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

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Speaker 1: dot com. Now here's your host, Ryan cal Callahan. The

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Speaker 1: New Jersey black bear season has been derailed internally by

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Speaker 1: people like New Jersey's Governor Phil Murphy, who just doesn't

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Speaker 1: want it to happen. No other reason than that. Although

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Speaker 1: the state Wildlife Agency wrote a black bear management plan

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Speaker 1: and it is still technically legal to hunt black bears,

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Speaker 1: a hunter cannot hunt because the two thousand twenty one

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Speaker 1: black bear Management Plan, instead of being read, signed, and implemented,

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Speaker 1: something that represents a ton of work compiled by state

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Speaker 1: employed staff, was dumped into the round file a k

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Speaker 1: the garbage can, instead of even being read. The Commissioner

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Speaker 1: of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection just didn't

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Speaker 1: sign the document nor read it, the reason being they

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Speaker 1: didn't want a bear hunt. Without assigned management plan, there

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Speaker 1: can be no bear hunt. According to the New Jersey

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Speaker 1: State Supreme Court, despite black bears being present in all

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Speaker 1: twenty one of New Jersey counties, and despite that the

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Speaker 1: only population data has come from the northwest counties, the

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Speaker 1: reason for that being that's where you can hunt or

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Speaker 1: could hunt, black bears. That population was listed as growing,

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Speaker 1: estimated at some three thousand, one hundred and fifty eight bears,

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Speaker 1: which is the third highest this century according to the

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Speaker 1: Division of Fish and Wildlife and according to the New

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Speaker 1: Jersey Herald, in two thousand nine, state residents reported one

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Speaker 1: hundred and sixty nine bear sightings and a year later

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Speaker 1: in reported three hundred forty nine. During the same time,

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Speaker 1: damage and nuisance reports involving black bears increased from one

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Speaker 1: hundred and twenty two. There will be no bear hunt,

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Speaker 1: so let's talk about COVID. One reason that sightings may

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Speaker 1: have increased is that many people were stuck at home.

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Speaker 1: Reduced traffic nationwide led to increased animal traffic nationwide. Conversely,

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Speaker 1: when the masses headed back out on the turnpikes across

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Speaker 1: our nation, animal vehicle collisions increased as well. But what

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Speaker 1: else happened during COVID? Americans were smacked across the nation with,

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Speaker 1: if not actual food insecurity, the real idea of it.

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Speaker 1: They could finally contextualize not having food. Many homes in

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Speaker 1: America were very familiar with the reality of food scarcity

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Speaker 1: and hunger long before COVID, but to middle class America,

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Speaker 1: the usual groceries were not available. The reality of a

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Speaker 1: future where you can't have whatever you want became a

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Speaker 1: real possibility. Hunting and fishing interest boomed because when you

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Speaker 1: know it, that is a way to get food. Bear incidents,

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Speaker 1: ranging from bears being too close to children in the park,

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Speaker 1: grabbing garbage, and breaking and entering spiked across the state

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Speaker 1: of New Jersey. In Bergen County, bear counts increased from

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Speaker 1: twenty to seventy five, Hudson County zero to five, Gloucester

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Speaker 1: County zero to twenty three, Middlesex County one to sixteen,

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Speaker 1: Sussex County to seventy four to five oh four, Passaic

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Speaker 1: County on Warren County. According to the DP Management Plan,

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Speaker 1: hunting is the method of population control four black bears,

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Speaker 1: and black bears are averaging two to three bears per

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Speaker 1: square mile, which is dance kind of like New Jersey's

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Speaker 1: governor well roasted. In the past five years, there have

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Speaker 1: been one thousand bears killed by hunters, and of those,

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Speaker 1: one thousand, five hundred forty seven were killed by bow

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Speaker 1: and arrow. Again that information is from the New Jersey Herald.

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Speaker 1: Great reporting over there, But because a small vocal population

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Speaker 1: within New Jersey and the governor himself, who does not

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Speaker 1: like bear hunting, hunters in New Jersey cannot harvest great

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Speaker 1: free range meat, a renewable resource that grows very well

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Speaker 1: in the Garden state, and the New Jersey Police Department

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Speaker 1: has to be trained in bear conflict mitigation. Now, I've

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Speaker 1: been to New Jersey only a handful of times, but

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Speaker 1: trash cans. For the record, the state of New Jersey

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Speaker 1: reported over eighteen thousand acts of violent crime, one eighteen

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Speaker 1: ten thousand, three hundred and thirty six stolen vehicles in

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Speaker 1: two thousand nineteen for a state of over nine million.

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Speaker 1: Maybe those are acceptable numbers to keep the folks in

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Speaker 1: blue chas saying boo boo. That's the picture as we know.

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Speaker 1: Even though Governor Murphy, who I am sure does not

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Speaker 1: if hunters can't kill them. These bears will be killed

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Speaker 1: all of that stuff out the window. Bears are incredible animals.

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Speaker 1: They should be respected, We should want them in our states,

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Speaker 1: and we should be able to, along the lines of

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Speaker 1: proper management, eat them. Bye bye, Bob. This week we've

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Speaker 1: got crime filter feeders in Alaska. But first I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: tell you about my week. And my week is, you know,

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Speaker 1: full of twists and turns. If you are like many

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Speaker 1: act of reproduction. While you already likely have a lot

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Speaker 1: sexual reproduction of other animals. You googled murder in other news.

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Speaker 1: Heading up to the fish Shack this week, Canna do

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Speaker 1: some angling for halibut, cod, salmon, certain species, but not

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Speaker 1: Alaska this go around, I'm bringing my mother up. If

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Speaker 1: you want to know something really cute, Her mother, my grandmother,

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Speaker 1: in order to hey for any packaging or shipping required

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Speaker 1: to bring Granny back some fish. Grandma used to tell

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Speaker 1: a story about catching a halibut in Alaska, and I

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Speaker 1: think it will be super fun if Mom can pull

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Speaker 1: It has been far too long since I've seen the

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Speaker 1: You'll get a full report on this one. I'm sure

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Speaker 1: it's going to be interesting in other news. And this

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Speaker 1: is one thing I have honestly had a hard time

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Speaker 1: in Wisconsin, Riverstone Kennels. She's been doing some serious bird

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Speaker 1: dog training. The main thing I wanted to happen was

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Speaker 1: There's an old school way of training force fetch where

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Speaker 1: to Josh. But I still feel like yuppy living in Bozeman. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: We're going to make up for all this time, apart

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Speaker 1: forward to a whole lot of Snort report in the

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Speaker 1: For the first time ever, federal investigators have used DNA

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Speaker 1: evidence to solve a case of tree poaching. Richard Crone,

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Speaker 1: research geneticist for the U. S. Forest Service, took samples

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Speaker 1: in Tumwater, Washington in two thousand eight, then compared those

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Speaker 1: samples two stumps of illegally taken big Leaf Maples and

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Speaker 1: That's not to excuse Wilkie and Williams, who still pulled

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Speaker 1: They had developed a system of scouting at night, stripping

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