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Speaker 1: From Mediator's World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is

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Speaker 1: Kel's we Can review with Ryan kel Kell. Now Here's Kel.

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Speaker 1: The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources opened the season on

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Speaker 1: wolves for the first time since two thousand fourteen. On

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Speaker 1: February one, the Board of Wisconsin Department and Natural Resources

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Speaker 1: voted on a statewide harvest objective of two hundred wolves

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Speaker 1: outside of tribal lands. This includes eight one tags controlled

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Speaker 1: by the Ojibwey tribal members. The two hundred wolf quota

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Speaker 1: is set to maintain a harvestable wolf population in the

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Speaker 1: state of Wisconsin, with the goal of the hunt being

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Speaker 1: non nat population deficit, as in, they're just trying to

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Speaker 1: kill the surplus. The state of Wisconsin could have as

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Speaker 1: many as two thousand wolves spread out amongst two hundred

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Speaker 1: and fifty six recognized packs currently calling the state home.

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Speaker 1: When the last wolf hunt was held in two thousand fourteen,

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Speaker 1: the population was counted at just over six hundred wolves,

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Speaker 1: with one hundred and fifty four wolves taken during that season.

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Speaker 1: Important to note that the wolf count numbers had declined

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Speaker 1: over the course of the three consecutive hunting seasons from

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Speaker 1: two thousand twelve to two thousand fourteen, but this year's

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Speaker 1: hunt is occurring at a modern all time population high

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Speaker 1: and has the lowest amount of take prescribed. Wisconsin DNR

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Speaker 1: had hope to postpone this winter hunt, which is actually

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Speaker 1: provided for in state law, basically saying if wolves are

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Speaker 1: off the endangered species list, there will be a winter

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Speaker 1: hunting season. In response to a lawsuit filed on behalf

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Speaker 1: of hunter Nation by the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty,

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Speaker 1: the d n R set the winter season and quota,

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Speaker 1: which is spread out amongst six geographical regions. Harvested wolves

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Speaker 1: must be reported within twenty four hours. Eighty two wolves

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Speaker 1: were recorded after the first day of the hunt, which

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Speaker 1: effectively closed zones two and six. As of Wednesday, the

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Speaker 1: DNR had announced the closures of all regions. As of

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Speaker 1: this recording, a total of one hundred and eighty two

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Speaker 1: wolves were reported. The target number for non tribal members

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Speaker 1: was one nineteen, with the statewide goal of two hundred.

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Speaker 1: The state of Wisconsin offered four thousand winter wolf hunting licenses,

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Speaker 1: which were obtained through a draw in which over twenty

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Speaker 1: thousand people applied. The four thousand licensed hunters were then

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Speaker 1: able to legally target wolves within the season and before

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Speaker 1: the quota or target harvest numbers for each region were met.

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Speaker 1: I would like to see the official breakdown of successful

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Speaker 1: harvest methods. Trapping, hound hunting, baiting, and traditional firearms were

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Speaker 1: all legal means of take for this season. If I

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Speaker 1: were a betting man, I would wager that the trappers,

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Speaker 1: followed by the baiters and the houndsman and the lucky

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Speaker 1: shots is how this horse race came in. Wolves within

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Speaker 1: the Great Lakes States are technically over objective by population

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Speaker 1: number and distribution. The debate that remains is are they

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Speaker 1: doing well enough to maintain healthy, diverse populations in the future.

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Speaker 1: The wolf may as well be a fur covered ping

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Speaker 1: pong ball as many times as it's crossed the net

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Speaker 1: between federal and state management. On the state side of things,

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Speaker 1: populations are managed by the states, and hunting, as in

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Speaker 1: this case, is a management option, a tool in the bag,

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Speaker 1: and a big revenue source. All proceeds from this wolf hunt,

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Speaker 1: the twenty thousand plus application fees, the licenses and tag

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Speaker 1: sales for the four thousand who went wolf hunting will

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Speaker 1: go to conflict mitigation funds. Anecdotedly, if you were worried

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Speaker 1: about the ease in which wolves were harvested in this

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Speaker 1: shorter than advertised Wisconsin hunting season, this is similar to

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Speaker 1: what we saw when seasons were opened here in Montana

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Speaker 1: and Idaho. After not being hunted, wolves adjust their boundaries.

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Speaker 1: They like running roads and road kill. They get a

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Speaker 1: little bold and curious. After a hunting season or two,

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Speaker 1: they readjust those boundaries, just as the elk did here

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Speaker 1: in Montana and Idaho. All in all, this situation seems

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Speaker 1: pretty darn fair to me. I have spoken this week.

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Speaker 1: We've got the Texas desk, unlikely, invasive, and so much more.

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Speaker 1: But first, I'm gonna tell you about my week. In

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Speaker 1: My week as well as this podcast is brought to

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Speaker 1: you by Steel Power Equipment. If you are starting to

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Speaker 1: see broken branches, empty wood sheds, or even some skulls

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Speaker 1: steel set of oppers, pruners, blowers, or even a battery

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Speaker 1: shed back in to shape pronto. I went over to

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Speaker 1: Discovery Ski Area, that awesome little ski area located just

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Speaker 1: This was a mountain we frequented in our younger years,

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Speaker 1: skiing with kids is very different. I froze my butt off.

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Speaker 1: even a big open face mashed potatoes underneath gravy on

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Speaker 1: top turkey sando. Of course, before I get to that,

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Speaker 1: St Patrick's Day is right around the corner, and I

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Speaker 1: have a whole buffalo tongue frozen and Brian just for

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Speaker 1: that occasion. My freezer is divided, it seems, by season.

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Speaker 1: While we were on this topic, I just recently melted

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Speaker 1: down a pile of chilies into a beautiful, smoky, spicy gravy.

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Speaker 1: I cooked perch and while if flats in this as

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Speaker 1: well as Mule to your Shoulder and elkshank, made a

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Speaker 1: pile of very tough to beat tacos. Moving on, people

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Speaker 1: across the country are still reeling from the recent deep

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Speaker 1: freeze and resulting utility failures. For those of you looking

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Speaker 1: The cold has caused havoc for wildlife as well as

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Speaker 1: as cold stunning. Because turtles are reptiles, they can't regulate

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Speaker 1: They become effectively paralyzed. In this state, they're defenseless against

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Speaker 1: Just to breathe. They swim up to the water surface,

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Speaker 1: exhale forcefully, then take a big, deep breath, all in

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Speaker 1: any of this. So a team of volunteers sprang into action, researchers,

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Speaker 1: The volunteers pulled the turtles out of the frigid water

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Speaker 1: my friends. I have been to a lot of conventions.

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Speaker 1: I can't imagine what the cocktail hour was like, but

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Speaker 1: jelly man. This was the biggest cold stunning event in history,

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Speaker 1: with an estimated eight thousand turtles affected. The last record

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Speaker 1: just fine. Quick upbeat update on legislation. As mentioned before,

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Speaker 1: California black bear hunting BAM has been squashed. A Georgia

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Speaker 1: advocacy of what you love as a second job. Right now,

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Speaker 1: make time and write emails and call your duly elected officials.

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Speaker 1: If my home state of Montana can be an example,

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Speaker 1: this legislative session is an embarrassing dumpster fire, and you

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Speaker 1: and read the actual bill right now. For instance, in Wyoming,

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Speaker 1: Are they voracious eaters? Yes. Their mouths are so big

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