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

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Speaker 1: Kel's we Can Review with Ryan kel Kell and now

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Speaker 1: here's Kel. What do a good moose hunting spot, the

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Speaker 1: United States Supreme Court, sturgeon, and a hovercraft have in common. Well,

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Speaker 1: if you've been paying attention, a man by the name

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Speaker 1: of John Sturgeon took a case questioning the legality of

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Speaker 1: driving his hovercraft up a river to his favorite moose

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Speaker 1: hunting spot, all the way up to the United States

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Speaker 1: Supreme Court and one the ruling was handed down this

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Speaker 1: past March. I'm not sure why this story is popped

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Speaker 1: up and the news recently, but I got several emails

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Speaker 1: on the subject just this week. Here are the facts

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Speaker 1: as I know them. Sturgeon's route to his moose spot

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Speaker 1: takes him through the Yukon Charlie Rivers National Preserve, and

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Speaker 1: he uses a small hovercraft to navigate shallow rivers. This

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Speaker 1: type of access is not provided for under the rules

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Speaker 1: that govern the Yukon Charlie Preserve, but is legal according

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Speaker 1: to the State of Alaska. Very simply and specifically to

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Speaker 1: this issue. You have the State of Alaska on one side,

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Speaker 1: the federally managed Yukon Charlie Preserve on the other, and

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Speaker 1: John Sturgeon in the middle. Now, all some folks need

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Speaker 1: to hear is federal versus anything or anyone, and they

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Speaker 1: get deeply triggered. Federal designations such as wilderness, national parks,

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Speaker 1: and monuments don't actually mean the exact same thing in

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Speaker 1: every place. They're all individuals. For instance, the Frank Church Wilderness,

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Speaker 1: which I should be in right now, was implemented in

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Speaker 1: such a way that the air strips and a few

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Speaker 1: roads even were maintained. This is not the case for

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Speaker 1: the most part, however, in the Bob Marshall Wilderness, President

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Carter created the Yukon Charlie Rivers National Monument December

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Speaker 1: one night by exercising presidential authority under the Antiquities Act.

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Speaker 1: In the monument was converted into a national preserve. Many

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Speaker 1: Alaskans argue that the sheer size and remoteness of their

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Speaker 1: state makes the use of planes, jetboats, snow machines, and yes,

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Speaker 1: even hovercrafts necessary, and those means of travel are much

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Speaker 1: more common than they are just about anywhere else. They

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Speaker 1: contend that context matters, and that travel within Alaska's federal

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Speaker 1: lands should not be regulated as they would be in

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Speaker 1: a preserve run by the National Park Service somewhere in

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Speaker 1: the lower forty eight apparently, though, the Park Service never

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Speaker 1: got this memo, and that's caused a lot of friction

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Speaker 1: over the years, culminating with John Sturgeon taking his case

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Speaker 1: all the way to the Supreme Court. It took twelve

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Speaker 1: years and ultimately one point five million dollars to get

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Speaker 1: the nine oh Supreme Court decision that Congress intended Alaska

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Speaker 1: to be treated differently, and John Sturgeon can once again

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Speaker 1: drave his hovercraft up to Moose Meadows. How we access

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Speaker 1: our lands is a big deal. I have covered it

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Speaker 1: before and I will cover it again as I tend

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Speaker 1: to get a lot of feedback here at ask cal

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Speaker 1: at the Mediator dot com, from corner crossings to electronic

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Speaker 1: motorcycles to ease months. We're not all going to agree

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Speaker 1: on how we are or are not allowed to travel

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Speaker 1: in public land. But as John Sturgeon proved last March,

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Speaker 1: you can change it. You just have to be serious

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Speaker 1: and ultimately selfless. Twelve years of stress and fundraising one

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Speaker 1: point five million in legal fees and giving up of

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Speaker 1: one apparently fantastic moose spot. This week we're covering sulfide

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Speaker 1: or habituated animals and so much more. But first I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna tell you about my week. We as in all

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Speaker 1: of us folks hammering with at our keyboards here in

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Speaker 1: the Meat Eator editorial office, are planning a big end

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Speaker 1: of the year trip to hopefully add some white tail

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Speaker 1: to the freezer. Meal planning is crucial, as everyone knows

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Speaker 1: an army runs on its stomach, and the editorial crew

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Speaker 1: is no different. So a few of us headed east

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Speaker 1: It's just a few wing beats from the Yellowstone River

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Speaker 1: outside of Billings, Montana. The hope was to get enough

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Speaker 1: to turn into pastram or corned meat. I omit the

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Speaker 1: goose associated with corn meat, as in my experience it

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Speaker 1: matters not what protein you put into a corning Brian,

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Speaker 1: it comes out as corned and renders the further classification

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Speaker 1: of its origin unnecessary anyway. Badly, hail damage corn fields

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Speaker 1: plenty of action, as happens from time to time, though

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Speaker 1: to decoy a field with a bunch of broken corn stocks,

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Speaker 1: in short order, and the crew could just walk behind

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Speaker 1: me and pick up the stocks after me. Good time

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Speaker 1: to remind you that this podcast is brought to you

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Speaker 1: by steel Power Equipment. If you like me, enjoy living

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Speaker 1: in a tent hunting deer and elk this time of year.

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Speaker 1: It makes life so nice to have a warm fire

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Speaker 1: to fall asleep next to. So go to steel cow

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Speaker 1: electric chainsaw for the front country. You will love it.

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Speaker 1: I will confidently pack in two batteries for a weekend

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Speaker 1: worth the saw work, and won't hardly put a dent

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Speaker 1: in the charge on the second next order. Business Mark Kenyon,

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Speaker 1: contributor at large here at Meat Eater, is working his

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Speaker 1: hind end off on a big little land project in Michigan.

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Speaker 1: He just got a really nice buck on that ground

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Speaker 1: we call the back forty. After months of work, he

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Speaker 1: finally got it done. Congrats Mark, and congrats on your

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Speaker 1: new book, Buddy, That Wild Country, an epic journey through

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Speaker 1: the past, present, and future of America's public lands. One

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Speaker 1: Amazon reviewer has this to say about Mark's book That

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Speaker 1: Wild Country under the heading trigger warnings, there is an

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Speaker 1: unpleasant ode to hunting. He goes on an unsuccessful bear hunt. Overall,

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Speaker 1: nothing that terribly offended my vegetarian nearly vegan sensibilities, until

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Speaker 1: he murdered a caribou. Also on page seven, a photo

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Speaker 1: near the back depicts the obligatory holding of the dead fish.

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Speaker 1: If that last one offends you, we have confirmed that

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Speaker 1: the fish was not dead. In fact, it was alive

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Speaker 1: and returned safely to a stream. This Amazon reviewer somes

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Speaker 1: things up very nicely in capitalized letters. Bottom line, the

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Speaker 1: author's love affair with the great outdoors is evident throughout.

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Speaker 1: Not only well written, but an exceptionally good book to

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Speaker 1: find in First Reads. Highly recommend. I love this review.

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Speaker 1: These public lands belong to all of us, regardless of

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Speaker 1: who we are, how we feel about hunting, fishing, skiing, motorbiking, hiking,

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Speaker 1: need more opportunities to bring like minded folks who disagree together.

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Speaker 1: Good on you, Mark Kenya for tackling the subject. Alright,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna dig right into the meat and potatoes this week,

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Speaker 1: or more accurately, the beans and bacon, because we're going

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Speaker 1: way back to the eighteen seventy two Mining Act by

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Speaker 1: way of some proposed sulfide minds. But first I need

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Speaker 1: to give a little context. Mining is important. Remember those

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Speaker 1: on requires mind ores and minerals. The same goes for

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Speaker 1: mining is created equal. Sulfide mining is, at a very

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Speaker 1: basic level, the process of removing trace valuable minerals from

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Speaker 1: release sulfuric acid when exposed to just air and water.

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Speaker 1: what they're talking about. That acid is dangerous to ecosystems

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Speaker 1: long and well earned history of degradation and pollution. Not

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Speaker 1: all mind sites, however, present equal environmental threat. Ask any

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Speaker 1: What we don't have are many examples of sulfide minds

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Speaker 1: Fact is, there are just some places too valuable and

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