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Speaker 1: From Meat Eaters World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This

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Speaker 1: is Cow's Week in Review with Ryan cow Klah. Here's

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Speaker 1: cal what is the national bird of the United States?

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Speaker 1: If you said bald eagle before Christmas Eve twenty twenty four,

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Speaker 1: you'd have been wrong. Prior to that date, we didn't

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Speaker 1: have a national bird. But thanks to Senators Amy klobash,

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Speaker 1: are Mark, Wayne Mullen, Cynthia Loomis, and Tina Smith, this

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Speaker 1: obvious oversight has been corrected. These four senators sponsored a

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Speaker 1: bill passed by Congress and signed by President Biden that

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Speaker 1: officially declares the bald eagle to be America's national bird.

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Speaker 1: The bald eagle was adopted as the coat of arms

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Speaker 1: for the United States Great Seal in seventeen eighty two

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Speaker 1: and has been the unofficial national bird of the United

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Speaker 1: States ever seen. You might wonder why Congress is spending

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Speaker 1: its time making things official, but these symbolic designations do

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Speaker 1: have a conservation purpose. When states or local governments make

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Speaker 1: a bird, tree, or plant an official symbol, it generates

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Speaker 1: interest and attention, which can in turn generate resources for conservation.

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Speaker 1: For example, after the bald eagle became the national bird.

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Speaker 1: A South Carolina newspaper published an article with the headline

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Speaker 1: quote Biden declares bald eagles US national bird. The raptors

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Speaker 1: are still imperiled in South Carolina. That article and the

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Speaker 1: public awareness it generated about how eagles are still imperiled

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Speaker 1: wouldn't have been published if Congress hadn't passed this bill.

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Speaker 1: So the next time you see a bald eagle soaring

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Speaker 1: if you're up in Alaska sitting on a dumpster, gaze

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Speaker 1: upon its majesty with pride as you contemplate the strength, courage,

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Speaker 1: and conservation success it represents as our newly minted national

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Speaker 1: bird and possibly the number one carry an eater in

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Speaker 1: your heart. This week we've got public lands, grizzer bears, legislation,

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Speaker 1: and so much more. But first I'm going to tell

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Speaker 1: you about my week, and my week has been a

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Speaker 1: whirlwind as per usual. First, big thanks to the Arizona

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Speaker 1: Chapter of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers for hosting the North

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Speaker 1: American Board of BHA for the annual retreat. Everything was awesome,

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Speaker 1: killer country, great weather, awesome people, new species, they got

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Speaker 1: to meet, all you folks who are volunteering tirelessly and

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Speaker 1: kicking butt while you're doing so. Great discussions, great energy.

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Speaker 1: Love to see it happen, and keep it up. We

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Speaker 1: appreciate you. As for the new species down there in Arizona,

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Speaker 1: we got to hunt for part of the day Manazuma

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Speaker 1: or Merns Quail Merns being the naturalist that identified the

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Speaker 1: species and natural This guy will make you blush. Merns

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Speaker 1: he was appointed medical Officer to the International Boundary Commission,

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Speaker 1: that boundary being between Mexico and the United States. In

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Speaker 1: nineteen oh seven, he published Mammals of the Mexican Boundary

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Speaker 1: of the United States. In nineteen oh nine, he retired

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Speaker 1: Theodore Roosevelt invited Merns to accompany the Smithsonian Roosevelt African

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Speaker 1: Expedition as a naturalist, which heck of a tip of

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Speaker 1: the hat there. He was doing that from nineteen eleven

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Speaker 1: years old. That's a lot by sixty. That's offty old merns.

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Speaker 1: And now for the quail part. What's interesting about this

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Speaker 1: they use their long talons to dig and eat tubers.

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Speaker 1: They got big feet. And when I say dig, we

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Speaker 1: And this is like dry, hard, rocky soil, and sixty

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Speaker 1: that's a big hole. The birds I took home are

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Speaker 1: plucked and sitting in a gentle brine before I lightly

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Speaker 1: roast them. I'll let you know how that goes. Incredible

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Speaker 1: camouflage on the merns quail, it is just wild, wild,

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Speaker 1: it is a wonder that you can find those things.

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Speaker 1: Probably wouldn't do it without a dog. What else, As

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Speaker 1: previously talked about, states are in session, go to the

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Speaker 1: askcalpage at the mediat dot com to find out which ones.

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Speaker 1: Randall Williams and I hustled up to Helena, which of

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Speaker 1: Last week. We got particularly interested in HB one thirty nine,

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Speaker 1: which is a bill that was put together to address

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Speaker 1: as Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks has the ability to

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Speaker 1: to this podcast, I just prefer regulation over legislation. Fishing

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Speaker 1: game agencies need to be as nimble as possible. I

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Speaker 1: got to tip the hat to Representative Hinkle, who you know,

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Speaker 1: put a lot of work into that thing. The vote

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Speaker 1: that goes. But guys, Head's not in the wrong place.

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Speaker 1: I just think the state's already got this one covered.

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Speaker 1: We just don't need a law for it. Let me

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Speaker 1: know what you think, and more importantly, please write in

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Speaker 1: and let me know what is going on in your state.

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Speaker 1: Many of you already did, so let's get to it.

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Speaker 1: Going right over to the public land desk, here's some

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Speaker 1: positive news to start your week. The Supreme Court has

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Speaker 1: declined to hear a lawsuit brought by the state of

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Speaker 1: covered this story on several episodes, but we did a

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Speaker 1: deep dive recently. In episode three point thirty two. Utah

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Speaker 1: would mean that in Utah alone, the BLM would have

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Speaker 1: to sell a whopping eighteen and a half million acres,

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Speaker 1: it says in the lawsuit disposed of as in sould, Utah,

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Speaker 1: along with several other Western states, were asking the Supreme

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Speaker 1: This is great news for public land advocates, but the

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Speaker 1: fight is far from over. Utah and its allies can

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Speaker 1: It's just too darn valuable. We've won the first battle,

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Speaker 1: but we need to stay vigilant. As always, we'll keep

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Speaker 1: you in the loop. Moving on to the grizzer bear desk.

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Speaker 1: Last week, the US Fish and Wildlife Service proposed a

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Speaker 1: new rule that would dramatically change how grizzly bears are

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Speaker 1: Wildlife Service denied these requests. Instead, the Service wants to

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Speaker 1: If all that sounds like much ado about nothing, let

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Speaker 1: In other words, since bears can't read maps, we need large,

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Speaker 1: He's back now with another brilliant idea. Nicholas rightly points

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Speaker 1: out in his email that Hunter's ed has been credited

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Speaker 1: it seems especially irresponsible well, to remove the requirement for

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Speaker 1: hunters in Kentucky or anywhere else. Yeah, irresponsible. Finally, the

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Speaker 1: good folks over at the National Deer Association have made

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Speaker 1: me aware of a proposal in Indiana that would allow

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Speaker 1: covered this a ton already. It's just crazy talk. Oklahoma

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Speaker 1: Adams in episode two seventy three. We're not going to

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Speaker 1: the bill's language hasn't been finalized, but we'll be bringing

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Speaker 1: in its tracks. That's all I've got for you this week.

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Speaker 1: So much more coming down the pipe. We're going to

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Speaker 1: add more episodes if necessary. I'm sure it will be

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Speaker 1: so right in keep us accountable, just like we need

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Speaker 1: to keep our lawmakers accountable. Thank you so much. It's

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Speaker 1: gonna take effort and time, but I know you'll do it.

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Speaker 1: I'll help as much as I can too. Thanks again.

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Speaker 1: your neck of the woods. We appreciate it. Talk to

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