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Speaker 1: From Meat Eaters World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This

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Speaker 1: is Cow's Week in Review with Ryan cow Klaan. Here's

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Speaker 1: cal Canadian wildlife officials are looking for a man and

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Speaker 1: woman caught on camera dumping the headless body of a

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Speaker 1: Clyde can be seen getting out of what looks like

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Speaker 1: a co Op grocery store located right along the Trans

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Speaker 1: Canada Highway, then drive away. The lack of a head

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Speaker 1: means wildlife officials can't say for sure how big the

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Speaker 1: buck was, obviously, but media reports indicate that even though

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Speaker 1: their actions were not, the buck was quote mature. They

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Speaker 1: also mentioned that the body had been gutted, but they

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Speaker 1: don't say whether any of the meat had been harvested.

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Speaker 1: We could have a situation where a novice hunter killed

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Speaker 1: but I think that's unlikely. Alberta Fish and Wildlife is

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Speaker 1: calling this a poaching incident, presumably because the legal deer

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Speaker 1: season had ended in November. Poaching is bad, but don't

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Speaker 1: punish these two for the Sierra. That's a solid minivan choice,

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Speaker 1: especially the all wheel drive version. Check out episode oneh

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Speaker 1: nine of Brent Reeves podcast This Country Life. He points

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Speaker 1: out that hunting vehicles don't have to be trucks. It's

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Speaker 1: all about functionality, and I'd say minivan qualifies as long

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Speaker 1: as you have a sturdy tarp and folding rear seats.

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Speaker 1: Also the automatic doors. I mean, come on, gang, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'll be honest. Minivans are great. This week we've got wolves,

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Speaker 1: legislation and executive orders. But first I'm going to tell

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Speaker 1: you about my week. And my week will be spent

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Speaker 1: in the great Mexican state of Sonora chasing cow's deer

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Speaker 1: tasty tiny full of spines. Also be chasing Havevelina, which

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Speaker 1: I'm really excited about. This week we're going to be

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Speaker 1: joining Peter Howell of Sig Sour Fame, Randa Williams, Seth Morris,

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Speaker 1: and Giannis pitell Us. Should be darned great to shiver

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Speaker 1: in the morning and warm up in the sun, ideally

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Speaker 1: to hot hot rut activity followed by hot hot tortillas.

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Speaker 1: Once sun goes down, which all sounds awesome and it

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Speaker 1: will be, but I am also high anxiety if I'm

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Speaker 1: being honest, to miss some of Montana's legislative session. If

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Speaker 1: I can get the cell signal, I'll try to get

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Speaker 1: online and testify if at all possible. So much important

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Speaker 1: stuff going on this time of year. Please let me

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Speaker 1: know if you've been out there, either in this state

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Speaker 1: or your state. I want to hear about it, and

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Speaker 1: I know the testify curious would also like to hear

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Speaker 1: about your experience. Moving on to the wolf desk, Colorado

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Speaker 1: residents welcomed ten new wolves to their state last month,

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Speaker 1: as the Parks and Wildlife Department continues the project that

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Speaker 1: voters approved in a twenty twenty ballot initiative. This is

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Speaker 1: the second batch of wolves to be shipped down to

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Speaker 1: the centennial state, but these are from British Columbia instead

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Speaker 1: of Oregon. What's also different from the last reintroduction is

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Speaker 1: the lack of fanfare. You may remember a little over

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Speaker 1: a year ago when wildlife officials released ten gray wolves

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Speaker 1: in an event that featured videographers and a press conference.

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Speaker 1: This time around, it's almost as if the state would

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Speaker 1: even less information about the exact location. That unwillingness to

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Speaker 1: tell local ranchers where the wolves are being released as

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Speaker 1: prompted Colorado's to take matters into their own hands. A

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Speaker 1: Facebook group called Colorado Wolf Tracker claimed to have found

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Speaker 1: group's members used live flight tracking information, and some of

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Speaker 1: an outlet called Colorado Politics ran a story naming several

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Speaker 1: family members of the ranch that supposedly hosted the wolf release,

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Speaker 1: representatives of that ranch told another outlet, the Post Independent,

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Speaker 1: a result of the first report, people had trespassed on

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Speaker 1: their ranch, claiming to be wildlife watchers hoping to catch

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Speaker 1: It sounds like a real mess. Ranchers are upset that

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Speaker 1: chronic depredation, initiate site vulnerability assessments, create a widespread range

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Speaker 1: at an undisclosed location in Garfield, Eagle, or Pitkin County.

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Speaker 1: On the other side of the ledger, animal rights group

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Speaker 1: Wild Earth Guardians praised the Commission's decision and welcome the

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Speaker 1: state's new canine residents. Native wolves are critical to our

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Speaker 1: to heal Colorado's landscapes. The Commission did it right in

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Speaker 1: continuing to facilitate their return. Said to Lindsay Laris, conservation

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Speaker 1: director for A Wild Earth Guardians, I'm sure this isn't

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Speaker 1: the last we'll hear of this new batch of Colorado wolves,

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Speaker 1: so as always, we'll keep you in the loop. Next one,

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Speaker 1: don't you pull that trigger. This one comes from vha's

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Speaker 1: Western field director, Katie de Lorenzo akakt D, who I

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Speaker 1: are recently crushed by out shooting her on a quail hunt.

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Speaker 1: I'm willing to let it go if you are Katie.

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Speaker 1: In the New Mexico Wild Cheap Foundation's recent newsletter, Brian

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Speaker 1: Bartlett points out that you may have a sheep tag,

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Speaker 1: but I would add AKA barbary sheep are not desert

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Speaker 1: cheap or big horns and cannot be interchanged. Since twenty eighteen,

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Speaker 1: at least six desert bighorn sheep have been killed by

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Speaker 1: barbary sheep hunters. Recently, in the Tuopdera Mountains near SoCoRo,

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Speaker 1: a barbary hunter killed a young big horn ram. New

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Speaker 1: Mexico Wild Sheep Foundation points to New Mexico Department a

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Speaker 1: Game and Fish recent decision to issue statewide over the

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Speaker 1: counter barbary sheep tags as an issue. They could, for instance,

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Speaker 1: limit tags in native sheep range. They would also like

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Speaker 1: to see monetary penalties for mistakenly shooting a big horn

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Speaker 1: to get up to like a current status, The real

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Speaker 1: value of bighorn sheep, based on data from eight years ago,

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Speaker 1: Cheap Foundation is sure that price is long out data.

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Speaker 1: Now here's what is being done, and I'm sure it's

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Speaker 1: at no insignificant expense. So think of this the next

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Speaker 1: the Wild Cheap Foundation partnered to create and distribute educational

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Speaker 1: trifle pamphlets on how to tell the difference between a

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Speaker 1: bighorn sheep and an odd at ten thousand high quality

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Speaker 1: Sacramento Mountains were purchased to educate hunters as well. If

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Speaker 1: to Wild Cheap Foundation dot org, forward slash Field Identification

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Speaker 1: Desert Bighorn out ad. This is a great example of

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Speaker 1: a identify your target and what's beyond or don't pull

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Speaker 1: How do we find them where they are? People who

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Speaker 1: how do we talk to them? Hunter's ed is needed

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Speaker 1: are just too many workarounds in this online day and age.

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Speaker 1: Something I am advocating for here in Montana is that

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Speaker 1: in order to hunt certain species or access WMA that's

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Speaker 1: online course. Right This is all done when you're purchasing

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Speaker 1: your items at your state fishing game website. You click

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Speaker 1: a ten minute course on how to behave on state lands.

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Speaker 1: You click on block management that you want to get

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Speaker 1: the updated map for your block management areas well, you

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Speaker 1: if you want to get that over the counter state

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Speaker 1: ten minute Identify your Sheep course right there on the

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Speaker 1: New Mexico Department of Fishing Game website. Heck, they could

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Speaker 1: Got to try out something new here, gang writ in,

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Speaker 1: legislative desk, listener Chris Jones sent me a bill being

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Speaker 1: House File sixty five would direct the state Wildlife Agency

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Speaker 1: to call an annual depredation season from January eleventh to

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Speaker 1: January thirty one. Any landowner can participate in this season

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Speaker 1: being proposed by Senator Dusty Devers. Current REGs require landowners

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Speaker 1: the Oklahoma Tax Commission for nuisance Control, a permit for

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Speaker 1: Listener James A sent me a bill in Oregon that

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