1 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:13,319 Speaker 1: From Media Doors World News Headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This 2 00:00:13,400 --> 00:00:16,680 Speaker 1: is Kel's we Can review with Ryan kel Kell in 3 00:00:17,239 --> 00:00:22,720 Speaker 1: now Here's kel Let me introduce you to lead Sick Fees. Problematicus, 4 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:27,240 Speaker 1: the largest fish the world has ever seen, possibly stretching 5 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:30,760 Speaker 1: the tape at over seventy ft long for reference, that's 6 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:34,040 Speaker 1: a fish about a quarter of a football field or 7 00:00:34,159 --> 00:00:37,080 Speaker 1: about as tall as the south side of the White 8 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:45,760 Speaker 1: House in length. There are only two whales that outside 9 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:48,800 Speaker 1: this fish, the blue whale at a hundred plus feet 10 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:51,680 Speaker 1: in length and the Northern fin whale at over eighty 11 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:55,720 Speaker 1: feet in length. Now, the name problematicus may conjure up 12 00:00:55,760 --> 00:00:59,560 Speaker 1: all sorts of romanticized images of sailors and fishermen in 13 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:02,200 Speaker 1: peril on the high seas. But the problem that the 14 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:05,960 Speaker 1: name problematicus refers to is the fossilized bones of this 15 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:09,520 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty five million year old fish were many, 16 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:12,880 Speaker 1: hard to keep track of and harder to put back together. 17 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:17,160 Speaker 1: One specimen known as the Big Meg filled twenty museum 18 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:20,520 Speaker 1: drawers with more than ten thousand pieces of bone just 19 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:25,959 Speaker 1: from its tails. He's kidding. As with any fish story, 20 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:29,520 Speaker 1: the size of this fish is debatable, ranging from thirty 21 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:32,759 Speaker 1: six ft to over one hundred no different than if 22 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:35,200 Speaker 1: you were down at Joe's Bar and Craig Montana on 23 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:37,399 Speaker 1: the banks of the Missouri River talking about the size 24 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:39,600 Speaker 1: of a trout you landed that day. You can find 25 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:41,880 Speaker 1: more on this whopper of a fish from our own 26 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:45,080 Speaker 1: Sam Longren at the meat Eator dot com. Now, if 27 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:47,760 Speaker 1: this fish tail is just too old for you, let's 28 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:50,920 Speaker 1: talk great white sharks real quick. A great white can 29 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:53,559 Speaker 1: stretch the tape at more than twenty feet and weighing 30 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:56,760 Speaker 1: well past the two thousand pound mark, which means it 31 00:01:56,800 --> 00:01:59,600 Speaker 1: would take about three and a half great whites to 32 00:01:59,720 --> 00:02:03,120 Speaker 1: stab back up to one problematicus, There is actually a 33 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:07,000 Speaker 1: documented GEO tag female swimming around the floor to keys 34 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:10,480 Speaker 1: right now that fits this description. As you can imagine, 35 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:12,720 Speaker 1: no matter how big the shark, the size of the 36 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:15,280 Speaker 1: ocean makes them hard to keep track of, and many 37 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:18,600 Speaker 1: questions still exist as to the behavior of species like 38 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:21,960 Speaker 1: the great white. For instance, Cape Town, South Africa, has 39 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:25,880 Speaker 1: long been a world renowned destination where shark viewers can 40 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:28,720 Speaker 1: jump in a cage and view great white sharks as 41 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:32,720 Speaker 1: they congregate to feed on seals in those waters. Now, however, 42 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:35,760 Speaker 1: the great whites are gone. As I said before, any 43 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:38,600 Speaker 1: fish or shark is hard to keep close tabs on 44 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:41,120 Speaker 1: in a body of water such as the ocean. Early 45 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:43,919 Speaker 1: estimates of the great white population around Cape Town were 46 00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:46,960 Speaker 1: in the thousands until a d n A study performed 47 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:50,280 Speaker 1: in two thousand ten revealed that there were possibly as 48 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:53,640 Speaker 1: few as three hundred, and those three hundred or so 49 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:57,680 Speaker 1: are no longer there. Coincidentally, three hundred is the amount 50 00:02:57,720 --> 00:02:59,839 Speaker 1: of teeth a great white can carry in its jot 51 00:02:59,880 --> 00:03:03,760 Speaker 1: to given time. We no longline fishing operations take a 52 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:06,680 Speaker 1: heavy toll on sharks, but we don't know that fishing 53 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 1: is entirely to blame in the case of the Cape 54 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:13,320 Speaker 1: Town shark disappearance. Great whites are an impressive predator for sure, 55 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:16,320 Speaker 1: but they do end up as prey on occasion, and 56 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:18,960 Speaker 1: it seems that they are quite aware of the packing order. 57 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:22,120 Speaker 1: Killer whales will grow to about twenty six ft in length. 58 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:25,760 Speaker 1: Adults will weigh in between three and twelve thousand pounds, 59 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:28,400 Speaker 1: with the males being the larger of the sexes. If 60 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:31,480 Speaker 1: we keep with our big fish comparison, that's about two 61 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:34,880 Speaker 1: point one killer whales to make up one lead six. 62 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:38,480 Speaker 1: These problematicus. I suppose it is no secret that the 63 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:42,040 Speaker 1: killer whale will predate upon sharks, but what may be 64 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:46,760 Speaker 1: surprising is just how they do it. Documented fatal encounters 65 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:50,800 Speaker 1: have included death by ramming, tail thrashing, and the dragging 66 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:54,280 Speaker 1: of sharks backwards so the sharks gills cannot function, They 67 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:58,560 Speaker 1: actually drown sharks. An ongoing study of tagged great whites 68 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:02,200 Speaker 1: around the Farallon Islands, another spot to watch sharks congregate 69 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:06,040 Speaker 1: around seals, repeatedly showed that when groups of killer whales 70 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:09,240 Speaker 1: would pass by the islands, the great whites would vanish. 71 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:12,440 Speaker 1: In two thousand nine, a group of great white sharks 72 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:15,200 Speaker 1: that had congregated around the southeast end of the Fair 73 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:18,839 Speaker 1: Lawn Islands vanished in just a few hours when a 74 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:22,080 Speaker 1: group of orcas entered their zone. This is after happily 75 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:24,839 Speaker 1: feeding on seals for three months in the area. The 76 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:28,400 Speaker 1: great whites didn't return for over a month. If you're saying, geez, 77 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:31,160 Speaker 1: I don't know, there must be some other factors. Why 78 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:35,360 Speaker 1: would seventeen apex predators just abandoned that much food? Well, 79 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:38,400 Speaker 1: you know, and this is a theory in those gangster 80 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:42,120 Speaker 1: movies where certain mobsters or gangs leave behind gruesome calling 81 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:45,520 Speaker 1: cards on victims, like uh, you know, nasty stuff meant 82 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 1: to send a message and intimidate folks so nobody gets 83 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:51,279 Speaker 1: cross wise with the boss or the gang. Well, it 84 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:54,280 Speaker 1: seems that killer whales have a calling card of sorts. 85 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:57,520 Speaker 1: They bite the great white sharks around the pectoral fins, 86 00:04:57,640 --> 00:05:00,719 Speaker 1: tearing a hole through which they eat a shark's liver 87 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:04,920 Speaker 1: and basically discard the rest. This feeding technique has been 88 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:08,960 Speaker 1: described as similar to squeezing toothpaste out of a tube. 89 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:12,360 Speaker 1: Heck of a message. Imagine if Al Pacino's character and 90 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:18,760 Speaker 1: scarface Tony Montana did that. Shut Two killer whales were 91 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:21,480 Speaker 1: observed ramming and eating only the liver of a great 92 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:25,960 Speaker 1: white off the Farallon Islands, and four Great whites washed 93 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:29,000 Speaker 1: up on the beaches of South Africa missing their livers 94 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:31,200 Speaker 1: over the course of two months. In May of two 95 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:35,039 Speaker 1: thousand seventeen, a fifth great white, a thirteen foot mail, 96 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:39,159 Speaker 1: was missing his testis liver and stomach. If that doesn't 97 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:41,599 Speaker 1: send a message, I don't know what does. If you 98 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:45,039 Speaker 1: think those sharks, fish and whales are impressively powerful, let 99 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:48,080 Speaker 1: me tell you that Cal's weaken review is powered by 100 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:51,360 Speaker 1: steel Power Equipment. 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This week, we've 110 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:22,880 Speaker 1: got an update on stream access in New Mexico, Florida, 111 00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:26,799 Speaker 1: black bears, humpback whales, and so much more. But first 112 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:30,680 Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you about my week. Well, Stephen Ronella 113 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:32,760 Speaker 1: and I went over to South Dakota to hunt ducks 114 00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:35,760 Speaker 1: and fish will fall walleye bite. I'm just gonna make 115 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:39,000 Speaker 1: a partial apology to my walleye angling friends right now. 116 00:06:39,279 --> 00:06:41,760 Speaker 1: You are correct that while I do hit harder in 117 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:44,000 Speaker 1: the fall than they have for me in the spring, 118 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:46,359 Speaker 1: which is kind of like saying they actually strike something 119 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:50,400 Speaker 1: instead of just barely breathing it in. We used flatfish 120 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:53,480 Speaker 1: ice fishing jigs, that were three to four inches long. 121 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:57,320 Speaker 1: No bait, just prospecting around a lake, jigging, and it 122 00:06:57,480 --> 00:07:01,560 Speaker 1: was very fun. Is the walleye the artist hitting fish? No, 123 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:04,559 Speaker 1: but I am coming around and the meat is really good. 124 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:06,919 Speaker 1: It also helps when you catch a big fish. I 125 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:10,040 Speaker 1: lead the charge with a hefty twenty four incher, at 126 00:07:10,080 --> 00:07:13,160 Speaker 1: which point I promptly made fun of Steve, who had 127 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:16,239 Speaker 1: that all too familiar look of jealousy on his face 128 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:20,239 Speaker 1: that I love, right up until his rod bent hard, 129 00:07:20,520 --> 00:07:22,720 Speaker 1: and soon he had a twenty nine and a half 130 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:26,680 Speaker 1: inch walleye that probably weighed in the neighborhood of twelve pounds. 131 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:30,400 Speaker 1: The state record walleye is just a shade over sixteen pounds. 132 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:33,280 Speaker 1: We ate the younger fish and threw back Steve's biggin 133 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:36,760 Speaker 1: for broodstock. While I can live in the wild beyond 134 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:40,320 Speaker 1: twenty years, and as is typical with fish, the older 135 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:44,080 Speaker 1: the more successfully they reproduce. The walleye is called a 136 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:47,920 Speaker 1: walleye due to a per lescent eye. The eye has 137 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:52,160 Speaker 1: a reflective layer of pigment across it called tapatum lucid um, 138 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:55,440 Speaker 1: which helps them see and dark and murky water. To 139 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:57,920 Speaker 1: give you an idea of just how much folks pursue 140 00:07:57,960 --> 00:08:01,920 Speaker 1: this fish. An estimated four to five thousand metric tons 141 00:08:01,920 --> 00:08:05,800 Speaker 1: of walleye are cotton Canada each year. Lake Superior estimates 142 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:09,040 Speaker 1: seventy one thousand fish were kept in two thousand seventeen. 143 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:12,840 Speaker 1: As for South Dakota, a state seemingly drawn up for 144 00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:16,640 Speaker 1: people who love to fish and hunt, Northern University admits 145 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:19,920 Speaker 1: it is difficult to know the exact number, but harvest 146 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:25,200 Speaker 1: statewide assuredly exceeds one million fish annually. I would love 147 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:28,840 Speaker 1: to know the economic impact of walleye anglers. Not so 148 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:32,080 Speaker 1: much in license sales, boat tags and fishing tackle, the 149 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:35,880 Speaker 1: stuff that supplies so much cash for conservation through excise 150 00:08:35,920 --> 00:08:38,560 Speaker 1: taxes like Dingle Johnson. The number I want to see 151 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:41,599 Speaker 1: is the breakout of revenue attributed to walleye anglers to 152 00:08:41,679 --> 00:08:45,959 Speaker 1: companies that produce canola oil, flour, corn meal, paper, towels, 153 00:08:45,960 --> 00:08:48,680 Speaker 1: and grain belt beer. I bet that number turns a 154 00:08:48,679 --> 00:08:52,839 Speaker 1: few heads. As for the ducks, they were delicious. The 155 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:55,920 Speaker 1: shooting went from decent to bad to good. The birds 156 00:08:55,920 --> 00:08:58,560 Speaker 1: were in town, but the food and especially the water 157 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:01,920 Speaker 1: was everywhere. The birds didn't need to be anywhere specific. 158 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:05,319 Speaker 1: They could just light about any random spot and eat 159 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:09,320 Speaker 1: drink splash in hiding the scene honestly brought up some 160 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:13,040 Speaker 1: mixed feelings. We hunted flooded corn fields and soybean fields 161 00:09:13,040 --> 00:09:16,200 Speaker 1: that were basically underwater, A big waste of food and 162 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:20,560 Speaker 1: the farmer's money. The other interesting situation is the pothole 163 00:09:20,679 --> 00:09:23,560 Speaker 1: type country we ran essentially had no drain to it. 164 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:26,960 Speaker 1: Imagine a golf ball with all its dimples intact, being 165 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:30,320 Speaker 1: a slightly concave surface. You get a little water and 166 00:09:30,400 --> 00:09:33,600 Speaker 1: some dimples fill in a little more. Those dimples start 167 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:37,440 Speaker 1: to disappear, being replaced by a puddle. Now imagine that 168 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:41,280 Speaker 1: those little golf ball dimples are all owned by individuals, 169 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:44,680 Speaker 1: including for the purpose of this example, BLM, the State 170 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:48,400 Speaker 1: of South Dakota, farmers, ranchers. That's pretty much what we 171 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:51,880 Speaker 1: witnessed in South Dakota. Water filling up to public roads 172 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:55,600 Speaker 1: and right of ways that have no trespassing floating buoy's 173 00:09:55,840 --> 00:10:01,199 Speaker 1: marking submerged property lines skip across us this quarter section 174 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:03,760 Speaker 1: beyond the next set of buoy's, and there is a 175 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:07,080 Speaker 1: piece of BLM underwater, and then a piece of state 176 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:10,920 Speaker 1: waterfowl production area underwater, and then you hit another County 177 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:14,640 Speaker 1: Road only. This road is fifteen feet underwater, which I 178 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:16,760 Speaker 1: hear by the way as a great place to target 179 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:19,319 Speaker 1: wall as in the spring. It is a really bizarre 180 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:22,000 Speaker 1: scene to step into. I can't imagine what it's like 181 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:24,240 Speaker 1: to be a property owner, as I'll tell you, as 182 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:27,120 Speaker 1: a guy standing on that road from Montana with a 183 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:30,560 Speaker 1: pretty good understanding of water and access laws, I'd probably 184 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:34,199 Speaker 1: be getting yelled at another. For instance, before we move on, 185 00:10:34,440 --> 00:10:36,360 Speaker 1: the lake that we caught the big wall eyes on 186 00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:38,640 Speaker 1: was described by the State of South Dakota as a 187 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:43,760 Speaker 1: natural alkaline slew approximately three thousand acres and three feet 188 00:10:43,920 --> 00:10:47,080 Speaker 1: in depth prior to the nineteen nineties, when higher than 189 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:50,040 Speaker 1: average annual snow and rainfall started to fill it up. 190 00:10:50,280 --> 00:10:53,280 Speaker 1: It is now more than fifteen thousand acres and we 191 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:56,480 Speaker 1: were fishing in more than thirty feet of water, likely 192 00:10:56,679 --> 00:10:59,920 Speaker 1: over the top of what was once farm equipment, fence lines, 193 00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:03,480 Speaker 1: and prime pheasant and white tailed deer habitat. Just a 194 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:06,800 Speaker 1: fun side note that came across billboard for a steakhouse 195 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:10,319 Speaker 1: that displayed two toddlers sitting on their butts. The script 196 00:11:10,320 --> 00:11:13,920 Speaker 1: above them read, Grandpa, steaks are so tender you don't 197 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:16,960 Speaker 1: need teeth, so you can look forward to that next 198 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:20,240 Speaker 1: time you go to South Dakota. Moving on, we've got 199 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:22,520 Speaker 1: a lot to cover this week, and since we're on 200 00:11:22,559 --> 00:11:25,360 Speaker 1: the subject of large marine critters, I've got some good 201 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:28,360 Speaker 1: news for you. A study published this month in Royal 202 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:32,600 Speaker 1: Society Open Science found that the South Atlantic humpback whales 203 00:11:32,679 --> 00:11:36,640 Speaker 1: are nearly back to pre whaling numbers. The population dropped 204 00:11:36,679 --> 00:11:39,800 Speaker 1: down to less than five hundred individuals in the nineteen fifties, 205 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:43,280 Speaker 1: but is now estimated at twenty five thousand. The South 206 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:47,280 Speaker 1: Atlantic is only one of fourteen distinct groups of regional 207 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:50,720 Speaker 1: humpbacks in the world, and not all are doing so well. 208 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:54,720 Speaker 1: Humpbacks in the Northern Hemisphere are struggling, with four populations 209 00:11:54,720 --> 00:11:58,120 Speaker 1: that are endangered and another that's threatened, mostly due to 210 00:11:58,240 --> 00:12:02,079 Speaker 1: changes in oceanic condition in the impacts on krill, the 211 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:05,839 Speaker 1: humpbacks food base. For now, however, Southern humpbacks are doing 212 00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:09,559 Speaker 1: pretty damn well, and that's caused for a momentary celebration. 213 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:11,800 Speaker 1: We talk a great deal on this show about the 214 00:12:11,880 --> 00:12:15,000 Speaker 1: role of hunting and hunters and the conservation of species, 215 00:12:15,160 --> 00:12:18,640 Speaker 1: especially game species. Well, this is an example where we 216 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:21,440 Speaker 1: can't claim any credit at all. A ban on commercial 217 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:24,840 Speaker 1: whaling in the eighties is primarily the cause of this rebound. 218 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:27,719 Speaker 1: In other words, we left the whales alone and they 219 00:12:27,760 --> 00:12:31,720 Speaker 1: re established themselves. Moving on to another quick hitter about 220 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:35,800 Speaker 1: the historic species decline and hunting, I came across a 221 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:38,880 Speaker 1: new paper about the drop in large mammals, humans and 222 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:43,199 Speaker 1: megafauna that happened about thirteen thousand years ago. Archaeologists have 223 00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:46,440 Speaker 1: been arguing amongst themselves about the causes of this die 224 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:49,840 Speaker 1: off for some time. One theory holds that early human 225 00:12:49,920 --> 00:12:53,920 Speaker 1: hunters like the Clovis people, hunted the megafauna into extinction. 226 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:56,800 Speaker 1: They ran out of food and then diet off themselves. 227 00:12:56,920 --> 00:12:59,960 Speaker 1: But a new report published in the journal Scientific Report 228 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:02,760 Speaker 1: It's adds a bit more evidence to what's known as 229 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:06,880 Speaker 1: the Younger Driest impact hypothesis. For those of you who 230 00:13:06,920 --> 00:13:12,319 Speaker 1: aren't hip to archaeologists slang, the hypothesis claims and extraterrestrial body. 231 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:15,600 Speaker 1: We're not talking uh, like the movie Et here. We're 232 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:18,480 Speaker 1: talking like a comet or meteor hit the Earth and 233 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:22,400 Speaker 1: reach some serious havoc. Researchers have been finding layers of 234 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:25,760 Speaker 1: platinum dust in earth core samples that seem to have 235 00:13:25,880 --> 00:13:29,800 Speaker 1: settled just before the global die offs of large mammals started. 236 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:33,760 Speaker 1: Some asteroids just happened to be rich in platinum, and 237 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:37,600 Speaker 1: big enough impact might have distributed particles around the globe. 238 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:40,880 Speaker 1: So far, these platinum spikes, as they're called, have been 239 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:45,280 Speaker 1: found in North America, Europe, Western Asia, Chile, and South Africa. 240 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:48,680 Speaker 1: One of the authors of the new report, Dr Christopher Moore, 241 00:13:48,960 --> 00:13:54,040 Speaker 1: doesn't completely absolve early hunters of any responsibility, writing, we 242 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:57,840 Speaker 1: speculate that the impact contributed to the extinction, but it 243 00:13:57,920 --> 00:14:02,760 Speaker 1: wasn't the only cause. Overhun by humans almost certainly contributed 244 00:14:02,920 --> 00:14:07,600 Speaker 1: to jumping over to the BC desk. As in British Columbia, 245 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:11,280 Speaker 1: applications are being taken at the Pacific Rim National Park 246 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:15,400 Speaker 1: Reserve to help monitor wolves. This quote uniquely hands on 247 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:23,200 Speaker 1: citizen science project is looking for poop fairies. Volunteers are 248 00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:26,640 Speaker 1: taught to identify and differentiate wolf feces from all the 249 00:14:26,640 --> 00:14:30,080 Speaker 1: other poop out there. Interested poop fairies must be able 250 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:32,640 Speaker 1: to commit to at least one pooh hunt per month 251 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:36,280 Speaker 1: for one year, and they caution volunteers not to expect 252 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:40,800 Speaker 1: gold mines each time they search, just land mines. That's 253 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:43,600 Speaker 1: a bad joke. You can learn a lot from animal scat. 254 00:14:43,760 --> 00:14:46,240 Speaker 1: What the animal has been eating is obvious, but you 255 00:14:46,240 --> 00:14:49,200 Speaker 1: can also extract DNA and use that to look at 256 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:52,280 Speaker 1: how animals relate to each other in a territory. So 257 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:55,680 Speaker 1: if your current volunteer job stinks, become a poop ferry 258 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:59,480 Speaker 1: and don't worry. Pacific rim National Park Reserve doesn't expect 259 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:03,760 Speaker 1: this to be everyone's cup of tea. The University Minnesota 260 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:08,640 Speaker 1: Extension Master Naturalist program, which sounds amazing just by the title, 261 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:11,560 Speaker 1: is looking for hunters to set up game cameras on 262 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:16,040 Speaker 1: gut piles to record scavenger activities as in what shows 263 00:15:16,120 --> 00:15:18,320 Speaker 1: up and when they do. For those of you who 264 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:21,200 Speaker 1: like to say hunting is conservation, this is your chance 265 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:23,920 Speaker 1: to put that T shirt where your citizen science is. 266 00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:27,360 Speaker 1: We're covering a lot of states today. We're jumping over 267 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:30,520 Speaker 1: to New Mexico. Remember when we talked about the miserable 268 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:33,800 Speaker 1: state of New Mexico stream access laws and big game 269 00:15:33,920 --> 00:15:38,040 Speaker 1: tag allocations. Well, last week the state Game Commission voted 270 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:41,440 Speaker 1: to rescind the rule that was issuing extra bighorn and 271 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:45,480 Speaker 1: other desirable tags to outfitters. They also announced they would 272 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:49,520 Speaker 1: reconsider the two thousand seventeen rule that allowed stream side 273 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:53,720 Speaker 1: landowners to petition to close waterways through their property to 274 00:15:53,840 --> 00:15:57,320 Speaker 1: public access. This would be a great step toward correcting 275 00:15:57,360 --> 00:16:00,760 Speaker 1: the disastrous rules from the past administer ration that saw 276 00:16:00,840 --> 00:16:05,000 Speaker 1: public stream access greatly curtailed. If you live in New Mexico, 277 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:08,920 Speaker 1: I'd strongly suggest calling or emailing the members of the 278 00:16:08,920 --> 00:16:12,960 Speaker 1: Game Commission to encourage them to right this wrong. If 279 00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:15,640 Speaker 1: you recreate in the state of New Mexico, as in 280 00:16:15,880 --> 00:16:19,600 Speaker 1: you like to float, fish, hunt, go outside and do 281 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:23,160 Speaker 1: fun things, I would greatly encourage you to call the 282 00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:26,320 Speaker 1: Game Commission, or write a friendly letter or make a 283 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:29,440 Speaker 1: phone call to the Governor's office. This is a big deal. 284 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:32,760 Speaker 1: As I've said before, when it comes to ease months 285 00:16:32,880 --> 00:16:36,720 Speaker 1: or stream access laws, one state can set precedent for 286 00:16:36,840 --> 00:16:41,160 Speaker 1: everybody else. So let's keep them on their good side. Now. 287 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:44,280 Speaker 1: I've been giving the Florida Desk a break, as let's 288 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:47,000 Speaker 1: face it, they've been overworked. But we are going back 289 00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:50,240 Speaker 1: there now to check in on a long and contentious 290 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:53,800 Speaker 1: revision of the state's black bear management plan. Florida is 291 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:56,640 Speaker 1: a great example of wildlife conservation when it comes to 292 00:16:56,640 --> 00:17:00,240 Speaker 1: the black bear, as unregulated hunting, habitat loss and fire 293 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:03,600 Speaker 1: management practices nearly wiped the bears from the low lying state. 294 00:17:03,920 --> 00:17:06,840 Speaker 1: In fact, the black bear was on the state Species 295 00:17:06,840 --> 00:17:10,440 Speaker 1: of Concern list up until two thousand twelve. Now, however, 296 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:13,200 Speaker 1: the black bear is doing great and of course getting 297 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:16,040 Speaker 1: into trouble in that zone we reference often here on 298 00:17:16,080 --> 00:17:19,720 Speaker 1: the weekend review the urban interface, that spot where a 299 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:22,680 Speaker 1: good wildlife corridor meets up with the golf course or 300 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:26,080 Speaker 1: newly planned communities. When I say doing great, according to 301 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:30,360 Speaker 1: the new proposed management plan, the bears are overpopulation objectives 302 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:34,560 Speaker 1: in four of the six bear Management units or bm us. 303 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:37,480 Speaker 1: In two thousand fifteen, the first black bear hunt held 304 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:41,399 Speaker 1: in recent Florida history. Hunters killed three four bears in 305 00:17:41,520 --> 00:17:44,639 Speaker 1: just two days. Florida Fish and Wildlife shut the week 306 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:48,159 Speaker 1: long hunt down due to the fast success of hunters. 307 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:51,560 Speaker 1: This quote new hunt being so successful out of the 308 00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:54,840 Speaker 1: gate did not go over well with many Florida residents, 309 00:17:54,920 --> 00:17:58,480 Speaker 1: and the backlash from the public resulted in the suspension 310 00:17:58,640 --> 00:18:01,359 Speaker 1: once again of black bear hunting in the state and 311 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:05,880 Speaker 1: eventually the aforementioned reevaluation of the black bear Management Plan. 312 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:09,560 Speaker 1: Florida Fish and Wildlife is taking public comment. Now, if 313 00:18:09,560 --> 00:18:12,679 Speaker 1: you are a believer in science based wildlife management, I 314 00:18:12,840 --> 00:18:15,920 Speaker 1: urge you to call or right in if you would like, 315 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:19,439 Speaker 1: you can even go to Backcountry hunters dot org and 316 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:22,840 Speaker 1: sign a petition on behalf of the Southeast chapters efforts 317 00:18:22,880 --> 00:18:26,040 Speaker 1: to keep hunting and hunters as an active part of 318 00:18:26,119 --> 00:18:30,240 Speaker 1: wildlife management. This Florida situation isn't a new one. We 319 00:18:30,280 --> 00:18:33,320 Speaker 1: have hunters willing to hunt, kill, and eat bears, and 320 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:36,720 Speaker 1: a lot of folks who don't identify or understand that. 321 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:40,520 Speaker 1: So instead they're pushing the state to find a third 322 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:44,639 Speaker 1: party solution such as hiring sharpshooters to kill bears, birth 323 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:49,280 Speaker 1: control methods, and my favorite habitat management as in, manage 324 00:18:49,320 --> 00:18:52,560 Speaker 1: the land to not produce as many bears. I think 325 00:18:52,600 --> 00:18:55,280 Speaker 1: that one might have an effect on other plant and 326 00:18:55,280 --> 00:18:59,560 Speaker 1: animal species. These bears don't exist in a vacuum. It 327 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:01,800 Speaker 1: is not lost on me that hunters can be their 328 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:04,639 Speaker 1: own worst enemies here as well. The success of the 329 00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:08,520 Speaker 1: two thousand fifteen hunt came as a shock to all hunters, 330 00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:11,840 Speaker 1: non hunters, and wildlife professionals alike. What seemed like a 331 00:19:11,920 --> 00:19:15,560 Speaker 1: successful hunt to some looked like a slaughter to others. 332 00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:19,160 Speaker 1: And then you have a handful of hunters, some naives, 333 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:22,480 Speaker 1: some not that publicize some of their legally killed bears, 334 00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:24,879 Speaker 1: two people that wouldn't want to see them under the 335 00:19:24,920 --> 00:19:28,040 Speaker 1: best of circumstances. I want this bear hunt to happen. 336 00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:30,960 Speaker 1: I just hope that all parties involved took this soon 337 00:19:31,040 --> 00:19:33,879 Speaker 1: to be four year hunting hiatus as a time to 338 00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:37,520 Speaker 1: learn about both the management of Florida's black bears and 339 00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:41,679 Speaker 1: Florida's growing human population. Quick fun fact for you. And 340 00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:45,240 Speaker 1: now resigned Florida Fish and Wildlife Commissioner, who I fully 341 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:48,880 Speaker 1: admit did not possess much tact, accused the commenting Florida 342 00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:52,480 Speaker 1: public opposed to black bear hunting of just associating these 343 00:19:52,520 --> 00:19:55,800 Speaker 1: bears with a Teddy bear. The name teddy bear comes 344 00:19:55,840 --> 00:20:00,359 Speaker 1: from Theodore Teddy Roosevelt, who was born October just a 345 00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:02,680 Speaker 1: few days ago at the time of this recording. Uh 346 00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:05,520 Speaker 1: effigy of Teddy Roosevelt with a bade bear in a 347 00:20:05,560 --> 00:20:08,640 Speaker 1: Mississippi swamp is what inspired the name of the first 348 00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:12,640 Speaker 1: stuffed bear. So now you know that I'm gonna give 349 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:15,080 Speaker 1: you a good news finish here in the home state 350 00:20:15,119 --> 00:20:19,440 Speaker 1: of Montana. But don't worry this benefits everyone. You may 351 00:20:19,480 --> 00:20:23,359 Speaker 1: recall me talking about the Fort Kyo fishing Access site 352 00:20:23,359 --> 00:20:26,880 Speaker 1: on the Yellowstone River out a mile City, Montana that 353 00:20:27,119 --> 00:20:29,440 Speaker 1: was on U. 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