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Speaker 1: From Mediator's World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is

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Speaker 1: Kel's we can review with Ruyankel Kelly and now here's

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Speaker 1: Kel Fort Keio U s d A. That's the US

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Speaker 1: Department of Agriculture research station located just outside of Miles City, Montana,

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Speaker 1: home of the cowboys and the world famous Bucking Horse

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Speaker 1: sale as a boat ramp into the Yellowstone River, the

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Speaker 1: longest undamned river in the US, and that boat ramp

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Speaker 1: has a history. The Yellowstone is an absolutely amazing river

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Speaker 1: starts all the way up here right next to Bozeman, Montana,

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Speaker 1: home a Meat Eater World headquarters. At its start, it's

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Speaker 1: a phenomenal trout river, and as you descend all the

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Speaker 1: way down by Miles City, there is a crazy bounty

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Speaker 1: of fish fossils, living fossils such as the paddlefish and

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Speaker 1: the sturgeon pallid sturgeons down there, but also like tons

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Speaker 1: of fossils coming out of the river, like mammoths and

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Speaker 1: all sorts of crazy stuff. The point is people want

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Speaker 1: to get to it. This boat ramp used to be

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Speaker 1: frequented by families, anglers, hunters, general recreators until some nothead

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Speaker 1: drove off the road to the river access and tore

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Speaker 1: up an agricultural field. In response, the U. S d

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Speaker 1: A closed off the boat ramp to public access. The

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Speaker 1: public suffered as there is no other public boat launch

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Speaker 1: within any reasonable distance on any sort of good ground

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Speaker 1: to launch a boat. Being as Montana's by and large

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Speaker 1: are resourceful, friendly, and good natured folks when it comes

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Speaker 1: to being outside anyway, group got together came up with

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Speaker 1: a solution based on accountability. To get the access, reopened

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Speaker 1: a gate with a pass code. In order to get

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Speaker 1: the code, you had to provide your license plate number

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Speaker 1: or some sort of you know reference. A dollar amount

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Speaker 1: was figured out for the installation. A loose agreement was

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Speaker 1: formed saying basically, you raised the funds, will reopen the launch.

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Speaker 1: Then the Eastern Montana Chapter of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers

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Speaker 1: went about collecting funds and putting together fundraisers and generally

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Speaker 1: asking all sorts of people from all sorts of walks

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Speaker 1: of life how they felt about this situation and asking

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Speaker 1: them if they could chip in a couple of bucks.

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Speaker 1: The funds were raised. Then, instead of the installation of

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Speaker 1: a gate based on accountability, in the reopening of a

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Speaker 1: freedom loving person's river access the process stopped. Inexplicably, the U.

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Speaker 1: S d A seems to want an old part of

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Speaker 1: people accessing the river, despite public statements to the contrary.

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Speaker 1: Montana Senators Steve Danes and John Tester have both voiced

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Speaker 1: their support for this critical public access project, and just recently,

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Speaker 1: in a letter to Sonny Purdue himself, the Governor of

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Speaker 1: Montana asked the Good Secretary to make this happen again,

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Speaker 1: citing the overwhelming bipartisan support of a Democratic senator, a

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Speaker 1: Republican senator, as well as Montana Fish, wildlife and parks,

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Speaker 1: and even the anglers surrounding the Greater Miles City metropolitan area.

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Speaker 1: So if you can do me a favor, I am

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Speaker 1: leading the show with this call to action. Call Senators

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Speaker 1: Danes and Tester and tell them their job is not

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Speaker 1: done until we get this done. Keep working on behalf

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Speaker 1: of access for all of us. And you can also

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Speaker 1: tell Sonny Purdue and the U. S d A by

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Speaker 1: going to www dot U s d A dot gov

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Speaker 1: forward slash tell Sunny that's s O N N Y.

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Speaker 1: Fill out the form and tell them to get access

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Speaker 1: for all by opening this boat ramp at Fort KYO

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Speaker 1: k e O g h Montana by hunting season. This

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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna tell you what I can. Frankly, way

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Speaker 1: too much happened this week Grizzly bears, fishing, conventional and

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Speaker 1: series Grizzly Bears. I've seen grizzly bears do some wild

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Speaker 1: crazy stuff. I've seen them roll boulders that they dug

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Speaker 1: no big deal. They've charged me several times. I've seen

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Speaker 1: him cross Talas slopes. I've seen him a cross a

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Speaker 1: seen him dig squirrels. I've seen him roll snowballs. I've

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Speaker 1: seen him enjoy life, and I've even hunted him a bunch.

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Speaker 1: I've never snapped cap on one, as we used to say,

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Speaker 1: but man, I appreciate this animal. Recently, as in this week,

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Speaker 1: I joined Idaho Fishing Game Regional biologists and lead grizzly

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Speaker 1: bear biologist Jeremy Nicholson, as well as Chief of Wildlife

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Speaker 1: Toby Boudreau, and a bunch of other great folks to

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Speaker 1: trap and call her grizzly bears for an ongoing grizzly

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Speaker 1: population study. I was really excited for the opportunity to

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Speaker 1: watch this process, talk with the crew, and get a

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Speaker 1: better understanding of what the grizzly story was on Idaho

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Speaker 1: As I am sure everyone knows, this is a hotly

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Speaker 1: contested topic. How many bears are there and how are

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Speaker 1: Just a couple of days ago, a federal court upheld

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Speaker 1: a lower court's decision to keep the grizzly bear on

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Speaker 1: the threatened species list despite a Trump order to US

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Speaker 1: Fish and Wildlife to remove the grizz from the threatened

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Speaker 1: species list. So that's kind of where we are. This

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Speaker 1: is federally managed. But if you recall, as I just said,

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Speaker 1: I was out with the state of Idaho. So how

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Speaker 1: does that work? Well, there are federal grants that help

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Speaker 1: pay for the states of Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho to

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Speaker 1: manage the threatened grizzly bear. Management is a big word

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Speaker 1: in this case. The state biologists, conservation officers, technicians, and

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Speaker 1: volunteers manage grizzly bears by trapping, tracking, releasing, relocating, and

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Speaker 1: recording data lots and lots of data. They manage by

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Speaker 1: coordinating with multiple agencies and nonprofits to educate an ever

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Speaker 1: changing group of people who come to recreate, visit, fish, hunt,

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Speaker 1: manage grizzlies by investigating incidents that may involve a problem bear.

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Speaker 1: This shouldn't be shocking. This is what happens in Montana, Idaho, Wyoming,

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Speaker 1: requires okays from multiple people, but at the end of

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Speaker 1: this factoid is revolting to you, A lot of these

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Speaker 1: Idaho Fish and Game have to do it, or some

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Speaker 1: more revolting. Pick off your trash, pick it up, it up,

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Speaker 1: Then they administer a dissociative anesthetic related to like ketamine,

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Speaker 1: Jeremy's a graduate of Tennessee, so he had a State

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