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Speaker 1: From Media Doors World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This

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Speaker 1: is Kel's we Can review with Ryan col Kell in

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Speaker 1: now Here's Kel. In the fall of seventy six, beavers

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Speaker 1: were dropped by a parachute into Idaho's frank Church Wilderness area.

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Speaker 1: Well back in forty nine, that rugged chunk of Idaho

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Speaker 1: is forced to slow down where it can seep in

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Speaker 1: the ground and recharge the water table. Sediments from the

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Speaker 1: water filter out in the still water above the dam.

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Speaker 1: Then the filtered water below is much cleaner, allowing fish

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Speaker 1: Doing large part to the fashion trend of beaver hats

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Speaker 1: and accessories in the European markets. America's beavers took a

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Speaker 1: serious hit from unregulated trapping. Beavers were well on the

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Speaker 1: rebound by but many of our rocky, rugged and remote

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Speaker 1: valleys were still beaver poor. With servicemen and women coming

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Speaker 1: home from World War two, nationwide increase in leisure time

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Speaker 1: and streams, fishing pole and rifle in hand. A renewed

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Speaker 1: emphasis on conservation was being seen across the country. A

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Speaker 1: major theme during this time and arguably now, was stalking trout.

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Speaker 1: Get trout, particularly rainbows, started in a hatchery, dumped them

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Speaker 1: in milk containers, Tie the containers to a mule, then

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Speaker 1: adding some courageous biologist types, and pretty soon bomber pilots

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Speaker 1: how do you get anything right practice. One beaver in particular,

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Speaker 1: named Geronimo, got so used to repeated drops that upon

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Speaker 1: Once the practice rounds were deemed a success, the big

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Speaker 1: mission in the fall of nineteen was carried out. Seventy

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Speaker 1: drop zone in Idaho's Chamberlain Basin and three presumably single

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Speaker 1: ladies as company. This fall of two thousand nineteen will

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Speaker 1: and now there are beavers of plenty and much healthier

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Speaker 1: habitat in the Chamberlain Basin. If you want a bit

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Speaker 1: more on that story, head to the Meat Eater dot

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Speaker 1: com and check out the article by Spencer new Heart.

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Speaker 1: This week we've got bugs, frogs, and salmon futures plus

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Speaker 1: so much more. But first I'm gonna tell you about

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Speaker 1: my week. My week, I cooked up some flathead catfish

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Speaker 1: i hate to say it, very much like chicken, or

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Speaker 1: Think of a more flavorful halibut. Anyway, it's damn good stuff.

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Speaker 1: we get down to the show, I need to tell

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Speaker 1: questions which I am struggling to answer. So I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: do everyone a favor. Do you want better? As they say?

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Speaker 1: Remy Warrent has started a podcast called Cutting the Distance.

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Speaker 1: This podcast is designed to get these questions answered and

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Speaker 1: get you prepped and ready for the great out of doors.

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Speaker 1: Remy Warren's Cutting the Distance will be available anywhere podcasts

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Speaker 1: or downloadable or streamable, so get on it. The first

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Speaker 1: episode just dropped and you can look forward to stories

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Speaker 1: strategy and gear dues and gear do nots. Every Thursday.

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Speaker 1: Remy is possibly the most hunting son of a buck

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Speaker 1: there is out there, so you know you're welcome. Now,

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Speaker 1: a recent story that has really started to irk me.

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Speaker 1: story I thought newsworthy initially, but after the Peanut Gallery

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Speaker 1: What does hunting and poaching of game in Africa have

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Speaker 1: many times on Col's wee can review do serious damage

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Speaker 1: to wildlife. It happens all the time. Uncontrolled dogs chase wildlife,

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Speaker 1: Other times, like in Garcia's case, dogs actually catch, mame

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Speaker 1: water monitors, pythons, and green iguanas. These animals, when left

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Speaker 1: as I will now is control your damned pets. Moving on,

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Speaker 1: got a lot to cover. If you don't fancy yourself

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Speaker 1: that extra protein boost you need. Recently, a scientific review

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Speaker 1: published a consumer report regarding some surprising salad extras like frogs, toads, lizards, snakes,

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Speaker 1: The stowaway animals that prefer salad are fifty amphibian, twenty

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Speaker 1: I'd say the belly if I had to guess. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: our own Stephen Ronnella has a story about Green's packing

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Speaker 1: a little extra green Steve along with his brothers used

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Speaker 1: like Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, Nobody's in poison. Just some

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Speaker 1: If you're concerned about this study, however, you can always

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Speaker 1: Last week, swarms of pallid winged grasshoppers descended on sin city,

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Speaker 1: in the Book of Exodus. I guess this story is

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Speaker 1: just another story of what happened in Vegas and didn't

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Speaker 1: On Tuesday July, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it

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Speaker 1: That Clean Water Act decision was one of the last

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Speaker 1: American fly Fishing Trade Association has declared August as the

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Speaker 1: Day for Bristol Bay. In a show of Solidaire. Many

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