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

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

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Speaker 1: was announced last week for Derrick Hughes, thirty seven, who

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Speaker 1: stood accused of poaching burrels from giant redwood trees and

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Speaker 1: you guessed at Redwood National Park in California. Back in

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Speaker 1: two thousand and eighteen, a clever park ranger noticed several

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Speaker 1: untouched burls in the vicinity of a few that had

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Speaker 1: already been stolen. Figuring the thief would return to finish

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Speaker 1: the job, the rangers set up trail cams and caught

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Speaker 1: Hughes red handed, or should I say redwood handed. These

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Speaker 1: redwood burls are highly prized for making furniture, and a

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Speaker 1: nice burrel coffee table will certainly tie room together. Ethically

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Speaker 1: sourced redwood burrows are salvage from trees that were felled

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Speaker 1: in late eighteen hundreds in early nineteen hundreds. Back then,

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Speaker 1: sawmills wanted straight grained timber, and so the naughty burrows

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Speaker 1: were rejected and ethical manufacturers today salvage these existing burrows. However,

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Speaker 1: new illegal burrows are cut from living trees. You might

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Speaker 1: think this sounds pretty minor just harmlessly slicing a bulbous

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Speaker 1: protrusion off the side of a trunk. Our friend Buck

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Speaker 1: Bowden does something like that to make his beautiful bowls

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Speaker 1: from birch burrows, which is both a fine craft and

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Speaker 1: a tongue twister. However, cutting new redwood burls is much

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Speaker 1: more damaging to living trees. Poachers take out chunks about

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Speaker 1: the size of a chest freezer like you and a

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Speaker 1: buddy could easily shelter from rain in one of these

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Speaker 1: gaping tree cavities. This can kill the tree, and some

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Speaker 1: poachers even cut down living redwoods just to get to

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Speaker 1: the burrows. When Hughes's home was searched, investigators found several

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Speaker 1: burrels that match trees in the park. The search turned

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Speaker 1: up several other interesting items like meth amphetamines, illegal weapons,

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Speaker 1: other stolen property, and interestingly, some brass knuckles. Hughes in general,

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Speaker 1: does not seem like the cuddly type. We've often talked

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Speaker 1: on the show about how hard it is to get

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Speaker 1: judges to take wildlife crime seriously. Poachers of all kinds

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Speaker 1: often suffer stiffer penalties for the drugs and their possession

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Speaker 1: than for the deer heads, And in fact, the only

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Speaker 1: charge that stuck to Hughes was for vandalism. His total

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Speaker 1: debt to society will amount to about four hundred hours

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Speaker 1: of community service and two years of probation. My darker

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Speaker 1: side wishes the Redwoods themselves had dispensed a little justice.

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Speaker 1: Maybe a tree trunk falling on Hughes's vehicle would have

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Speaker 1: reminded him that he's dealing with some powerful forces called

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Speaker 1: my friends shock. This week, we've got oh the Madity,

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Speaker 1: the Snort Report, and Biden Trump round two. But first,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you about my week and friends and neighbors.

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie I feel like, and please let

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Speaker 1: me know if you've ever been here, Like, I just

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Speaker 1: need to lie down in a deep depression and cry

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Speaker 1: for a bit, but I just don't have the time.

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Speaker 1: And then I kind of feel crazy when I look

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Speaker 1: at the animal that I want to cry over and

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Speaker 1: she's just licking your face and totally happy. What the

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Speaker 1: hell happened last week? Also, I'm heading back to the

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Speaker 1: y he to hopefully help put a positive spin and

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Speaker 1: happy ending on a big sheep hunt gone wrong. I'll

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Speaker 1: fill you in on that later, but first the Snort Report,

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Speaker 1: Episode two. Snort is doing great. She's lying on the

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Speaker 1: from the fact that she has two necrotic spots on

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Speaker 1: living tissue rattlesnake. Venom by and large contains compounds that

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Speaker 1: kill tissue and blood cells. The damage to the blood

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Speaker 1: cells make the bite victim bleed. The damage to the

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Speaker 1: cell tissue helps the snake digest its prey faster. It

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Speaker 1: All I can do for you is relay our story

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Speaker 1: in the hope that it may at least mentally prepare

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Speaker 1: partners dog gets bit Ben andruw My that buddy said,

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Speaker 1: give the dog one milligrams of Ben and drill. I

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Speaker 1: To get back to what I said about things to

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Speaker 1: Dogs have high resting heart rates. My athletic friend Snort

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Speaker 1: to drink. In this situation, technology was a comfort. Again.

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Speaker 1: For the first time ever, I had in my possession

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Speaker 1: a satellite transmitter receiver called a somewhere device. It weighs

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Speaker 1: nothing and links up to your phone like a hotspot.

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Speaker 1: cobback Quaw Canadians that still smoked. The ability to communicate

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Speaker 1: allowed me to talk to my vet friend and get advice.

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Speaker 1: Being able to communicate with a human was a real comfort.

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Speaker 1: By the time we hit a big creek crossing about

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Speaker 1: I had musen x ib prof and dramamine. He asked

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Speaker 1: Dog screams are unpleasant anytime, but this situation, where we

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Speaker 1: Not good. I have a thirty thousand dollar machine, literally

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Speaker 1: Big big thank you to the guys at Commercial Tire

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Speaker 1: They helped drop the trailer in place, took my name

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Speaker 1: We could do an entire show just on the infrastructure bill.

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Speaker 1: A couple of notable provisions are three fifty million dollar

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Speaker 1: grant program to build wildlife crossings over and under roadways.

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Speaker 1: Two fifty million dollars will go toward the maintaining and

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Speaker 1: repairing the Forest service extensive network of roads and trails.

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Speaker 1: Those not only help hunters and anglers get in the

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Speaker 1: back country, but it also mitigates soil erosion from unmaintained

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Speaker 1: roads into rivers and streams, which has done a number

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Speaker 1: on fish habitat. Over fifteen billion dollars will go toward

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Speaker 1: estuary restoration, stormwater management, aquatic habitat protection, water quality improvements,

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Speaker 1: and drought mitigation. Lastly, Biden recently announced an initiative called

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Speaker 1: America the Beautiful, which claims to conserve thirty percent of

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Speaker 1: the nation's land and water by this quote. Thirty by

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Speaker 1: thirty idea is an international initiative to combat biodiversity loss,

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Speaker 1: and no one has defined exactly how it should work.

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Speaker 1: Some environmental groups have been pushing for complete protection of

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Speaker 1: of the Earth's lands and waters, which would have meant

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Speaker 1: no human use, no hunting, fishing, ranching, you name it.

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Speaker 1: Although the details are pretty light so far, the administration

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Speaker 1: has made clear that lands used for farming, ranching, logging,

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Speaker 1: and hunting will count toward the thirty percent goal, along

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Speaker 1: with waters where people can fish. In my mind, that

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Speaker 1: is a strategic move along the lines of one of

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Speaker 1: my favorite bumper stickers, Cow's not condos. Thirty by thirty

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Speaker 1: is a hot potato and you had best be at

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Speaker 1: the table talking about it if you want to get

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Speaker 1: your interests represented. We'll keep you posted. That's all the

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Speaker 1: Biden Trump face off we can fit into the show

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Speaker 1: for now. If you're not shy about it, give me

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Speaker 1: your opinion right in and tell me what I missed,

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Speaker 1: what I got wrong, and what we need to tackle

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Speaker 1: in the future. A s k C. A L. Let's

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Speaker 1: ask hell at the Meat Eater dot com. And lastly,

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Speaker 1: go to www dot Steel Dealers dot com and find

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Speaker 1: a reputable and knowledgeable steel dealer near you who can

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Speaker 1: get you lined out with a fancy, quiet, clean electric

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Speaker 1: chainsaw just like cal has. That's a third person recommendation

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Speaker 1: right there. Anyway, I got mine charged up. It's underneath

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Speaker 1: the seat and we're heading out tomorrow back into the

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Speaker 1: sheep country. More most importantly, use that email I just

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Speaker 1: told you about a s k c a L. That's

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Speaker 1: ask Cal at the meat Eator dot com and let

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Speaker 1: me know what's going on in your neck of the woods.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening. I'll talk to you

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Speaker 1: in next week.