La Crosse, WI- Steven Rinella talks with Doug Duren, the writer Pat Durkin, along with Janis Putelis of the MeatEater crew.

Subjects Discussed: catching muskies and male pattern baldness; hunters as UFO researchers; legalizing deer and hog baiting; Steve’s dying wish; Jim Jarmusch’s masterpiece, Dead Man; hunter harassment and blue laws; fall turkey harvest; new thinking about coyote population dynamics; the business of death; the tax on stupidity; and more.

-Related Links and Notes-

John McPhee’s Basin and Range where he provides a striking metaphor for deep time and how human history relates to it.

A Lost Opportunity: Repeal Hunting Blue Laws a MeatEater Blog post by Brody Henderson

Mysterious lights in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula- (Michigan Technological University: A group of research students at Michigan Tech are examining the mysterious Paulding Light and separating facts from fiction.)

Migratory Bird Flyways of the U.S.– U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service