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Speaker 1: From Mediators World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is

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Speaker 1: Cal's weekend review, presented by Steel. Steel products are available

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Speaker 1: dot com. Now here's your host, Ryan kel Callahan.

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Speaker 2: Japan's famous vending machines sell everything from flowers to fish,

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Speaker 2: to bread to eggs, but one enterprising restaurant just took

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Speaker 2: things up a notch. Residents of Semboku, Japan, can now

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Speaker 2: purchase bear meat from a vending machine outside the local

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Speaker 2: bullet train station. The raw steaks come in a frozen

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Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty grand package, and customers can choose

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Speaker 2: between lean and fatty options that cost about seventeen dollars US.

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Speaker 2: The local proprietors told the Japanese newspaper The Mannietzschi that

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Speaker 2: they sell between ten and fifteen packages a week. The

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Speaker 2: bear meat is sourced from a local hunting club that

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Speaker 2: harvest bears from the surrounding mountains. We covered in episode

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Speaker 2: one ninety four how depopulation in rural areas is causing

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Speaker 2: conflicts with wild animals like deer and wolves. Bears are

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Speaker 2: hunted in part to mitigate these conflicts, and the meat

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Speaker 2: is mainly sold to tourists as a kind of souvenir

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Speaker 2: from the Akita Prefecture, a mountainous province in northern Japan.

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Speaker 2: It is illegal in North America to sell most kinds

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Speaker 2: of game meat in parts because we know how market

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Speaker 2: hunting nearly wiped out many of these species, But that

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Speaker 2: doesn't seem to be a worry in Japan. Very few

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Speaker 2: Japanese people hunt, and the bear population is growing. The

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Speaker 2: owner of the bear meat vending machine also says that

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Speaker 2: this product is limited by hunting restrictions. Once his supplies

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Speaker 2: run out, they won't be restocked again until the hunting

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Speaker 2: season resumes in June. Would you eat bear meat from

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Speaker 2: a vending machine? Let me know by writing in to

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Speaker 2: askcl that's Ascal at the meat eater dot com. And again,

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Speaker 2: if you have a good hunting hook up in Japan,

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Speaker 2: let me know. Well, come on over pil Michelle, Chigo.

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Speaker 2: This week we've got winter weekends, spring kills, USDA snipers, legislation,

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Speaker 2: and so much more. But first I'm going to tell

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Speaker 2: you about my week. In my week that's always interesting

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Speaker 2: about a new truck. It's two thousand and five with

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Speaker 2: only one hundred and thirty four thousand miles on it

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Speaker 2: and probably needs a new bumper and a few other things,

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Speaker 2: but finances are tight. So if anyone is interested in

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Speaker 2: a two thousand and nine Toyota Tundra with two hundred

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Speaker 2: and ten thousand miles on it runs fantastic, a couple

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Speaker 2: of dents cosmetically, you know, I've never been one to

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Speaker 2: be real. You know it's a working man's truck. Also,

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Speaker 2: if you have a recommendation on a good front bumper

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Speaker 2: for a Chevy, please ride in. On top of that,

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Speaker 2: I'm writing to you from the Big Island, Hawaii, where

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Speaker 2: I'm hunting turkeys with my buddy Danny Bolton. We've been

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Speaker 2: preserving it all on film just for you. It's been

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Speaker 2: a lot of fun and I never thought I would

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Speaker 2: ever all in a turkey while seated against a banana tree,

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Speaker 2: but we can cross that off the list. Also, I

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Speaker 2: decided to shoot a peacock that made a poor decision,

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Speaker 2: which is a really long tailed and slightly bigger pheasant.

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Speaker 2: I have it in Abrian right now. It looks really tasty,

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Speaker 2: super fatty, and I am so sad Snort wasn't here

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Speaker 2: to retrieve it. Instead, she is as I have been

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Speaker 2: told killing and consuming ground squirrels back in Bozeman, which

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Speaker 2: I am also told do not agree with her insights.

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Speaker 2: On a gear related note, I'm wearing the new Trace

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Speaker 2: shirt and pant from First Light over here. Interesting material.

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Speaker 2: It's full of holes on purpose, full of holes. Very

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Speaker 2: comfortable in the hot and humid late morning as well

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Speaker 2: as the extremely wet and hot afternoons. Seems to be

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Speaker 2: holding up great in the thorns and lava rock two.

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Speaker 2: Check it out at the FirstLight dot com. That's the

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Speaker 2: current events. Last weekend I hit the Brush for Bucks

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Speaker 2: event held by the crew over at Hush First Light,

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Speaker 2: Idaho fishing game and new for this year the Foundation.

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Speaker 2: Thank you to everyone who volunteered. We raised another twenty

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Speaker 2: thousand dollars and planted thirty thousand, one hundred sage brush

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Speaker 2: and bitter brush starts in prime mule deer winter range.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, thank you. You warm my heart

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Speaker 2: and give me hope for the future. I mean, it

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Speaker 2: was super awesome. Met a bunch of good folks. One

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Speaker 2: fella from Mountain Home had his daughter out there who

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Speaker 2: couldn't have been eleven, and she stayed out there all

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Speaker 2: day and helped her dad plant a bunch of these starts,

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Speaker 2: and it was super cool. Super cool. I asked him

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Speaker 2: Very cool. Anyway, we're moving on to the long winter desk.

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Speaker 2: Last week we covered how Colorado Parks and Wildlife is

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Speaker 2: considering significant reductions to hunting licenses due to higher than

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Speaker 2: usual animal mortality this winter. Colorade isn't the only Western

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Speaker 2: state taking proactive steps to protect its wild animal populations.

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Speaker 2: It's been a long cold winter in the West this year,

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Speaker 2: and the animals are hurting. In Wyoming, the state's Game

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Speaker 2: that they're seeing especially high mortality from Pinedale to Rock

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Speaker 2: Springs in the southwestern part of the state. He reported

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Speaker 2: fifty percent mortality of adult pronghorn in the region, about

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Speaker 2: thirty percent adult deer mortality in about ninety percent fawn mortality.

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Speaker 2: In his words, quote, almost all of the fawnds are gone.

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Speaker 2: In Utah, the Division of Wildlife Resources has closed twenty

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Speaker 2: four wildlife management areas to help protect wintering deer in

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Speaker 2: the northern and central parts of the state. There are

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Speaker 2: a total of one hundred and ninety four WMAs, but

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Speaker 2: these twenty four will be closed through the end of April.

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Speaker 2: WMA is a wildlife management area. For those of you

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Speaker 2: who do not know, deer rely on fat reserves to

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Speaker 2: get through the winter, but those those fat reserves are

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Speaker 2: more quickly depleted by repeated ongoing human cause disturbances. You

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Speaker 2: should procure ears of if you've ever heard the words

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Speaker 2: non consumptive user. If they're constantly having to run away

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Speaker 2: from the sound of an ATV hiker or shed hunter

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Speaker 2: or backcountry skier, they get weaker and weaker and eventually die. This,

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Speaker 2: by the way, is why the distinction between consumptive and

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Speaker 2: non consumptive public land users doesn't make a whole lot

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Speaker 2: of sense. A backpacker isn't taking an animal off the landscape,

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Speaker 2: but he or she still has an impact on wildlife anyway.

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Speaker 2: The Utah DWR, which is the Department of Wildlife Resources,

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Speaker 2: said in a press release that they're seeing high mortality

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Speaker 2: with low tempts and high snowfall. Obviously, this doesn't bode

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Speaker 2: well for the upcoming hunting season. But we'll see where

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Speaker 2: the population estimates land as the weather warms up, if

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Speaker 2: it ever does. Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, and Colorado have all

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Speaker 2: established emergency feeding programs to help restore fat reserves and

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Speaker 2: keep animals away from ranches and roadways. In Idaho, for example,

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Speaker 2: approximately thirty tons of deer feed is currently being distributed

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Speaker 2: to twenty three authorized feed sites. Between one and two

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Speaker 2: tons of hay is being distributed at each elk feed

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Speaker 2: site each day. Winters dictate these populations as much or

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Speaker 2: more than any other factor. A string of mild winters

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Speaker 2: this one can set it back for years. It's still

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Speaker 2: too early to tell exactly how this winter will impact

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Speaker 2: will see different impacts. Winter feeding programs are hard to

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Speaker 2: pull off well. These ungulates go into a type of

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Speaker 2: preservation mode late in the season. Their bodies are designed

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Speaker 2: to live on very low calorie intakes, so when somebody

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Speaker 2: decides to throw out a big baal alfalfa, a high

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Speaker 2: energy food source, this can actually kill animals. Even at

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Speaker 2: these feeding sites administered by professionals, a percentage of those

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Speaker 2: animals will die because their bodies are just bringing on

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Speaker 2: too many calories and it screws up their digestion and

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Speaker 2: a bunch of other things. Anyway, don't go feeding animals,

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Speaker 2: and understand that feeding programs are not a solution to

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Speaker 2: a rough winter. They're only going to help a small

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Speaker 2: percentage of animals, all right. Moving on, not by coincidence

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Speaker 2: to the coyote desk. While Western States struggled to protect

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Speaker 2: their ungulate populations, most other places in North America are

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Speaker 2: trying to figure out how to shrink their coyote packs.

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Speaker 2: In California, the city of Belvidere and Maine County has

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Speaker 2: considered hiring federal snipers to cull its exploding coyote population.

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Speaker 2: Belvidere is some of the best views of the San

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Speaker 2: Francisco Bay and some of the area's most expansive homes.

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Speaker 2: Turns out, coyotes also appreciate a good view of the bay,

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Speaker 2: and dozens have moved into the small island community. Local

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Speaker 2: media reported in early March that there have been seventy

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Speaker 2: one coyote sightings and pet attacks since October, one resident

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Speaker 2: told the outlet that her dog named Baby, was abducted

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Speaker 2: by one of the wild canines. The coyote snatched Baby

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Speaker 2: from her fenced yard, and one of her neighbors saw

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Speaker 2: it carrying the small dog down the street. Baby's red

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Speaker 2: sweater hanging from the large dog's mouth was a good

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Speaker 2: indicator as to who the dog was and not to

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Speaker 2: defend the coyote, but I can see how putting a

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Speaker 2: red sweater on a dog might make it both popular

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Speaker 2: on Instagram and an attractive target. Anyway, Residents are demanding

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Speaker 2: that the city do something to address this problem. Mike Rowe,

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Speaker 2: who you may remember as the host of the hit

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Speaker 2: to tell about a recent encounter with a coyote. Apparently

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Speaker 2: it in the head, which is pretty on brand for Row.

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Speaker 2: The city has said that it has contracted the USDA

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Speaker 2: Wildlife Service, which uses poison traps and snipers, to cull

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Speaker 2: coyote pop relations, but it is also working with Project

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Speaker 2: Coyote and Animal Rights Group to explore other non lethal options.

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Speaker 2: The city's latest official statement came In a March fifteenth

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Speaker 2: press release, they say they are exploring management options and

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Speaker 2: developing a coyote response team of volunteers and first responders.

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Speaker 2: They also urged residents to eliminate anything from their yard

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Speaker 2: that may be an attractant. This includes food meant to

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Speaker 2: feed birds, squirrels, and feral cats. They also recommend fencing

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Speaker 2: a human's direct supervision. The small island community of Nahant, Massachusetts,

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Speaker 2: is also dealing with an influx of aggressive coyotes. There

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Speaker 2: are an estimated twelve coyotes in the one square mile village,

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Speaker 2: incidents of coyotes attacking dogs while the owners walk them

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Speaker 2: on a leash. In most places with such a high

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Speaker 2: density of coyotes, trappers would be able to make short

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Speaker 2: work of the problem, but Massachusetts law prohibits any kind

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Speaker 2: of trap except a box trap, which, according to the town,

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Speaker 2: has only trapped three coyotes in the last ten years.

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Speaker 2: Across the entire state, recreational hunting is prohibited given the

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Speaker 2: close proximity of houses and state law forbids the relocation

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Speaker 2: of aggressive coyotes. The town brought in those same USDA

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Speaker 2: snipers they're thinking about hiring in Belvedere, but so far

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Speaker 2: they haven't made much of an impact. The town reported

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Speaker 2: in early March that even using spotlights and thermal and

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Speaker 2: night vision optics, the snipers have only taken one coyote

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Speaker 2: in two visits since November. Even after this underwhelming performance,

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Speaker 2: the town has decided to extend its agreement with the

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Speaker 2: USDA for an additional year. Officials in Saskatchewan, Canada, are

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Speaker 2: taking a different approach to their coyote problem. Several rural

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Speaker 2: municipalities have placed a twenty dollars bounty on coyotes after

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Speaker 2: residents reported seeing packs of fifteen or more dogs in

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Speaker 2: residential areas. Wayburn, Estevan, and Zimmerick are among the municipalities

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Speaker 2: in the provinces southeast that are offering the bounty, and

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Speaker 2: officials say the response has been mostly positive. Low pelt

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Speaker 2: prices have muted trapping activity and the deep snow is

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Speaker 2: containing cattle with new calves in small areas. Ranchers are

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Speaker 2: reporting increased coyote damage and these municipalities need a way

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Speaker 2: to incentivize hunters and trappers to remove more of them

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Speaker 2: from the landscape. At twenty dollars per coyote, it wouldn't

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Speaker 2: be too hard to pay for your food and gas

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Speaker 2: on a good weekend hunt. Coyote management at the local

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Speaker 2: Week in Review, for sending that one in Moving on

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