Speaker 1: From Meat Eaters World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This
Speaker 1: is Cow's Week in Review with Ryan cow Callahan. Here's
Speaker 1: cal Thirty two year old David Tofaldy was hiking up
Speaker 1: Granite Peak on July twenty when he took tumble. Afterward,
Speaker 1: he saw one of his trekking poles, but not the other.
Speaker 1: Then it struck him, quote, this thing is sticking out
Speaker 1: of me. Hey, we've all been there fall. These missing
Speaker 1: trekking pole had fully impaled him, and it was jutting
Speaker 1: out from his torso to his back. But he wasn't
Speaker 1: in pain, bleeding, or struggling to Breathe Faldys occupation as
Speaker 1: a wound nurse in buildings and was quote pretty confident
Speaker 1: the pole hadn't punctured his chest or lungs. He walked
Speaker 1: around a little bit without getting dizzy or out of breath,
Speaker 1: So to avoid a pricey helicopter rescue, he and his
Speaker 1: friends I actually walked ten miles down the train. Along
Speaker 1: the way. One of the friends went ahead to warn
Speaker 1: hikers of the gruesome looking injury they'd soon see. An
Speaker 1: ambulance met Faldy at the trailhead. He was transferred back
Speaker 1: to the hospital in Billings, where he was asked to
Speaker 1: wait two hours before undergoing surgery, but he was reportedly
Speaker 1: pretty tired of having a pole sticking through him and
Speaker 1: convinced the doctors to consciously sedate him and remove the
Speaker 1: pole sooner. Only then did the wound start hurting. Faldy
Speaker 1: told The New York Times that the injury didn't cause
Speaker 1: any lasting damage except for sorenas. He also feels bad
Speaker 1: his fall prevented his buddies from summoning Granite Peak. They
Speaker 1: planned to go back and beg the peak next year
Speaker 1: without anyone impaling themselves on a hiking pole. Knock on wood.
Speaker 1: So some of my favorite trekking poles out there are
Speaker 1: the z lights from Black Diamond. Fantastic trekking pole, but
Speaker 1: on those downhill descents, if he got a big old
Speaker 1: mule deer on your back, there are many many times
Speaker 1: where you're using too much trekking pole to hit breaks
Speaker 1: and you watch those suckers bow out. And this nightmare
Speaker 1: scenario that this fellow went through is something I think
Speaker 1: has gone through many of our brains during late night packouts.
Speaker 1: Scary for sure. Glad this one ended up okay. This
Speaker 1: week we've got bait stations, cranes, wolves, bears, and where
Speaker 1: it's okay to clean your meat. College Edition. But first,
Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you about my week. And my
Speaker 1: week has been spent in smokey old Missoula, Montana at
Speaker 1: back Country Hunters and Anglers HQ, first trip away from
Speaker 1: the baby Boy, and I wish I could say I
Speaker 1: soaked in all the sleep I could guiltily get, but
Speaker 1: we were packing in some much needed overtime staff hours.
Speaker 1: If any of you listeners have purchased or I should say,
Speaker 1: attempted to purchase t shirts or stickers or hats, or
Speaker 1: have been doing awesome things like donating memberships multi year
Speaker 1: memberships to people, and you're trying to go through our system,
Speaker 1: which is not good right now over at Backcountry Hunters
Speaker 1: dot Org, then you know that we needed to spend
Speaker 1: some time there. There's been some issues getting that gear
Speaker 1: out the door in a timely fashion. The system was
Speaker 1: and is broken, but now we have a plan and
Speaker 1: are executing towards that plan, which should alleviate a lot
Speaker 1: of this until we get a new and much more
Speaker 1: efficient system online. This fall, we kept the home fires burning.
Speaker 1: Trey Curtis was making Elk Carneaitis in the office, keep
Speaker 1: everybody fed and moving, and then brand manager and editor
Speaker 1: of the Backcountry Journal Zach Williams, hosted everybody at his
Speaker 1: house and we did a Elk and Grizzly Bear kebabs
Speaker 1: out on the barbecue, which is pretty darn fun and
Speaker 1: a lot of people haven't eaten Grizzly Bear and it's
Speaker 1: good stuff. So just a little insight into what was
Speaker 1: going on with the org. And this is an interesting
Speaker 1: subject right in the nonprofit space. It's like, why the
Speaker 1: hell are wasting your time with merchandise anyway, Well, oddly enough,
Speaker 1: part of the mission here is to build community, empower
Speaker 1: people to speak on behalf of their public lands and
Speaker 1: public waters in public wildlife. And a snappy looking T shirt,
Speaker 1: good looking hat, cool sticker can really help build that community.
Speaker 1: And the reason we weren't getting these things out the door.
Speaker 1: Part of the reason is that, you know, while orders
Speaker 1: were stacking up, we were working to remove the legal
Speaker 1: gray area that blocks some eight hundred and seventy one
Speaker 1: thousand corner locked acres of public land corner crossing. We're
Speaker 1: educating and providing comments and testimony on behalf of our membership.
Speaker 1: Hopefully you for wetland conservation easements, OHB Expansion, Roadless Decision,
Speaker 1: Wilderness review, and those are just the top of the
Speaker 1: federal pile for the most part, so you lump in
Speaker 1: all the stuff that's happened at the state level. None
Speaker 1: of this is an excuse for poor merch execution, but
Speaker 1: it is just some context as to where the mission
Speaker 1: motion was flowing. We need to be sharing the love
Speaker 1: of our public lands with our land managers and political
Speaker 1: employees and with each other, so don't hesitate to get
Speaker 1: that merged, guys. And if it's a little slow, it's
Speaker 1: not because moss grows around a BHA staffer. It does not.
Speaker 1: Last thing I'll leave you with on this subject is
Speaker 1: public comment period over a Department of the Interior for
Speaker 1: the Wilderness review is August fourteenth, so you need to
Speaker 1: get on a lot of speculation is as to why
Speaker 1: this review is happening. Could it lead to weakening protections
Speaker 1: around designated wilderness, wilderness study areas, lands with wilderness characteristics
Speaker 1: and recommended wilderness It could for sure, which is why
Speaker 1: you need to chime in and say, hey, I just
Speaker 1: heard old cal talking about eating grizzly bear. I can't
Speaker 1: afford to go up to Alaska. I like the idea
Speaker 1: of one day being able to hunt grizzly bears in
Speaker 1: the lower forty eight, and we will never ever get
Speaker 1: there if we don't have designated wilderness and wilderness study areas,
Speaker 1: and in fact we should have more. You'll come up
Speaker 1: with the right thing to say. I trust you. Also,
Speaker 1: this week, I've been camping along the Old Blackfoot River
Speaker 1: and working the puppy and Snort together in the early
Speaker 1: mornings and late evenings. The adventure is a big Snort
Speaker 1: and little Carp started this week. So far, I've found
Speaker 1: that a little travel and a new routine has really
Speaker 1: made the old dog bond with the puppy. Karp is
Speaker 1: doing some really impressive retrieves on dry ground. She's starting
Speaker 1: to use her nose and she's marking those bumpers really well.
Speaker 1: She doesn't have the confidence to follow her mark all
Speaker 1: the time, but it's coming along. We've been working on
Speaker 1: her river knowledge too. We hunt a lot of moving water,
Speaker 1: and a major mistake a lot of folks make is
Speaker 1: training on still water and introducing puppies to river currents
Speaker 1: too late. In life. I like to get those little
Speaker 1: ones in the moving water early, and I think it
Speaker 1: pays off in pursuit angles and birds in the bag.
Speaker 1: Even with crippled birds on land. That drifting bumper in
Speaker 1: the water just gets their brains thinking along the lines
Speaker 1: of moving targets, where it will be, not where it is,
Speaker 1: where it could be if it's not there, that sort
Speaker 1: of thing. You know, All that education adds up pretty
Speaker 1: darn cool to see they're getting along way, way better.
Speaker 1: The puppy has no problem honoring snorts retrieve, But now
Speaker 1: Snort is reciprocating and being like, Okay, it's her turn, so,
Speaker 1: you know, steps in the right direction. I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's gonna be tough saying whether I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be hunting these two together early on or not.
Speaker 1: You know, due to the constrictions of baby life and
Speaker 1: long work hours, might not have a choice. Only so
Speaker 1: much hours in the day. Jeez, Hunting seasons right around
Speaker 1: the corner. What are we gonna do? Anxiety mounting up
Speaker 1: sounded a gun moving on to the legislative desk. A
Speaker 1: new law in Michigan is causing a stir in the
Speaker 1: local deer hunting community d In late July, Michigan Governor
Speaker 1: Gretchen Whitmer signed into law a bipartisan bill that permits
Speaker 1: citizens to put out two gallons or less of feed
Speaker 1: for deer or elk in their backyards. The feeding must
Speaker 1: take place within three hundred feet of a residence and
Speaker 1: can only be done for the purpose of wildlife viewing
Speaker 1: and winter feeding, not hunting. Okay. The law generally expands
Speaker 1: the areas where backyard feeding is permitted, though Michigan dn
Speaker 1: R officials say that some restrictions will remain in place
Speaker 1: in parts of the state where the transmission risk for
Speaker 1: diseases like CWD and bovine tuberculosis as high as baiting
Speaker 1: and feeding are known to congregate deer and elk. Increasing
Speaker 1: the spread of infectious disease is not good for anybody,
Speaker 1: and artificial bait sites are proven to do that. Some
Speaker 1: hunters are upset that local officials use this rationale to
Speaker 1: prohibit baiting for hunting in the past, and see the
Speaker 1: new regulation as a double standard. I do not blame
Speaker 1: you there. Here's Steve for Michigan Outdoor Obsession on the
Speaker 1: development for years since twenty nineteen to be exact. We've
Speaker 1: been told that you couldn't bait because it caused artificial
Speaker 1: grouping of deer and intern that caused CWD to spread. Well, now,
Speaker 1: apparently CWD doesn't spread if you're within three hundred feet
Speaker 1: of your house and you're just watching them from afar.
Speaker 1: But if you hunt them, then having deer around a
Speaker 1: bait pile causes CWD to spread. That's my issue with this.
Speaker 1: It's not the fact of the actual law itself, it's
Speaker 1: the consistency. This is the most contradictive law coming to
Speaker 1: play for the Michigan hunting community. Ever, it's worth noting
Speaker 1: that the law was passed by politicians, not the DNR,
Speaker 1: which is usually not a great way to do wildlife management.
Speaker 1: If you got thoughts on this one, you know where
Speaker 1: to find us, right in askcl that's Ascal at the
Speaker 1: meteater dot com or leave us a voicemail at four
Speaker 1: h six two two zero six four four one. We've
Speaker 1: got some good news coming out of Louisiana, where officials
Speaker 1: are reporting historically strong breeding success for the states recovering
Speaker 1: whooping crane population. In episode four to sixty nine back
Speaker 1: in May, we talked a bit about Louisiana's whooping crane
Speaker 1: recovery program after two endangered cranes were poached. At the time,
Speaker 1: those two cranes represented two and a half percent of
Speaker 1: the state's wild whooping crane population, which put a dent
Speaker 1: in the species recovery effort. Brief background here, whooping cranes
Speaker 1: were nearly wiped out by nineteen thirty seven, when fewer
Speaker 1: than twenty birds remained. The decline was largely due to
Speaker 1: habitat loss and change, and it spurred an extensive recovery effort,
Speaker 1: which involved reintroductions from captive bred birds. Louisiana is a
Speaker 1: key site where a non migratory flock was introduced in
Speaker 1: twenty eleven. This summer, the state reported that there had
Speaker 1: been ten chicks fledged or fully reared to adulthood in
Speaker 1: the wild, bumping the flock's overall population to eighty four quote.
Speaker 1: Not just is it a record for Louisiana, it's a
Speaker 1: new record for any previous or ongoing whooping crane reintroduction,
Speaker 1: So we're really excited about the success that the birds
Speaker 1: had this year, said Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries
Speaker 1: biologist Sarah Zemorski. She added that the birds are becoming
Speaker 1: more experienced at breeding and have locked in at rearing young.
Speaker 1: It's a good sign for the broader recovery effort, and
Speaker 1: let's hope more good news is on the horizon for
Speaker 1: that insanely cool and rare species. Moving on to two
Speaker 1: brief stories from the crime desk, a Michigan man faces
Speaker 1: fifty counts of wildlife and firearm violations. Thomas House of
Speaker 1: Elsie had been reported in an anonymous tip for shooting
Speaker 1: deer from a vehicle with a suppressed semi automatic rifle.
Speaker 1: Last October, conservation wardens investigated and found that he was
Speaker 1: allegedly driving around at night and poaching deer, then leaving
Speaker 1: the animal's bodies to waste. He also reportedly recorded videos
Speaker 1: and photos of his illegal deer killings with a cell phone.
Speaker 1: He's facing a slew of charges, including five counts of
Speaker 1: felony weapons offenses and twenty nine wildlife conservation order violations.
Speaker 1: Officials say the anonymous tip line was critical for stopping
Speaker 1: this appalling behavior. Over an Idaho, a judge has sentenced
Speaker 1: Joseph Jenkins for the unlawful possession of a firearm by
Speaker 1: a convicted fellon felony possession of wildlife taken, unlawfully guiding
Speaker 1: without a license, and a bare bait site violation in
Speaker 1: Teton County. He had originally been charged in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: After Warden's uncovered an unlawful guiding scheme in which Jenkins
Speaker 1: ran an illegitimate hunting sweepstakes advertised on an Oklahoma radio show.
Speaker 1: He then assisted folks who won the sweepstakes in taking
Speaker 1: bears and elk while lacking a guiding permit, profiting over
Speaker 1: fifty five thousand dollars in the process. He will now
Speaker 1: serve four years in prison, paid nine seven hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty dollars in restitution, and receive a lifetime hunting ban. Remember,
Speaker 1: if it seems too good, it probably is always good
Speaker 1: to ask a lot of questions about who you're gonna
Speaker 1: be hunting with ahead of time. Jumping over to the
Speaker 1: college desk. Has reported last week in the Cornell University
Speaker 1: student newspaper, the processing of game animals in the schools
Speaker 1: shared dorm kitchens is now prohibited. You might remember the
Speaker 1: controversy from last fall when two students who had legally
Speaker 1: hunted a black bear in region four of New York
Speaker 1: State processed that bear on the table in a communal
Speaker 1: kitchen on campus. The students had diligently checked their eggs
Speaker 1: at every level, from the season dates and the legal
Speaker 1: hunting zones all the way down to the school handbook,
Speaker 1: and everything they did was above board. That, of course,
Speaker 1: didn't prevent the Internet from getting a hold of the
Speaker 1: story after another student called the police. The incident was
Speaker 1: covered in outlets big and small, and of course the
Speaker 1: discourse you found there did not display a deep understanding
Speaker 1: of the issue or lack thereof. Thankfully, everyone who had
Speaker 1: any real authority over the matter, the University of administration
Speaker 1: and local police were actually supportive of the student's hunting
Speaker 1: practice and diligent handling of the meet and high. One
Speaker 1: of the hunters, Aaron Chin, came on the Mediator podcast
Speaker 1: tell the whole story. Scroll back in your feed to
Speaker 1: episode seven to seventy if you want to feel good
Speaker 1: about the young whipper snappers these days. But even though
Speaker 1: Cornell took the incident in stride, they clearly didn't want
Speaker 1: a repeat of the brew haha this season. The student
Speaker 1: handbook now reads quote processing wild game animals in community
Speaker 1: kitchens is strictly prohibited. Unquote. I suppose I could get
Speaker 1: up in arms about the Ivory Tower elites bowing to
Speaker 1: online outrage and persecuting hunters, et cetera, et cetera. But frankly, well,
Speaker 1: I still think you should. I mean, university can't provide
Speaker 1: a designated kitchen for people who want to do this.
Speaker 1: I think their efforts should be cracking down on those
Speaker 1: folks who use kitchens and then don't clean them up,
Speaker 1: encouraging cooking, not discouraging. Chin did say he wasn't blatantly
Speaker 1: trying to do this. His private kitchen ended up falling
Speaker 1: through at the last minute, and the dorm kitchen was
Speaker 1: the last resort, and good for them for doing it.
Speaker 1: Put the meat processing the responsibility of harvesting wildlife and
Speaker 1: taking care of it ahead of the social backlash there
Speaker 1: on the college campus. One historical insight you may enjoy.
Speaker 1: The dorm where Chin and his hunting partner butchered the
Speaker 1: bear is named Ganata Goon Hall because that's the name
Speaker 1: the indigenous people of the area gave to their homeland.
Speaker 1: Those indigenous people are the Kayakono, also known as the
Speaker 1: Cayuga nation of the Hodnasene or Iroquois confederacy. These folks
Speaker 1: historically were some of the most bear hunting folks out there.
Speaker 1: You can imagine Hodenasine hunters traditionally sang reverential songs to
Speaker 1: bears as they pursued them, then killed them by hitting
Speaker 1: them in the skull with a specialized club. Careful ceremonial
Speaker 1: attention was paid to the bear as it was butchered
Speaker 1: and eaten, and the head in particular was set in
Speaker 1: an elevated position, and elaborately decorated masks made of bear
Speaker 1: skulls and ceremonial costumes made of the skins were central
Speaker 1: to traditional dance and religious ceremony. Personal adornments made of
Speaker 1: beare teeth and clay pipes carved in the form of
Speaker 1: the bear are common in archaeological sites. If we're really
Speaker 1: going to honor the people who lived in this part
Speaker 1: of the world before Europeans got here, and we should,
Speaker 1: then I think it makes sense to remember this description
Speaker 1: of a feast held in sixteen fifty five by the Onondaga.
Speaker 1: Our men killed thirty bears, one man killing ten as
Speaker 1: his share. One of the ceremonies of the feast that
Speaker 1: followed this great slaughter was the drinking of bears fat
Speaker 1: after the meal. Then they all rubbed themselves from head
Speaker 1: to toe with that oil. For in truth, bears fat
Speaker 1: when melted resembles oil. This is worth emphasizing in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six, Hunting and eating bears has been a form
Speaker 1: of respect and veneration for a long time and continues
Speaker 1: to be today. If you're interested in more of this
Speaker 1: kind of info about bears, their biology, traditional veneration, near extirpation,
Speaker 1: and roaring come back to the present day, keep your
Speaker 1: eyes peeled for Clay Newcomb's book titled American Bear, which
Speaker 1: is set to come out early next year. I guarantee
Speaker 1: it'll be worth a read. Jumping over the wolf desk
Speaker 1: and speaking of online controversies displaying deep under standing and
Speaker 1: respectful tone, last week, the dog trainer in social media
Speaker 1: influencer Jonas Black offered a ten thousand dollars bounty to
Speaker 1: anyone who identifies the hunter responsible for killing a wolf
Speaker 1: from the so called Molly's Pack in the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem,
Speaker 1: which I suppose would be like target somebody so you
Speaker 1: can what do they call it, dox them socially harassed
Speaker 1: these lawful hunters. Wyoming, in Montana, and Idaho all have
Speaker 1: laws shielding the identities of wolf hunters to prevent exactly
Speaker 1: this kind of stocking and abuse. Hunter harassment is also illegal,
Speaker 1: so you have to wonder whether how far that ten
Speaker 1: thousand dollars reward will go toward paying fines and legal fees.
Speaker 1: According to Cowboys State Daily, Jonas Black became an anti
Speaker 1: wolf hunting activist in twenty twenty four after seeing news
Speaker 1: reports of Wyoming man Cody Roberts capturing, torturing, and killing
Speaker 1: a gray wolf, including bringing the animal into a bar
Speaker 1: and pretending to kiss it. Cody Roberts was convicted of
Speaker 1: animal cruelty in April, with a sentence of probation and
Speaker 1: eighteen to twenty four months in prison time if that
Speaker 1: probation is violated. Black claims not to be against hunting
Speaker 1: or wildlife management in general, but instead against hunter cruelty
Speaker 1: in particular. He believes that the Molly's pack has been
Speaker 1: so habituated to people from living in the park that
Speaker 1: hunting them doesn't count as fair chase, which is just
Speaker 1: like his opinion, man, the park's got to end somewhere,
Speaker 1: and wolves they understand humans hunting them very well. Regardless
Speaker 1: of that, wolf hunt objectives in the area's adjacent to
Speaker 1: Yellowstone Park have already been cut in half for this
Speaker 1: season due to an outbreak of canine distemper that has
Speaker 1: severely impacted wolf numbers in the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem. This August,
Speaker 1: a federal judge in Montana also vacated the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four ruling by US Fish and Wildlife refusing to relist
Speaker 1: the gray wolf under the Endangered Species Act, So in
Speaker 1: a few years, Jonas Black might not see a need
Speaker 1: to post this kind of bounty anymore to keep people
Speaker 1: from hunting wolves. Will keep you up to date, jumping
Speaker 1: over to Maine, where the town of Tremont has approved
Speaker 1: a deer hunt within town limits, which would be the
Speaker 1: first deer season on Mount Desert Island, the location of
Speaker 1: the beautiful Acadian National Park in almost one hundred years.
Speaker 1: Thanks to listener Christy Holmes for sending this one in.
Speaker 1: In nineteen thirty one, the main legislature closed deer hunting
Speaker 1: on Mount Desert Island. It was pretty much the low
Speaker 1: point of servid populations across the country. Now However, more
Speaker 1: than twenty percent of all vehicle accidents on the island
Speaker 1: involve deer, and tick numbers are skyrocketing. Last year, bill
Speaker 1: was introduced in the state legislature to open deer hunting
Speaker 1: on the island again, because it's illegal to hunt all
Speaker 1: other game species there according to Maine lot but the
Speaker 1: bill died in committee, and so the Town of Tremont
Speaker 1: decided to take matters into their own hands. According to
Speaker 1: the main Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, the State
Speaker 1: Game Commissioner can allow deer hunting within the limits of
Speaker 1: a town if the town agrees, and May of this
Speaker 1: year the town did agree with the voute of three
Speaker 1: hundred and fourteen to two. Before any listeners out there
Speaker 1: book a trip to the island planning on a sweet
Speaker 1: hunt before camping out in Acadia, you should know that
Speaker 1: this is limited to property owners and residents of the
Speaker 1: Town of Tremont only. You can only take antler list deer,
Speaker 1: and because this will be essentially a very local depredation season,
Speaker 1: any deer killed won't count against a person state bag limit.
Speaker 1: This wouldn't be a story about a new hunt somewhere
Speaker 1: in the US without a protest movement, and so of
Speaker 1: course a Tremont resident has started a petition for a
Speaker 1: one year moratorium on the town's hunt. The petitioner seems
Speaker 1: to want to just gum up the works in any
Speaker 1: way she can, but she's also calling for increased data
Speaker 1: collection on the deer heard on the island. Hunter harvest
Speaker 1: is an excellent source of data. So let's hope this
Speaker 1: limited hunt will help lead to a general season. There.
Speaker 1: This little situation right here is one of those good
Speaker 1: examples of hunting is conservation. All right, gang, that's all
Speaker 1: I got for you this week. Thank you so much
Speaker 1: for listening. Remember too, write into askcl let's ask cal
Speaker 1: at the meat eater dot com, and of course call
Speaker 1: in four oh six two two zero six four four one.
Speaker 1: Hit those BHA action alerts. As we move into the fall,
Speaker 1: and some would say this is by design, We're gonna
Speaker 1: see a lot of action at the House and Senate
Speaker 1: regarding land management and wildlife management that will affect you.
Speaker 1: We're gonna keep you informed, We're gonna make it easy
Speaker 1: so you can still go out and hunt what you
Speaker 1: need to do so you can advocate for our public lands,
Speaker 1: waters and wildlife if you're not gonna do it, somebody
Speaker 1: else will, and you may not like what they have
Speaker 1: to say. That's all I got. Talk to you next week.