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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 Kellan now Here's kel.

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Speaker 1: Eleven thousand birds were killed during a hail storm in

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Speaker 1: and around Montana's Big Lake Wildlife Management Area. Big Lake

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Speaker 1: is located in Stillwater County, Montana, and is a seasonal

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Speaker 1: home to thousands of waterfowl and wetland birds. Seventy mile

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Speaker 1: last week, killing and maiming and estimated thirteen thousand waterfowl

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Speaker 1: and wetland birds by blunt forest trauma. Fish and wildlife

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Speaker 1: parks officials inspected birds with internal damage smashed skulls, broken wings,

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Speaker 1: and feathers. Among the types of birds injured are cormorants, pelicans, ducks, geese,

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Speaker 1: and goals. It seems the bigger birds took the brunt

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Speaker 1: of the hail. Of cormorants and pelicans left on the

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Speaker 1: lake were injured, while only five percent of ducks left

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Speaker 1: on the lake showed signs of injury. I'd like to

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Speaker 1: point out that this is just a freak weather occurrence,

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Speaker 1: strong enough to break windows, destroy crops, and generally cause

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Speaker 1: all sorts of damage. Hail is formed when up drafts

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Speaker 1: and thunderstorms carry water droplets high enough to freeze. Big

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Speaker 1: hail stones are caused by lots of water droplets freezing together,

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Speaker 1: and they eventually dropped when they are too heavy for

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Speaker 1: the updraft in the storm. I just want to point

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Speaker 1: that out, as some of the headlines I read in

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Speaker 1: regards to this story seemed to want to somehow vilify

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Speaker 1: or demonize the weather. Hail or the hailstone or hail

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Speaker 1: storm does not have any nefarious sort of ability or intention.

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Speaker 1: This is just nature being nature, not as one outlet

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Speaker 1: put it, hail slaughtering eleven thousand birds. Again, hail doesn't slaughter,

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Speaker 1: just falls, just frozen water the size of a baseball

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Speaker 1: fallen from the sky. Not fun to be hit by,

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Speaker 1: but not evil either. On a positive note, Montana Fish,

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Speaker 1: Wildlife and Park says the lake is still full of

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Speaker 1: birds and life will go on. This week, I'm going

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Speaker 1: to talk about access more old fish, the es A,

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Speaker 1: and so much more. But first I'm gonna tell you

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Speaker 1: about my week. This is a bit of a cliffhanger,

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Speaker 1: if you will. By the time this podcast is aired,

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Speaker 1: I will have been hunting elk for a week out

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Speaker 1: on a chunk of Nature Conservancy ground in eastern Oregon

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Speaker 1: called the zoom Walt Prairie Preserve. The words hunting and

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Speaker 1: preserve may not go hand in hand for many of you,

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Speaker 1: but this nearly thirty three thousand acre preserve is private ground.

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Speaker 1: In fact, it is the largest private preserve and Oregon.

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Speaker 1: The aim of the zoom Walt Prairie Preserve is to

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Speaker 1: protect and maintain the intact native bunch grass prairie through

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Speaker 1: grazing management prescribed burns, improving the health of native plant

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Speaker 1: species while trying to diminish the number of invasive plant

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Speaker 1: species moving in. You'll notice that it did not say

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Speaker 1: grow big bull elk or big buck mule deer, although

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Speaker 1: they're there. I'm told I'm really excited to go out

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Speaker 1: and check this place out. I know several folks from

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Speaker 1: this part of the eastern Oregon. I've spent some time

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Speaker 1: in the area and it is absolutely beautiful country. Additionally,

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Speaker 1: what the Nature Conservancy is doing with the zoom Walt

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Speaker 1: Prairie Preserve is a really important example of private ground.

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Speaker 1: With the public access component, the public can go to

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Speaker 1: just about any time of the year. Or if you

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Speaker 1: active management, you can apply for a cow tag and

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Speaker 1: help push critters around the prairie, which mitigates overgrazing while

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Speaker 1: putting meat in the freezer. There's roughly two point three

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Speaker 1: billion acres of land in the United States, only sixty

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Speaker 1: million acres of which are public, and some of those

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Speaker 1: acres we the public can't even access. But get to

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Speaker 1: an example of that in a minute. What this means

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Speaker 1: is a whole heck of a lot of public wildlife

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Speaker 1: excited to go out and see all this firsthand, talk

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Speaker 1: in the management of the prairie ecosystem. One last fun

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Speaker 1: fact for you, as a nonresident hunter in the state

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Speaker 1: five hundred and seventy. When you purchase these items online

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Speaker 1: through the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, your receipt

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Speaker 1: Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife's licensing system. It is

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Speaker 1: purchases from customers like you that ensure the thriving bounty

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Speaker 1: of fish, wildlife, and habitats that Oregonians love. We appreciate

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Speaker 1: species being the greenland shark. I failed to go into

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Speaker 1: The greenland shark is our oldest living vertebrate individual. Greenland

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Speaker 1: sharks have been aged through radio carbon dating beyond three

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Speaker 1: believed that the female greenland shark does not hit sexual

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Speaker 1: on the menu. The national dish of Iceland is greenland

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Speaker 1: The meat is apparently toxic when fresh due to high

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Speaker 1: will dive as deep as seven thousand, two eighteen feet.

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Speaker 1: to six months. Don't be rude. Try it. Bourdain said.

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Speaker 1: Just recently, and has promised, the Trump administration has altered

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Speaker 1: Almost every single administration has messed with the e s

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Speaker 1: With the current change of critical habitat to only include

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Speaker 1: out of the state of California, the largest wildlife overpass

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