1 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:06,840 Speaker 1: From Mediators World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is 2 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:11,360 Speaker 1: Cal's weekend review, presented by Steel Steel products are available 3 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:15,160 Speaker 1: only at authorized dealers. For more, go to Steel Dealers 4 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:22,360 Speaker 1: dot com. Now here's your host, Ryan cal Callahan. A 5 00:00:22,520 --> 00:00:25,360 Speaker 1: mother and her children for a Sunday walk near Anglemont, 6 00:00:25,360 --> 00:00:28,960 Speaker 1: British Columbia, found roughly eighty severed bear paws belonging to 7 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:32,360 Speaker 1: twenty five bears on the road, which, if you're doing 8 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:35,320 Speaker 1: the math, means some pause were not matching up. It's 9 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:38,839 Speaker 1: not that some BC bears don't have four paws. Some 10 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:42,480 Speaker 1: of the paws were skinned, some partially skinned, some declade, 11 00:00:42,720 --> 00:00:45,560 Speaker 1: and it appeared that the pause came from all ages 12 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:49,320 Speaker 1: of bears, including cubs. It is illegal to sell bear 13 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:52,880 Speaker 1: parts in Canada regardless, The thought is these paws were 14 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:57,000 Speaker 1: headed for the international wildlife market. Bear paws are very 15 00:00:57,080 --> 00:01:01,120 Speaker 1: tasty and considered delicacy. According to the Global News, the 16 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:04,440 Speaker 1: Little Shoe Swap Lake Band, the Nscan with Indian Band, 17 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:07,360 Speaker 1: and the Adams Lake Band are offering a three thousand 18 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:10,520 Speaker 1: dollar reward to anyone with information that leads to the 19 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:14,720 Speaker 1: conviction of those responsible. In two thousand and eleven, a 20 00:01:14,840 --> 00:01:18,440 Speaker 1: man was stopped at the Vancouver Airport attempting to transport 21 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:22,560 Speaker 1: three bear paws from two different bears to China. He 22 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:26,040 Speaker 1: faced a maximum penalty of a two d and fifty 23 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:30,080 Speaker 1: thousand dollar fine and six months in jail. When you 24 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 1: consider the bounty of three thousand dollars for turning somebody 25 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:37,480 Speaker 1: in and the penalty these people are up against, it's 26 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:41,800 Speaker 1: easy to see this is a high stakes game, which 27 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:45,360 Speaker 1: if you think three bear paws going to China is bad, 28 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:50,559 Speaker 1: listen to this. Quebec's Vanessa Rondo, owner of the Old 29 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:54,960 Speaker 1: Cavern boutique, was charged last week after allegedly attempting to 30 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:58,600 Speaker 1: cross the US border while in possession of quote numerous 31 00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:04,080 Speaker 1: undeclared wildlife items. The items included eighteen crocodile skulls, seven 32 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:08,040 Speaker 1: crocodile feet, as well as a three toed sloth. Both 33 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:11,320 Speaker 1: the crocodiles and the three toed sloth or protected species 34 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:15,440 Speaker 1: under the U S Endangered Species Act. Additionally, she had 35 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:19,640 Speaker 1: in her possession twelve horseshoe crabs, thirty c stars, twenty 36 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:24,040 Speaker 1: three raccoon feet, eight African antelope horns, one human skull 37 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:31,880 Speaker 1: with mounted butterflies for puffer fish and six shark jaws. 38 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:40,040 Speaker 1: But that's not all. Rondo had been shipping to the 39 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:44,160 Speaker 1: US bird skulls, polar bear skulls, a weasel, a bat, 40 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:47,440 Speaker 1: and the hide of a protected heartman's zebra. Some of 41 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:51,320 Speaker 1: these packages were sent directly to willing buyers that happened 42 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:54,080 Speaker 1: to be agents for the US Fish and Wildlife Service. 43 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:58,840 Speaker 1: Rondo's bail is set at fifty thou dollars, the breadth 44 00:02:58,919 --> 00:03:02,880 Speaker 1: of what Rondo has been selling human head with mounted butterflies, 45 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:06,720 Speaker 1: African antelope, horn, shark jaws, twenty three raccoon feet, polar 46 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:09,800 Speaker 1: bear skulls for the low price of seven. By the way, 47 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:13,360 Speaker 1: just goes to show you there is a market out 48 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:18,359 Speaker 1: there for everything. Shops like the Old Cavern Boutique wouldn't 49 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:23,120 Speaker 1: exist without willing buyers, So please keep that in mind 50 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:25,840 Speaker 1: the next time you're looking for you know, key chain 51 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 1: dongoles and interesting things to put on your shelves and 52 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:33,000 Speaker 1: your vr b oh when you're shopping on Etsy. This week, 53 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:37,280 Speaker 1: we've got bears, corrections, crime, and so much more. But 54 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:40,760 Speaker 1: first I'm gonna tell you about my week and my 55 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:43,240 Speaker 1: week as well as This podcast is brought to you 56 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:49,040 Speaker 1: by Steel Power equipment. I am actually going to tell 57 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:52,400 Speaker 1: you about what I am going to do this coming Saturday, 58 00:03:52,680 --> 00:04:01,160 Speaker 1: which is marrying my little sister. Not like that. You's 59 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:05,080 Speaker 1: strange people. I just got my paperwork and I am 60 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:09,880 Speaker 1: an officially ordained minister. I'll be conducting the ceremony. The 61 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:13,080 Speaker 1: license cost me a little over fifty bucks, and I'm 62 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:15,880 Speaker 1: gonna do this first one pro bono. So you know 63 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:18,760 Speaker 1: what I'm saying is, if you're looking to get hitched 64 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:21,720 Speaker 1: in the state of Montana, let me know. I'd like 65 00:04:21,760 --> 00:04:25,320 Speaker 1: to recoup my costs on this first one. Marriage is 66 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:32,640 Speaker 1: what winds us together. Also, I suppose I should say congratulations, 67 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:36,560 Speaker 1: baby sister. You were a champion four h chicken show person, 68 00:04:36,839 --> 00:04:41,080 Speaker 1: graduated from college, became a cop. Now you're married. I 69 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:43,520 Speaker 1: love you. I can't wait to see what you do next. 70 00:04:45,839 --> 00:04:48,440 Speaker 1: The other fun thing I have going on is I'm 71 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:51,560 Speaker 1: getting ready for another spear fishing trip, this time to California, 72 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:55,200 Speaker 1: taking the opportunity to restore the first spear gun I 73 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:57,680 Speaker 1: ever got, which is a rife euro that I got 74 00:04:57,720 --> 00:05:00,599 Speaker 1: from a real serious spear fisherman buddy of mine, Mark Healy. 75 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:04,560 Speaker 1: I do not believe the ultra dry Montana weather treated 76 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:07,200 Speaker 1: the teak of the gun too well, so I stripped 77 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:09,840 Speaker 1: it all down, epoxied the cracks, and got it looking 78 00:05:09,839 --> 00:05:12,599 Speaker 1: pretty again. They are a bunch of different kinds of 79 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:15,120 Speaker 1: guns out there. I'm sure a lot of them are great, 80 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:18,760 Speaker 1: but I like these wood ones. They have character and 81 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:22,320 Speaker 1: the rife motto is fish for the future, which I like. 82 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:26,559 Speaker 1: A couple of quick updates. Remember when we talked about 83 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:31,200 Speaker 1: blowing up carcasses with explosives, then we talked about whales. Well. 84 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:34,120 Speaker 1: A listener wrote in with a great YouTube link called 85 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:39,120 Speaker 1: from the Archives, the exploding Whale of Florence, Oregon. Definitely 86 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:43,080 Speaker 1: worth the watch. Only spoiler I'm gonna give you admittedly 87 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:46,240 Speaker 1: my favorite part. A chunk of whale lands on a 88 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:50,159 Speaker 1: guy's brand new car. The car dealership advertises with the 89 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:57,080 Speaker 1: slogan a whale of a deal. And speaking of whales, 90 00:05:57,160 --> 00:06:01,480 Speaker 1: fishermen and Yemen found a dead blow at floating sperm whale, 91 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:04,240 Speaker 1: drug it to shore, cut it open, and harvested the 92 00:06:04,279 --> 00:06:09,880 Speaker 1: ambergriss out of its intestine. Remember, ambergriss is whale vomit, 93 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:13,480 Speaker 1: that same whale vomit that you spray on yourself if 94 00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:18,320 Speaker 1: you have really fancy perfumer cologne. The ambergriss is speculated 95 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:23,080 Speaker 1: to be a protective mucous membrane that develops around all 96 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:27,839 Speaker 1: the hard indigestible parts of cephalopods, octopus and squid, their 97 00:06:27,839 --> 00:06:32,039 Speaker 1: little beaks and sucker teeth and whatnot. That stinky substance 98 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:35,520 Speaker 1: holds the smell of, like your flowers and whatever else 99 00:06:35,520 --> 00:06:40,240 Speaker 1: cologne is supposed to smell like. These destitute Humaney fishermen 100 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:43,360 Speaker 1: were able to find a buyer and sell their whale 101 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:49,799 Speaker 1: vomit for one point five million dollars. Next up, illegal 102 00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:54,040 Speaker 1: possession of wildlife was not defined properly by yours truly. 103 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:58,279 Speaker 1: In the state of Montana, possession of wildlife does not 104 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:03,000 Speaker 1: start when it is in physical possession. Possession starts when 105 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:06,440 Speaker 1: that animal has been taken away from the public. So 106 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:09,720 Speaker 1: illegal possession of wildlife could be as soon as a 107 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:13,640 Speaker 1: bullet or arrow takes the animals life. Or let's say 108 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:16,920 Speaker 1: you somehow managed to fencer corral and animal in a 109 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:20,000 Speaker 1: way that prevents the animal from returning to the wild, 110 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:23,240 Speaker 1: but you aren't in physical possession of it. Technically, that 111 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:28,720 Speaker 1: would also count as illegal possession of wildlife. Next correction, 112 00:07:29,520 --> 00:07:34,680 Speaker 1: Netflix and chelation therapy is much better sounding than netflix 113 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:39,680 Speaker 1: and klation therapy. But for the record, c h e 114 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:44,520 Speaker 1: L is pronounced like key when you're saying collation therapy, 115 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:47,600 Speaker 1: which is c h E L A t I O N. 116 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:51,400 Speaker 1: Remember that is the therapy that you go through to 117 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:55,520 Speaker 1: remove heavy metals out of your bloodstream. Moving on to 118 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:59,960 Speaker 1: the crime desk, the long arm of the Lacy Act 119 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:03,880 Speaker 1: recently squeezed Florida keys angler Henry Danzig, who was caught 120 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:06,680 Speaker 1: last made by the U. S. Coast Guard returning from 121 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:10,440 Speaker 1: k Stile Bank in Bahamian waters with five hundred pounds 122 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:14,600 Speaker 1: of fish in his boat and zero Bahamas fishing permits. Relax, 123 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:18,360 Speaker 1: this is not Glenn Danzig, the crooner and frontman of 124 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:21,880 Speaker 1: the metal band Danzig. However, Henry could have been crying 125 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:27,080 Speaker 1: mother had he not cut a sweet deal. The fifty 126 00:08:27,160 --> 00:08:30,120 Speaker 1: six year old was known for stocking a fridge open 127 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:33,000 Speaker 1: to the local community with fish and for selling low 128 00:08:33,040 --> 00:08:37,480 Speaker 1: priced seafood meals at a diner he co owns. Unfortunately, 129 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:41,600 Speaker 1: selling wildcot fish without a commercial license is illegal, no 130 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:44,160 Speaker 1: matter how little you charge for them at the diner. 131 00:08:44,960 --> 00:08:47,960 Speaker 1: Danzig pled guilty to violations of the Lacy Act and 132 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:52,120 Speaker 1: taking fish without proper Bahamas documents. In his plea deal, 133 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:55,400 Speaker 1: Danzig offered to buy the Bahamas a thirty foot two 134 00:08:55,520 --> 00:08:58,920 Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollar contender tournament fishing boat to be used 135 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:02,160 Speaker 1: by the Bahamaanian Coast Guard to track down folks just 136 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:05,839 Speaker 1: like Danzig, who was fishing illegally in just this kind 137 00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:08,760 Speaker 1: of boat. In light of this kind of offer and 138 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:12,800 Speaker 1: taking into account his generosity with local hungry people, Danzig 139 00:09:12,840 --> 00:09:15,360 Speaker 1: is getting off with no jail time and a year 140 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:18,959 Speaker 1: of probation. The case Al Bank area where Danzig was 141 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:23,600 Speaker 1: caught is notorious for illegal fishing activities and Cuban refugees. 142 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:27,599 Speaker 1: Although Casal Bank is in waters belonging to the Bahamas, 143 00:09:27,640 --> 00:09:30,160 Speaker 1: it would actually take only a third of the time 144 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:33,520 Speaker 1: to get to Cuba, as it would inhabited dry land 145 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:37,440 Speaker 1: on the Bahamas. According to report by the Bahamas Lobsters 146 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:40,920 Speaker 1: Fisheries Improvement Project, of the twelve and a half million 147 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:46,040 Speaker 1: lobsters harvested from Bahamaanian waters, thirty or four point three 148 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:50,160 Speaker 1: million lobsters are taken by poachers. Similar poaching effects of 149 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:54,320 Speaker 1: populations of conk, grouper, snapper, and other finfish like the 150 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:59,400 Speaker 1: species Danzig was caught with moving on to the Pacific Northwest. 151 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:04,160 Speaker 1: Animals are not the only living things being poached these days. 152 00:10:04,559 --> 00:10:07,599 Speaker 1: The cost of lumber and firewood has more than quintupled 153 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:09,720 Speaker 1: in the past year, and that has led to a 154 00:10:09,880 --> 00:10:13,240 Speaker 1: rash of tree poaching in the forests of central Vancouver Island. 155 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:16,240 Speaker 1: At least a hundred dug fur cedars and maples have 156 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:19,880 Speaker 1: been cut down in North Cowitchen's twelve thousand acre Municipal 157 00:10:19,920 --> 00:10:23,320 Speaker 1: Forest Reserve since January, and many more have been taken 158 00:10:23,320 --> 00:10:26,640 Speaker 1: from private land surrounding the reserve. Some of the poachers 159 00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:29,520 Speaker 1: have attempted to hide evidence of their crimes by covering 160 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:32,080 Speaker 1: stumps with moss and dirt, but at least one thief 161 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:34,920 Speaker 1: thumbed his or her nose of authorities by carving a 162 00:10:34,960 --> 00:10:37,800 Speaker 1: face into a tree stump that looks oddly enough, like 163 00:10:37,880 --> 00:10:42,480 Speaker 1: a very ticked off lorax. You remember the doctor Seus's character, 164 00:10:43,040 --> 00:10:45,600 Speaker 1: I am the Lorax who speaks for the trees which 165 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:48,240 Speaker 1: you seem to be chopping as fast as you please. 166 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:52,000 Speaker 1: That guy, this story is a bigger deal than just 167 00:10:52,040 --> 00:10:55,520 Speaker 1: a few pretty trees going missing. Doug fur in particular, 168 00:10:55,600 --> 00:10:59,680 Speaker 1: a keystone species for this particular forest ecosystem that's still 169 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:03,680 Speaker 1: covering from decades of intensive logging. It's an ecosystem made 170 00:11:03,679 --> 00:11:06,400 Speaker 1: more vulnerable by the dry debris that is built up 171 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:09,560 Speaker 1: on the forest floor due to suppression of natural forest fires. 172 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:13,480 Speaker 1: This makes high intensity forest fires more likely, especially given 173 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:16,600 Speaker 1: the drought conditions in the area over the last several years. 174 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:20,160 Speaker 1: One missing doug fur can cause some havoc as the 175 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:22,880 Speaker 1: whole in the canopy allows full sunlight to reach the 176 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:26,760 Speaker 1: forest floor, causing invasives like English ivy, scotch broom him 177 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:30,920 Speaker 1: awayan BlackBerry and Eurasian spurge laurel to choke out native 178 00:11:30,920 --> 00:11:34,560 Speaker 1: flora that aren't adapted to the sudden exposure. These trees 179 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:37,880 Speaker 1: are also host to thousands of animal species. At the 180 00:11:37,920 --> 00:11:40,480 Speaker 1: small end of the scale, there are around four hundred 181 00:11:40,520 --> 00:11:43,920 Speaker 1: kinds of insect living in the Vancouver Forest canopy, one 182 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:46,440 Speaker 1: hundred of which are found nowhere else in the world. 183 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:50,000 Speaker 1: Fifty of those insects species were unknown to science until 184 00:11:50,040 --> 00:11:53,080 Speaker 1: the nineties. At the other end of the animal size scale, 185 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:55,760 Speaker 1: doug fur the tree and choice for bald eagles who 186 00:11:55,840 --> 00:11:58,920 Speaker 1: need particularly stout branches to hold their nests, which can 187 00:11:58,920 --> 00:12:02,520 Speaker 1: weigh up to one metric ton and at the largest scale, 188 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:05,960 Speaker 1: these forests are essential for the climate of the entire 189 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:09,720 Speaker 1: Vancouver area. The dense trees on the mountains of Vancouver 190 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:13,800 Speaker 1: Island and the Olympic Peninsula create a quote rain shadow 191 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:18,400 Speaker 1: that shields the region from incoming weather that creates the dry, 192 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:21,120 Speaker 1: mild conditions that makes Vancouver a place you can get 193 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:25,719 Speaker 1: a sun tan while Seattle stays saturated with rain. Responsible 194 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:30,200 Speaker 1: timber harvest is a science. Forestry is a science. It 195 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:33,480 Speaker 1: is possible to take timber from the landscape and create 196 00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:37,439 Speaker 1: a benefit to the landscape while we enjoy the benefits 197 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:40,560 Speaker 1: of the natural resource. You can harvest and mill your 198 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:43,200 Speaker 1: own timber. I think that is very cool. In fact, 199 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:46,880 Speaker 1: just do it in the appropriate places. If you do 200 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:50,120 Speaker 1: not own and know how to responsibly operate a steel 201 00:12:50,160 --> 00:12:53,640 Speaker 1: electric or gas power chainsaw, and like many of us, 202 00:12:53,880 --> 00:12:57,679 Speaker 1: are timber purchasers instead of harvesters, be sure you know 203 00:12:57,840 --> 00:13:01,480 Speaker 1: where your timber is coming from. Remember what the Lorax says, 204 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:05,200 Speaker 1: Unless someone like you who cares a whole awful lot, 205 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:14,640 Speaker 1: nothing is going to get better. It's not lots happening 206 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:16,920 Speaker 1: at the Bear Encounters Desk has the weather warms up 207 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:20,400 Speaker 1: and people get back outdoors. Thirty nine year old Lacey 208 00:13:20,520 --> 00:13:23,760 Speaker 1: Malavolta was killed by a black bear on April while 209 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:27,319 Speaker 1: walking your dogs near her home and Durango, Colorado. Colorado 210 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:30,480 Speaker 1: Parks and Wildlife issued a statement saying that officers quote 211 00:13:30,679 --> 00:13:34,600 Speaker 1: observed signs of consumption on the body. As a result, 212 00:13:34,679 --> 00:13:37,160 Speaker 1: a sow and two cubs in the area were euthanized, 213 00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:39,880 Speaker 1: and an autopsy of the bears found human remains in 214 00:13:39,920 --> 00:13:42,040 Speaker 1: the stomach of the sow and one of the cubs. 215 00:13:42,640 --> 00:13:45,439 Speaker 1: You have likely heard before that black bear attacks are 216 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:49,280 Speaker 1: extremely rare and quite different from grizz or brown bear attacks. 217 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:53,000 Speaker 1: Grizzlies are known to be more aggressive, whereas black bears 218 00:13:53,040 --> 00:13:56,719 Speaker 1: tend to avoid people. Grizzlies usually attack in defensive cubs, 219 00:13:56,760 --> 00:13:59,280 Speaker 1: and so if your pepper spray isn't handy, it's a 220 00:13:59,280 --> 00:14:02,360 Speaker 1: better idea to cover up and go limp and wait 221 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:05,520 Speaker 1: for the bear to call off the attack. If black 222 00:14:05,559 --> 00:14:09,280 Speaker 1: bears attack, they are intent on eating you, as in 223 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:13,120 Speaker 1: this recent incident and Durango, so you should fight like hell. 224 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:17,600 Speaker 1: Those differences stem from significant genetic divergences, and the two 225 00:14:17,640 --> 00:14:21,280 Speaker 1: species black and brown bears split from a common ancestor 226 00:14:21,320 --> 00:14:23,760 Speaker 1: more than five million years ago, and the two are 227 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:27,560 Speaker 1: distinct enough that they can't enter breed. In fact, black 228 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:30,680 Speaker 1: bearris have existed apart from brown bears for most of 229 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:34,160 Speaker 1: their history. While the brown bear remained in Asia, black 230 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:36,320 Speaker 1: bear shared what is now the Lower forty eight with 231 00:14:36,360 --> 00:14:39,840 Speaker 1: a short faced bear, the Florida spectacled bear, for several 232 00:14:39,880 --> 00:14:44,200 Speaker 1: thousand years, but after those other two species went extinct 233 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:48,200 Speaker 1: about ten thousand years ago, Ursus americanas the black bear, 234 00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:51,120 Speaker 1: had the place to themselves for a few thousand years 235 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:54,520 Speaker 1: until the grizzly migrated down from Alaska and the Yukon 236 00:14:55,600 --> 00:14:58,800 Speaker 1: side thoughts here how we choose to deal with bears 237 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:02,480 Speaker 1: involved in conf licked is an interesting thing. Bears that 238 00:15:02,560 --> 00:15:06,360 Speaker 1: wander into a garage can be hazed away or relocated. 239 00:15:06,760 --> 00:15:08,960 Speaker 1: Bears that dig in the dumpster and cause a mess 240 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:12,600 Speaker 1: repeatedly or destroyed too many bird feeders can be killed. 241 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:15,840 Speaker 1: If a bear scratches up a human while defending young 242 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:19,160 Speaker 1: or a food pile and a natural setting, that bear 243 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:22,960 Speaker 1: can be hazed away or relocated. If a bear in 244 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:25,800 Speaker 1: a natural setting scratches up a human who succumbs to 245 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:29,480 Speaker 1: their wounds and dies, that bear, if found to have 246 00:15:29,640 --> 00:15:33,480 Speaker 1: not eaten or predated upon the human, but was defending 247 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:37,480 Speaker 1: itself or behaving in a non predatory way, can be 248 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:41,240 Speaker 1: left alone or hazed away or relocated. However, if a 249 00:15:41,280 --> 00:15:43,960 Speaker 1: bear is found to have eaten even a mouthful of 250 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:48,520 Speaker 1: human in that same natural setting, it has killed, presumably 251 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:50,680 Speaker 1: out of fear that a bear will get a taste 252 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:57,120 Speaker 1: for backpacker. Conflict plus reward equals more conflict. But back 253 00:15:57,160 --> 00:16:01,160 Speaker 1: to our bear conflict round up. A pair of fatal 254 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:04,560 Speaker 1: grizzly run ins recently took place in Alberta, Canada. The 255 00:16:04,640 --> 00:16:07,520 Speaker 1: incidents were separated by just three weeks in less than 256 00:16:07,520 --> 00:16:11,080 Speaker 1: fifteen miles. On May fourth, fifty nine year old David 257 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:14,480 Speaker 1: Lertzman didn't return from an afternoon run along the White 258 00:16:14,480 --> 00:16:18,400 Speaker 1: Horus Creek northwest of Calgary, and authorities found his body 259 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:21,480 Speaker 1: the next day along the nearby Moss Trail. According to 260 00:16:21,520 --> 00:16:25,000 Speaker 1: Alberta Fishing Wildlife, Lertsman had been charged from behind and 261 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:28,840 Speaker 1: was eventually pushed over an embankment almost a thousand feet high. 262 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:31,560 Speaker 1: That could be why his wife passed the spot of 263 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:34,880 Speaker 1: the attack while searching for him, without realizing anything had 264 00:16:34,920 --> 00:16:39,080 Speaker 1: happened there. Lertsman was a very popular professor of environmental 265 00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:42,720 Speaker 1: management at the University of Calgary who co led courses 266 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:47,040 Speaker 1: with airy Indigenous people and ran wilderness skills retreats. He 267 00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:49,720 Speaker 1: was scheduled to teach another retreat the week after he 268 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:53,280 Speaker 1: was killed. Local authorities determined that the attack was by 269 00:16:53,280 --> 00:16:56,000 Speaker 1: a single female bear, and so it seems safe to 270 00:16:56,000 --> 00:17:00,120 Speaker 1: say that this was a very experienced outdoorsman who unwittingly 271 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:03,160 Speaker 1: got too close to a style with cubs, rather than 272 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:05,439 Speaker 1: someone walking up to a bear with a cell phone 273 00:17:05,600 --> 00:17:09,000 Speaker 1: trying to get that selfie. The policy of Alberta Fishing 274 00:17:09,040 --> 00:17:11,960 Speaker 1: Wildlife is to euthanize any bear who kills a person, 275 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:15,160 Speaker 1: and so officials closed the area and set up monitoring 276 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:18,240 Speaker 1: stations to try to locate and capture the bear. After 277 00:17:18,280 --> 00:17:20,639 Speaker 1: two and a half weeks with no sign of bear activity, 278 00:17:20,760 --> 00:17:23,520 Speaker 1: the traps were removed again for fear that other predators 279 00:17:23,600 --> 00:17:27,800 Speaker 1: might be caught. Then, on May sixty eight year old 280 00:17:27,840 --> 00:17:30,800 Speaker 1: woman was killed while walking her dogs on private property 281 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:34,280 Speaker 1: in nearby Water Valley. It also seems that this incident 282 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:37,840 Speaker 1: was a mother defending cubs, and fifteen miles is definitely 283 00:17:37,880 --> 00:17:40,359 Speaker 1: close enough to wonder if it was the same bear, 284 00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:44,320 Speaker 1: but Wildlife officers believe that this distance may be too 285 00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:47,720 Speaker 1: far for a style with small cubs. DNA samples are 286 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:51,240 Speaker 1: being analyzed now to determine whether one grizzly was responsible 287 00:17:51,280 --> 00:17:56,400 Speaker 1: for both attacks. Back state, side bear human around ends 288 00:17:56,440 --> 00:18:00,639 Speaker 1: inside Yellowstone Parker. Picking up again. On May, a hiker 289 00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:03,640 Speaker 1: was mauled near Mammoth Hot Springs, just south of Montana 290 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:07,879 Speaker 1: Wyoming border. Thankfully, this run in wasn't fatal. The thirty 291 00:18:07,960 --> 00:18:10,879 Speaker 1: nine year old male was hospitalized with severe injuries to 292 00:18:10,960 --> 00:18:12,639 Speaker 1: his legs, but he was able to get out of 293 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:15,919 Speaker 1: the woods under his own power. Authorities believed two bears 294 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:18,800 Speaker 1: were involved in this particular attack, which, as someone who 295 00:18:18,840 --> 00:18:21,200 Speaker 1: has looked down the barrel of a single bear approaching 296 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:25,480 Speaker 1: at high speed, I find absolutely terrifying. Two bears this 297 00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:28,359 Speaker 1: time of year could mean that they're freshly weaned, not 298 00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:30,960 Speaker 1: head kids out on their own for the first time, 299 00:18:31,280 --> 00:18:34,760 Speaker 1: trying to remember what mom taught them, but largely figuring 300 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:37,960 Speaker 1: out things on their own, or one as a sow 301 00:18:38,040 --> 00:18:41,280 Speaker 1: and the other boar. It is grizzly love making season, 302 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:44,160 Speaker 1: after all, and they only get the opportunity once a year, 303 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:49,560 Speaker 1: making them understandably irritable. That being said. A male grizzly 304 00:18:49,880 --> 00:18:54,440 Speaker 1: charged six different vehicles inside the park last week. Reportedly, 305 00:18:54,720 --> 00:18:57,639 Speaker 1: as the sow he was chasing would cross a road, 306 00:18:57,880 --> 00:19:01,879 Speaker 1: vehicles would stop to take his picture, impeding his progress 307 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:05,680 Speaker 1: in seducing his mate. The irritable boar would then take 308 00:19:05,720 --> 00:19:10,040 Speaker 1: his frustrations out on the stopped vehicles. No damage reported, 309 00:19:10,119 --> 00:19:12,439 Speaker 1: but a park ranger who was attempting to move the 310 00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:16,679 Speaker 1: vehicles along was charged by the boar. The ranger hazed 311 00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:20,000 Speaker 1: the bear with non lethal rounds from a shotgun, all 312 00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:22,919 Speaker 1: because you just can't give the bear a little space. 313 00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:28,199 Speaker 1: On May Tan, a visitor to Yellowstone was caught on 314 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:32,240 Speaker 1: tape approaching three grizzlies while taking pictures with her phone. 315 00:19:32,640 --> 00:19:35,320 Speaker 1: In the video, one of the trio bluff charges her 316 00:19:35,640 --> 00:19:38,520 Speaker 1: and she makes what we'll call a brisk about face 317 00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:42,359 Speaker 1: to get back to safety. The National Parks Investigative Service 318 00:19:42,560 --> 00:19:45,000 Speaker 1: is taking the usual steps of putting out a call 319 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:48,399 Speaker 1: for the identity of this shutter bug, presumably to impose 320 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:52,080 Speaker 1: a penalty for violating the park's guidelines of maintaining a 321 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:57,120 Speaker 1: safe distance from wildlife. The yard guideline for grizzly bears 322 00:19:57,160 --> 00:19:59,520 Speaker 1: has an interesting history that makes it seem like a 323 00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:03,840 Speaker 1: miracle that particular bears haven't killed any humans. The guideline 324 00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:06,880 Speaker 1: was issued two thousand eleven after a bear dubbed six 325 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:09,679 Speaker 1: ten by the inter Agency Grizzly Bear Study Team bluff 326 00:20:09,760 --> 00:20:12,680 Speaker 1: charged tourists twice when they came too close to her 327 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:16,440 Speaker 1: and her cubs in Grand Teton National Park. Grizzly six 328 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:19,120 Speaker 1: ten is the daughter of the even more famous Grizzly 329 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:23,160 Speaker 1: three nine nine, the original air signs social media superstar 330 00:20:23,359 --> 00:20:27,320 Speaker 1: who has more than forty professional photographers following her year round, 331 00:20:27,520 --> 00:20:30,360 Speaker 1: and who has several times led her cubs through gridlocked 332 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:34,280 Speaker 1: park traffic created by visitors desperate to get their own photos. 333 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:37,760 Speaker 1: After three nine appeared with triplets near a park road 334 00:20:37,760 --> 00:20:41,119 Speaker 1: in two thousand seven, the resulting photo went so viral 335 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:44,440 Speaker 1: on Facebook that a volunteer force called the Grand Teton 336 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:47,359 Speaker 1: Wildlife Brigade had to be created to keep a buffer 337 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:50,320 Speaker 1: between her and the hundreds of thousands of tourists who 338 00:20:50,320 --> 00:20:53,920 Speaker 1: flocked to see her. Then, in two thousand eleven, when 339 00:20:53,960 --> 00:20:57,959 Speaker 1: three again had triplets and six ten also had twins 340 00:20:57,960 --> 00:21:00,639 Speaker 1: at the same time, the resulting attention mention was so 341 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:04,760 Speaker 1: intense that the Brigade grew to sixteen full time volunteers. 342 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:08,760 Speaker 1: That brigade does their best against steep odds every year, 343 00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:11,560 Speaker 1: and they don't quit their patrols until snow in the 344 00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:14,600 Speaker 1: park is deep enough that tourists can't access the bears. 345 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:18,480 Speaker 1: The fact that has lived so close to so many 346 00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:23,440 Speaker 1: people for so long without killing anyone seems almost unbelievable, 347 00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:26,800 Speaker 1: especially because three of her offspring have been killed and 348 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:30,639 Speaker 1: encounters with humans, and because certain humans in the area 349 00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:34,440 Speaker 1: seems so intent on putting bears directly in harm's way. 350 00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:37,320 Speaker 1: For instance, I believe I have talked about this before. 351 00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:40,760 Speaker 1: The lady in the Solitude housing development north of Jackson 352 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:43,840 Speaker 1: Hole in October two thousand twenty, she got a visit 353 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:46,760 Speaker 1: from a game warden and a federal special agent after 354 00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:50,760 Speaker 1: she had been feeding bears, including the aforementioned number three 355 00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:54,520 Speaker 1: nine nine grain mixed with molasses out of hollow stumps 356 00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:57,040 Speaker 1: of wood on her back porch brought the bears in. 357 00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:00,480 Speaker 1: That lady's name wasn't disclosed to the press because she 358 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:03,439 Speaker 1: couldn't be charged with any crime. She just said she 359 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:06,159 Speaker 1: intended to feed moose, which is legal in Wyoming, and 360 00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:09,560 Speaker 1: the bears just came over by accident. When the officers 361 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:13,840 Speaker 1: warned her how unsafe this was, she allegedly responded, and 362 00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:16,560 Speaker 1: I'm quoting the Jackson Whole News and Guide here, she 363 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:19,679 Speaker 1: had an aura that both allowed her to communicate with 364 00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:23,080 Speaker 1: animals and also prevented her from being hurt or attacked. 365 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:30,359 Speaker 1: But if she was attacked, she told them she was 366 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:33,720 Speaker 1: okay with being killed. She might be okay with it, 367 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:36,679 Speaker 1: but we know how that ends. For the bear. To 368 00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:39,680 Speaker 1: explain my bear bias, I do not think that bear 369 00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:42,879 Speaker 1: should die for the selfish and stupid acts of people. 370 00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:47,480 Speaker 1: I think bear should be responsibly managed, selectively harvested by 371 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:52,719 Speaker 1: hunters and eaten. They're delicious. That's all I've got for 372 00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:55,399 Speaker 1: you this week. As per usual, please right in to 373 00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:58,600 Speaker 1: ask Cal that's a s k c a L at 374 00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:00,920 Speaker 1: the Meat Eater dot Com and let me know what's 375 00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:03,480 Speaker 1: going on in your neck of the woods. 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