00:00:09 Speaker 1: From Mediator's World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is Kel's we Can review with Ryan kel Kellen. Now Here's Kel. A man in Kensington, New Hampshire, strangled at coyote to death after it attacked his two year old son. If you listen to last week's episode about the Chicago coyote that attacked and hospitalized a five year old human, you may be thinking another attack. O'really Yes, and it's O'Reilly Ian o'reiley Ian. The father was hiking with his family when he noticed a coyote approaching. The coyote grabbed O'Reilly's son by the hood of his jacket dragged him to the ground. The boy's mother acted quickly and was able to separate the coyote from her son before the boy could be bitten. Ian O'Reilly rushed it between the coyote and his family. He absorbed several aggressive attacks and received bites the arm and chest. When he realized the animal wasn't going to leave, he kicked it in the jaw and pinned it to the ground. He was then able to grab the coyotes snout with one hand and place his other on its windpipe. After a nearly ten minute struggle. O'Reilly managed to kill the kyote. Earlier that morning, to other coyote attacks were reported, likely involving the same animal. The first attack happened in the town of Hampton Falls at eight forty am, when local police received a report of a coyote attacking a vehicle. Then shortly after, at nine am, a woman called the Kensington Police to report that she and her two dogs had been attacked by a coyote. All three were bitten and received rabies treatment. The woman, Pat Lee, sixty two years old, said, I was running behind the dogs to get them in and just as I was here, literally, the coyote bit me in the butt. The New Hampshire Fishing Game is testing the animal for rabies, a probable cause for his kind of behavior. Oh Riley received his first round of rabies treatment immediately after the attack, but has four more remaining. Unfortunately, he's becoming all too familiar with the process. O'Reilly's four year old son was bitten by a rabid raccoon last year. What the heck is going on in New Hampshire. According to the CDC, five thousand animal rabies cases are reported each year, most of them occur in wildlife common hosts or bats, raccoons, skunks, and foxes. Rabies is almost always fatal to humans once symptoms appear. If you're bitten or scratched by a wild animal, you should seek medical attention immediately. Coyotes generally avoid humans, but in some cases they can become aggressive, usually when sick or emaciated. Coyotes, like pigeons, geese, and deer, have adapted to thrive in the wildlife urban interface and are becoming quite common on the fringes of towns and cities, though they are generally a much bigger threat to pets than humans. People living in areas with coyotes should be aware that the animals can occasionally threaten humans, especially small children. Attacks are rare, but if you are attacked, doze O'Reilly did and fight back. This week we've got tar heels, water, elk recreation, and so much more. But first I'm gonna tell you about my week at all sorts of stuff going on. Logistics planning for a big back country ice fishing trip, cooked up some antelope and mule deer shanks for the Super Bowl. I toted it a mule deer quarter to the Northwest Sportsman's Expo in Portland, where Steven Ronella, Daniel Pruett, Sam Longern and myself put on a butchering and cooking demonstration. The mule deer quarter was what someone describe as a true quarter, which means I used my steel battery powered chainsaw who happens to power this podcast to cut down the spine and through the pelvis of the deer. Typically, if one were to pull old the hind quarter off of an animal without a saw, the meat would be separated from the pelvis, that little connective tendon and the ball joint would be cut and the quarter would be removed minus its respective half of pelvis and vertebra. The benefit to a true quarter is the bones will protect the meat that attaches to them from being exposed to dirt or hair and will not dry out as it isn't exposed to air either. The benefit to de boning at the hip joint is it's a better option if you're trying to save weight and don't have a saw. We met lots of great folks there in Portland's and I just want to take a minute or right now to say thank you to everyone who showed up and all of you listen to Cal's we can review. So thanks. We're gonna move into a couple of quick listener emails. I probably shouldn't just call them listener emails, as I bet judging from some of the emails that I get, some of you aren't just listening when you hear some of the stuff that you know I talked about on here. Anyway, here's one. What's your take on bird feeders? I have several and like to watch the chicken, seas, nut hatches, cardinals, juncos, tip mouse's, and many other feathered friends of Pennsylvania. The old lady across the road has enough feeders to feed the entire counties. Foul? Do I need to have a chat with her or myself? Excellent question. Have a buddy named Wally that is a great example of a good bird feeder. We used to go sit in his backyard and watch the birds come into specific feeders throughout the year. This was right on a wildlife corridor with lots of deer, some moose, and black bears, right on the edge of Haley, Idaho. Oh Wally never had an issue, including with outdoor cats, and here's why there was no surplus food. He researched and fed the different varieties of birds their preferred diet, meaning he didn't have a j digging through a whole feeders worth of seed to get to the feed that the bird wanted, which all so means no surplus food laying on the ground for cruising black bears. He hung feeders in areas that the birds would not be ambushed by cats, kept proper separation between feeders so everyone was comfortable and only fed a certain amount every day. As we have hit many times, the danger of feeding wildlife is real. With birds too, Disease transmission like house finch eye disease could take over your feeder. The Auto Bond Society recommends high quality feed feeders specific to the habits of the birds in your area. In cleaning your feeders with a ten percent non chlorinated bleach solution at a bare minimum, like if you're totally lazy in between seasons, preferably you're cleaning them several times a year, Katie writes in letting me Know why wildlife officers will use a taser in lieu of a tranquilizer gun. A taser will briefly incapacitate an animal, such as a buck with its antlers wrapped in a backyard hammock, alling a wildlife officer enough time to free the deer. Tranquilizers run the risk of leaving an animal indefensible upon release while the drugs wear off or outright killing it from the combination of stress and unknown pre existing conditions. Not too shocking when you think about it. Moving on to North Carolina, the tar heel state. North Carolina was at one point one of the world's largest producers of tar, turpentine, pitch, resin, and other such quote naval stores stuff used for building ships. They made that stuff by burning pine logs from North Carolina's famous pine for us until the woods seat hot oil out of the spout. It's thought that the nickname tar heel was first used derisively to refer to the poor folks who had to boil all that tar pitch, but it came to become a source of pride during the Civil War. The first known reference showed up in a rally newspaper quoting a Confederate soldier who claimed he and his North Carolinian compatriots had stood their ground in battle as if they had tar stuck to their heels, while others from a more oily state had retreated. North Carolinians standing their ground actually has a lot to do with the one I want to talk about right now. They have some interesting debates going on regarding public access to waterways and whether to allow hunting on Sundays on public lands. First, stream access. Like several eastern state it's North Carolina's stream access laws date back to when rivers were used primarily as corridors for travel and commerce. Over the years, that formed into a public trust doctrine, and the North Carolina Supreme Court affirmed in that streams that are capable of use by boats are open to the public to boat and wade below the high water mark. Navigable in fact, is how that gets summed up, as in the fact that you can float at means you know it's public. That may seem simple and easy, and it should be, but it isn't. There's plenty of little, tiny trout streams that you couldn't dream of getting a kayak down, even at high water, many of which are roundly considered private. But there are a long list of waterways that are not so straightforward. This issue has come back into the spotlight recently in regard to the Mills River, located near the town of the same name. Crazy coincidence, I know. Mills River is about twenty miles south of Asheville, North Carolina. Back in September, they had a town council meeting regarding a fishing and hunting out fitter who had hung a rope and a no truspassing sign across the river. This particular individual had been also accused of harassing folks who are legally floating and fishing that navigable stream. It sounds like that issue on the Mills River was resolved amicably, but many people believe it speaks to an increasing pattern of conflict over private and public water in the state. Another major flashpoint for this issue is the Chattooga River, where a private sportsman's club has installed cattle yates, fencing, and even razor wire to keep the public off water they view as theirs. There's also a federal restriction on floating upstream of this club closure, which flies directly in the face of state law. It is important to note that the Upper Chattooga is a fifty two mile long federally designated Wild and Scenic River American Whitewater has been in litigation over this paddling ban. It seems like a major proponent of the boating ban on the upper or a number of angling groups. Seems like there's some room to meet in the middle on this one. There are plenty of rivers that do not allow fishing from a boat or regulate fishing and floating days, although that's a moot point if you're round the corner and run into a cattle gate which has concertina wire over the top of it. While the Chachuga situation is not the same as the Mills River situation, the Chattooga access battle has been going since nineteen seventy six, while the people of Mills River figured out their fight as a community and came to a you know, group situation. Way to go Mills River. Either way, it goes to show that these issues will continue to crop up and when the public, land and water users fail to stand their ground. It's easy for a landowner to toss up a no trustpassing sign or paint a tree. It's harder for a citizen to protest what may be an illegal action. That's why it's so important that we stay vigilant. If you're interested in stream access laws and issues, I'd suggest to check out American whitewater and back country hunters and anglers to the group's working the hardest to keep your rivers and lakes open to boating, fishing, hunting, and whatever the heck else you want to do out there. I would also suggest getting involved in North Carolina Trout Unlimited and see what middle ground you can find or you know, calm waters. Perhaps. Though the tar Heel state public landowners seem to be standing up for stream access, I've got to ask if they've been asleep at the switch when it comes to what days they can hunt. Only a couple of years after the name tar Heel entered the public lexicon, North Carolina band hunting on Sundays in eighteen sixty nine. This is what folks call a blue law. Old regulations there were meant to encourage or force church attendance on the Sabbath. That still exists in more states than you might think. Eleven still have some form of ban on Sunday hunting. You may have heard me talk about that prohibition in Pennsylvania. Well after a hundred and fifty years on the books, North Carolinian hunters are Finally doing something about it, a law passed the legislature in two thousand seventeen that opened hunting on Sundays on private land except between nine thirty am and twelve thirty pm, and left the door open for the Game Commission to open public lands in a similar fashion. In the last couple of weeks, the Commission issued a survey to hunters and citizens about their feelings on that topic. About thirty thousand people responded. This will be followed by six public forums. Nothing is for sure yet except that the nine thirty to twelve thirty closure would remain, but it is encouraging to see some movement on this. I just feel badly that my friends in the tar Heel State only get half of their weekend to play with. For many people, that's half of their hunting season gone. So if you live in North Carolina or know anyone who does, encourage them to get involved in this discussion, put some tar on your heels and stand your ground. Moving on to Colorado, specifically to the wonderful outdoor recreational hubs that are Aspen and Veil. These places offer amazing opportunities for all those who wish to spend time in the outdoors, whether that is skiing, mountain biking, snowmobiling, dirt biking, and hunting, it's all they're They're growing exponentially. People from around the country find themselves moving there in droves. As developments push further and further into the wilds, elk are being pushed further and further from their crucial wintering grounds and even some of their most prominent summer feeding grounds. Development is not the only thing harming the elk. Your average everyday recreator is using more of our modern day technologies to push further into the back country. Experts say the elk herds in the area have decreased by fifty that's from about twenty thousand down to ten thousand since the year two thousand. The stress is becoming more than they can take. With a massive people now finding their way into the beautiful back country areas, the elk are struggling to find new places to call home. Colorado Parks and Wildlife or CPW, is continuing to study elk movements to try and nail down migrations and implement winter closures so that elk can live free of human interaction during the most critical times of the year. These winter closures are already taking effect on many large properties in the area, including Sky Mountain Park and Glossier Open Space. The closures take effect December one and are in place through May fifteen, So stay out of those areas and let the elk be Bumping or moving Elk or deer during the winter and early spring can be lethal. Anyone bu a hunter, a skier, a dog walker, a snowshoer, or even a roadside picture taker has the ability to stress animals to death this time of year. If you think elk or deer are winning in an area, avoid it, and you dog lovers make sure you check regulations when you head out. Many areas that do not have mandated closures have dog restrictions to further help reduce the pressure on wildlife. Even the Pitkin County Commissioner, the county that encompasses the town Aspen, believes that it is time for something to change. He said that it wouldn't bother him if the areas took a step back in trail construction and focused on elk herd resilience. Moving on, on the other side of the planet, one of the worst epidemics in recent history is taking place. The coronavirus has now infected more than thirty one thousand people and killed over six hundred. This is a scary time and the source of the virus is believed to have come from wildlife that was sold as food, more specifically bats and snakes. To help slow the spread of this virus, China imposed a eemporary ban on selling and trading wild animals. But as we all know, people don't like to do as they're told. Police rated a storage locker and seized hundreds of frozen animal carcasses that were being sold via the country's most popular online messenger, we chat. The offender, named only by her surname, was arrested after officers confiscated the carcasses of two and fifty birds, forty eight raccoons, thirty squirrels, three pheasants, two leopard cats which look like leopards and they're small, wild and native to the area, and shockingly enough, three eagles. She also had advertisements for horse, dogs, sparrows, along with the testicles of pigs and goats. This old offender has been taken into custody and the investigation continues. Be interesting to see what they turn up next. Interestingly enough, she wasn't the only one selling these frozen carcasses. Investigators have exposed to others selling animals in the province of Hubai, which is ground zero for this virus and the problem of Guangdong. This is where an investigation last week uncovered people selling these forbidden animals by hiding them intense I wish the best to all these people that have been affected by the virus and hope that they can put a stop to the spread soon. I also hope this puts a serious curtail on the illegal wildlife trade. On a brighter note, for the first time ever, a gray seal has been filmed clapping its flippers together in the wild. How about that. Although we've all been taught that seal clapping its flippers is just kind of what seals do, apparently it's never been documented in the wild. I don't know if this is a real good thing for trainers are a real bad thing. Ben Burrville is credited for taking the video. He is a marine biologist at Newcastle University in the UK. It took him seventeen years of diving with seals to finally capture this behavior on film. Way to stay dedicated man now. While the clapping in captivity is more of a form of entertainment for the excitable onlookers, this clapping in the wild has important purpose, similar to the purposes of elk bugles and turkey goggles. This clap produces a high frequency, distinctive crack. Scientists believe that this sound is made to scare off other males during breeding season. This sound was previously thought to be made vocally, but the new video footage proves otherwise. And if you think about it, it also means that those seals at Sea World are probably telling their trainers to get away, which makes sense to me. That's all I've got for you this week. Thanks for listening. As per usual, you can get ahold of me, tell me what I got right, tell me what I got wrong, and tell me what I'm missing at ask cal at the meat eater dot com. That's a s k C A L at the meat Eater dot com. 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