1 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:13,520 Speaker 1: From Mediator's World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is 2 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:17,479 Speaker 1: Kel's we Can Review with Ryan kel Kelly and now 3 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:22,800 Speaker 1: here's Kel. Fires rage on the West Coast. Currently, there 4 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:26,920 Speaker 1: are forty one thousand, fifty one active fires in the US. 5 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:31,639 Speaker 1: About four point seven million acres have burned, including more 6 00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:36,160 Speaker 1: than thirty five hundred structures. Hurricanes have slammed the Gulf 7 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:41,240 Speaker 1: Coast states Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. But don't 8 00:00:41,240 --> 00:00:44,400 Speaker 1: go thinking the so called flyover states are safe from 9 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:49,120 Speaker 1: the forces of nature. This next display of nature, courtesy 10 00:00:49,159 --> 00:00:54,480 Speaker 1: of the Argus Leader may give you a jolt. Recently, 11 00:00:54,720 --> 00:00:58,880 Speaker 1: thirty hundred residents in Aberdeen, South Dakota, lost power to 12 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:02,920 Speaker 1: an unidentified word dropping a garter snake on a Northwestern 13 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:08,400 Speaker 1: Energy substation. Northwestern Energy had the power restored shortly thereafter. 14 00:01:09,160 --> 00:01:13,880 Speaker 1: You know, positive turn of events. The garter snake, although singed, survived, 15 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:18,680 Speaker 1: which is shocking. The bird or suspect in this case 16 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:23,400 Speaker 1: is not expected to be charged. If that one sizzles you, 17 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:26,760 Speaker 1: maybe you feel like the lack of justice in this 18 00:01:26,840 --> 00:01:31,880 Speaker 1: scenario leads to something fishy. This isn't a totally uncommon occurrence. 19 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:35,400 Speaker 1: In fact, about a year ago as of this recording. Anyway, 20 00:01:35,440 --> 00:01:39,959 Speaker 1: a walleye was dropped on a transformer in North Bay, Ontario, 21 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:44,720 Speaker 1: cutting off power to the town. According to Global News Canada, 22 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:48,960 Speaker 1: North Bay Hydro didn't have to fish long for the 23 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:52,840 Speaker 1: cause of the outage. If you think that raptors dropping 24 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:56,360 Speaker 1: stuff and causing power outages as cool, please go back 25 00:01:56,520 --> 00:02:01,240 Speaker 1: and listen to Col's wee can Review episode eleven, fire Hawks, 26 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:06,680 Speaker 1: ancient worms, and old Yeller. According to a two thousand 27 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:10,480 Speaker 1: fifteen article found in Granite Geek looking at power outages 28 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:14,840 Speaker 1: specifically involving animals, they cite a new Hampshire Rural Electric 29 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:18,840 Speaker 1: co op that averaged fifty six animal related outages a 30 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:23,440 Speaker 1: month nationwide. Squirrels are the top animal for power outages. 31 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:27,200 Speaker 1: Pigeons and pigeon poop are high on the list. According 32 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:31,040 Speaker 1: to the BBC, a vervet monkey once knocked out power 33 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:36,320 Speaker 1: to Kenya. That's an entire country, fifty one point three 34 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:41,120 Speaker 1: million people out of power and the vervet monkey lived. 35 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:45,080 Speaker 1: My personal favorite when it comes to animals and power 36 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:49,080 Speaker 1: outages involves the large Hadron collider in Geneva, Switzerland, and 37 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:54,640 Speaker 1: a weasel. The weasel didn't make it. This week, we've 38 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:58,280 Speaker 1: got the pebble tapes, cave paintings, and not so permafrost. 39 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:02,840 Speaker 1: But first I'm gonna tell you my week. And my 40 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:07,160 Speaker 1: week is sponsored as is this podcast by Steel Power Equipment, 41 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:11,120 Speaker 1: makers of the finest backyard the lumber Yard, tree trunk, tomato, 42 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:14,480 Speaker 1: vine cutting and trimming equipment, and you can find I'm 43 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:18,400 Speaker 1: packing my bags after this podcast and heading for Louisiana. 44 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:21,440 Speaker 1: I won't have my steel chainsaws with me, but I 45 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:25,480 Speaker 1: will have my steel pruning shears for duck blind maintenance 46 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:30,360 Speaker 1: and hopefully fish decoloring. That's bang for your buck or 47 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:35,600 Speaker 1: duck for that matter, of folks. Big announcement, our Meat 48 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:39,840 Speaker 1: ear Land Access initiative is officially a success. Thank you. 49 00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:44,240 Speaker 1: Thank you to everyone who purchased Ranella Patellas campaign merchandise 50 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:48,360 Speaker 1: as well has bought auction items as well as donated 51 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:52,280 Speaker 1: directly to the High Peaks Alliance. Shiloh Pond, the once 52 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:56,280 Speaker 1: private but publicly loved and utilized property in western Maine, 53 00:03:56,680 --> 00:04:00,120 Speaker 1: is now publicly held. At least it's been approved to 54 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:02,800 Speaker 1: be publicly held. We're just gonna say it's a done deal. 55 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:06,880 Speaker 1: So thank you. Through the Meat eater Land Access initiative, 56 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:10,040 Speaker 1: which included the merch In the auction, we raised a 57 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:13,920 Speaker 1: little more than sixty thou dollars, which went directly to 58 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:16,760 Speaker 1: the High Peaks Alliance for the purchase of the property. 59 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:20,600 Speaker 1: That's one thing to remember as we all get frustrated 60 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:25,440 Speaker 1: and depressed, maybe oppressed by election ads and calls and texts. 61 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:30,200 Speaker 1: Bobby Newports never had a real job in his life. 62 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:39,000 Speaker 1: Bobby Newport, Bobby Newport, Bobby Newport, Bobby Newport, Bobby Newport, 63 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:44,560 Speaker 1: Bobby Bobby part right now, we're just wasted time, Jerry. 64 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:49,839 Speaker 1: The Ronella Patelas campaign, even though they're unelected, is following 65 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:53,760 Speaker 1: through with its campaign promises better hunting and fishing for America, 66 00:04:53,839 --> 00:04:56,960 Speaker 1: more access. That's what you'd call a couple of go getters, 67 00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:00,400 Speaker 1: right there, folks. The reason why I'm heading Louisiana it's 68 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:03,360 Speaker 1: for another episode of Col's we can review a visual 69 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:07,960 Speaker 1: one Field Reports, trying to get that fully immersive conservation 70 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:12,760 Speaker 1: experience for everyone. We'll be looking at coastal erosion, saltwater intrusion, 71 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:17,640 Speaker 1: and hopefully eating a lot. Lastly, what folks really care 72 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:21,320 Speaker 1: about the snort report? Thank you for offering that up 73 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:25,240 Speaker 1: I apologize. I cannot remember who wrote that in You'll 74 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:27,120 Speaker 1: have to write me back and remind me who you 75 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:31,159 Speaker 1: are so I can give you due credit. It's cute anyway. 76 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:35,840 Speaker 1: My almost five month old yellow lab Snort came down 77 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:38,880 Speaker 1: with a severely swollen lymph node. She's been on some 78 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:42,280 Speaker 1: antibiotics and I try to make her relax in the 79 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:48,200 Speaker 1: evenings with a warm compress. I am a huge, huge softy. 80 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:52,719 Speaker 1: I said it, so you don't have to. The little 81 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:55,359 Speaker 1: dog is starting to figure out birds. We've been finding 82 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:58,520 Speaker 1: and flushing, but the shots have been hard to come by. 83 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:01,560 Speaker 1: She is a terror on the songbirds that are hanging 84 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:05,039 Speaker 1: out on the ground. Every time she flushes one, she 85 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:08,760 Speaker 1: looks back, engages my level of interest. It's a lot 86 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:15,000 Speaker 1: of fun. Moving on to the anthropology desk, recent analysis 87 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:18,360 Speaker 1: of fingerprints and cave paintings in Spain and France made 88 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:22,320 Speaker 1: between thirteen thousand and seven thousand years ago have revealed 89 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:26,280 Speaker 1: the likely age and sex of the painters, or at 90 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:29,080 Speaker 1: least whoever was around when the paint was still wet. 91 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:33,640 Speaker 1: According to a study in the journal Antiquity, researchers believe 92 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:36,559 Speaker 1: that they have identified the fingerprints of a thirty six 93 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:40,400 Speaker 1: year old male and a ten to sixteen year old female. 94 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:44,200 Speaker 1: Our fingerprints grow and the ridges within them spread out 95 00:06:44,279 --> 00:06:48,640 Speaker 1: at a measurable pace. Cross referencing fingerprints from a current 96 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:51,800 Speaker 1: sample as in like you or I, allow for a 97 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:56,080 Speaker 1: reasonable guess at both age and sex. This study provides 98 00:06:56,080 --> 00:06:59,680 Speaker 1: some insight into who these ancient people's were and possibly 99 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:03,719 Speaker 1: the reasons behind the need to paint. For instance, having 100 00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:06,520 Speaker 1: both a thirty six year old male and a young 101 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:10,080 Speaker 1: female working on the same wall would shake the belief 102 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:14,280 Speaker 1: that painting was a hierarchical practice or reserve for a 103 00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:18,320 Speaker 1: particular gender. In fact, analysis of many of the painted 104 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:21,640 Speaker 1: figures suggest that seventy of the paintings in French and 105 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:26,200 Speaker 1: Spanish rock art were created by female artists, which is interesting. 106 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:30,800 Speaker 1: Think about it. Way back them thirteen thousand years ago, 107 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:36,200 Speaker 1: women and men hunted together, They gathered mollus, They even 108 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:41,160 Speaker 1: painted cave walls. Sounds pretty well rounded to me. Currently, 109 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:45,080 Speaker 1: female licensed hunters in the US are only about ten 110 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:47,840 Speaker 1: percent of all license sales now. To go back to 111 00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:50,120 Speaker 1: the cave walls, if you were to consider the fact 112 00:07:50,240 --> 00:07:53,440 Speaker 1: that seventy of the paintings were done by women, you 113 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:56,360 Speaker 1: could come to the conclusion that the men were out 114 00:07:56,480 --> 00:08:01,440 Speaker 1: hunting so they only had time to contribute to the painting, 115 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:05,400 Speaker 1: or you could come to the conclusion that the women 116 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:09,920 Speaker 1: were so much better at hunting that they had more 117 00:08:09,960 --> 00:08:14,440 Speaker 1: time to paint. Anyway, I think this study, outside of 118 00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:18,120 Speaker 1: the age and gender conclusions, is at least the proof 119 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:21,240 Speaker 1: that anything posted socially, be at a cave wall or 120 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:25,520 Speaker 1: instagram never truly goes away, and you're likely revealing more 121 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:29,960 Speaker 1: than you think you are moving on but actually backwards 122 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:33,400 Speaker 1: in time to our first ever perma frost gritter round up, 123 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:39,480 Speaker 1: round up, maybe misleading. These critters aren't moving fast, they're 124 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:44,600 Speaker 1: frozen after all. Recent discovery from the Siberian perma frost 125 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:48,800 Speaker 1: is a rare one. Actually that's an understatement. It's the 126 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:53,400 Speaker 1: only one. A mummified or perhaps perma frost bitten yet 127 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:57,440 Speaker 1: fully intact cave bear, a lost relative to the modern 128 00:08:57,480 --> 00:09:01,480 Speaker 1: brown bear, was just discovered. Cave bears are so named 129 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:04,680 Speaker 1: because the partial remains of bears that have been discovered 130 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:08,800 Speaker 1: are commonly found in caves. One cave in Romania had 131 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:12,199 Speaker 1: the remains of over a hundred and forty different cave bears, 132 00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:17,079 Speaker 1: and of course cave bear is exactly what people want 133 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:20,680 Speaker 1: to hear. The bulk of the human population isn't gonna 134 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:25,120 Speaker 1: walk through museum door to see the daisy bear or 135 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:30,160 Speaker 1: the savannah bear exhibit. No they're not. They're gonna step 136 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:33,479 Speaker 1: right up, folks. The giant cave bear is on display. 137 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:36,640 Speaker 1: That gets butts through the door, and then they'll learn 138 00:09:36,679 --> 00:09:39,600 Speaker 1: that the cave bear was indeed a big bear, but 139 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:42,400 Speaker 1: not all that much bigger than some of our biggest 140 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:45,680 Speaker 1: bears still roaming the earth. Cave bears are estimated to 141 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:48,280 Speaker 1: have been about eleven and a half feet in length, 142 00:09:48,760 --> 00:09:51,400 Speaker 1: which is a big darn bear. Don't get me wrong, 143 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:56,520 Speaker 1: but you're not exactly gonna think ten foot tall Alaskan 144 00:09:56,520 --> 00:10:00,640 Speaker 1: brown bear is a pushover right now. What makes the 145 00:10:00,679 --> 00:10:04,160 Speaker 1: cave bear really scary is a hypothesis published in the 146 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:08,400 Speaker 1: Journal of Quaternary Science which suggests that they may have 147 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:12,160 Speaker 1: been vegan, as in, they had a plant based diet. 148 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:15,400 Speaker 1: If you have ever been around a vegan at a 149 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:18,800 Speaker 1: social function, you know what I mean. Of course, I 150 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:21,640 Speaker 1: may just be too sensitive. After all, I work at 151 00:10:21,679 --> 00:10:25,760 Speaker 1: a company called meat Eater. This pickiness when it comes 152 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:30,040 Speaker 1: to food is called specialization. The necessity of a large 153 00:10:30,040 --> 00:10:33,800 Speaker 1: animal to fuel itself solely on plants may have been 154 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:37,200 Speaker 1: why the cave bear only lived for relatively short time 155 00:10:37,559 --> 00:10:41,040 Speaker 1: between forty and twenty thousand years ago. In the study 156 00:10:41,120 --> 00:10:45,040 Speaker 1: evidence for herbivorous cave bears, the research team searched for 157 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:48,320 Speaker 1: isotopes within the bones of cave bear samples and came 158 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:52,080 Speaker 1: up with zero evidence of meat consumption. This was a 159 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:54,760 Speaker 1: small sample size, and I'm willing to bet we'll know 160 00:10:54,880 --> 00:10:57,679 Speaker 1: a lot more about cave bear diet when this whole 161 00:10:57,800 --> 00:11:01,200 Speaker 1: frozen bear that was recently discovered gives up its stomach 162 00:11:01,240 --> 00:11:05,400 Speaker 1: contents for the record. To my vegan audience, I think 163 00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:07,960 Speaker 1: you're great, and I truly do not care if you 164 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:11,720 Speaker 1: consume animal products or not. Just you know, don't judge 165 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:14,679 Speaker 1: me on my diet. Moving on to credit number two 166 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:18,720 Speaker 1: in our Permit Frost Critter round up, we have already 167 00:11:18,760 --> 00:11:22,319 Speaker 1: covered the nearly intact wolf pup some call a possible 168 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:25,360 Speaker 1: missing link in the path to the domestication of dogs. 169 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:28,400 Speaker 1: This was taken from the Permit Frost earlier last year. 170 00:11:28,880 --> 00:11:32,440 Speaker 1: Here's an update for you. Recent stomach analysis of the 171 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:36,520 Speaker 1: pub revealed the last meal of this fourteen thousand year 172 00:11:36,559 --> 00:11:40,079 Speaker 1: old possible domestic dog, and I bet you just can't 173 00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:43,680 Speaker 1: guess it. It's a piece of hide complete with hair 174 00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:49,640 Speaker 1: from a wooly rhinoceros. Imagine a modern day rhinoceros with 175 00:11:49,679 --> 00:11:55,760 Speaker 1: a little bit better fashion sense. It's interesting to think 176 00:11:55,800 --> 00:11:59,240 Speaker 1: that this missing link pup was chewing on wooly rhino 177 00:11:59,640 --> 00:12:04,400 Speaker 1: while our upright female ancestors used red ochre to paint 178 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:08,600 Speaker 1: on cave walls after a quick successful hunt. Lord knows 179 00:12:08,640 --> 00:12:12,319 Speaker 1: what the men were doing. These perma frost related findings 180 00:12:12,520 --> 00:12:16,760 Speaker 1: are truly incredible, and yes they will solve riddles that 181 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:20,160 Speaker 1: have recently come up. Couldn't end to some level of 182 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:23,760 Speaker 1: speculation while we come up with more questions surrounding what 183 00:12:23,920 --> 00:12:27,199 Speaker 1: came before us, which is great, it's cool, and to 184 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:30,720 Speaker 1: touch back on our possibly vegan cave bear, it does 185 00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:35,160 Speaker 1: sell tickets or get clicks, but let's not move too quickly. 186 00:12:35,880 --> 00:12:39,559 Speaker 1: The fact that these specimens, these treasure troves of answers 187 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:44,439 Speaker 1: and more questions are being found in not so perma frost, 188 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:48,280 Speaker 1: as in the perma frost is melting. As in, as 189 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:53,040 Speaker 1: the perma frost melts, greenhouse gases that exacerbate climate change 190 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:58,240 Speaker 1: are released Human cause. Climate change is rapidly changing our world, 191 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:01,520 Speaker 1: and as with all things human caused, we need to 192 00:13:01,559 --> 00:13:05,840 Speaker 1: look harder and take more responsibility for finding ways, changing 193 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:10,360 Speaker 1: our ways to help mitigate climate change and the effects thereof. 194 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:14,439 Speaker 1: According to NASA, at the end of the last Ice Age, 195 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:18,840 Speaker 1: the Earth's average temperature was only five to nine degrees 196 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:23,120 Speaker 1: cooler than now. Doesn't sound like a lot, but during 197 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:26,080 Speaker 1: that ice age, when the temperature was just five to 198 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:30,040 Speaker 1: nine degrees cooler on average, a sheet of ice covered 199 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:34,640 Speaker 1: much of North America three thousand feet thick. That ice 200 00:13:34,679 --> 00:13:38,720 Speaker 1: age ended only about twelve thousand years ago. Twelve thousand 201 00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:43,880 Speaker 1: years is nothing in geologic time, but listen to this spread. 202 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:47,800 Speaker 1: The Earth's average temperature will rise two and a half 203 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:50,920 Speaker 1: to ten degrees in the next one years. We had 204 00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:53,439 Speaker 1: a five to nine degree change in a span of 205 00:13:53,480 --> 00:13:57,320 Speaker 1: about twelve thousand years. I'm no accountant, but even I 206 00:13:57,360 --> 00:14:00,760 Speaker 1: can tell that ratio is out of whack. If you're 207 00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:06,320 Speaker 1: familiar with the absolutely fantastic comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall, there 208 00:14:06,400 --> 00:14:09,440 Speaker 1: is a famous singer character All the Snow, played by 209 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:12,840 Speaker 1: Russell Brand. He's got this hit song called We've Got 210 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:18,000 Speaker 1: to Do Something. It's funny. It's I would call it pointless. 211 00:14:18,679 --> 00:14:22,480 Speaker 1: The refrain is we've got to do something over and 212 00:14:22,560 --> 00:14:26,280 Speaker 1: over again. Outside of the refrain, there is, of course, 213 00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:29,720 Speaker 1: not even a vague idea as to how to do something. 214 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:33,720 Speaker 1: I don't want to be that person. The simplest way 215 00:14:33,880 --> 00:14:36,600 Speaker 1: to be involved in issues like this one and a 216 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:41,120 Speaker 1: but jillion others is to vote, and after you do that, 217 00:14:41,680 --> 00:14:47,280 Speaker 1: continue to be an active citizen. Meaning if you vote red, green, 218 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:51,440 Speaker 1: or blue, these folks need to be reminded of how 219 00:14:51,520 --> 00:14:57,400 Speaker 1: to act. Unfortunately constantly. If your vote didn't result in 220 00:14:57,480 --> 00:15:00,480 Speaker 1: your pick winning, then you need to be even more 221 00:15:00,520 --> 00:15:04,800 Speaker 1: active in telling whoever did win what matters to you. 222 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:09,320 Speaker 1: It's very simple, it's a very light lift. I pestor 223 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:12,600 Speaker 1: are elected officials to no end, and the actual writing 224 00:15:12,640 --> 00:15:15,720 Speaker 1: and phone calls and petition signing maybe takes up to 225 00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:19,480 Speaker 1: thirty minutes a month. If we don't tell and continue 226 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:23,160 Speaker 1: to tell our elected officials what is important, somebody else will. 227 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:27,560 Speaker 1: As we move into these inevitably contentious election months, the 228 00:15:27,680 --> 00:15:31,720 Speaker 1: real nitty gritty and results are delivered, the great bang 229 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:36,040 Speaker 1: and the bitching will commence in full swing. Calmly, ask 230 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:40,400 Speaker 1: did you vote? You have the right to participate, you 231 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:44,120 Speaker 1: have the right to not participate, but if your choice 232 00:15:44,160 --> 00:15:48,280 Speaker 1: is to not participate, you also waive the right to complain. 233 00:15:52,560 --> 00:15:56,640 Speaker 1: Moving on to the Alaska Desk, audio and video released 234 00:15:56,720 --> 00:16:01,520 Speaker 1: yesterday by the nonprofit Environmental Investigation Agencies, or the ei 235 00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:05,600 Speaker 1: A show chief executives of the Canadian Pebble Partnership and 236 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:09,520 Speaker 1: its parent Northern Dynasty minerals bragging about their back door 237 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:14,560 Speaker 1: connections to high ranking politicians, directly contradicting public statements and 238 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:18,400 Speaker 1: official permit applications in regard to the size and duration 239 00:16:18,480 --> 00:16:21,840 Speaker 1: of the proposed Pebble mine in southwest Alaska. While the 240 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:25,320 Speaker 1: developers have constantly promised a small mine operating for no 241 00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:28,840 Speaker 1: more than twenty years, including on their Clean Water Act 242 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:34,120 Speaker 1: permit application, to ei A investigators posing as potential investors 243 00:16:34,280 --> 00:16:39,080 Speaker 1: painted a wildly different picture. What they captured were comments 244 00:16:39,160 --> 00:16:43,440 Speaker 1: that directly contradict the testimony submitted to Congress, summed up 245 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:46,920 Speaker 1: as Pebble has no current plans in this application or 246 00:16:46,960 --> 00:16:51,120 Speaker 1: in any other way for expansion, for example. These Pebble 247 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:56,280 Speaker 1: tapes also revealed the Pebble Partnerships previously undisclosed aspirations to 248 00:16:56,400 --> 00:16:59,760 Speaker 1: use the roads and infrastructure built for the Pebble Mine 249 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:04,000 Speaker 1: to establish a massive mining district throughout the Bristol Bay 250 00:17:04,040 --> 00:17:08,760 Speaker 1: region and across western Alaska. The Donlin Mine, an approved 251 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:12,040 Speaker 1: and permitted large scale gold mine to be located on 252 00:17:12,080 --> 00:17:15,720 Speaker 1: the cuska Quim River near Bethel, hundred seventy five miles 253 00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:19,439 Speaker 1: north of the Pebble deposit, could immediately become viable if 254 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:22,760 Speaker 1: they built the road connecting the two mines. Most of 255 00:17:22,760 --> 00:17:27,639 Speaker 1: that land currently exists as untrammeled wilderness, a veritable paradise 256 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:31,560 Speaker 1: for hunters, anglers, and the folks that just plane live 257 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:35,959 Speaker 1: off the land. This development and associated pollution could crush 258 00:17:36,119 --> 00:17:41,120 Speaker 1: the flourishing commercial, recreational, and tribal subsistence salmon fishing economy 259 00:17:41,160 --> 00:17:44,560 Speaker 1: in the region, valued at one point five billion per year. 260 00:17:45,320 --> 00:17:49,000 Speaker 1: Pebble execs were caught bragging to the undercover investigators of 261 00:17:49,040 --> 00:17:53,119 Speaker 1: their cozy relationships with the White House, Alaska Governor Might Dunleavy, 262 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:56,960 Speaker 1: Alaska Senators Murkowski and Sullivan, the Army Corps engineers, and 263 00:17:57,040 --> 00:18:00,200 Speaker 1: EPA regulators, as well as other political appoint he's in 264 00:18:00,240 --> 00:18:03,600 Speaker 1: the Trump administration. Many of these relationships appear to have 265 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:08,040 Speaker 1: been bought with intensive lobbying efforts and massive campaign contributions. 266 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:12,760 Speaker 1: It was implied that the shaky economic ground that Alaska's 267 00:18:12,760 --> 00:18:16,520 Speaker 1: government is built on is in need of the Pebble mind. 268 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:20,320 Speaker 1: The Pebble executives made it clear that they also feel 269 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:25,880 Speaker 1: in control of Alaska's Senate delegates, including Senator Lisa Murkowski, 270 00:18:26,119 --> 00:18:30,480 Speaker 1: chairwoman of the Senate Natural Resources Committee. Despite the confidence 271 00:18:30,480 --> 00:18:33,480 Speaker 1: in their political position and connections to insiders at the 272 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:35,840 Speaker 1: e p A and Army Corps, they seemed a bit 273 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:39,679 Speaker 1: baffled by the inner workings of the Trump administration, especially 274 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:44,560 Speaker 1: their recent dismissal of Pebble's Clean Water Act permit. They are, however, 275 00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:47,760 Speaker 1: confident that the current administration's e p A will not 276 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:51,879 Speaker 1: veto their project. The Pebble Partnership did not reply to 277 00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:55,679 Speaker 1: a request for comment, but spokesperson Might heat Will called 278 00:18:55,760 --> 00:18:59,879 Speaker 1: into question the legality of these surreptitious recordings to the 279 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:03,840 Speaker 1: Anchorage Daily News. He says, unquote, I do not think 280 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:07,000 Speaker 1: that any time an interview from a made up investigative 281 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:10,920 Speaker 1: agency misrepresents who they are when they schedule an interview, 282 00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:14,920 Speaker 1: then secretly tapes the interview without the knowledge of their subject, 283 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:18,119 Speaker 1: and then goes on to obscure their identity after the 284 00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:21,240 Speaker 1: interview is broadcast. You have to know there are some 285 00:19:21,280 --> 00:19:26,159 Speaker 1: pretty questionable ethics at play. I certainly agree with Pebbles 286 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:30,399 Speaker 1: spokesperson Mike heat Will. It is much better when people, 287 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:33,600 Speaker 1: even entities that are made up of groups of people, 288 00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:36,879 Speaker 1: are just straightforward. They can look you in the eye 289 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:39,199 Speaker 1: and tell you who they are, what they're up to, 290 00:19:39,680 --> 00:19:42,880 Speaker 1: what their intentions are. I think that's a great point, Mike. 291 00:19:43,640 --> 00:19:46,640 Speaker 1: Mike goes on to say, we don't know who has 292 00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:49,959 Speaker 1: paid them or who they work for. We certainly intend 293 00:19:49,960 --> 00:19:52,720 Speaker 1: to find out, though, and to determine if any laws 294 00:19:52,720 --> 00:19:57,600 Speaker 1: were broken by this despicable and abusive tactic. I gotta say, 295 00:19:57,800 --> 00:20:03,080 Speaker 1: I like Mike, back door healings, misrepresentation, who is paying 296 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:07,560 Speaker 1: for who are despicable and abusive? You said it, ma'am. 297 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:11,600 Speaker 1: We should go after people like this, especially the groups 298 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:15,400 Speaker 1: of people that make up huge entities. I'm all four 299 00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:22,600 Speaker 1: larger repercussions. We gotta follow this guy's lead executive director 300 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:27,239 Speaker 1: of the Environmental Investigations Agency, Alexander von Bismarck, claims that 301 00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:30,760 Speaker 1: his organization didn't break any laws when they captured the 302 00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:35,680 Speaker 1: videos in August. In September, Northern Dynasty Pebble Partnership CEO 303 00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:39,879 Speaker 1: Tom Collier submitted a letter of resignation, which I gotta 304 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:42,919 Speaker 1: tell you is a bigger deal than you think it is. 305 00:20:43,520 --> 00:20:47,280 Speaker 1: Anyone on Pebble Partnership's team that could stick around long 306 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:52,080 Speaker 1: enough to see this mind happen stood to gain financially 307 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:56,879 Speaker 1: in a major, major way. So if one of the 308 00:20:57,000 --> 00:21:01,120 Speaker 1: largest food resources in the US, clean wall and sustainable 309 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:04,399 Speaker 1: jobs are something you are into, it is time to 310 00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:08,600 Speaker 1: contact your congressional representatives and tell them to get on 311 00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:10,919 Speaker 1: the E p. A. S case and veto the Pebble 312 00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:15,119 Speaker 1: mind proposal. Get ahold of Senators Sullivan and Murkowski and 313 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:17,920 Speaker 1: let them know that the reason you spend money in 314 00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:22,160 Speaker 1: Alaska is for the hunting and fishing. Remember, you can 315 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:26,640 Speaker 1: be pro mine and anti pebble mine. In fact, if 316 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:30,240 Speaker 1: you are pro mine, you should be anti pebble mine, 317 00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:34,480 Speaker 1: as all my buddies working in minds that operate conscientiously 318 00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:38,520 Speaker 1: will tell you their jobs and their reputations are put 319 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:44,520 Speaker 1: at risk with every bad example of mining. Moving on 320 00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:47,880 Speaker 1: to the seldom visited is that a squirrel in your 321 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:53,200 Speaker 1: pants desk to check in on wildlife smuggling. This story 322 00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:56,840 Speaker 1: comes out of Florida, whose chief exports or aircraft engines, 323 00:21:57,040 --> 00:22:00,919 Speaker 1: modems and crazy clickbait crime headlines a k a. The 324 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:05,720 Speaker 1: Florida Man just continues to dominate. What kind of wildlife 325 00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:10,080 Speaker 1: smuggling ring might come out of Florida. You ask gators, turtles, pythons, 326 00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:13,840 Speaker 1: to lapia, well sometimes, but in this case not close. 327 00:22:14,359 --> 00:22:17,240 Speaker 1: It's that great fur ball of the skies, the flying 328 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:21,640 Speaker 1: squirrel Southern flying squirrels are abundant throughout the Eastern US 329 00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:25,120 Speaker 1: and have gained popularity as exotic pets in recent years. 330 00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:27,920 Speaker 1: In the wild, they're important to the ecosystem in which 331 00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:31,240 Speaker 1: they thrive, as they help renew forests by dispersing seeds 332 00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:34,720 Speaker 1: in their feces. So it stands to reason that removing 333 00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:37,240 Speaker 1: a large number of them would never be a good thing, 334 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:40,080 Speaker 1: especially for the raptors and other animals that count on 335 00:22:40,119 --> 00:22:43,760 Speaker 1: them as prey. But that's exactly what happened in Bushnell, Florida. 336 00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:48,800 Speaker 1: Seized financial documents and maps indicate that Rodney Krendal Knox, 337 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:52,320 Speaker 1: the sixties six year old owner of Knox Farms, set 338 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:55,800 Speaker 1: as many as ten thousand squirrel traps across the state 339 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:59,160 Speaker 1: during the past five years in Florida, where again it's 340 00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:02,840 Speaker 1: illegal to these animals from the wild. Knox Farm is 341 00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:06,480 Speaker 1: a licensed breeding business for alligators, turtles, and flying squirrels, 342 00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:09,359 Speaker 1: but he clearly got greedy and is now charged with 343 00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:14,119 Speaker 1: wreck tearing, scheming to defraud, dealing and stolen property and more. 344 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:17,280 Speaker 1: He is in jail awaiting trial and could face up 345 00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:20,960 Speaker 1: to thirty years in prison. Five other men, including three 346 00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:24,600 Speaker 1: who admitted to trapping squirrels and two alleged couriers, were 347 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:29,600 Speaker 1: also arrested under awaiting trial. Seized financial records suggest that 348 00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:33,400 Speaker 1: in recent years, Knox had one primary buyer, a company 349 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:37,880 Speaker 1: called high Am Creative based in South Korea. Between November 350 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:42,639 Speaker 1: twenty two seventeen and April one, High Am Creative paid 351 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:46,439 Speaker 1: Knox two hundred and thirteen thousand, eight hundred dollars for 352 00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:50,200 Speaker 1: more than two thousand flying squirrels. I know what you're 353 00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:53,680 Speaker 1: thinking here, two hundred thirteen thousand, eight hundred dollars for 354 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:59,080 Speaker 1: flying squirrels. That's nuts. How did this operation work? It 355 00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:02,840 Speaker 1: was a seven up journey from Florida to South Korea. 356 00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:05,720 Speaker 1: Trappers would catch Southern flying squirrels in the woods of 357 00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:09,440 Speaker 1: Central Florida. Knox Farm would buy the squirrels, alert South 358 00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:13,080 Speaker 1: Korean buyers that they're available. The buyer would wire pay 359 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:16,359 Speaker 1: send courier to pick them up. A courier would drive 360 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:19,680 Speaker 1: the squirrels to Georgia. A new driver would then take over. 361 00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:23,440 Speaker 1: That driver would bring the squirrels to Illinois, hand them 362 00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:27,399 Speaker 1: over to international pet shipping company. That shipping company would 363 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:32,359 Speaker 1: export squirrels allegedly falsifying paperwork at the buyer's request. The 364 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:36,160 Speaker 1: buyer would receive the animals and allegedly sell them as 365 00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:40,080 Speaker 1: exotic pets. For more on this story, please check out 366 00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:44,480 Speaker 1: nat geo's in depth coverage of this illegal wildlife ran. 367 00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:49,960 Speaker 1: It's an amazing squirrel tale that highlights just how crazy 368 00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:52,880 Speaker 1: the world of animal breeding can get. I don't know 369 00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:57,280 Speaker 1: if we'll ever get a Flying squirrel King documentary on Netflix, 370 00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:01,960 Speaker 1: but I'm officially calling for someone to look into moving 371 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:05,000 Speaker 1: on to the National Parks Desk. This update all the 372 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:09,040 Speaker 1: way from Thailand. I'm assuming you all don't follow Thailand's 373 00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:14,199 Speaker 1: Natural Resources and Environmental Minister Followood sopa arch on Facebook, 374 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:16,680 Speaker 1: but if you do, you were in for a treat. 375 00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:20,480 Speaker 1: Last week, Sopa Arches shared an image of a box 376 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:23,720 Speaker 1: of trash left at a national park, and in one 377 00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:27,520 Speaker 1: of the best turnabout is fair play stories of all time, 378 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:31,080 Speaker 1: the box was prepared to send back to its original 379 00:25:31,119 --> 00:25:34,760 Speaker 1: owners along with a note that said you forgot something 380 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:38,560 Speaker 1: at cow Yai National Park. The box was filled with 381 00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:42,960 Speaker 1: empty plastic water bottles, potato chip bags, energy drink cans, 382 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:46,439 Speaker 1: and a variety of other treasures available at your local 383 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:50,639 Speaker 1: gas station borrow What later cited two recent examples of 384 00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:54,080 Speaker 1: bad behavior, including the offending group of tourists who left 385 00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:57,600 Speaker 1: garbage in their rented tent at cow Yi and a 386 00:25:57,640 --> 00:26:01,480 Speaker 1: group of allegedly drunken tourists who amped at Namtalk sam 387 00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:05,240 Speaker 1: Lan National Park. The park will be very strict going 388 00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:10,440 Speaker 1: forward with these lawbreakers, including blacklisting anyone who causes damage 389 00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:14,680 Speaker 1: or disruption. The Bangkok Post reports that the actual punishment 390 00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:17,320 Speaker 1: for littering in Thailand can be fines of up to 391 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:21,680 Speaker 1: five hundred thousand bots which is about sixteen thousand US, 392 00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:24,520 Speaker 1: and or be held in jail for up to five years. 393 00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:28,240 Speaker 1: Besides these harsh punishments, the other good news is that 394 00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:31,800 Speaker 1: cow Yuys animal population has been thriving thanks to the 395 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:35,159 Speaker 1: sharp decline of tourists during the pandemic, the park has 396 00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:39,040 Speaker 1: been able to restore itself. A National Park Department veterinarian 397 00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:41,920 Speaker 1: told The New York Times, we are excited to see 398 00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:45,560 Speaker 1: the animals are coming out, more animals, less trash. I 399 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:48,880 Speaker 1: like that balance, as I'm sure you've figured out if 400 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:51,840 Speaker 1: you're a regular listener. Anyway, this story is near and 401 00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:54,600 Speaker 1: dear to my heart. I've spent years trying to think 402 00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:57,199 Speaker 1: of creative ways to not only pick up all the 403 00:26:57,240 --> 00:27:00,480 Speaker 1: trash left and or outdoor public spaces, but to tell 404 00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:04,480 Speaker 1: all the lazy culprits just how much I dislike this stuff. 405 00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:08,400 Speaker 1: I thought about buying a bullhorn and lurking around campgrounds, 406 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:11,320 Speaker 1: getting a hot air balloon to stock unsuspecting litterers, or 407 00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:15,960 Speaker 1: even creating a cartoon featuring Fuzzy to anti trash Grizzly, who, 408 00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:19,159 Speaker 1: unlike Yogi, would leave your food alone, but kick your 409 00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:22,439 Speaker 1: ass if you left behind its plastic rapper. I have 410 00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:27,879 Speaker 1: had it all that aside. Would the US ever consider 411 00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:32,080 Speaker 1: a sixteen thousand dollar fine for littering? And would it hell? 412 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:36,400 Speaker 1: We need to practice common sense and understand that in 413 00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:40,160 Speaker 1: these shared places there can be no room for selfish behavior. 414 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:43,240 Speaker 1: That might threaten the fragile relationship between us and the 415 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:47,239 Speaker 1: land on which we recreate. Anyway, until we get this 416 00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:50,119 Speaker 1: fuzzy project off the ground, we'll have to make do 417 00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:54,600 Speaker 1: with stories like this one. Good on your Thailand. That's 418 00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:57,120 Speaker 1: all I've got for you this week. Thanks for listening. 419 00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:00,080 Speaker 1: As per usual, you can always get a whole with 420 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:03,560 Speaker 1: me at a s k C a L. That's asked 421 00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:06,560 Speaker 1: cal at the meat eater dot com. I want to 422 00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:08,879 Speaker 1: hear what I'm getting right, what I'm getting wrong, and 423 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:11,280 Speaker 1: most importantly, what the heck is going on. And you're 424 00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:13,520 Speaker 1: next to the woods. If you're loving what you're hearing, 425 00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:24,760 Speaker 1: tell a friend or two. I'll talk to you next week.