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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 the Prussian carp or goldfish can reproduce without

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Speaker 1: a male. You will never look at goldfish the same

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Speaker 1: way after you hear all this, or more accurately, you

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Speaker 1: may look at the old carnival stand that gives bags

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Speaker 1: of them away, you know, after fleecing kids for a

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Speaker 1: few bucks, not as a fun harmless fish dispensary, but

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Speaker 1: as an invasive species proliferation hot zone. As stated, the

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Speaker 1: goldfish is just a member of the carp family, the

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Speaker 1: Prussian carp to be exact. These fish can spawn without

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Speaker 1: the help of a male. A female can produce fifty

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Speaker 1: eggs year after year without the help of a male

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Speaker 1: pression carp. I hope you heard that a female goldfish

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Speaker 1: can produce in legs without a male goldfish. Instead, she

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Speaker 1: will collect the sperm of minnow species from the same

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Speaker 1: body of water and self deposit that sperm over her eggs,

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Speaker 1: which oddly enough, does not fertilize the eggs. That would

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Speaker 1: just not be crazy enough. Instead, the collected sperm stimulates

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Speaker 1: the non fertilized eggs to divide producing clones, not true offspring.

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Speaker 1: These are independent females we're talking about. Additionally, this means

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Speaker 1: that the non threatening goldfish is a major threat to

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Speaker 1: fisheries in which they have the ability to thrive. North

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Speaker 1: of the US border. They have been found in the Bow,

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Speaker 1: Red Deer and South Saskatchewan River basins. Another recent Canadian case,

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Speaker 1: this one in Dragon Lake, located in Kessnel Beasts, is

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Speaker 1: home to a unique strain of trout, the Blackwater rainbow trout.

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Speaker 1: Black water rainbows, originally from the Blackwater River, are planted

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Speaker 1: into Dragon Lake as a free swimming broodstock. They're important

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Speaker 1: because they're a fast growing rainbow with a wild heritage,

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Speaker 1: which basically means they'll get to eating size fast, they'll

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Speaker 1: be disease resistant and put up a good fight. The

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Speaker 1: black Water rainbows are caught again out of Dragon Lake

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Speaker 1: and the females are milked. Then those eggs are then

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Speaker 1: used to supply blackwater trout in a bunch of other

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Speaker 1: stock lakes in BC. But if you haven't figured out

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Speaker 1: this by now, the other thing that Dragon Lake has

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Speaker 1: is a problem in the form of goldfish. Now keep

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Speaker 1: in mind these are the same fish you let your

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Speaker 1: live for like a day and then are so easily

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Speaker 1: flushable the next However, these goldfish that haven't been in

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Speaker 1: a small tank are weighing one to five pounds in

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Speaker 1: Dragon Lake, as in, they'll clog your pipes. Aside from

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Speaker 1: the goldfish's ability to reproduce any way that is convenient,

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Speaker 1: they are also adapting to their new surroundings by losing

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Speaker 1: their highly visible gold coloration. The goldfish are turning the

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Speaker 1: same color as the lake bottom. The same reason a

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Speaker 1: goldfish can survive in a plastic bag at the fair

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Speaker 1: is another factor in their out of doors survival. These

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Speaker 1: fish are capable of surviving long periods of time without oxygen,

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Speaker 1: much longer than their native competition, which basically means Mother

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Speaker 1: Nature is probably not going to help this situation out.

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Speaker 1: Aside from putting serious competition on the preferred inhabitant of

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Speaker 1: the lake again, the black Water Rainbow, this invasive is

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Speaker 1: starting to cost money, not only in the fact that

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Speaker 1: the presence of goldfish could reduce the amount of trout

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Speaker 1: being planted from Dragon Lake, but fisheries biologists are now

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Speaker 1: spending their time electro shocking the lake waters, locals are

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Speaker 1: spending their time spear fishing and even hand netting goldfish.

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Speaker 1: If you haven't heard it here before, folks, let pets go,

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Speaker 1: don't acquire them if you aren't prepared to hang onto

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Speaker 1: them for the long haul, or maybe, in this case,

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Speaker 1: aren't prepared to come up with a new fried fish recipe.

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Speaker 1: This week, we've got North Carolina turkey stats, main game wardens,

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Speaker 1: Land Access Initiative updates, and so much more. But first,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you about my week. I traveled to

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Speaker 1: the great State of Maine, got a lobster roll, and

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Speaker 1: couldn't help but notice that the average yard had an

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Speaker 1: above average stack of firewood, mountains of firewood across the

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Speaker 1: state of Maine, and not coincidentally, quite a lot of

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Speaker 1: steel chainsaw signs, the world's foremost purveyor of chainsaws, and

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Speaker 1: not to mention just the best. I would have stopped

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Speaker 1: in and showing those bellas a thing or two, but

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Speaker 1: grew up like I did could teach anyone who's grown

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Speaker 1: got my butt kicked. Is what I'm saying and what

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Speaker 1: I was really there to do was check up on

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Speaker 1: one of our land Access initiative submissions. If you recall,

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Speaker 1: all proceeds from Ronella who tell us campaign merchandise, which

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Speaker 1: you can buy at the meat eater dot com, goes

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Speaker 1: to our campaign promise better hunting and fishing for America. Well,

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Speaker 1: a bunch of folks went to our campaign page at

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Speaker 1: the meat eater dot com and filled out our land

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Speaker 1: access survey. One of these folks is a guy, a

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Speaker 1: with the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Eventually he ended

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Speaker 1: a job trying to preserve public ground with the High

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Speaker 1: Peaks Alliance. One of the chunks they are trying to

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Speaker 1: keep from being bought up and posted from tip to

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Speaker 1: tail with no trespassing signs looked like a good place

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Speaker 1: they noticed right out of the gate. In Maine. You

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Speaker 1: do not fish in a creek or a creek, you

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Speaker 1: fish in a brook. If someone says either would you

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Speaker 1: like to take a paddle or I took a paddle

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Speaker 1: that means not that you should just take their paddle.

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Speaker 1: They mean like, hey, would you want to go out

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Speaker 1: to hear the phrase people from away or freaking things

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Speaker 1: up by buying a Kingdom lot, putting a fancy camp

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Speaker 1: on it, then posting the property all up so we

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Speaker 1: can't go on it. If you were to hear that phrase,

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Speaker 1: that is exactly what this project would prevent. What it

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Speaker 1: would provide is just what we're saying. More. It's just

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Speaker 1: a little more hunting and fishing opportunity. Plus I found

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Speaker 1: some frogs, a bunch of pollinators, some edable plants, and

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Speaker 1: tracks and deer tracks. I also met a town selectman who,

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Speaker 1: upon learning that I was from Montana, he told me

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Speaker 1: about hitchhiking from Maine to California. But he only got

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Speaker 1: as far as Missoula, Montana. What's more, he left Maine

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Speaker 1: with only eight dollars in his pocket. And just so

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Speaker 1: you know, as someone who has driven that distance as

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Speaker 1: fast and economical as possible, it takes a heck of

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Speaker 1: told him I grew up in Montana and in Missoula,

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Speaker 1: I spent the night with some friends and headed back

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Speaker 1: to Man the next morning. I asked, why only one night.

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Speaker 1: It seemed like a quick turnaround. He said, uh, I

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Speaker 1: was just done. I'm pretty tired. Thank I'll go home now. Anyway.

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Speaker 1: I will keep everyone posted on the land Access initiative.

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Speaker 1: If you have a cool spot in mind, go fill

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Speaker 1: out the land Access survey on the Ronella Putella's campaign

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Speaker 1: section of the Meat eater dot com. We're just getting started.

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Speaker 1: If you don't have a cool spot in mind, buy

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Speaker 1: some merch and you're harding. Bucks are gonna go to

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Speaker 1: places that are going to provide hunting and fishing for America.

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Speaker 1: Moving on to listener emails, Jacob from Pendleton County, West

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Speaker 1: Virginia rights in with hey cal It's hey season in

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Speaker 1: most of the US, and that also coincides with fawn season.

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Speaker 1: My question is when is the best time to mow

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Speaker 1: if I mow at daylight, and for small farmers that's doable. However,

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Speaker 1: I understand a lot of guys have too much going on.

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Speaker 1: I would hate to know the number of fawns hurt

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Speaker 1: best to avoid them. That's a great question, Jacob. Occasionally

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Speaker 1: extra protein makes it into all of our agricultural products

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Speaker 1: particularly in June, it is not uncommon to accidentally incorporate

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Speaker 1: about eating. You can walk right up to them. Back

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Speaker 1: when I had dogs, I would often come upon my

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Speaker 1: and he says, you know, you have to cut hay.

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Speaker 1: When it's time to cut hay. It's three and a

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Speaker 1: when it has rained too much and the cutting is delayed,

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Speaker 1: foul fen listening to this right now. If you found

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Speaker 1: a solution, please right in to ask how at the

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Speaker 1: meat eater dot com. Next up Kirkwrights and says lovingly,

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Speaker 1: my h vack guy, put this group together. Trastional Land

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Speaker 1: is a Washington based five oh one c three nonprofit

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Speaker 1: organization dedicated to making a positive difference in recreational target

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Speaker 1: public lands. What they do is education and awareness of rules, ethics, stewardship,

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Speaker 1: So if you remember, we always seem to talk about

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Speaker 1: which is awesome. If you're in the state of Washington

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Speaker 1: here in town. Just get on, go do it. Moving

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Speaker 1: on to the COVID nineteen desk, North Carolina just released

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Speaker 1: the results of their spring turkey season, and well, it

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Speaker 1: was a bad year to be a turkey or a

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Speaker 1: good year to be a turkey hunter. Within their five

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Speaker 1: week turkey season, North Carolina harvested twenty three thousand, three

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Speaker 1: hundred and forty one birds. Harvest during youth season went

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Speaker 1: up one hundred and ten percent. The nearest highest success

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Speaker 1: Commission stay. It's that the stay at home orders associated

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Speaker 1: people with more time in the woods. Now, I think

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Speaker 1: accurate assumption. However, when you look at the youth success increase,

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