00:00:09 Speaker 1: From Mediators World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is Col's we can review with Ryan cow callahan. Now here's cal. 00:00:20 Speaker 2: They say revenge is a dish best served cold. But if you are a remote Australian community eating a saltwater crocodile that's been terrorizing your village, I'd recommend heating up your revenge to a safe internal temperature. CNN reports that police in the town of Bullah in Australia's Northern Territory recently shot a giant, twelve foot crocodile they said was a significant risk to the community. Official say the croc had been stalking children and adults, lunging out of the water at people, and eating pet dogs. The crocodile was shot and the Parks and Wildlife Department conducted a quote opportunistic crocodile safety session with the village children. Details on this are scarce, but I imagine it involved walking kids up to the croc and saying something like, look how big this thing is. He could fit your whole class in his belly. Don't go near the water. Ever, to put an even finer point on it, the crocodile was transported into the village and prepared as a feast in the traditional manner. I think these Australians are probably onto something here. It's two bad More nuisance bears aren't turned into hams and grease and eaten at the local block party like this. CROC was thanks to listener Sean Lanahan for sending us that story. This week, we've got very good dogs, shrooms, public land and public access. But first I'm gonna tell you about my week. In my week, went out with a nonprofit organization with a bunch of folks from the Meat Eater off us hike Peak with the Station Foundation the other day, a super cool organization focusing on the bond between active duty military and other kids, so helping with that communication and transition from moms and dads who are out on deployment and then stepping back into family life. It was super fun, super cool, really neat seeing dads being dads out there and have those kids in some challenging situations. As we hiked nine to ten miles and about three thousand vertical feet, I think the youngest was probably a seven or eight and the oldest was probably right in there about fourteen. I think boys and girls it was great, It was cool, very impressed by all those kids. So if you or someone you know could benefit from some structured time with the kid, oh on your return from deployment, or before deployment, or as you're transitioning out into the non military world, check out the station found located right here in Bo's Angelus. Onto the Snort Report with Tony Peterson special draw snort is. I mean, it's hard to say it any other way. She's a total shit right now because we're not doing any training. And then when we do do a little training, so yeah, you know, it's one of these things where like I compartmentalize, which does help. So we have toys, tennis, balls, the chuck it that it's just there for fun. I'm not going to weigh in heavily on discipline things. But then when I get out the bumpers, then it's it's go time. Helping me with this week's snort report is Tony Peterson. Tony is is a super dog dude. So Tony jump in here any anytime you want. But this is where this bite me in butt is. I get those bumpers out and that dog turns into like a full blown fur missile like it's it is a speed. If you did the chuck at whatever dinking around five days a week, on day six, you got the bumper out. You've never seen that dog run fast like, it's just it's an entirely new animal and teeth are flying and it's it's frustrating but mostly frustrating because it's my fault. 00:04:35 Speaker 1: Why is that so frustrating? 00:04:38 Speaker 2: Because you can tell the thinking is not really where it needs to be. 00:04:44 Speaker 1: Right. 00:04:45 Speaker 2: She'll do the things right, but like she'll come back to heel, but she'll come back to heel by starting like a ten foot jump and then twist one eighty in the air and land at your feet. 00:05:00 Speaker 1: Yep. And she comes in off the top rope, yes. 00:05:04 Speaker 2: Exactly exactly, And it just takes takes some The reason that we're in this spot is because we don't have time, and it takes a lot of time to get her chilled out enough to then start thinking about not breaking right hand directions, hand signals. Yeah, hitting like no, the whistle means come when you're ranging on our mindless walks, but that single blast the whistle means sit your ass down and look at me yep, which she knows, but she's choosing not to know. 00:05:47 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean there there are different ways to approach that. I have a I have a pup like that. I have a three year old black lab and she is a worker. She's so fun. But I kind of have to intentionally take the edge off a little bit before we get down to business because it's it's not that she doesn't want to work, it's like she can't handle how exciting it is to be just doing this again. And so and I know some trainers will say there's no excuse, like you should have a handle on that dog no matter what. And I'm like, I don't know, I don't. I don't want to come down on that dog super hard for showing up and really wanting to work. 00:06:28 Speaker 2: And so right, I'm going to shock the shit out of you, right, I don't because you're excited to get to work, right. 00:06:35 Speaker 1: Yeah. So I look at that and I go, is there a way when you have limited time? Because what you're dealing with there is two things. You have a dog with a lot of energy and a lot of drive, But the component we miss a lot of times is how much mental stimulation matters to them. And so like for my pupp this time of year especially, I'll do a lot of water work because that takes the edge off pretty quick. And so we'll we'll I have some places. I'm pretty lucky that to have some parks and stuff with some water there, so I can start her right off, you know, long distance retrieves in the water and give her some of that and then take her out into a soccer field or something. And then it seems like even just you know, five six, seven retrieves in the water just takes that edge off a little bit. And the other thing that they seem to learn is I can see the excitement level. I can see them sort of get it under control if we make it consistent. Because what you what you see with Snort probably with your schedule, is she doesn't know. She doesn't want it to end. You know, it's finally starting again. She's like, I want to do this all the time if you're not hunting. But if they once they kind of start to learn like you're going to do this every day, it sort of seems and maybe I'm just filling in the blanks there, but it sort of seems like they go okay, like I don't need to lose my mind. You know. It's kind of like when you go the first pheasant hunt, grouse hunt, whatever the year. It's always like you're gonna be yelling a little bit, like it's just coming because they're so excited. The situation's wild, right, But two. 00:08:05 Speaker 2: The components come together, Oh, the vest is out, and then there's right, the real shotgun shelves are here and then. 00:08:10 Speaker 1: Right, So you just have to you kind of just have to work with them individually and and pay attention to that mental side because that's you know, you think about the difference between if you had little kids and you wanted to wear them out, you would find something physical for them to do a build this in the yard or whatever, but there would also be like a mental challenge to it. And we don't think about that with dogs. We're like, I'm gonna take out, I'm gonna run my gsp for five miles and it's going to go and sleep for the rest of the day. But if you really want that dog to just settle down, they need to use their brains. Like that's why when you when you talk about teaching a dog the blood trail or track when it's ten years old, that is there's like such a natural component to that, right, But they also get to solve a problem. They love that. It's so good for them, and so we you kind of got to mix those two, you know. 00:09:00 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean there's never going to be a substitute for that schedule conditioning. This is what we do. You get to use your brain like this all the time. But on those just impossible days, do you ever have you set up like a cent trail in the backyard? 00:09:23 Speaker 1: So many, so many of them? 00:09:25 Speaker 2: And does that work to kind of take the edge off. 00:09:27 Speaker 1: So that yes, And the reason you're kind of double dipping with everything, right, like that's a training thing like lining drills or whatever like, but it's also getting them in a new environment so they have to think it through. So you have that comfort level of you know, you're not just going to the soccer field. You're not just going to the yard to toss a you know, chuck it or a bump or whatever. You're putting them in a new environment, which you will when they're hunting, which you will just throughout their life. You'll take them places and then you're asking them, I know, you know, what to do with this thing. I'm asked, like, if I run this scent line or whatever or blind blind retrieves and hand signals, whatever, but now you put it in a new place and they freaking love that. And that's you know, that's one thing we don't think about with dogs is you know, you take a really high drive retriever and it's like that dog will retrieve till it tips over. You could just do the same thing over and over, but they do get bored. 00:10:24 Speaker 2: Oh dude, you know I was telling you like in the I would take when I was teaching her hand signals for the first time, I would go, I would leave her in the truck, go out to the same field every time, place a bunch of dummies out there for blind retrieves. We'd do like a little warm up once I got her out of the truck, and then would start doing these blind casting. After two weeks, she'd get out of the truck and she would go pick up every bumper. 00:10:55 Speaker 1: Right right right, and she'd be like, there's no challenge. 00:10:59 Speaker 2: And the games me bringing these back, So why. 00:11:02 Speaker 1: Yeah, well, And I mean people make that mistake a lot. And when you think about just mixing up the environment with that game, that's that is so important for them because you'll have distractions, You'll you'll have like, there's a lot they got to work through in those situations, besides doing the same thing like you're talking about, but also your relationship with working with them. So you think about doing that blind retrie of drill. You do it the same place every time, maybe the wind kind of flows the same way in that spot most of the time. Maybe you go before work and it's kind of the same conditions over and over. That dog is going to have that dial like there's nothing left to it. 00:11:40 Speaker 2: And they should right right, I mean. 00:11:42 Speaker 1: Right, But you're also you're not learning anything as a trainer, and so you take that situation, you just put it in a new environment. Maybe the grass is taller, maybe off in the distance there's like a softball game or something like some kind of distraction going on, and now that dog struggles a little bit because it can't just go run and grab the ones you've always put out there. Now, not only is that dog going, Okay, I know what he's asking me, and this isn't the same thing, so I have to figure this out, but also you're like, well, did I leave my dog in the wrong way? With the wind, like you're starting to pay attention to those little variables or was I trying to give a hand signal when that dog was not looking at me? Because I'm getting frustrated because they can't find it now. And so as a trainer, you kind of level up doing that, and your relationship with your dog levels way up because you kind of have to learn with them. It's not just a set up test for them. 00:12:35 Speaker 2: No, that's a great takeaways. Yeah, you got to push push yourself into new scenarios too, right right, yeah, absolutely, absolutely, all right, we got to get on with the rest of the news, Tony. Thanks for dropping in. We can look forward to more Tony upcoming. We're going to launch a little something called The Foundations in the near future, so it'll be right here on this feed. Be sure to check that out. And thanks man, Thank you, well, we'll talk to you soon, all right, Moving on to the last seed. Ask A dog in Oregon ran four miles through the woods earlier this month to get help for its owner, who had crashed his truck down a ravine. This story was sent to me by listener Jonathan Slessinger, who knows that we here at Cow's weekend review are always down for a good dog story. The truck driver, a sixty two year old man named Brandon Garrett, was making his way to a campsite in eastern Oregon when he took a curve too fast and rolled his truck over an embankment. He had four dogs in the truck, and they all tumbled with him in that truck to the very bottom. Garrett was so banged up that he had trouble moving, but one of those dogs, a whippet named Blue, was healthy enough to look for help. The New York Times reports that Blue ran nearly four miles with glass in his snout and was able to find the camp site, which they had visited before. Garrett's friends and family had already arrived at the site, and when they saw Blue, they knew something was wrong. They launched a search that went through the night, and Garrett's brother found the truck the next morning. He called Garrett's name, but didn't immediately hear a response. He called nine to one one, and rescuers were eventually able to locate Garrett about one hundred yards from his truck. He was miraculously still alive, and even though he sustained bruises through his body. His worst injury was a broken ankle. Of the four dogs, one had surgery for a broken hip and injured its femur, and another broke its leg in two spots. Blue was apparently okay apart from his glass in the snout, and I hope he's being showered with praise and extra dinner scraps. Whippets looked like a smaller version of a greyhound. They were bred in Victorian England by coal miners who liked to race dogs, but couldn't afford to house the whippet's larger cousin. Those coal miners did their job well. Whippets can run up thirty five miles an hour and are the fastest dog of its size. With that that kind of breeding, four miles probably wasn't much of a sweat for all. Blue. This a bit of a tangent from our regularly scheduled programming, but I discovered something during the course of my research for this Lassie Desk segment that I thought you all should know. You know, the meme Timmy fell down the well. It's been parodied on everything from The Simpsons to the Big Bang Theory, but it never actually happened. The show Lassie ran from nineteen fifty four to nineteen seventy three, and not once did the main character ever fall down a well and have to be saved by a charismatic Collie. There is one episode called the Well, but much to my surprise, little Timmy never falls down it. I have no idea how that idea entered the zeitgeist, but I thought you all should know it's a lie. Moving on to the shroom desk, Missouri, mushroom hunters have recruited into an ambitious project to document every mushroom species in North America. Mushroom foraging has increased in popularity in recent years, and my Cota Labs is hoping to capitalize on the shroom boom to do something science has not yet accomplished. When Europeans came to North America, they often miscategorized native species of mushrooms as their European counterparts. For example, most of the yellow golden chantrails in North America went under a single scientific name. In reality, according to Steve Russell, the founder and president of my Coda Labs, there are probably dozens of different species that were all hidden under one funky European hat. That's why my Coda Labs is turning to good old fashioned crowdsourcing to find and document all these unidentified types of mushrooms. This year, they're partnering with the Missouri Mycological Society to find citizen scientists willing to find and document the mushrooms they see while out in the field. Participants are instructed to download the Eye Naturalist mobile app to document mushrooms and then dry those mushrooms and send them to the Mycota lap. If you're a Missouri hunter who's also interested in shrooms, this is a great opportunity to do a little two for one while in the woods this fall. Visit mycoda dot com for more info and man, if you do this right in, we love our citizen science. Here on the Weekend Review. You'll find mushrooms in the woods, but you also might find them in your local cemetery. Listener Jim Lane recently sent me a link to a product I'm shocked I haven't heard of before. Now Apparently there are companies that sell suits like the kind of suit you wear to funeral laced with my celia. My Celia are the root like structures of a fungus that live in the soil. Mushrooms are the fruiting bodies of my celia that spring up when conditions are right. Anyway, these mushroom suits are being billed as an environmentally friendly way to be buried. My Celia break down the toxins in bacteria that are still living in your body after you die. Normally, these toxins leach out into the ground, but when fitted with your spiffy new mushroom suit, the myceilia colonize your dead body and eat all that nasty stuff before it has a chance to contaminate the soil. At least that's the sales pitch. This burial method has been around for a while, but it really picked up steam in twenty nineteen when actor Luke Perry's daughter revealed he would be buried in a mushroom suit. The former star of Beverly Hills nine point two one Ohm made a name for himself depicting a teenager transitioning from high school to college and into the adult world. It seems appropriate that for this final act he depicted a human transitioning from living person to mushroom food. The real question is if you're a Sophie Perry. Would you eat a mushroom growing out of the top of Dad's grave? M macob and delicious. Whatever the answer might be, I'd advise against mushroom foraging in your local graveyard, even leaving aside the question of respect for the day, not to mention the fact that many mushrooms are poisonous. Remember what I said earlier about mushrooms Soaking up toxins not the best compliment to your hard earned packed out on your back medium rare elk steak. Moving on to the Happy Trails desk, The owners of ranch in central Idaho were rejected by the Supreme Court last week in their bid to close a four and a half mile public trail. All the way back in two thousand and five, the Forest Service paid one point eight million dollars to the ranch's previous owners for an easement that would connect the town of Stanley, Idaho, to Redfish Lake. The lake is located in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area, so it made sense to give locals and tourists an easy way to travel from the town to the lake. The ranch's owners had been informally allowing people to use the dirt path and the easement made sure that activity could continue legally and without interruption. That's right. They started out as just good neighbor and then made a formal good neighbor agreement in the form of an easement. But in twenty sixteen, the saw Tooth Mountain Ranch was sold to a new owner, a fellow named David Boren. Born had made his fortune building a boise finance software company called Clearwater Analytics, and he decided that he didn't want a public trail cutting through his property, which he had already purchased, and in the disclosure of the purchase property that easement that public right of way already existed, so earlier this year, he submitted a petition to the US Supreme Court asking it to hear the case. His lawyers argued, in part that the original easement agreement did not allow a permanent gravel trail to be installed. They asked the Supreme Court to hear the case because lower courts had decided that they'd filed the suit too late. The permanent gravel trail had been announced in twenty fourteen, approved in twenty eighteen, and just opened this year, but Born and his team didn't file a lawsuit until twenty nineteen, which the lower courts said was past the statute of limitations. Now that the Supreme Court has declined to hear the case, those lower court decisions stand and the trail will stay exactly where it is. Thanks to listener Jack Cooska for sending us that story. I got to chime in here too, because we're missing a chunk a good detail here. This dude, fancy fella with a bunch of cash, at one point harassed people using this public easement with his helicopter just to paint the picture. You know, if you love stuff like that, maybe he'll be like, Oh, this boring guy's great. If you don't, you know, think what you will just want to throw that out there. Another story of a con trail versy comes courtesy of listeners Zed Nelson. Residents of Cash Valley, Utah, became concerned when they began to see no trespassing signs pop up along several local trails. A man named Scott Schreiber had recently purchased nine hundred acres that incore raided those trails, which residents had been using for decades to reach the public lands. On the other side. Shreiber not only posted no trespassing signs, he also began cutting his own trails and expanding the existing ones without a permit. He says he plans to use his acreage as hunting grounds. Local residents, including the mayor of Clarkston, were understandably upset. While Schreiber did eventually secure the right permits for his road building, many worried that his activities would cause environmental damage. Clarkston City engineer Scott Archibald told local media that this kind of trail clearing can seriously damage the watershed, but Shreiber never did any kind of environmental assessment before he started clearing. Schreiber's attorney says that he does plan to allow some public access through some of the trails, but he's planning to restrict motorized vehicles and he wants people to ask permission before they enter the property. For their part, it doesn't sound like local residents planned to go along with that state of affairs. A trails committee member told KSL dot com that plans to publish maps showing public paths that still include the trails through Shreiber's property. Boy oh boy. If anybody from the state of Utah wants to write into askcal that's Ascal at themediator dot com. Let us know the legalities of this situation. We'd love to hear it. Moving on to the access desk, speaking of landowners denying public access, listener Mark Wilson wrote in with an on the ground report out of Wyoming. Mark recently returned from a turkey hunting trip to the Cowboy State and he experienced a problem he says is just as significant as the corner crossing issue. He reports that many pieces of public land in the Black Hills are landlocked by tiny pieces of private land. In some of these examples, which he sent me on on x, these public parcels are located just five yards away from a public road. However, those five yards of ditch are owned by private ranchers who Mark claims want exorbitant amounts of money for the privilege of crossing. Mark says he spoke with ranchers who wanted anywhere from two hundred and fifty to thirty five hundred dollars for permission to cross those strips of land to access for a service property. On the other side, some of these landowners told Mark that they actually sell hunts on those parcels of public land and bait the property ahead of time, which by the way, is illegal even in Wyoming. Others claimed that they'd purchase those public parcels when they purchase their ranches, which is a misconception often pushed by sellers and their land agents. I shouldn't say often has reportedly been in the past pushed by sellers and their land agents. Mark also says some of these ranchers told him that they're quick to call fishing game if their property is crossed without their consent. Based on the on X screenshots Mark sent over, I can see why this is frustrating. In some cases, the corner of a piece of public land comes within what looks like just a few yards of a public road. Being so close to a property that might contain turkeys with no way to access would be infuriating. To help us with this issue, I reached out to Dave Wilms of the National Wildlife Federation. Dave is an expert on public land in Wyoming, and you may remember him from our conversation in episode two seventy five. Dave tells me that it's legal for a landowner to charge an access fee to cross even a small strip of private land, and it's also legal to charge a fee for harvesting a bird as a result of the access granted. However, Mark is correct that this is a big deal. There are approximately one point one million acres of landlocked public land in Wyoming, and much of it is locked up in exactly this way. The checkerboard pattern gets a lot of attention due to the corner crossing issue, but these random strips of property are also a big problem. If the corner crossing issue does get resolved and hunters can across a landowner's airspace, I wonder if hunters will think of other creative ways to jump over five yards of private property onto public acres. Maybe a backpack size trampoline, little jetpack, pole, vaults, you know, get creative out there. This is an interesting situation though, because you got to check with the county that you're in. But see how wide the county road easement is. Typically, public land does not stop on the shoulder of the road. It goes beyond check with your county first. Moving on to the d banking desk, a Wyoming decoy company had to temporarily shut down last week after Wells Fargo Merchant Services suspended its ability to process credit card payments. Caleb Rankin set this one in. Prairie Wind Decoys send email to their customers on June twelfth, explaining that Wells Fargo had stopped processing credit cards because the decoy company sells shotgun shells and components on its website. Prairie Wind owner Jim Jones said in the email that the Giant bank had given them no warning before shutting them down on June fifth. He also wasn't shy about letting his customers know how he felt. He wrote, quote, Folks, this has gone too far. Anyone can walk into a wal Mart and buy shotgun shells twenty four hours a day. This is perhaps one of the stupidest policies that I have ever heard. This wouldn't be the first time I financial company went after business for selling guns and AMMO. In twenty eighteen, Bank of America announced it would stop doing business with companies that make and sell AR fifteen style rifles. JP Morgan Chase reportedly pressured the owner of Quick Books to prohibit gun companies from using its accounting software. Since at least twenty eighteen, Goldman Sachs has refused to invest in gun manufactures. I could go on, but you get the idea. Historically, Wells Fargo has shied away from sticking its nose into the constitutional rights of its customers. In twenty eighteen, former CEO Tim Sloan explicitly refused to follow his fellow bankers and crack down on gun makers and sellers. But times of change, and now it looks like Wells Fargo is getting in line with those other anti gun folks. The problem has gotten so bad that earlier this year, sixteen state attorney generals sent a letter to current CEOs Charles Scharf, asking why the bank has been going after gun related companies. They cited an incident from last year in which Wells Fargo abruptly canceled the accounts of a prominent gun dealer in Florida called the wex Gunworks. The bank closed the personal and business bank accounts of owner Brandon Wexler, even though Wexler had a personal account with the bank for twenty five years and a business account for fourteen. But the bank suddenly decided that lending money to a gun store was too risky, and they gave him a month to find a new lender. Businesses that sell guns and ammo have responded to this d banking campaign by moving away from traditional institutions and towards smaller banks that build themselves as gun friendly, but there are also signs that those traditional institutions might be changing course. Bank of America announced earlier this month that it would be reversing its blanket ban on lending to companies that manufacture AR fifteens. They will now consider these loans on a case by case basis, subject to enhanced due diligence. As of this recording, Prairie Winds Decoys is still having trouble taking orders. They say they're trying to get their system back up and running as soon as possible, but right now, the only way to place an order is to call in and use PayPal, as long as the order doesn't include ammunition, since PayPal doesn't allow its services to be used on ammunition purchases. Moving on to the mail bag, listener Jake Warren wrote in and with a great story about why we should speak up if we see something wrong with how our wildlife is managed. Jake lives in the Canadian province of Ontario, where he says they have had a limited elk hunting season since about twenty ten. Unfortunately, the province's elk reintroduction efforts haven't gone to plan, and the animals haven't dispersed as widely as hope. Jake says. The province has eight harvest units, but in most of those units, hunters don't harvest a single animal. In some areas, the elk numbers are so low that hunters never even saw one. Unfortunately, Jake didn't know this when he pulled the cow elk tag in twenty twenty two. He was excited, and he and his friends pre scouted hard, hunted hard for five days, and came up empty. He reports that quote locals laughed at us, explaining that there are actually no elk there at all. They were shocked that they were even sold to tag. Local forestry workers in the local conservation officer had never heard of elk being there either. As you can imagine, Jake was pretty frustrated. When hunters purchased a tag to a specific area, they expect to have at least some opportunity to fill that tag. It doesn't sound like that's the case here, and Jake let the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources know how he felt. To his surprise, the Ministry actually responded. He doesn't say whether they wrote him back, but in the last two years, they haven't issued tags in five of those eight harvest units. If you go to the ministry's website, you'll see that the quota is four elk in units two, five, and six, and zero elk in the other five. Jake likely wasn't the only hunter to expresses frustration, but I have no doubt his comments were taken into account. While it's never ideal to lose hunting opportunities, it doesn't sound like there were any to begin with. Now, thanks to Jake and others who spoke up, no one will be wasting their money and time chasing elk in Ontario, where elk don't live. Thank you so much for listening. Remember to write in to ask c Al that's Askcal at themeaeater dot com and let me know what's going on in your neck of the woods. You know I appreciate thanks again. I'll talk to you next week.