00:00:09 Speaker 1: From Mediators World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is Kel's we Can review with Ryan cal Kell in now Here's cal If you happen to be a quote selfie seeker, stay out of London's Richmond Park at least during the red deer rut. Amateur photographers and iPhone fanatics alike are finding themselves helplessly drawn to the roar of the red stag. Six hundred red deer live inside the walls of the park, which was built in fifteen twenty nine by Edward the First. Red deer are native to Europe and the fourth largest of the deer species, second only to moose. Males called stags can weigh upwards of five hundred pounds, and females called hinds just under four hundred pounds. The red deer in Richmond Park go into rut, or mating season, between sept Member and November and behave basically like elk do here in the United States. The stags get all puffed up on testosterone and parade around their large, sharp antlers, trying to collect groups of hinds into harems. The stags get highly competitive, posturing and fighting. Several looky lose drawn to the spectacle have been injured, including a London hat maker who was gored in two thousand and eighteen. According to the Wall Street Journal, park rangers are complaining that the tourists and photography crowd are not only putting themselves in danger, but also inhibiting the natural rut behavior. One officer reported a group of sixty photographers surrounding one stag. You mean to tell me that sixty people standing twenty ft from you while you're trying out your courtship behavior could potentially kill the mood. Another photographer reported having seen parents attempt to place their children on top of deer for pictures, including a three year old girl. The photographer says and quote, I had to explain why it was not good idea for their daughter to approach a stag that has pumped up full of testosterone and wants to mate. That's actually good life advice right there. The camera crowd loves this urban spectacle of wildness. One frequent photographer said, quote, it's like being on safari. Last week. There was a massive rush to get behind the cafeteria because there were so many deer there. Sounds just like a proper Safari. I bring this story up so all of our hard working park rangers in places like Yellowstone Glacier in Yosemite know that they aren't alone. Yellowstone Bison haven't cornered the market on straightening out bad tourist behavior. There may be a support group in the making, and you can say it started right here at the Habituated Animal Desk of Cal's weekend Review. This week, we've got the Land and Water Conservation Fund outlaws, pigs, and a few things to set straight. But first I'm gonna tell you about my week. I packed as much into a week as you could possibly try to do. Lots of time on the road the river. I tried out a new spot for deer that included a bit of canoeing. After learning a lesson from the last river trip, I threw my battery powered steel chainsaw on the canoe in case of down trees. The best part, aside from the fact that there were no trees, was that I could PLoP that clean saw right on top of my hunting gear without any worry about it leaking two stroke fuel and oil all over the place because it's battery powered. If you would like to check out one of these highly recommended, scarily powerful chainsaws. Go to www dot steel cal dot com. That's s t I h L c A l dot com. This podcast is powered by steel and you could be too. Yeah. I even cut a bunch of firewood into seek outside titanium stove lengths inside my closed urban garage this weekend. I was warm and the neighbors had no idea what was happening. Uh. You can see the video of that on my Instagram feed at old Cal four oh six. Now, one quick note on the transportation of fire would. You have got to pay attention to what the regulations are in your area. In some areas where you're dealing with moths and beetles and worms and all sorts of critters that live in wood, it is not a good idea to transport would anywhere other areas. You have got to keep your cut firewood within your county, certainly almost always within your state, and it has got to be kiln dried and approved to take it across international borders. All right, Moving on, we got a big, huge announcement here. As you may recall, I found some abnormally heavy bison teeth while out fishing with the folks on a family friends ranch. I was hoping that they may be from something a bit more special than just bison, bison or modern bison, you know, something like an ancient horse or a camel. Well, I just got the official results back and I have in my hand at genuine bison antiquist tooth. That's ice a age bison. These large herbivores roamed North America from eighteen thousand to ten thousand years ago. Wade an estimated thirty five hundred pounds, stood seven and a half feet tall fifteen feet long, with horns that measured three feet from tip to tip, and early humans hunted them on foot. We know this is spear and projectile points have been discovered alongside the remains of bison antiquis. Now for what folks really care about, Jeremiah are Owens or jaire Owens and c M Beta Custom Knives those two Instagram handles. You were the first, as far as I could tell, to guess the correct origin of the tooth on the Instagram post I put up seventeen weeks ago. So right in to ask cal A s K C L at the Meat Eater dot com and I will send you real deal official Cow's week in Review reusable shopping bags or shopping totes bags, whatever you want to call them. You know, nice looking canvas bags available only at the mediator dot com. As I wrote on the website, conservation work never stops, and neither will this bag. You can use it to ditch plastic crap at the grocery store, or as I do to keep my coolers organized on those multi day float trips. You know, lunch one day and one bag and dinner fixings and the other. You get it. The most important part is the Cow's Weekend Review logo will tell everyone that you know a little bit about a lot of stuff. You'll get invited to pub trivia nights, maybe get asked out on a date, and then if you do show up to that pub trivia night, people will fear you. Congrats you two on the big win. Moving on to a few fun housekeeping items. I need to set the record straight on the topic of mining and the possibility of reforming the seventy two Mining Act introduced by Senator Grialva of Arizona. The simple fact is I want us, the American people, to get as much as we can for the disruption of our combined birth rider public lands. I want bad operators to be good operators and held to a high standard that protects the woods, waters and animals that I love so much. Being a consumer of many, many things that are dug up from the ground, I am pro mining as it makes my life so much easier, and I have several friends that are in fact miners. The only thing I have against miners themselves is that they out drink you, then they beat you to the bar tab, something I find very annoying. Now that is all cleared up, listener mail, something we haven't done a long time. You've got mail Jackson rode In about filling a white tailed dough tag. While listening to the podcast, he writes, while most deer would run away, your soothing voice seemed to keep her in front of me long enough for me to squeeze off a shot. While this is it my typical or preferred method of hunting deer, I want to thank you for helping me fill my bonus tag. No problem, Jackson, I'll let you know if this violates any electronic game call laws and rules in your area. Matthew rode In, I'm a Pennsylvania hunter in p A we have a one week October muzzleloader season, which means hunters can use modern inline muzzleloaders, and an additional two week flintlock only season after Christmas. To my knowledge, p A is the only state that has a muzzleloader season and a separate flintlock muzzleloader season. Doing some brief research on the topic in the past, an interesting article said the Pennsylvania flintlock season began the year after the movie Jeremiah Johnson came out because everyone in Pennsylvania wanted to go hunting with a fifty cal Hawking like in the movie. I'm sure that you can skin grize that's as fast as you can find them. I'm sorry to respond, Matthew, that this cannot be the case. As in the absolutely phenomenal movie Jeremiah Johnson, the fifty caliber Hawking was a percussion cap black powder rifle. So you know, no word on why flintlocks or the thing Marty wrote in a minor correction is needed. In a recent Cal's Weekend review, a statement was made stating in African cheetah will never meet an American prong horn antelope. To that statement, I say accept In Texas, Sir, except in Texas. You got me there, Marty. And finally, hot tip from Brian went in the great outdoors while it's cold, I always spray my feet with a right guard anti purse print before I put my socks on. Keeps your feet from sweating while you're trekking out to your destination your vehicle or hiking. Keeps your feet warm all day because they never got wet at the beginning of the day. Somebody should try that one out. Let me know what you think. If there are any female listeners to the show other than the incredible Kimberly Schmidt. Of course you had better get writing in as the fellas are out pacing you in the ask cal inbox. Moving on back to Michigan, the Michigan House voted to it repealed the Dear Baiting Band, so now you can do that legally. In totally unrelated news, alcoholism and Michigan deer biologists hitting all time high. Only one of those things as a joke. And speaking of high, we are jumping over to our European desk. You know that old saying happy as a pig in mud, Well, now in Italy it's happy as a pig on cocaine. Yes, if you've noticed unusually high feral hog activity in Europe, that's because they, as in the hogs, are in fact high and estimated two million wild boar rome Italy, according to Calda rette Brandini, the president of Italy's Farming Association, if you like things like breshudo, hammon and lardo, you'd assume that's a good thing. But if you're an Italian farmer, you actually protest in the streets of Rome over the presence of farrell hogs and their destructive tendencies. In a strange turn of events, the farmers have found a few unlikely allies in a small group of drug dealers who may hate the poor sine snorters even more than the farmers. The dealers a game comprised of three Albanians and one Italian, buried about twenty one thousand, nine hundred and sixty two dollars worth of cocaine and a field in Tuscany, and we're taking two kilow's at a time into the cities to sell. The police overheard the dealers on a phone call discussing the fact that wild boars had dug up their cocaine eaten what they could and then distributed the rest of the white powder around the Valdichiana Valley for free. I assume ingesting cocaine, which is derived from the coca plant, releases high levels of dopamine into the parts of the brain that control pleasure. This build up causes intense energy, happiness, and alertness, but also a loss of appetite. So if you're a farmer, a wild big on cocaine could be a match made in hog Heaven. Moving on and sticking with our criminal activity desk, Detroit lakes Man was sentenced in Becker County District Court for felony first degree controlled substance crime for selling quote meth to a few people. Officers found in possession of Joshua David Moltson forty eight grams of meth, four point to nine grams of heroin, three point six grams of cocaine, fentinyl patches, marijuana plants, and forty eight snapping turtles. I know what you're thinking, typical now. I don't know a lot about drugs, but those amounts sound like a lot to me. I do, however, know for a fact that forty eight snapping turtles is a lot of snapping turtles. The legal possession limit is three in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. Mr Moltson received a sentence of supervised probation for the next thirty years, with his hunting and fishing privileges revoked for three Apparently the misdemeanor fish and game charge of being over the legal possession limit on snapping turtles was dropped in the plea agreement, which sounded strange to me, not having a legal background. I contacted a local attorney here in Bozeman, Montana, Amiss Andrea Collins, to help walk me through this sentence. Sixty five months in prison, stayed for thirty years, twenty five days in jail with credit for twenty five days served, a thousand dollar fine, and one thousand, six d forty five dollars in court fees, which includes four eight and restitution. Basically, according to Ms Collins, are drug dealer owes two thousand, sixty five dollars. I hope the four d eight in restitution goes to fishing game. He serves no time in jail other than time served, but if he screws up at any time during the next thirty years, he will have to fulfill the sixty five months in the clink. Dropping the fish and game charge seems a bit petty, but I'm on the side of the animals here. I just can't help but wonder why so many turtles. I mean, I've heard of drug mules, but never drug turtles. Was this some kind of attempt to make the meth distribution slower and steadier, or maybe he was using them to guard the goods. I don't think i'd try to snatch a fentnel patch out from underneath the beak of a snapping turtle. Moving on to a rare fines desk, I'll admit that when I read this headline, I thought someone discovered a rare, extinct dodo egg floating in the ocean. Spoiler. I was wrong, But never mind that, because what they did find was still very cool. Fifty six ft below the surface of the ocean off the Norwegian coast, a group of divers encountered a rare fine a floating orb of jelly filled with hundreds of thousands of baby squid. The spear was berthed by the ten armed squid or southern short fin squid. While the body of the southern short fin squid is only eight to sixt inches long. At their absolute largest, the jellyball they create and fill with eggs is over three ft in diameter. That's like a candlestick giving birth to a large, obnoxious beach ball. It's an amazing world out there. The ten arms squid can be found just about everywhere the Western Atlantic, Eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean, and the Caribbean. Females can contain an estimated eight hundred thousand eggs in their ovaries, which is a good thing as the ten arm squid is one of the most fished four species in the Atlantic. So now you can give your date some fun reproductive facts the next time you buy calamari. They love that sort of stuff. You can say something like, you know, the squid are sexually dimorphic, and so are we moving on and getting all serious as we are going to our what's happening in d C desk. The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee voted to permanently authorize and fully fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund or l w c F. L w CF was established in nineteen sixty four to help fund projects related to the outdoors, like parks, boat ramps, rightful raines, and ease months to public land and water. Every single state in the US has used l w c F funds. Get up and walk around your community. Chances are you'll find a sign or a placard or the like that says this place is made possible by l w CF funds. The funds, or the f in l w CF come from offshore oil and gas drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf and are distributed through matching grants if the money actually gets appropriated into the fund, which it hasn't for virtually the entire history of l w c F. L w CF has a history of having a large portion of the f for funds diverted away and not being spent on things it was intended for, like national parks, refugees, battlefields, national forest trail systems, and wildlife habitat. So what the F right now? Hop on the web, punch in House Natural Resources Committee, Call your duly elected representative and thank them, yes, say thank you for voting to fund l w CF, and let them know how important that is to you, you know, because you use your local park or just enjoy the thought of it. Then give your other representatives a call and let them know how thankful you are that the House Natural Resources Committee just voted for full funding with a capital F and you just want to let them know how important that is to you, and it better move all the way through then wish them happy holidays. This isn't hard, after all, you've been doing this for thirty episodes. Now you should at least have a staffer on a first name basis. That's all I've got for you this week, Thank you very much, and remember to tell your friends about Cal's weekend review. Shoot me an email and let me know how I'm doing at Ask Cal that's a s k C a L at the Meat Eater dot com and remember to leave me a review by hitting the furthest right hand star wherever podcasts are available to be streamed or downloaded. Talk to you next week.

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