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

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Speaker 1: Kel's We Can Review with Ryan kel kell in now

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Speaker 1: Here's Kel. Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Officer Austin Schumacher

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Speaker 1: put his tracking skills to the test this past November.

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Speaker 1: You're hearing about it now because Officer Schumacher just received

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Speaker 1: the citation, which is why I am just hearing about it.

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Speaker 1: And it's a great story. According to Minnesota Public Radio,

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Speaker 1: the thirteen year old boy got into what you would

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Speaker 1: call being match with his teachers, gust at them, and

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Speaker 1: ran away from school into the swamp across from the school.

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Speaker 1: The weather was threatening snow about thirty nine degrees, and

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Speaker 1: thirteen year old was only wearing a T shirt and sweatpants.

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Speaker 1: The principal of the school initially tried to track the boy,

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Speaker 1: but the ground was too boggy to sue, and a

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Speaker 1: search party was soon called in. Officer Schumacher arrived late

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Speaker 1: and decided to try and follow the child using skills

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Speaker 1: he had been taught hunting. Eventually, he hit a track

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Speaker 1: and soon he was on his own, crossing through mud,

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Speaker 1: open water, and thick brambles on one of the cold,

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Speaker 1: muddy trails. Schumacher struck the track of the now barefoot

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Speaker 1: boy and followed the fresh track and astonishing two miles

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Speaker 1: in the dropping temperatures. The track, like just about any

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Speaker 1: animal track, was intermittent, and Officer Schumacher felt what most

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Speaker 1: people on an intermittent track do, little doubt, a little despair.

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Speaker 1: But eventually he found the child, who was now shivering,

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Speaker 1: beyond control and soaked. He wrapped the thirteen year old

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Speaker 1: his back through the swamp another mile to awaiting ambulance.

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Speaker 1: Schumacher received the d n r S Life Saving Award.

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Speaker 1: His training officer, Warden tim Werner said, quote, there's a

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Speaker 1: lot to be said about just old cool woodsman skills.

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Speaker 1: The piece of advice from Officer Schumacher's tracking the most

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Speaker 1: important lesson Humans are lazy creatures. Animals will crawl under

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Speaker 1: or go around obstacles. People will push them aside or

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Speaker 1: plow through them. Everything in nature is vertical as it

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Speaker 1: tries to reach the sun. If you see something horizontal

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Speaker 1: like a branch on the ground, chances are humans were here.

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Speaker 1: All good stuff. But then if you think about it,

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Speaker 1: over three miles with no preparation, and two miles of

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Speaker 1: those in bare feet. I've met some lazy thirteen year old,

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Speaker 1: but this kid doesn't sound like one of them outside

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Speaker 1: of the classroom anyway. For me, this story ended as

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Speaker 1: good as it could, aside from maybe the thirteen year

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Speaker 1: old making it through the swamp pass the authorities onto

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Speaker 1: a passing freight train to go lead a life of

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Speaker 1: adventure and love and whatnot, to one day return to

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Speaker 1: ultimately be the principle of the school. That would have

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Speaker 1: made it better story. Another factual thing I liked about

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Speaker 1: this story is a little tidbit that I omitted. The

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Speaker 1: sheriff's office had a drone flying overhead. It was outfitted

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Speaker 1: with the speaker. The boy's parents were actually calling to

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Speaker 1: him from the drone. Great idea. The mud and the

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Speaker 1: cold weren't gonna slow the drone down, but the boy

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Speaker 1: was incapacitated. Schumacher found him in a very old fashioned way.

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Speaker 1: Just stay on the track. Well done. This week, we've

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Speaker 1: got closures, questions, fair weather fans, and the ever interesting

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Speaker 1: law enforcement desk. But first I'm gonna tell you about

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Speaker 1: my week. Well, friends and neighbors, I've been cooking up

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Speaker 1: a darn storm, turning pounds and pounds of meat into

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Speaker 1: a couple of pounds of jerky, turning saved turkey carcasses

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Speaker 1: and turkey stock, turning a year's worth of deer and

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Speaker 1: elk bones into dark, beautiful, more precious than gold bone stock.

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Speaker 1: Heavy on the collagen. Collagen is the good stuff that

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Speaker 1: renders out of all that fashion ligament that people like

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Speaker 1: to dis parage the real chewy bits. That is the

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Speaker 1: stuff that can feel sinfully packed with flavor and good

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Speaker 1: grease when cooked very low and very slow. For a

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Speaker 1: hoping to get those into a couple of different recipes shortly.

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Speaker 1: The point is I'm taking advantage of all this inside time,

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Speaker 1: really enjoying it for what it is. An opportunity to

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Speaker 1: is time to fully embrace all of the things we

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Speaker 1: love about being out of doors, I can go do

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Speaker 1: it without feeling guilty. And speaking of guilt, I want

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Speaker 1: good at entertaining myself. In fact, I've joked with a

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Speaker 1: as oxymoronic as that is, I would be a first

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Speaker 1: raw food materials of elk, mule, deer, cous deer, turkey, duck, catfish,

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Speaker 1: croppy carp, morrell mushrooms, dried up frozen bits, last year's garden, halibate, hearts, tongues, livers, cheeks, bones, roast, steaks,

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Speaker 1: None of this came from a store, but trust me,

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Speaker 1: very first outfitter I ever worked for. He would say,

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Speaker 1: we'd have a cook, sometimes he'd cook, sometimes I'd cook.

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Speaker 1: No matter what, he'd stare at the table and say, well, pardon,

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Speaker 1: quality and quantity. But this pre dinner comment was always

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Speaker 1: the same. This man grew up poor on a very

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Speaker 1: diet of wild game, him an unexpectedly dead livestock that

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Speaker 1: Before dinner, his father, no matter what was or wasn't

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Speaker 1: wonder what the poor people are having tonight, This saying

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Speaker 1: to me it wasn't a declaration of wealth as it

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Speaker 1: could be construed, rather a reminder that as long as

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Speaker 1: you've got something in front of you, be thankful. There

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Speaker 1: are those who do not. That same old outfitter is

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Speaker 1: one of these immune system compromised individuals we all talked

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Speaker 1: about right now, firmly in the at risk category and

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Speaker 1: like COVID nineteen or not. He is the person that

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Speaker 1: patiently sat through endless questions for me, a kid who

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Speaker 1: loved hunting and everything about hunting long before I ever hunted,

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Speaker 1: and he did this in his free time, even when

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Speaker 1: it was literally his job to show people the outdoors

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Speaker 1: through hunting. He lent me as freshly restored teaberd coupe

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Speaker 1: prom senior year. Pardon, he said, you get a date

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Speaker 1: and I'll let you take the tea bird. I killed

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Speaker 1: sage grouse, and more importantly, learned from a man who

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Speaker 1: He has now hung up his outfitter hat, but still

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Speaker 1: shows incredible pride in his grandchildren's ability and interests in

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Speaker 1: the outdoors. Larry P. Just another example of an influential

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Speaker 1: social distance or fishtans, or if you're in Louisiana, an

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Speaker 1: Now I am slowly moving on as per usual. We've

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Speaker 1: old going on his first turkey hunting this year. Good luck, buddy,

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Speaker 1: and just remember you kill them with your butt. You'll

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Speaker 1: and since then I found out a whole lot more, which,

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Speaker 1: believe it or not, makes me like it way more.

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Speaker 1: The animals and bugs and fish that you catch are

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Speaker 1: Greg Blaskovic moving onto the crime desk. A prolific perpetrator

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Speaker 1: Histrionicus histrionicus, which is pretty fetching by itself. But what

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Speaker 1: back to the prolific poacher. Hut was awaiting trial on

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Speaker 1: a state record setting wildlife bail of sixty thou dollars.

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Speaker 1: After a sentence was handed down on the Hut is

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Speaker 1: now the first poacher in Washington history to receive a

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Speaker 1: wildlife is managed by the state for the people. Hut,

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Speaker 1: our poacher, judging from his possession of meth amphetamine and

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Speaker 1: He was killing and stealing meat from others. This isn't

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Speaker 1: just me saying this. According to the Sequel Gazette, the

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