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

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Speaker 1: Cal's wee Can Review with Ryan cal Callahan. Now Here's cal.

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Speaker 1: An Iowa woman recently caught the same ten pound walleye

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Speaker 1: her father had caught thirty six years before, thanks to

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Speaker 1: historic flooding and a thoughtful neighbor. Your average walleye lives

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Speaker 1: about ten years. But this isn't a story about an

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Speaker 1: especially elderly gravel lizard. That's a nickname for walleye for

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Speaker 1: all you casual walter anglers. Deadly floods have swamped large

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Speaker 1: portions of northwest Iowa, and some folks have seen entire

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Speaker 1: homes washed away in the deluge. One of those homeowners,

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Speaker 1: a woman named Kim Geardis, had many of her belongings

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Speaker 1: washed away by the Rock River, including a mounted walleye

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Speaker 1: that had been caught by her father. The large fish

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Speaker 1: had been residing in her husband's den for decades, but

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Speaker 1: it disappeared along with the rest of her stuff. Fortunately,

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Speaker 1: one of her neighbors was out looking for her own

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Speaker 1: things when she spied a fishtail sticking out of her tree.

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Speaker 1: She had first thought that the fish had been deposited

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Speaker 1: there while alive, but when she reeled it in, she

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Speaker 1: noticed it had a plaque attached to it. Geirdis told

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Speaker 1: local media that she's happy to have it back since

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Speaker 1: it's one of her only physical memories of her father.

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Speaker 1: I guess that's one fish that didn't get away after all.

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Speaker 1: Big thanks to listener Jim Lane for sending us that story.

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Speaker 1: Side note, there are lots of different viewpoints on taxidermy.

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Speaker 1: Among those viewpoints are that they cost a lot and

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Speaker 1: collect dust. And that's of course avoiding the topic as

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Speaker 1: to why someone would want a stuff up previously a

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Speaker 1: her Iowa flood victim Kim hits on one of the

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Speaker 1: cases for taxidermy that strikes a chord with me. She

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Speaker 1: her dad, and not just how many times she likely

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Speaker 1: got sick of hearing that particular story about that particular

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Speaker 1: fish or that particular fishing trip, but all the things

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Speaker 1: about her dap stories beyond the lake and river. And

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Speaker 1: that's a lot for a stuffed fish to say. This week,

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Speaker 1: we've got massive migration legislation, dog news, and so much

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Speaker 1: more of it. First, I'm going to tell you about

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Speaker 1: my week. In My week has been graced with some

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Speaker 1: showers here in the Rockies, bringing our summer temps down

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Speaker 1: Stream flows are looking great. If it were August, we

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Speaker 1: got a lot of summer to go, and from an

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Speaker 1: spread on it. Independence Day has happened. If you are

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Speaker 1: listening to this, which means you are probably seeing a

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Speaker 1: lot of articles regarding fireworks and birds. Yes, fireworks don't

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Speaker 1: make birds happy, but for the most part, birds are

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Speaker 1: less susceptible to mass death events in the summer. Big

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Speaker 1: bird trauma is primarily related to New Year's fireworks celebrations

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Speaker 1: when birds are hanging out. In larger numbers, if you

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Speaker 1: want to talk impressive statistics, let's talk humans. Surprisingly, twenty

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Speaker 1: individuals treated at emergency rooms. In twenty twenty two, ten thousand,

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Speaker 1: two hundred people were treated in emergency rooms, including eleven

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Speaker 1: non industry related deaths, which I kind of get a

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Speaker 1: chuckle out of because it implies that you know, listen,

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Speaker 1: if it's your job to deal with fireworks and you

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Speaker 1: And just for fun, let's go back in time to

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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, where the American Academy of Ophthalmology has really

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Speaker 1: for spiroklers, eight hundred for firecrackers, and four hundred for

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Speaker 1: that's only good for you to know for next year.

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Speaker 1: Happy Independence Day, everybody, hope it was a fun one

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Speaker 1: and a safe one. Moving on to the Africa desk,

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Speaker 1: a recent study out of South Sudan claims that the

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Speaker 1: country's antelope migration is the largest movement of land mammals

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Speaker 1: group called African parks. They used sixty thousand aerial images,

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Speaker 1: The migration includes four main types of antelope, the white

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Speaker 1: poaching has posed a serious threat to these and other

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Speaker 1: In many cases, the poachers have better and more effective

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Speaker 1: on a steep decline. African Parks reports that thirty thousand

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Speaker 1: To do that, they'll have to do a better job

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Speaker 1: dealing with poachers, which in many African nations can be

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Speaker 1: a seriously dangerous undertaking. Poaching syndicates in Africa are large

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Speaker 1: In twenty thirteen, for example, three rhino poachers were shot

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Speaker 1: In twenty eighteen, game wardens patrolling Kenya's Mount Elgin National

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Speaker 1: year later, a prominent American investigator of the illegal ivory

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Speaker 1: group said Esmond Bradley Martin, who had spent decades tracking

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Speaker 1: Landowners can still shoot feral swine without a license, but

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Speaker 1: they cannot import, transport, or possess the animals at all.

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Speaker 1: Illegal hog hunting will carry a penalty of a first

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Speaker 1: moving to ban hog hunting in an effort to slow

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Speaker 1: the spread of the invasive species. Trapping is the only

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Speaker 1: definitely true that once hunters get a hankering for hog hunting,

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Speaker 1: touch with your state senators. Thanks to Mark Hooper for

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Speaker 1: sending us that story. Florida Governor Rond DeSantis signed a

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Speaker 1: No one likes seeing trash on a beach, but the

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Speaker 1: sponsor Rep. Linda Cheney. Ohio residents probably wished the same

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Speaker 1: a publicity stunt in Cleveland went very, very wrong. If

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Speaker 1: Along with untold environmental damage, the balloons caused traffic problems

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Speaker 1: Florida is no longer in danger of experiencing a similar catastrophe,

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Speaker 1: not for you know, the law, but for the environmental damage. Also.

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Speaker 1: This should be the next parental outcry media storm in

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Speaker 1: our society. What's the appropriate age to teach responsibility? You know,

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Speaker 1: Moving on to the dog desk, I'm going to pause

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Speaker 1: border travel with your furry friend. Starting August one, the

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Speaker 1: to the CDC dot gov website to learn it all beforehand.

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Speaker 1: Here's the highlights. As per usual, your dog has to

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Speaker 1: New requirements include an implanted International Organization for Standardization ISSO

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Speaker 1: the past six months is also required, which is just

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Speaker 1: going to be hell for you know, Paris Hilton and

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Speaker 1: Al that's Askcal at themeateater dot com and let me

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Speaker 1: One last thing for you. If you ever get a

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