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Speaker 1: Archaeologists have discovered what looks like a nine thousand year

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Speaker 1: old deer camp in the Jordanian desert. The hunting complex

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Speaker 1: is believed to have been used by gazelle hunters around

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Speaker 1: seven thousand BC to perform rituals to guarantee a successful hunt.

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Speaker 1: Likely story, if you grew up in the quote deer

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Speaker 1: camp situation of hunting, you know as well as I do,

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Speaker 1: that the word ritual can mean a heck of a

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Speaker 1: lot of things to a variety of different people, cousins, uncles,

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Speaker 1: et cetera. Sometimes those rituals do a lot more harm

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Speaker 1: than good for your hunt, as especially if it requires

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Speaker 1: getting up really early the next morning. The team of

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Speaker 1: French and Jordanian archaeologists found more than two hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty artifacts, including two statues with carvings of human faces

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Speaker 1: along with the animal figurines. According to German media outlet

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Speaker 1: say it's the oldest largest and best preserved large scale

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Speaker 1: hunting structure ever uncovered. What is a desert kite? Good question.

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Speaker 1: A desert kite is built from two walls that stretched

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Speaker 1: for several hundred meters and become gradually narrower, forming a V.

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Speaker 1: Hunters herded animals into the wide end of the V

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Speaker 1: and chase them to the narrowest point. At that narrowest point,

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Speaker 1: they'd have a pit, dug or some sort of enclosure constructed.

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Speaker 1: Hunters usually trapped forty fifty gazelles in a single hunt,

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Speaker 1: sometimes as many as six hundred. The walls didn't have

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Speaker 1: Low walls were often used, or sometimes a row of

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Speaker 1: kites are so large they can be seen from space.

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Speaker 1: According to National Geographic The enclosures at the end of

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Speaker 1: the V were always carefully constructed, and they could include

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Speaker 1: until the animals had already fallen in. Archaeologists believe the

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Speaker 1: desert kites were used during the gazelle's seasonal migration, when

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Speaker 1: herds were moving in a predictable direction. Desert kites were

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Speaker 1: first discovered by the Royal Air Force flying over the

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Speaker 1: kites because the pilots that spotted them thought the shapes

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Speaker 1: resembled toy kites used by children. We all remember Mary

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Speaker 1: Poppins mist oldeniten to the string of kites. Similar hunting

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Speaker 1: structures were also used in North and South America and

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Speaker 1: even Scandinavia, but archaeologists did not know at first what

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Speaker 1: don't really know. Later, others hypothesized that desert kites were

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Speaker 1: used to herd domestic animals. Today, the consensus has mostly

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Speaker 1: more of a detain against their will type of method

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Speaker 1: the Jordanian desert. It was Mexico anyway. This week, a

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Speaker 1: special tale of the bureaucracy of gun possession in the

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Speaker 1: heart of the cold, cold city, bad bills, some good,

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Speaker 1: and the difference between wild and feral. But first, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna tell you about my week, and my week was

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Speaker 1: pretty wild. Went down to Los Alamos County, New Mexico

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Speaker 1: and partially helped, but mostly observed a feral cattle round

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Speaker 1: This is a mix of hunting and beef wrangling. The

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Speaker 1: Alamos operation is much more hands on, much more dangerous

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Speaker 1: it is this we as people put those cattle out there.

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Speaker 1: It's our mess to clean up. The risks are obviously

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Speaker 1: human safety, a social tolerance risk of public land recreation

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Speaker 1: and grasses. The beef again grow large. They literally put

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Speaker 1: And in the state of New Mexico, an unmarked or

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Speaker 1: In West Virginia, a series of bills have been introduced

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Speaker 1: public lands. In simple terms, this legislation would allow off

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Speaker 1: road vehicle access to previously inaccessible wildlife management areas, state

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Speaker 1: Commission has passed temporary regulation changes for spotted sea trout.

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Speaker 1: These new regulations will begin March ten and will reduce

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Speaker 1: designed to leave more spawning fish in the water to

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Speaker 1: help the fish recover from the two thousand one winter

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Speaker 1: HF two seven six four directs the Commissioner of Natural

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Speaker 1: Resources to evaluate fish designated as rough fish to determine

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Speaker 1: if those species have been properly labeled. Rough fish, also

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Speaker 1: include fish like suckers, bullheads, dog fish, and car Take

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Speaker 1: We talk about rough fish and rough fishing and absolutely

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Speaker 1: incredible tale of the big mouth buffalo some of our

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Speaker 1: and there's currently no regulation plan for them. Also in

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Speaker 1: that one in down in the Sunshine State, the Florida

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Speaker 1: fisheries concern is not enough angler harvest amongst most species

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Speaker 1: Three would establish a constitutional right to hunt and fish.

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Speaker 1: The resolution would amend the state Constitution to forever preserve

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Speaker 1: and Natural Resources Committee. Oklahoma. Oklahoma is considering several bills

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Speaker 1: we're tracking. HB four to eight one would allow hunters

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