which is odd. Sure, no lions were killed, 50 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:14,800 Speaker 1: but you know a sixty ish year old lady would 51 00:03:14,919 --> 00:03:18,480 Speaker 1: qualify as uh. I mean, I'm not gonna say it. 52 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:24,560 Speaker 1: This week we've got salmon legislation and monkey business. But 53 00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:28,160 Speaker 1: first I'm gonna tell you about my week. And my 54 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:32,960 Speaker 1: week included ripping a ramp off of Stephen ronnella snowmobile trailer. 55 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:36,800 Speaker 1: Blame it on supply chain or COVID or who knows what. 56 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:41,640 Speaker 1: I cannot find a replacement. I hate borrowing things and 57 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 1: messing them up, returning them worse than how I got them. 58 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:49,200 Speaker 1: So if anyone has or knows of a caliber V 59 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 1: front ramp shield, please let me know. In other trailer 60 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:56,040 Speaker 1: related news, a couple of the wires and the four 61 00:03:56,080 --> 00:04:00,320 Speaker 1: flat connector corroded off during my long, long night drive 62 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:03,320 Speaker 1: from Cascade, Idaho to Bozeman, Montana. So I did a 63 00:04:03,320 --> 00:04:06,560 Speaker 1: bunch of driving with my hazards on, which is you know, 64 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:09,480 Speaker 1: makes you feel like a jackass. But when I got home, 65 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:12,880 Speaker 1: I did manage to wire up a new four flat 66 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:15,360 Speaker 1: connector before I had dropped it off, which is a 67 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:20,039 Speaker 1: small victory, but I'll take it. After I successfully dropped 68 00:04:20,080 --> 00:04:23,640 Speaker 1: off the snowmobile, trailer and snowmobile full of gas and oil, 69 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:26,599 Speaker 1: I might add, I headed out shared in Wyoming to 70 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:29,280 Speaker 1: visit with the crew at Weatherby and check out their 71 00:04:29,279 --> 00:04:31,560 Speaker 1: new property at the edge of town. We had a 72 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:34,360 Speaker 1: great visit and we gave the dogs a really good 73 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:37,880 Speaker 1: workout chasing some planted birds out on the new place. 74 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:42,480 Speaker 1: Planted birds, if you are unaware, are pen raised birds 75 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:45,720 Speaker 1: that you literally go out and plant in the grass 76 00:04:45,839 --> 00:04:48,599 Speaker 1: or whatever cover you have, then come back a while 77 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:51,719 Speaker 1: later after the birds have relaxed a little bit and 78 00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:54,120 Speaker 1: uh and hunt them. You flush them up, shoot them. 79 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:57,000 Speaker 1: If that sounds a little, you know, strange to you, 80 00:04:57,400 --> 00:05:00,840 Speaker 1: I'll admit it is a little bit, but it's fantastic 81 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:06,080 Speaker 1: for training both new shooters and new dogs. And you 82 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:08,719 Speaker 1: got to eat the targets. We had a great time 83 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:12,680 Speaker 1: and Snort was an incredibly tired girl at the end 84 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:17,000 Speaker 1: of the day. And lastly, before the news, The Cal 85 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:20,840 Speaker 1: in the Field YouTube series was devised about three years 86 00:05:20,839 --> 00:05:24,120 Speaker 1: ago to tackle topics that all of you folks listening 87 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:26,800 Speaker 1: here at the Weekend Review wrote Ian about and you 88 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:30,919 Speaker 1: want to know more about, Okay, invasive carp grizzly bears, 89 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:34,719 Speaker 1: fisheries management, c w D, just to name a few. 90 00:05:35,279 --> 00:05:38,600 Speaker 1: If you were dying to know more about a topic. Heck, 91 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:41,200 Speaker 1: if you even feel like you could co host something 92 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:43,479 Speaker 1: that is near and dear to your heart right in 93 00:05:43,960 --> 00:05:46,960 Speaker 1: to a s k C a L that's asked Cal 94 00:05:47,279 --> 00:05:50,000 Speaker 1: at the Meat Eater dot com and well, you know, 95 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:52,640 Speaker 1: we'll give you a shout, maybe cover it on a 96 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:58,359 Speaker 1: future episode of Cal in the Field. Sound good? Yeah? 97 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:03,800 Speaker 1: Moving on to cover over at the Salmon Desk, We'll 98 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:07,960 Speaker 1: do the marginal news first. As many folks know it 99 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:10,479 Speaker 1: was an extremely tough year for winter run chinook in 100 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:14,479 Speaker 1: northern California Sacramento River. Just two point six percent of 101 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:17,760 Speaker 1: the hatch survived long enough to leave their spawning area, 102 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:20,160 Speaker 1: and only half of those fish made it all the 103 00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:22,680 Speaker 1: way down to the San Joaquin Delta, where they can 104 00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:26,560 Speaker 1: access the Pacific Ocean. Sacramento chinook are divided into four 105 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:30,080 Speaker 1: species by what time of year they run or migrate 106 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:32,480 Speaker 1: from the ocean to the upper reaches of their native 107 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:36,159 Speaker 1: river to reproduce. Winter round chinook typically leave the ocean 108 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:40,320 Speaker 1: into San Francisco Bay around November, then spend December through 109 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:43,680 Speaker 1: early August swimming north until they reach the gravel beds 110 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:47,520 Speaker 1: where they spawn in late summer. Winter run sounds cold, 111 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:51,359 Speaker 1: but the embryos and juveniles of this species have to 112 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:55,080 Speaker 1: endure the hottest time of year. Chinook salmon need the 113 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:57,719 Speaker 1: water temperature to stay at about fifty seven degrees or 114 00:06:57,760 --> 00:07:00,920 Speaker 1: below to survive, and these days that can be a 115 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:04,200 Speaker 1: tall order. Not only have water temperature has been rising 116 00:07:04,279 --> 00:07:06,800 Speaker 1: year after year, but the severe drought in two thousand 117 00:07:06,839 --> 00:07:10,080 Speaker 1: twenty one meant that Shasta Lake, the man made reservoir 118 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 1: that feeds the rest of the Sacramento River reached one 119 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:15,880 Speaker 1: of its lowest points ever and demand for its water 120 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:21,400 Speaker 1: was extremely high. Salmon advocates accused the state Water Resources 121 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:24,600 Speaker 1: Control Board, which oversees releases of water from the dam, 122 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:29,520 Speaker 1: of prioritizing agricultural interests in the area over chinook sanna 123 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:32,720 Speaker 1: and providing much less cold water than the fish needed. 124 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:36,960 Speaker 1: Winter run chinook were placed on the endangered species list 125 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:41,679 Speaker 1: as a result. Their survival is supported by complex reintroduction plans, 126 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:45,960 Speaker 1: intense hatchery efforts, water temperature control devices on the dams 127 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:49,640 Speaker 1: below Shasta Lake, and you can be sure more legal 128 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:52,160 Speaker 1: fights about who gets what share of the dwindling water 129 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:57,320 Speaker 1: supply in the area. Moving on, a separate run of 130 00:07:57,360 --> 00:08:01,160 Speaker 1: Sacramento chinook has been using delayed migration, which sounds like 131 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:03,480 Speaker 1: a tactic you pick up off the shelf, but this 132 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:05,800 Speaker 1: is just a human name for something that the fish 133 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:08,920 Speaker 1: did on their own. This variety of spring run chinook 134 00:08:09,080 --> 00:08:12,280 Speaker 1: typically leaves the ocean in March and spawns in the fall. 135 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:16,000 Speaker 1: After spawning, juveniles either migrate right away as young of 136 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:18,920 Speaker 1: the year, or they remained near their spawning grounds and 137 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:22,000 Speaker 1: start heading towards the ocean as year links. A recent 138 00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:24,880 Speaker 1: study in the journal Nature looked at spring run chinook 139 00:08:24,920 --> 00:08:28,080 Speaker 1: from the Mill Creek and Deer Creek tributaries of the Sacramento. 140 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:32,040 Speaker 1: In these areas, the late migrators represented only about ten 141 00:08:32,080 --> 00:08:36,080 Speaker 1: percent of outgoing juveniles, but they were about sixty of 142 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:40,280 Speaker 1: the returning adult fish. Amazingly, they made up more than 143 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:44,800 Speaker 1: nine of the surviving adults from the most severe drought years. 144 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:48,120 Speaker 1: This strategy worked for these particular fish because they were 145 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:50,200 Speaker 1: able to wait in the cold water of these upper 146 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:53,960 Speaker 1: tributaries before making a break for it, But dams in 147 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:57,599 Speaker 1: the area have cut other salmon off from similar tributaries 148 00:08:57,600 --> 00:09:00,520 Speaker 1: where they used to spawn. I gotta tell you that 149 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:03,840 Speaker 1: last paragraph, with all the percentages made me think of 150 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:07,520 Speaker 1: that famous line from our good good friend Todd Schneider. 151 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:10,400 Speaker 1: I can't remember it exactly, but it's something about like 152 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:15,680 Speaker 1: of all statistics are made up on the spot the time, 153 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:21,320 Speaker 1: it works every time. Anyway, how do scientists track these 154 00:09:21,320 --> 00:09:24,800 Speaker 1: fish travel so precisely, you may be asking. The answer 155 00:09:24,960 --> 00:09:28,800 Speaker 1: is the fishes earbones called odalis, which add a new 156 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:32,640 Speaker 1: layer of very thin tissue every day, like rings on 157 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:37,440 Speaker 1: trees or sheep horn annuli, just much faster. These layers 158 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:40,040 Speaker 1: consist of minerals from the water the fish are swimming in. 159 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:44,280 Speaker 1: Scientists identify the minerals from a particular river or stream, 160 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:46,920 Speaker 1: and each layer of a fishes odo lith and that 161 00:09:47,040 --> 00:09:49,800 Speaker 1: lets them trace exactly where that fish went over the 162 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:52,600 Speaker 1: course of its migration and how long it stayed in 163 00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:55,520 Speaker 1: each place, from natal tributary to the main stem of 164 00:09:55,559 --> 00:09:59,240 Speaker 1: the river, to estuary, to ocean and back again. The 165 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:02,040 Speaker 1: odal if is like a passport with a stamp from 166 00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:05,240 Speaker 1: each body of water, kind of like identifying what happened 167 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:07,840 Speaker 1: to you this week by looking at the dust in 168 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:12,840 Speaker 1: your ears or the dirt under your fingernails. Further northern California, 169 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:16,040 Speaker 1: the dump of precipitation late last year and earlier this 170 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:18,840 Speaker 1: year came right on time for the co Ho salmon 171 00:10:19,040 --> 00:10:23,439 Speaker 1: of the Tamales Bay Watershed. A quick dip into salmon distinctions, 172 00:10:23,679 --> 00:10:26,760 Speaker 1: co ho and schnook appear very similar to the entrained eye, 173 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:30,079 Speaker 1: but because season's limits and length requirements can be very 174 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:32,880 Speaker 1: different for each species, telling them to apart is a 175 00:10:32,880 --> 00:10:36,120 Speaker 1: big deal for anyone catching them. The best way is 176 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:39,079 Speaker 1: to take a look into the fish's mouth. Co Hos 177 00:10:39,160 --> 00:10:42,640 Speaker 1: salmon show a distinct banding pattern on the lower jaw. 178 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:45,640 Speaker 1: There's a dark band outside the base of the teeth 179 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:48,520 Speaker 1: than a white band or very light band right at 180 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:51,560 Speaker 1: the base of the teeth, than another dark band just 181 00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:54,400 Speaker 1: inside the base of the teeth. On the other hand, 182 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:59,319 Speaker 1: chinook have one uniform dark color across the entire lower jaw, 183 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:03,120 Speaker 1: though occasionally it's a little modeled. But back to the 184 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:07,600 Speaker 1: Tamalus Bay coho, Preston Brown, the director of conservation for 185 00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:11,520 Speaker 1: the Salmon Protection and Watershed Network, said, we've seen fish 186 00:11:11,640 --> 00:11:15,000 Speaker 1: in places they haven't been for almost twenty five years. 187 00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:18,880 Speaker 1: The precept came just as the coho we're running, allowing 188 00:11:18,920 --> 00:11:22,800 Speaker 1: some to reach tributaries in Lognitas Creek thirteen miles inland. 189 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:25,840 Speaker 1: Salmon preferred to get way into these small bodies of 190 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:29,200 Speaker 1: water where temperatures are cold from nearby snowpack, and the 191 00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:34,040 Speaker 1: gravel beds are wide, shallow, and relatively clean. Salmon can 192 00:11:34,080 --> 00:11:37,880 Speaker 1: reach these beds incredibly quick once obstacles are removed, and 193 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:40,640 Speaker 1: after the San Geronimo Creek dam was removed in this 194 00:11:40,720 --> 00:11:44,520 Speaker 1: area last year, some coho were tracked a mile above 195 00:11:44,720 --> 00:11:52,640 Speaker 1: where the dam had been, which again is awesome. Moving 196 00:11:52,679 --> 00:11:55,840 Speaker 1: on other good news, came recently for the salmon and 197 00:11:55,880 --> 00:12:00,800 Speaker 1: steelhead of the Columbia River basin. That's water from Idaho, Montana, 198 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:04,680 Speaker 1: parts Alberta, and Washington draining into the Pacific. And although 199 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:07,320 Speaker 1: we've been talking about the importance of conditions on the 200 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:10,640 Speaker 1: inland part of a fish's life cycle, what happens out 201 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:13,760 Speaker 1: in the ocean is just as important. And last year 202 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:17,600 Speaker 1: we saw an enormous swell in cope pods, a staple 203 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:21,200 Speaker 1: of the salmon and steelhead diet in the Pacific off 204 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:24,400 Speaker 1: the west coast of the US. Cope pods are crustaceans 205 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:28,480 Speaker 1: so small they don't have a heart, gills, or circulatory system. 206 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:33,520 Speaker 1: They just absorb oxygen directly through their exoskeleton. That name 207 00:12:33,760 --> 00:12:38,000 Speaker 1: cop pod means or feet, and they're proportionately giant flippers 208 00:12:38,080 --> 00:12:41,800 Speaker 1: and extremely quick nervous systems help them evade predators. But 209 00:12:41,880 --> 00:12:44,480 Speaker 1: cope pods can only evade so much, and when their 210 00:12:44,559 --> 00:12:48,680 Speaker 1: numbers boom, fish further up the food chain flourish. The 211 00:12:48,760 --> 00:12:50,880 Speaker 1: last time we saw such a big jump in cope 212 00:12:50,920 --> 00:12:54,720 Speaker 1: pod populations was two thousand eight, and the following season 213 00:12:54,920 --> 00:12:58,440 Speaker 1: more than three hundred thousand steelhead were counted at Lower 214 00:12:58,480 --> 00:13:01,400 Speaker 1: Granite dam on the Snake were in Idaho. That is 215 00:13:01,520 --> 00:13:04,640 Speaker 1: way upstream for these fish, close to where they reproduce. 216 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:07,320 Speaker 1: To give you an idea of how great the two 217 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:10,600 Speaker 1: thousand eight boom was, in two thousand one, there were 218 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:14,280 Speaker 1: only fifty six thousand, thirty two steel head counted at 219 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:17,560 Speaker 1: Lower Granite and the average from the previous five years 220 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:21,480 Speaker 1: was just over sixty thousand, So two thousand eight was 221 00:13:21,520 --> 00:13:25,920 Speaker 1: an exceptional year. Biologists are very hopeful that will have 222 00:13:26,280 --> 00:13:29,920 Speaker 1: similar booms in the near future. Of course, we have 223 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:32,319 Speaker 1: no idea what the future will bring for all these fish, 224 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:36,120 Speaker 1: but one thing we know for sure, they are resilient 225 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:39,320 Speaker 1: if they can catch a break. Now, I would be 226 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:42,560 Speaker 1: doing a serious disservice to all of you if I 227 00:13:42,600 --> 00:13:47,240 Speaker 1: did not mention some historic figures prior to the Lower 228 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:51,600 Speaker 1: Snake River dams and estimated two million steel head and 229 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:55,000 Speaker 1: salmon would pass through this same stretch of river. So 230 00:13:55,040 --> 00:13:57,959 Speaker 1: when we talk about how resilient these fish are when 231 00:13:57,960 --> 00:14:02,720 Speaker 1: they get a little break, that his historical context is key. 232 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:09,600 Speaker 1: Moving on to the ever popular legislation desk. In Washington State, 233 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:12,920 Speaker 1: hunters are working to reinstate the spring black bear hunt 234 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:16,720 Speaker 1: that was suspended last year. The hunt, as I covered 235 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:20,400 Speaker 1: an episode one seven, was not canceled based on science 236 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:25,160 Speaker 1: or good conservation policy. Instead, anti hunting groups fostered a 237 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:29,080 Speaker 1: groundswell of emotional opposition to a hunt they characterized as 238 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:34,000 Speaker 1: cruel and inhumane. Now, hunters and conservationists are pushing back 239 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:37,480 Speaker 1: Meat Eater, joined back Country Hunters and Anglers, Blood Origins, 240 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:41,440 Speaker 1: Safari Club International, and several other groups and filing formal 241 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:45,280 Speaker 1: petitions for the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission to reconsider 242 00:14:45,320 --> 00:14:50,440 Speaker 1: their earlier decision. Those petitions were successful, and on January one, 243 00:14:50,640 --> 00:14:54,200 Speaker 1: the Commission voted for three to begin a rulemaking process 244 00:14:54,280 --> 00:14:56,760 Speaker 1: that could lead to a vote in March to reinstate 245 00:14:56,800 --> 00:14:59,840 Speaker 1: the season in May. Stay tuned for the latest updates 246 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:03,280 Speaker 1: that story, and if you live in Washington and would 247 00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:07,280 Speaker 1: like to get involved, send a message to the Commission today. 248 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:11,560 Speaker 1: Staying on the black bear beat, North Carolina is considering 249 00:15:11,560 --> 00:15:14,200 Speaker 1: a proposal to allow bear hunting in three of the 250 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:18,200 Speaker 1: state's mountain bear sanctuaries. The policy change was requested by 251 00:15:18,200 --> 00:15:21,560 Speaker 1: the US Forest Service in response to increase bear human 252 00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:25,400 Speaker 1: interaction as bears become more habituated to getting food from 253 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:30,360 Speaker 1: sanctuary visitors. The North Carolina Wildlife Commission supports the proposed change, 254 00:15:30,440 --> 00:15:34,240 Speaker 1: and there's currently accepting comments from the public. If you 255 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:37,120 Speaker 1: think this is a good thing, you had better comment. 256 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:40,120 Speaker 1: There's probably going to be a few comments that don't 257 00:15:40,160 --> 00:15:45,320 Speaker 1: agree with you. In Louisiana, the Wildlife and Fisheries Commission 258 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:48,320 Speaker 1: is asking for public input on a slew of new 259 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:52,080 Speaker 1: changes to turkey, migratory bird, and other hunting policies in 260 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:55,160 Speaker 1: the state. Among the list of changes, the Commission would 261 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:59,480 Speaker 1: allow electronic tag and validation procedures for deer and turkey hunting, 262 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:03,360 Speaker 1: been hunting in some wildlife management areas, restrict hunting in 263 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:07,720 Speaker 1: other areas, and open all of Cato Parish to turkey hunting. 264 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:11,000 Speaker 1: To check out the full list and submit your own comments, 265 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:17,600 Speaker 1: visit w LF dot Louisiana dot gov. On the federal level, 266 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:22,280 Speaker 1: Republican Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana and Democratic Senator Tammy 267 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:27,280 Speaker 1: Duckworth of Illinois are proposing new legislation to curb bear poaching. 268 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:31,880 Speaker 1: The bill would ban the importation, exportation, and interstate trade 269 00:16:32,040 --> 00:16:35,800 Speaker 1: of certain internal organs poached from eight species of bears, 270 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:39,520 Speaker 1: including brown bears, black bears, and polar bears. Bear gall 271 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:42,840 Speaker 1: bladders can sell for thousands on the black market, and 272 00:16:42,920 --> 00:16:46,840 Speaker 1: one bear poacher in Montana recently got busted for exactly that. 273 00:16:47,160 --> 00:16:49,440 Speaker 1: If you want to hear more about that story, checkout 274 00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:56,000 Speaker 1: episode Finally returning to Washington, State County, commissioners in the 275 00:16:56,040 --> 00:16:59,560 Speaker 1: Blue Mountains are asking the Washington Department of Fishing Wildlife 276 00:16:59,600 --> 00:17:03,160 Speaker 1: to extend mountain lion season in their area. They argue 277 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:06,080 Speaker 1: that the elk heret is far below population goals, and 278 00:17:06,080 --> 00:17:09,680 Speaker 1: they hope that killing more lions will help more calves survive. 279 00:17:10,320 --> 00:17:14,200 Speaker 1: If you live in Washington's Astan Garfield, Columbia, or Walla 280 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:17,720 Speaker 1: Walla Counties, reach out to the Washington Department of Fish 281 00:17:17,720 --> 00:17:22,919 Speaker 1: and Wildlife and let them know what you think. Next up, 282 00:17:23,320 --> 00:17:27,240 Speaker 1: we have a non legislation issue, but one that you 283 00:17:27,359 --> 00:17:31,879 Speaker 1: know already. New Mexico more of a back room dealing 284 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:36,600 Speaker 1: kind of situation. Governor Michelle Luhan Grisham recently dismissed a 285 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:40,240 Speaker 1: member of the state's Game Commission, Jeremy Vestbach, and stream 286 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:43,240 Speaker 1: access seems to be the cause for a full rundown 287 00:17:43,240 --> 00:17:46,160 Speaker 1: of this issue in New Mexico. Scroll back and listen 288 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:50,280 Speaker 1: to episode number one, but as a refresher. Several large 289 00:17:50,359 --> 00:17:53,399 Speaker 1: landowners have applied to the New Mexico Game Commission to 290 00:17:53,440 --> 00:17:58,040 Speaker 1: designate waterways that run through their property as non navigable 291 00:17:58,400 --> 00:18:02,440 Speaker 1: and therefore off limits to the public. Last year, the Commission, 292 00:18:02,520 --> 00:18:06,160 Speaker 1: including vest Bok, rejected five of those applications, and vest 293 00:18:06,160 --> 00:18:09,040 Speaker 1: Bak was not shy about expressing his views in the press. 294 00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:13,040 Speaker 1: It so happens that several of these same landowners contributed 295 00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:16,919 Speaker 1: to the governor's campaign, and here she is removing an 296 00:18:16,920 --> 00:18:20,679 Speaker 1: official who voted against them. Does that seem above board? 297 00:18:21,119 --> 00:18:24,440 Speaker 1: Should similar mechanics determine who the governor appoints the Game 298 00:18:24,440 --> 00:18:27,280 Speaker 1: Commission in the future. Give a call to the New 299 00:18:27,320 --> 00:18:30,800 Speaker 1: Mexico Governor's office to let them know your answer, and 300 00:18:31,320 --> 00:18:36,040 Speaker 1: go back and listen to episode. Okay, stream access is 301 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:40,879 Speaker 1: a major, major deal if you like to wander around outside. 302 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:46,040 Speaker 1: Despite being a violation of the New Mexico State Constitution, 303 00:18:46,600 --> 00:18:52,520 Speaker 1: it's just a serious giant middle finger to everybody else 304 00:18:52,560 --> 00:18:55,720 Speaker 1: on the planet who likes to be outside. That's an 305 00:18:55,720 --> 00:19:03,199 Speaker 1: opinion ending to that piece. Moving on, Pennsylvania monkeys. A 306 00:19:03,320 --> 00:19:07,000 Speaker 1: truck and trailer carrying one monkeys crashed into a dump 307 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:10,600 Speaker 1: truck last week. In eastern Pennsylvania, resulting in three escape 308 00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:14,240 Speaker 1: primates and a twenty four hour monkey hunt. In the 309 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:17,639 Speaker 1: famous words of comic writer Dave Berry, I'm not making 310 00:19:17,680 --> 00:19:27,360 Speaker 1: this up. The Cinemamalgus monkeys had been recently imported from overseas, 311 00:19:27,520 --> 00:19:30,280 Speaker 1: and we're on their way to research facility in Missouri. 312 00:19:30,840 --> 00:19:33,560 Speaker 1: The pickup truck towing the monkeys made a left turn 313 00:19:33,840 --> 00:19:36,480 Speaker 1: onto an on ramp directly in front of a dump truck. 314 00:19:36,520 --> 00:19:39,080 Speaker 1: The dump truck struck the rear portion of the passenger 315 00:19:39,160 --> 00:19:44,320 Speaker 1: side door and broke the covered trailer housing the created monkeys. Amazingly, 316 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:47,400 Speaker 1: none of the monkeys or humans were injured, but three 317 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:50,160 Speaker 1: of the smaller primates escaped to the wooded area surrounding 318 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:53,520 Speaker 1: the highway. State police warned the public not to search 319 00:19:53,560 --> 00:19:57,080 Speaker 1: for or approached the monkeys, and asked anyone who spotted 320 00:19:57,080 --> 00:20:00,840 Speaker 1: a monkey to call nine one one immediately. Cinema august monkeys, 321 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:04,280 Speaker 1: also known as long tailed or crab eating macaques, are 322 00:20:04,320 --> 00:20:07,960 Speaker 1: a little larger than your average house cap and hail 323 00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:11,600 Speaker 1: from Southeast Asia. They often live in and around towns 324 00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:15,480 Speaker 1: and cities, and they occupy the second largest distribution of 325 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:20,400 Speaker 1: all non human primates They're frequently used in biomedical research 326 00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:26,000 Speaker 1: because of their nine similarity to and recent evolutionary divergence 327 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:30,040 Speaker 1: from humans. According to i Q Biosciences, they're most often 328 00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:34,360 Speaker 1: used for basic research studies in disease pathology and treatment, 329 00:20:34,640 --> 00:20:40,240 Speaker 1: vaccine development, immunology, and cardiology, amongst others. Once the three 330 00:20:40,280 --> 00:20:44,040 Speaker 1: Pennsylvania monkeys escaped their cages, they immediately ran into the 331 00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:48,119 Speaker 1: surrounding trees. Cal said he didn't see any monkeys running 332 00:20:48,119 --> 00:20:51,040 Speaker 1: around when he arrived on the scene, and state police 333 00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:54,520 Speaker 1: posted images of the primates sitting in pine trees. State 334 00:20:54,560 --> 00:20:58,200 Speaker 1: police brought out a helicopter fitted with thermal imaging cameras 335 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:01,280 Speaker 1: to aid in the search. After about twenty six hours, 336 00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:04,479 Speaker 1: police confirmed that all three monkeys had been accounted for. 337 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:09,480 Speaker 1: According to Valley Township fire chief might Call, law enforcement 338 00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:12,280 Speaker 1: secured two of the monkeys the day of the accident, 339 00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:15,479 Speaker 1: and the last was taken in after being spotted by 340 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:21,000 Speaker 1: a private citizen the next day. All three were euthanized. Why, 341 00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:24,240 Speaker 1: because nobody wants to turn into zombies. We've all seen 342 00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:28,439 Speaker 1: that movie. Of course, that's not quite the end of 343 00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:31,640 Speaker 1: the story. Our friends at Peter put out a statement 344 00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:34,919 Speaker 1: just hours after the incident, warning that the monkeys quote 345 00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:40,359 Speaker 1: scattered across the highway would infect humans with disease. Obviously, 346 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:43,920 Speaker 1: PETE has seen that movie importing monkeys and tormenting them 347 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:47,040 Speaker 1: in laboratories is likely to cause more human illness than 348 00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:51,480 Speaker 1: experimenting on them will ever prevent. PETE Science advisor doctor 349 00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:55,760 Speaker 1: Lisa Jones Engle said another PETA article worried about the 350 00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:59,920 Speaker 1: lack of biosecurity during the incident and lamented how they escaped. 351 00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:03,400 Speaker 1: Monkeys are undoubtedly terrified and likely injured, and they may 352 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:07,600 Speaker 1: be harboring viruses that are transmissible to humans. As evidence, 353 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:10,080 Speaker 1: Peter links to a report from the Associated Press with 354 00:22:10,119 --> 00:22:13,399 Speaker 1: the headline police warned people to not approach lab monkey 355 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:17,200 Speaker 1: missing from Pennsylvania crash. In the article, however, police make 356 00:22:17,240 --> 00:22:20,520 Speaker 1: no indication that the monkeys are contagious, and having covered 357 00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:23,400 Speaker 1: several of these animal escape stories, I can tell you 358 00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:26,720 Speaker 1: that it's pretty standard practice for law enforcement to discourage 359 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:30,320 Speaker 1: approaching the wild animals, not to mention, you gotta test 360 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:34,879 Speaker 1: animals traveling internationally. One woman who was on the scene 361 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:37,919 Speaker 1: claims to have developed pink eye like symptoms and is 362 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:42,440 Speaker 1: currently taking preventative medicine. Doctors did not diagnose her with 363 00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:45,720 Speaker 1: anything in particular. Right now, there's no reason to believe 364 00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:51,400 Speaker 1: that COVID two point oh just took off in Montour County, Pennsylvania. Remember, 365 00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:55,560 Speaker 1: pink eye like symptoms come from anyone's poop, not just 366 00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:58,040 Speaker 1: monkey poop. We can get pink eye from farting in 367 00:22:58,080 --> 00:23:03,520 Speaker 1: a pillow totally. That's awesome. That's all the monkey business 368 00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:06,560 Speaker 1: I've got for you today. Thank you so much for listening. 369 00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:10,200 Speaker 1: Remember to write in to a s k C. A L. 370 00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:13,359 Speaker 1: That's asked cal at the Meat Eater dot com and 371 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:15,040 Speaker 1: let me know what's going on in your neck of 372 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:18,000 Speaker 1: the woods. Now. Remember, if you're gonna have monkeys dropping 373 00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:22,320 Speaker 1: into your backyard unexpectedly, you better have it looking ship shape. 374 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:27,000 Speaker 1: Go to www dot steel Dealers dot com and find 375 00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:30,600 Speaker 1: a local, knowledgeable steel dealer near you. They'll get you 376 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:33,199 Speaker 1: all you need to trim those trees and make a 377 00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:36,359 Speaker 1: monkey proof and monkey safe. They'll get you what you 378 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:38,760 Speaker 1: need and not send you home with what you don't. 379 00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:49,200 Speaker 1: Thanks again, and I'll talk to you next week.