1 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:13,520 Speaker 1: From Mediators World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is 2 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:17,479 Speaker 1: Kel's we Can Review with Ryan kel Kell and now 3 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:22,400 Speaker 1: here's kel. New Mexico's Attorney General, Hector Balderas, called on 4 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:25,800 Speaker 1: the New Mexico Fish and Game Commission to immediately strengthen 5 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:30,760 Speaker 1: its regulations to address waterway access in compliance with state law. 6 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:33,880 Speaker 1: As we have reported numerous times here on the Weekend Review, 7 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:37,960 Speaker 1: the New Mexico State Constitution says that New Mexico's waterways 8 00:00:38,040 --> 00:00:41,599 Speaker 1: belonged to the people of New Mexico. Specifically, and I'm 9 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:46,920 Speaker 1: quoting here, unappropriated water of every natural stream, perennial or 10 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:50,839 Speaker 1: torrential within the State of New Mexico is hereby declared 11 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:53,760 Speaker 1: to belong to the public and to be subject to 12 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:58,560 Speaker 1: appropriation for beneficial use. Despite that very specific language in 13 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:01,880 Speaker 1: the New Mexico State constitut tuition, in two thousand fifteen, 14 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:05,319 Speaker 1: and this was counter to serious public outcry, a rule 15 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:08,480 Speaker 1: passed through the New Mexico House to add the additional 16 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:12,839 Speaker 1: language of non navigable waters. And then two years ago 17 00:01:13,080 --> 00:01:16,199 Speaker 1: the previous Fishing Game Commission passed a rule that would 18 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:20,080 Speaker 1: allow landowners to petition to have waters that ran through 19 00:01:20,120 --> 00:01:25,920 Speaker 1: their property deemed non navigable and therefore non public, non walkable, 20 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:31,080 Speaker 1: non fishable, non floatable, non publicly enjoyable. You get it. 21 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:33,759 Speaker 1: And I'm paraphrasing this whole thing because I've hit this 22 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:37,319 Speaker 1: topic like three times on the weekendview. As someone who 23 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:41,040 Speaker 1: uses waterways as a legal means of access to lots 24 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:43,720 Speaker 1: of land in this country, I need to remind you 25 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:47,120 Speaker 1: that this is not just an issue of keeping people 26 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:50,520 Speaker 1: from fishing or floating through a stretch of water. This 27 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:54,920 Speaker 1: could potentially deny access to everyone, not just New Mexicans, 28 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 1: to state and federal lands, of which five hundred and 29 00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:02,800 Speaker 1: fifty four thousand eight ers are currently landlocked and blocked 30 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:06,600 Speaker 1: from public use in New Mexico. Already, Senators, you do all. 31 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:10,680 Speaker 1: Heinrich and State Rep. Deb Halan sent a letter earlier 32 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:14,119 Speaker 1: this month to New Mexico State Game Commission Chairwoman prow 33 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:17,960 Speaker 1: Cup thanking the Game Commission for moratorium the Commission placed 34 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:21,520 Speaker 1: on the non navigable water rule, and further encouraging the 35 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:24,840 Speaker 1: Commission to reassert the rights of New Mexico citizens to 36 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:28,520 Speaker 1: access our public lands, rivers and streams. If you like 37 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:32,280 Speaker 1: to hunt, fish and explore, that's the kind of politicking 38 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:35,840 Speaker 1: we like to see. Typically, when we lose access, we 39 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:38,320 Speaker 1: never get a chance to get it back. It seems 40 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:41,240 Speaker 1: that in this case in New Mexico, we have a 41 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:45,440 Speaker 1: chance to tread back up the slippery slope of access 42 00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:49,200 Speaker 1: loss to public lands and waters. So you know the drill. 43 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:55,519 Speaker 1: If you currently recreate in where you dream of going 44 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:59,720 Speaker 1: to the land of Enchantment someday to fish hunt, eat 45 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:03,200 Speaker 1: the amazing New Mexican food, look at the stars, or 46 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:06,560 Speaker 1: maybe go down to the lightning fields, call the office 47 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:10,320 Speaker 1: of the Governor Michelle Louhan and tell her or her 48 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:13,360 Speaker 1: staff as much that there is no point to go 49 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:17,119 Speaker 1: to state where that natural beauty us outdoorsy folks who 50 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:20,079 Speaker 1: are willing to spend our time and money to go see, 51 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:24,080 Speaker 1: is you know, non navigable so to speak. This week 52 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:29,120 Speaker 1: we've got dear tuberculosis, first time hunters for bands, sea urchins, 53 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:32,440 Speaker 1: and so much more. But first I'm gonna tell you 54 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:35,800 Speaker 1: that this podcast is powered by steel power equipment to 55 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:37,960 Speaker 1: make all sorts of good stuff from hand shears that 56 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:39,960 Speaker 1: I keep in my truck and used to break down 57 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:43,560 Speaker 1: game birds like turkeys and pheasants, to ripping little chainsaws 58 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:47,160 Speaker 1: that make buttery smooth cuts, which is actually really important 59 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:51,880 Speaker 1: to me now about my week every year I tried 60 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:54,160 Speaker 1: to take out a first time hunter. It may be surprising, 61 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:56,280 Speaker 1: but we actually have a lot of folks in the 62 00:03:56,280 --> 00:03:59,080 Speaker 1: Meat Eater office that have not hunted before. If you 63 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:02,080 Speaker 1: fancy yourself of a hunter of any stripe, you need 64 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:04,960 Speaker 1: to consider taking out a first timer. Will it diminish 65 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:08,280 Speaker 1: your personal success in notching your tag on a bowl 66 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:11,920 Speaker 1: or a buck? Well? Quite possibly, But who cares an 67 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:16,520 Speaker 1: already successful hunter having another successful hunt? You know I've 68 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:19,599 Speaker 1: heard that story. Anyway, as I've been doing this for 69 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:21,400 Speaker 1: a long time, I thought I would share a few 70 00:04:21,400 --> 00:04:24,400 Speaker 1: thoughts of mine own on the subject of teaching and 71 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:27,719 Speaker 1: taking a first time hunter out in the field. One 72 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:31,400 Speaker 1: do not utter the phrase I got them their first 73 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:35,719 Speaker 1: deer or first fish or whatever. If that is your attitude, 74 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:38,360 Speaker 1: you are doing it wrong and you may need to 75 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:41,600 Speaker 1: wait another season to be an mentor. The point of 76 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:45,600 Speaker 1: this whole thing is to facilitate the first time hunter 77 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:49,560 Speaker 1: getting their own animal, their own successes and failures. For 78 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:53,160 Speaker 1: that matter, you are just facilitating those little peaks and 79 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:56,880 Speaker 1: valleys as well as ensuring that these experiences happened safely. 80 00:04:57,200 --> 00:04:59,719 Speaker 1: The goal is of course an animal in the case 81 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 1: of hunting, but it is also more than that. Is 82 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:04,720 Speaker 1: to lay the foundation for the first tim or to 83 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:08,120 Speaker 1: be able to build toward hunting on their own. So 84 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:11,280 Speaker 1: set goals to help them do this thing you love 85 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:15,320 Speaker 1: on their own. Goals like finding animals, sneaking over ridges, 86 00:05:15,440 --> 00:05:18,880 Speaker 1: wind control, best times of day, what is happening at 87 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:21,920 Speaker 1: the given time of year, animal behavior, And be clear 88 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:24,400 Speaker 1: about what you know and what you just presume to know. 89 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:27,479 Speaker 1: What you carry in your pack or pockets or having 90 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:30,720 Speaker 1: the truck, and why and why not? And it's important 91 00:05:30,839 --> 00:05:34,919 Speaker 1: to keep asking yourself along the way. Is this repeatable? 92 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:38,640 Speaker 1: Is the first timer going to be able to repeat 93 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:41,720 Speaker 1: this on their own? In order to do this, make 94 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:45,400 Speaker 1: sure that the type of hunt allows for open communication. 95 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:49,360 Speaker 1: You need as the mentor to be providing an experience 96 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:52,799 Speaker 1: where questions can be asked and answered at any time. 97 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:56,320 Speaker 1: The mentor needs stacks of patience and the ability to 98 00:05:56,360 --> 00:05:58,640 Speaker 1: follow through. A mentor is signing up to be a 99 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:02,919 Speaker 1: trusted resource for a long time. Do not underestimate the 100 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:06,080 Speaker 1: amount of knowledge it takes to be confident and safe 101 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:10,839 Speaker 1: around firearms and confident and safe in the outdoors, limit 102 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:16,400 Speaker 1: the input into digestible and retainable chunks of information. I 103 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 1: firmly believe and strongly recommend one on one mentorship as 104 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:24,480 Speaker 1: the one on one scenario is the best for clear, 105 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:28,719 Speaker 1: direct communication. And finally, you're dealing with life and death. 106 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:33,679 Speaker 1: Take this seriously. Acknowledge the fun, the greatness of the outdoors, 107 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:36,800 Speaker 1: but at the end of the day around that shouldn't 108 00:06:36,839 --> 00:06:40,200 Speaker 1: have been chambered a stick on a trigger plus poor 109 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:46,080 Speaker 1: barrel control or awareness, and the experience alters lives forever. 110 00:06:46,520 --> 00:06:49,159 Speaker 1: It's serious stuff. I'll tell you one screw up I 111 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:51,720 Speaker 1: made this past week. I put us in a situation 112 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:55,040 Speaker 1: where the first timer was not able to fully participate 113 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:58,599 Speaker 1: in field dressing and feel butchering of the deer. Yes, 114 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:01,880 Speaker 1: they were extenuating circum stances. Not only was it the 115 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:04,120 Speaker 1: last day of the hunt, but it was potentially the 116 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:07,360 Speaker 1: last day of the hunting season for the hunter. That 117 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:10,880 Speaker 1: knowledge of the last day, stacked on top of all 118 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:14,200 Speaker 1: the successes and failures that we've had to that point, 119 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:16,840 Speaker 1: led me to kind of put us in this position 120 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:20,080 Speaker 1: of being too far from the truck, too close to dark, 121 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:23,800 Speaker 1: impending wet, cold sleet, storm coming in, and you know 122 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:26,720 Speaker 1: that's my big regret. Lots of learning on all sides, 123 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:29,600 Speaker 1: which is so fulfilling for you know, the first time 124 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:32,960 Speaker 1: around the mentor, there's a great shot under pressure, all 125 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:35,880 Speaker 1: sorts of winds. But cutting open your first animal is 126 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:38,840 Speaker 1: so pivotal. It's hard to say, but I wish I 127 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:41,640 Speaker 1: could get a do over on that part. So again, 128 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:43,480 Speaker 1: as a mentor, you need to pick a spot that 129 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:46,560 Speaker 1: allows you to provide the whole learning Enchilada and I 130 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:48,560 Speaker 1: have failed at that. I would love to tell you 131 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:51,480 Speaker 1: about the whole story, but that's her story, not mine. 132 00:07:51,880 --> 00:07:53,360 Speaker 1: All I can tell you is what I just did. 133 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:55,480 Speaker 1: I will tell you one more thing. The mule deer 134 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:58,679 Speaker 1: buck that this first timer killed had actually been shot 135 00:07:58,840 --> 00:08:01,320 Speaker 1: the year previous, as near as I could tell. Anyway 136 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:03,880 Speaker 1: high shot. The bullet passed through the top of the 137 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:06,920 Speaker 1: back above the spine. When I was parting up the buck, 138 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:09,880 Speaker 1: there was a hole through those tall finbones kind of 139 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:13,360 Speaker 1: on your cervical to thoracic vertebrae there above the spine, 140 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:15,720 Speaker 1: creating a hole about the size of a fifty cent piece. 141 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:19,280 Speaker 1: The buck moved fine, had no visible signs of injury. 142 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:22,200 Speaker 1: He was chasing the ladies around just looked like any 143 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:25,920 Speaker 1: old healthy deer. So if anyone out there was agonizing 144 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:29,680 Speaker 1: over a buck shot high in eastern Montana last year, 145 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:34,480 Speaker 1: he made it until this year. Moving on, I think 146 00:08:34,559 --> 00:08:37,240 Speaker 1: everyone is aware that the state of California has officially 147 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:40,719 Speaker 1: banned the production and sale of furs effective January one, 148 00:08:40,800 --> 00:08:43,880 Speaker 1: two thousand twenty three. As previously reported here on the 149 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:47,360 Speaker 1: Weekend Review, in order to trap animals at perspective, trapper 150 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:50,480 Speaker 1: must buy a license. Those license fees help pay for 151 00:08:50,559 --> 00:08:54,360 Speaker 1: wildlife habitat and management, which the effects of this band 152 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:56,920 Speaker 1: you know that will be felt, especially as the burden 153 00:08:56,960 --> 00:08:59,440 Speaker 1: to trap has placed solely on the State of California 154 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:01,959 Speaker 1: and US fish and wildlife, which means we'll all be 155 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:06,000 Speaker 1: paying for it. Another interesting economic impact consider is the 156 00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:08,800 Speaker 1: fact that much of the fur in use is actually farmed. 157 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:12,560 Speaker 1: Mink farmers, for instance, raised the small weasels for their pelts. 158 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:16,240 Speaker 1: Wisconsin happens to be the mink producing capital of the US, 159 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:19,120 Speaker 1: but you didn't know that, and bands of fur could 160 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:22,480 Speaker 1: kill the mink farmers way of life. Mink farmers, according 161 00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:26,120 Speaker 1: to Wisconsin Public Radio, aren't concerned necessarily with a warm 162 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:29,280 Speaker 1: weather state like California, but they are concerned that if 163 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:32,040 Speaker 1: animal rights activists can shut down fur, then they will 164 00:09:32,040 --> 00:09:34,920 Speaker 1: be able to shut down anything related to animal goods 165 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:37,760 Speaker 1: piece by piece. The thought of raising an animal just 166 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:40,560 Speaker 1: for the fur, I'll admit to me, isn't that appealing. 167 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:43,640 Speaker 1: But is it that different than raising animals just for 168 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:46,360 Speaker 1: the meat. We do have uses for just about everything 169 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:48,640 Speaker 1: that comes off a chicken or a hog or a beef, 170 00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:50,760 Speaker 1: but the bulk of what I'm typically in it for 171 00:09:50,960 --> 00:09:53,520 Speaker 1: is the meat. As I sit on a leather couch 172 00:09:53,559 --> 00:09:57,560 Speaker 1: and tell you this, it's a complex issue, but I 173 00:09:57,679 --> 00:09:59,839 Speaker 1: don't think it matters to the animal, and I like 174 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:03,120 Speaker 1: my meats and my leather goods and whatnot. On top 175 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:05,400 Speaker 1: of that, I look forward to one of my pals, 176 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:08,680 Speaker 1: Stephen Ronella's famous beaver pelt hats just in time for 177 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:11,680 Speaker 1: ice fishing season. One thing I do know is a 178 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:14,319 Speaker 1: good friend of mine, one of my mentors, actually put 179 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:17,480 Speaker 1: himself through college by supplying jack rabbits to a mink 180 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:20,439 Speaker 1: farm outside of Greeley, Colorado. He had himself a pretty 181 00:10:20,440 --> 00:10:23,840 Speaker 1: good gig going as jack rabbit populations operate on a 182 00:10:23,880 --> 00:10:26,840 Speaker 1: boom bust cycle, as then they go from lean years 183 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:30,360 Speaker 1: of very very few rabbits to ultra fat years of 184 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:32,679 Speaker 1: way too many. And this friend of mine happened to 185 00:10:32,679 --> 00:10:35,240 Speaker 1: be going to the University of Northern Colorado when the 186 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:40,400 Speaker 1: land was booming with jack's. He would drive all night 187 00:10:40,559 --> 00:10:43,480 Speaker 1: collecting jack rabbits, then dropped them off in the morning 188 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:46,000 Speaker 1: to the mink farmer and had the class. Everything went 189 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:49,000 Speaker 1: well until it was discovered that the mink farmer had 190 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:52,120 Speaker 1: also been selling the would be mink food to the 191 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:55,720 Speaker 1: university food service. Once that news broke, my friend was 192 00:10:55,880 --> 00:10:58,600 Speaker 1: out of a job. I had always wondered what would 193 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:00,520 Speaker 1: have happened if he could have cut the farmer out 194 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:04,079 Speaker 1: of the deal. Onto the health desk. The Centers for 195 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:08,640 Speaker 1: Disease Control and Prevention is warning that deer carrying tuberculosis 196 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:12,280 Speaker 1: can transmit TB to humans. A seventy seven year old 197 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:15,240 Speaker 1: hunter who had no exposure to people or countries with 198 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:18,600 Speaker 1: TB was diagnosed with the disease in two thousand seventeen. 199 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:22,720 Speaker 1: The hunter had been exposed to mico Bacterium bovis, which 200 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:26,240 Speaker 1: can be found in deer, bison, elk, and cattle. This 201 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:29,360 Speaker 1: bacteria can cause TB when spread to humans and it 202 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:33,360 Speaker 1: was likely inhaled during the process of gutting an infected deer. 203 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:37,600 Speaker 1: According to Purdue University, the clinical signs of bovine TB 204 00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:41,840 Speaker 1: recognizable to hunters would be small to large white, tan 205 00:11:42,040 --> 00:11:45,360 Speaker 1: or yellow lesions kind of look like big pustules on 206 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:48,720 Speaker 1: the lungs, rib cage or in the chest cavity, but 207 00:11:48,880 --> 00:11:53,200 Speaker 1: lesions are not always visible or present. Bovine TB makes 208 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:56,680 Speaker 1: up less than two percent of tuberculosis cases in the US, 209 00:11:56,920 --> 00:11:59,600 Speaker 1: and prior to this Michigan case, there had only been 210 00:11:59,720 --> 00:12:03,120 Speaker 1: one confirmed dear to human transmission. In that case, it 211 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:05,400 Speaker 1: was thought that the hunter had an open wound when 212 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:09,960 Speaker 1: field dressing the infected animal. Bovine TB has economic effects 213 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:12,480 Speaker 1: on state it's cattle industry and due to the white 214 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:15,760 Speaker 1: tailed deer's ability to move freely from pasture to pasture 215 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:19,920 Speaker 1: while potentially carrying the communicable disease from cattle herd, cattle 216 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:23,440 Speaker 1: herd either through direct contact or shared feeding, could have 217 00:12:23,760 --> 00:12:26,880 Speaker 1: serious repercussions, as the U s d A label states 218 00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:32,000 Speaker 1: TV free Perdue University suggests that eliminating baiting and supplemental 219 00:12:32,040 --> 00:12:35,760 Speaker 1: feeding of wildlife is a necessary step, and stopping bovine 220 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:39,800 Speaker 1: TB Michigan. It is obviously going to be hard to 221 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:42,920 Speaker 1: detect bovine TB if lesions are not visible, but it 222 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:45,680 Speaker 1: could be a good idea to wear gloves. I recommend 223 00:12:45,679 --> 00:12:49,760 Speaker 1: the three millimeter painters latex gloves, not like the food 224 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:53,199 Speaker 1: specific latex gloves for field dressing. I also call them 225 00:12:53,240 --> 00:12:57,760 Speaker 1: like my Serial Killer gloves, because you know that series Dexter. 226 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:04,320 Speaker 1: I think that's what he's wearing. And if you're aware 227 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:08,080 Speaker 1: of bovine TB being present in the area that you hunt, 228 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:10,480 Speaker 1: you may want to take the extra precaution of wearing 229 00:13:10,520 --> 00:13:14,160 Speaker 1: a face mask. Bovine TB is curable in humans, although 230 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:18,040 Speaker 1: the treatment includes the possible twelve months of antibiotics. And 231 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:20,880 Speaker 1: on top of that, we all remember Val Kilmer's character 232 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:24,079 Speaker 1: of Doc Holiday, who was infected with tuberculosis and the 233 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:28,360 Speaker 1: epic Western Tombstone. Johnny Ringo calls him a longer nobody 234 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:32,680 Speaker 1: wants that. I'm the Hunckle. There good news coming out 235 00:13:32,679 --> 00:13:36,079 Speaker 1: of the House. The North American Wetlands Conservation Extension I 236 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:39,199 Speaker 1: Act passed through the House Natural Resources Committee. This would 237 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:42,679 Speaker 1: reauthorize the program up to sixty million dollars annually through 238 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:47,720 Speaker 1: the Wetlands Conservation Extension Act provides matching funds for wetlands 239 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:50,680 Speaker 1: habitat that have been used in all fifty states, granting 240 00:13:50,679 --> 00:13:55,240 Speaker 1: more than one point seven three billion dollars since nine. 241 00:13:55,559 --> 00:13:58,959 Speaker 1: That's three point five seven billion counting the matching funds. 242 00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:01,960 Speaker 1: This is a great if you're into things like clean 243 00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:07,000 Speaker 1: water or tasty things like fat mallard ducks. So once again, 244 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:10,160 Speaker 1: call your congressmen and women and tell them to see 245 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:13,559 Speaker 1: the North American Wetlands Conservation Act or HR nine to 246 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:17,080 Speaker 1: five through the Senate. And don't forget to thank those 247 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:19,760 Speaker 1: folks on the House Natural Resources Committee and let them 248 00:14:19,840 --> 00:14:21,960 Speaker 1: know that they have a lot more work to do 249 00:14:22,120 --> 00:14:25,640 Speaker 1: as well. The repeal of Clean Water Act protections for 250 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:29,560 Speaker 1: intermittent streams and wetlands makes acts like this one that 251 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:35,040 Speaker 1: much more critical. And buy your dang duck stamp. Apparently 252 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:38,120 Speaker 1: we're moving on here. It has been very tough to 253 00:14:38,240 --> 00:14:42,760 Speaker 1: find pure bred alpine dingos. Dingoes are a wild dog 254 00:14:42,960 --> 00:14:45,080 Speaker 1: and they appear in the fossil record only to about 255 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:48,760 Speaker 1: thirty years ago. The first European accounts of dingos in 256 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:53,640 Speaker 1: Australia include them living seemingly with their aborigines, not necessarily 257 00:14:53,680 --> 00:14:57,480 Speaker 1: as pets or companions, but as mutualistic campers. Of the 258 00:14:57,560 --> 00:15:00,560 Speaker 1: three species of dingos in Australia, the ol pine dingo 259 00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:04,080 Speaker 1: is the most rare and is currently in danger of extinction. 260 00:15:04,360 --> 00:15:08,720 Speaker 1: So it was pretty surprising when a genetically pure alpine 261 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:13,320 Speaker 1: dingo apparently fell from the sky, or that's the theory anyway. 262 00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:16,600 Speaker 1: A stray puppy suddenly appeared in a backyard in one 263 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:19,920 Speaker 1: dilagon a town in the Australian state of Victoria, with 264 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:22,400 Speaker 1: what appeared to be claw marks on its back. The 265 00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:24,960 Speaker 1: puppy that first thought to be a stray dog, was 266 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:28,520 Speaker 1: eventually taken to a local vet and apparently DNA tested. 267 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:31,680 Speaker 1: One of the main threats the existence of alpine dingos 268 00:15:31,920 --> 00:15:35,080 Speaker 1: is interbreeding with domestic dogs. Apparently it is rare to 269 00:15:35,120 --> 00:15:38,680 Speaker 1: find dingos of any kind that don't have domestic dog DNA, 270 00:15:39,120 --> 00:15:42,000 Speaker 1: although life in the wild I am sure is preferable 271 00:15:42,120 --> 00:15:45,720 Speaker 1: to any animal. This male dingo, who escaped the talents 272 00:15:45,720 --> 00:15:48,880 Speaker 1: of a raptor survived some sort of a fall, will 273 00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:53,440 Speaker 1: apparently land safely in the alpine dingo breeding program, which, 274 00:15:53,560 --> 00:15:56,320 Speaker 1: you know, if you're going to be captive, that can't 275 00:15:56,320 --> 00:15:59,480 Speaker 1: be the worst situation to be in. Moving over to 276 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:03,320 Speaker 1: the Californi in your desk, the purple sea urchin is 277 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:06,800 Speaker 1: proliferating at an alarming rate. This is not your typical 278 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:09,720 Speaker 1: uny sea urchin, as they tend to be less meaty, 279 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:11,880 Speaker 1: but I'll get to that in a minute. Purple sea 280 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:14,440 Speaker 1: urchins thrive on bul kelp, which is one of the 281 00:16:14,480 --> 00:16:17,240 Speaker 1: fastest growing plants on earth, but the kelp is being 282 00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:21,760 Speaker 1: decimated by the seemingly faster growing urchins. Quick side note, 283 00:16:22,120 --> 00:16:25,840 Speaker 1: bul kelp is really tasty stuff. One matt Ronella pickled 284 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:27,960 Speaker 1: the stocks of the bull kelp and we used it 285 00:16:28,080 --> 00:16:30,520 Speaker 1: like you would pickles and tuna salad, except for it 286 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:33,760 Speaker 1: was salmon. But anyway, it was great. I always thought 287 00:16:33,840 --> 00:16:37,520 Speaker 1: that the bull kelp, which has this big hollow light 288 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:40,840 Speaker 1: bulb type end to the stock, would win over some 289 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:44,240 Speaker 1: friends if you pickled that bulb in its entirety and 290 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:47,000 Speaker 1: used it as the vessel for like a seafood dip 291 00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:51,360 Speaker 1: or a caesar a bloody mary. But you may never 292 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:53,960 Speaker 1: get the chance to steal my idea if we can't 293 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:57,080 Speaker 1: figure out purple sea urchin. Kelp for us of all 294 00:16:57,120 --> 00:17:00,600 Speaker 1: types support a huge swath of biological to birsty. With 295 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:04,159 Speaker 1: the loss of nearly of California's bul kelp along two 296 00:17:04,240 --> 00:17:08,640 Speaker 1: hundred and seventeen miles of coast, many other species, including humans, 297 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:12,800 Speaker 1: are feeling the hit. Abalone fishermen, for instance, faced closed 298 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:16,040 Speaker 1: season last year. That fishery alone was valued at forty 299 00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:19,879 Speaker 1: four million dollars. Kelp forests are safety zones for many 300 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:22,760 Speaker 1: fish species to hang out in your spear. Fishermen are 301 00:17:22,800 --> 00:17:25,680 Speaker 1: losing their habitat to hunt. The canopies of the kelp 302 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:30,080 Speaker 1: forest blocks sunlight, creating shade, and they break up wave action. Actually, 303 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:33,240 Speaker 1: it's somewhat inhibiting the effects of erosion on some coastlines. 304 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:36,080 Speaker 1: This important stuff, is what I'm saying. Don't think this 305 00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:39,200 Speaker 1: is just a California problem either. The purple urchins are 306 00:17:39,240 --> 00:17:43,120 Speaker 1: crawling their way north. One Oregon reef count last year 307 00:17:43,240 --> 00:17:46,760 Speaker 1: reported three d fifty million of the spiny invaders, a 308 00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:51,520 Speaker 1: ten thousand percent increase since two thousand fourteen. This scenario 309 00:17:51,760 --> 00:17:55,840 Speaker 1: is a perfect storm of swords. Warm waters have inhibited 310 00:17:55,880 --> 00:17:58,840 Speaker 1: the normal growth of the bull kilt. Sea stars, the 311 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:02,480 Speaker 1: purple urchin's natural o predator, have mysteriously declined due to 312 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:05,480 Speaker 1: an unknown disease, and the purple urchins were off to 313 00:18:05,520 --> 00:18:09,119 Speaker 1: the races filling the void. Reports from the associated press 314 00:18:09,160 --> 00:18:12,040 Speaker 1: relay the fact that the purple urchin maybe their own enemy, 315 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:14,320 Speaker 1: as they are now competing with each other for a 316 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:18,000 Speaker 1: very limited food source. But the impact on the ecosystem 317 00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:22,879 Speaker 1: is becoming severe. Some restaurants have started utilizing this resource, 318 00:18:23,080 --> 00:18:25,480 Speaker 1: and if I were looking to harvest in those waters, 319 00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:28,560 Speaker 1: I would too. To be clear, human consumption likely will 320 00:18:28,560 --> 00:18:31,800 Speaker 1: not have an impact on this urchin. Again, three fifty 321 00:18:31,880 --> 00:18:35,680 Speaker 1: million on one reef. But if you, like so many 322 00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:39,520 Speaker 1: folks love the catching part of fishing, the purple urchin 323 00:18:39,560 --> 00:18:43,240 Speaker 1: fishery maybe just the thing for you. Speaking with renowned 324 00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:47,800 Speaker 1: California chef Joshua Skeins of the three That's three Michelin 325 00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:52,320 Speaker 1: Stars says On and his other San Francisco restaurant venture, 326 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:56,840 Speaker 1: the Hangler Seafood Restaurant, chef Skene recommends this preparation for 327 00:18:56,880 --> 00:18:59,960 Speaker 1: the prickly kelp eater. So get your pen and pencil out, 328 00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:03,760 Speaker 1: chuck the purple sea urchin, serve the meat on the 329 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:08,800 Speaker 1: shell on ice, enjoy. Just about anybody can follow that one. 330 00:19:09,359 --> 00:19:11,240 Speaker 1: That's all I got for you this week, I hope 331 00:19:11,240 --> 00:19:13,959 Speaker 1: you've enjoyed Col's weekend review. Remember to tell a friend 332 00:19:14,359 --> 00:19:16,920 Speaker 1: and leave me a review by hitting that furthest right 333 00:19:16,960 --> 00:19:19,320 Speaker 1: hand star. If you think I screwed up or have 334 00:19:19,400 --> 00:19:22,200 Speaker 1: missed anything, or need to go tell somebody about something 335 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:26,440 Speaker 1: else right in at ask cal a s K C 336 00:19:26,840 --> 00:19:31,000 Speaker 1: A L. At the Meat eater dot com. I'll talk 337 00:19:31,040 --> 00:19:39,400 Speaker 1: to you next week.