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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 Kelly in now

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Speaker 1: Here's kel Are about Us is a nesting process in

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Speaker 1: which a bunch of turtles crawl up the beach and

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Speaker 1: lay eggs at the same time. Synchronized nesting. You could

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Speaker 1: call it probably not a future Olympic event. This type

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Speaker 1: of tactic is used by many species to overwhelm predators.

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Speaker 1: And when I say many species, I'm talking about oaks

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Speaker 1: to elk drop a bunch of elk calves on the

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Speaker 1: ground at roughly the same time, or acorns for that matter,

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Speaker 1: and there is just no way the predators can get

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Speaker 1: to them all before they get into the ground or

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Speaker 1: their wobbly little legs turn into solid muscle and propel

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Speaker 1: hold them away from danger. All of Ridley sea turtles,

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Speaker 1: which is one of the most abundant sea turtles in

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Speaker 1: the world, as well as one of the smallest nests

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Speaker 1: in several locations. When I'm talking about is in Costa

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Speaker 1: Rica right now. They use this tactic synchronized nesting are

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Speaker 1: about us to overwhelm vultures. As many as twenty thousand

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Speaker 1: sea turtles have arrived to nest in a single day.

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Speaker 1: Another nesting site in India called Odisha reported six hundred

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Speaker 1: thousand turtles in only one week. They nest above the

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Speaker 1: high water mark, which means they have to crawl from

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Speaker 1: the ocean up the sand to where the sea resides.

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Speaker 1: Keep in mind, these are heavy creatures made for floating,

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Speaker 1: not crawling. When they get to their spot, they have

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Speaker 1: else the vulture show up to eat them. They'll deposit

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Speaker 1: roughly a hundred eggs per nest or clutch cover them up.

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Speaker 1: Once they're covered up, they're safe from the vultures at least,

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Speaker 1: and then they'll crawl back into the ocean. It took

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Speaker 1: the youngest ones, the first ones to get back, fifteen

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Speaker 1: years until their first nesting cycle. There's an interesting thing

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Speaker 1: here to keep in mind. Due to the sheer numbers

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Speaker 1: nesting sites would all be huge, but some are actually

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Speaker 1: a small patch of sand. To shine a little light

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Speaker 1: i u c N or International Union for the Conservation

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Speaker 1: of Nature. The PBS series Spy in the Wild uses

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Speaker 1: incredible lifelike robots sea turtle bot that actually digs and

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Speaker 1: lays eggs alongside real sea turtles. The eggs are also

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Speaker 1: cameras that capture the look on the vultures faces as

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Speaker 1: I So I'm just bringing this up to tell you

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Speaker 1: don't forget about your public broadcasting system out there in

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Speaker 1: the mess of media. They're still doing really good work.

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Speaker 1: But I don't need a fishing polbird. How are you

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Speaker 1: gonna catch all these fishes without a fishing call. I

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Speaker 1: have this special fish call and they come right into

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Speaker 1: the boat. This week we've got animal human conflict, black bears, grizzlies, bison,

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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 holy cats, friends and neighbors. I am

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Speaker 1: back in the puppy game. As I record this, I

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Speaker 1: half weeks old. Uh, so far, she has jumped into

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Speaker 1: the Missouri River unprovoked, retrieved several things, has fearlessly bit, growled, barked,

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Speaker 1: and harassed several full grown dogs. I guess what I'm saying,

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Speaker 1: and as I may be in over my waiters on

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Speaker 1: of yet, but I am kind of leaning towards steel

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Speaker 1: power equipment. Maybe just steal for short Steel, as you know,

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Speaker 1: power chainsaws that have helped get me out of all

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Speaker 1: sorts of jams that I got myself into. Anyway, back

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Speaker 1: to this little dog, It's been a while since my

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Speaker 1: last dog, whose name was Fisher a K the Big

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Speaker 1: Fish a K Fish. So I'm rereading this fantastic book

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Speaker 1: by Richard Walters called Water Dog. It is a joy

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Speaker 1: to read, full of incredible simple training info. I recommend

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Speaker 1: it to everyone. Walters has several other titles, most of

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Speaker 1: which I've actually read through. In addition to being a

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Speaker 1: dog trainer and author, Walters was, according to the New

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Speaker 1: he especially admired to laborators for their diligence, devotion, stamina,

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Speaker 1: In addition to the puppy, met up with a few

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Speaker 1: friends over the weekend, fish for walleye and bluegill targeting

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Speaker 1: But we did manage to get a few, and we

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Speaker 1: actually picked them up on croppy rigs that I got

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Speaker 1: who you can see firsthand on Cow's Weekend Review Tennessee

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Speaker 1: carp YouTube series episode, so check that out on the

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Speaker 1: Meat Eater YouTube channel. We use small croppy jigs and

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Speaker 1: big murky water, which paid off better than the big

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Speaker 1: bay it's I ended up with two big filatable fish

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Speaker 1: using old Man Ronella's barrel scaler, which is essentially like

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Speaker 1: running a fish through a cheese grater, then whole fried

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Speaker 1: it worked out fantastically and as you know, if you

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Speaker 1: hold fry of fish there is very little waste. For

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Speaker 1: folks like myself who are not masters of the flame knife,

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Speaker 1: this is a good way to go the big fish.

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Speaker 1: I used to set of steel pruning shears and took

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Speaker 1: the whole collar off. Then I fried those lots of

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Speaker 1: meat on fish. Callers. Spencer new Hearth, our senior hunting

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Speaker 1: editor at Meat Eater, hit me to the walleye wings,

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Speaker 1: which is just the pectoral fins. But I think callers

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Speaker 1: I know this is going to be releasing little late,

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Speaker 1: but I wanted to say Happy Independence Day all of you.

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Speaker 1: I hope everyone made it out to a big, beautiful

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Speaker 1: with you know, the normal having fun Fourth of July

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Speaker 1: checking out new spots. Additionally, thank you to all of

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Speaker 1: I know this long weekend can be a busy one.

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Speaker 1: Moving on, first stops over at the black bear Desk.

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Speaker 1: You've got a special black bear round up. In fact,

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Speaker 1: Tricia Hurt used her cell phone to capture and narrate

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Speaker 1: the freeing of a black bear on Wisconsin's marsh Miller Lake.

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Speaker 1: This was actually a pretty technical bear release as far

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Speaker 1: black bear has been quite the attraction in Iowa. Iowa

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Speaker 1: Natural Resources, black bear sightings are steadily increasing in the state.

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Speaker 1: touring some famous white tail country. The North American black

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Speaker 1: bear was once distributed across the US. However, market hunting

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Speaker 1: As we reported earlier, Missouri is in the public comment

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Speaker 1: through motor vehicle collisions, urban development, and open garages pose

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Speaker 1: that number is growing. Illinois Department of Natural Resources does

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