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Speaker 1: From Mediators World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is

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Speaker 1: Cal's weekend review, presented by Steel Steel products are available

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Speaker 1: dot com. Now here's your host, Ryan cal callahan. While

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Speaker 1: the two thousand twenty one drought continues to punish the West,

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Speaker 1: cool and wet conditions have made this summer a mushroom

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Speaker 1: bonanza for the Northeast, especially with Hurricane Slash Tropical Depression

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Speaker 1: Henry or Henri. However you want to go a couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks ago in the end of Hurricane Ida. This

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Speaker 1: past week, along with the bumper crop mushrooms, has come

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Speaker 1: a corresponding spike in mushroom related poisonings. The Northern New

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Speaker 1: England Poison Control Center has seen a near fifty percent

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Speaker 1: increase compared to a typical year. Dr Karen Simone, director

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Speaker 1: of the center, told New Hampshire Public Radio, oh the

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Speaker 1: majority of these cases involved people who didn't even try

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Speaker 1: to identify the mushroom. They just saw it on their lawn,

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Speaker 1: thought it looked interesting, and brought it in a NATA.

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Speaker 1: I do love that adventuresome spirit. I'm sure we have

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Speaker 1: like minded ancestors to thank, but only a few don't

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Speaker 1: eat lawn mushrooms. Kids. There's nothing like catching sight of

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Speaker 1: a promising shape through the underbrush and having it resolved

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Speaker 1: into a bona fide morale or head of the woods.

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Speaker 1: But if you're just starting out, join the mushroom hunting

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Speaker 1: group to learn from an expert. If you are that

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Speaker 1: type of adventuresome good news. Mushroom clubs are thick on

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Speaker 1: the ground, at least one in every state, six different

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Speaker 1: clubs in Pennsylvania alone. You were almost guaranteed to meet

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Speaker 1: some interesting people by joining up. Some notable mushroom hunters

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Speaker 1: from the past include the following Ralph Philip Haines, Jr.

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Speaker 1: CEO of the Haynes Underwear Company and chairman of the

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Speaker 1: National Endowment of the Arts, who bought fourteen thousand, three

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Speaker 1: three acres of woodland with his own money and donated

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Speaker 1: them to North Carolina to create Stone Mountain State Park.

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Speaker 1: That sounds like some comfortable support in you know, the

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Speaker 1: world of conservation. Ellen true Blood and her husband Ted,

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Speaker 1: the legendary writer for Field and Stream and other publications

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Speaker 1: who helped establish the Idaho Wildlife Federation and organized the

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Speaker 1: campaign to stop construction of the nez Perse Damn on

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Speaker 1: the Snake River, saving a key salmon migration route in

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Speaker 1: the process. Is another mushroom hunter and John Cage, avant

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Speaker 1: garde composer who's piece four thirty three involves musicians not

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Speaker 1: playing their instruments for four minutes and thirty three seconds

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Speaker 1: so that audiences here the ambient noises in the room.

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Speaker 1: I'm just going to suppose that the relationship between this

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Speaker 1: piece in cages mushroom hunting is not coincidental. You know

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. It's exploratory. Anyway, this week we got venom,

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Speaker 1: politics and fire. At first, I'm gonna tell you about

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Speaker 1: my week. In my week, friends and neighbors, has been

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Speaker 1: one wild ride, and like the Robert Earl Keen song,

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Speaker 1: the road goes on forever and the party never ends.

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Speaker 1: As I mentioned, I prepped hard to go deep into

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Speaker 1: understatement of the century. Never in my life have I

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Speaker 1: only to unload another smaller, much more comfortable vehicle. The

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Speaker 1: politics desk, new administrations are often measured by what they

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Speaker 1: gate back in two thousand seventeen. First, we're gonna look

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Speaker 1: at key appointments and nominations. As the saying goes, person

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Speaker 1: now equals policy. At the Department of the Interior, Trump's

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Speaker 1: first pick, Ryan Zinky, was at the helm shrinking national monuments,

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Speaker 1: a highly controversial move which brought the crazies out of

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Speaker 1: the woodwork a monument designation. Monuments themselves are all individuals.

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Speaker 1: in available land leases. If you remember, part of Zincy's

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Speaker 1: In two thousand eighteen, Interior put leases for over four

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Speaker 1: federal minimum of two dollars an acre, way below market value.

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Speaker 1: The effort was so haphazard that many of the least

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Speaker 1: them got hung up in protracted legal battles. After narrowly

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Speaker 1: and sage grouse habitat is uh risky. Trump's next pick,

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Speaker 1: David Bernhardt out of Colorado, was considerably better, considering the

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Speaker 1: Laguna Pueblo tribe, the first Native American to head the department, and,

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Speaker 1: very relevant. By her own admission, Holland is not an

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