00:00:09 Speaker 1: From Mediators World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is Kel's We Can Review with Ryan Kel, Kelly and now Here's Kel. Hit by an Angel the new spinoff reality show out of Hay River, Northwest Territories. This one features a man hitting a grizzly bear with a stone angel statue while it attacks a young woman. Hopefully, Hit by an Angel will be limited to just the one episode, as its precursor, Hit by a Boot didn't work out very well. According to Northwest Territories News, North Roy Helmer was awoken early in the a m. On October by his common law partner Shelly Wood, who had been up late knitting. Her knitting was interrupted by the ocean of an ongoing bear attack happening in front of the steps of their home. Shelly reportedly hit the bear repeatedly with a boot. Way to go, Shelly, Unfortunately the boot had no effect, which is when she went back into the couple's home to wake up Roy, who is apparently a deep sleeper. Roy, not to be outdone by Shelley, also ran directly to the bear and the screaming woman. As reported by n N s N. Roy is quoted so I ran down. I was just in my shorts. I threw a boot and that didn't do a damn thing. He just kept on going. I'm gonna pause here and wonder did Roy grab the mate to Shelley's boot or did he go with perhaps a larger caliber of boot. Anyway, Roy said, so, I come back up the steps and I have some cement statues, and I grabbed the cement statue and I run over there and I nailed it with that. I just threw it as hard as I could. Now that the bear had been hit by an angel, it paused as mauling long enough to give Roy the opportunity to drag the young woman, the bear's victim, up his steps and into their home to safety. The young woman was prepped by local first responders and flown to Edmonton for further treatment. Her condition was described as serious. For reference, hay River, Northwest Territories, is located a long way from major medical services. Aside from that, it would take you almost seven hours of driving and two ferry crossings to get from hay River to the nearest McDonald's, which is located in yellow Knife. If you know, you consider McDonald's a marker of civilization. The trip to Edmonton, which is where the young woman was flown, is about a two hour flight south. Although the Hay River region has been in use by First Nations people for over seven thousand years, it wasn't connected by any type of road to southern Canada until night. Hey River authorities warned residents to be vigilant for bears, as they did kill a bear near the scene of the attack, but they are as of now anyway unsure if it was the same bear. You know, because there's a lot of bears in the neighborhood. As we move closer to winter, food sources start to dwindle. The bears that are not hibernating already are in need of additional calories in order to survive the winter, a condition known as hyper fagia, an intense hunger, can cause incidents like this one. There have only been nine reported bear attacks in the Northwest Territories in the last twenty years. Out of those reported attacks, four have been fatal five non. Important to note that, then, nw T is a gigantic swath of land and the number of bear attacks versus reported bear attacks may be quite different, and according to most sources, as a and every source other than this particular story. Bear spray is going to be your best bet in a situation where uh eighteen inch some an angel statue isn't handy. This week we've got the crime desk, mean fork, a horns, furry caterpillars, and so much more. But first I'm gonna tell you about my week, and as you know, my week and this podcast is brought to you by the good folks at Steel Power Equipment, steel makers of the world's finest chainsaws. This weekend was blowing cold snow and chainsaw was not used, but I did use a set of steel pruning shears to remove a few legs and wings from snort. The little yellow labs first pheasants pretty awesome, dang, I gotta tell you this just about pheasant. Tall five and a half month old, thirty nine pound female lab did a very impressive up. Admittedly, it took her a while to really work the cover. She didn't just dive into the thick stuff. She had to be kind of inspired to it. You could say she caught the scent of a few hen pheasants on the edges of the cover. She showed her excitement through body language we always referred to as getting birdie, as in, you know, she goes from excited to really excited, from curious to determine. The scent would then end at a bird, and as it flew away with no shooting, she would walk a tight circle and get back. At about halfway through all the pheasant cover, we jumped our first rooster and got our first retrieve. The bird flushed a little wild, but offered a good shot after a little bit more direction than you would, you know, typically be given. A veteran hunting dog snort had the bird. Then after that she hunted harder and started working the cover harder. The birds responded to this by running faster and to my dismay, flying way out ahead of shooting range. Some of the birds even flew onto the adjacent property for which we had no permission. This is pheasant hunting and nothing new. But repetition is so important for the learning of a puppy that I gotta tell you my heart just ached a little bit with each bird that flew that fence. The one bird would have been a win, but if we could get a couple more opportunities, at least that extra bit of repetition that very same day, the same outing would leave that much more of an imprint on Snort. So we transitioned our tactic to a very common one of posting one hunter as a blocker, and Snort and I would be the drivers or flushers. At this point, we had only about a third of the cover left to hunt, roughly two quarter mile walks. Let's say. The hope with this strategy is that the birds that are running well out in front of the dog and gun will feel the presence of the blocker and stop or keg up, as we like to say, instead of continuing to vacate the county. The flusher gets within responsible range of the blocker and both parties get shot opportunities as the dog flushes birds or the birds just get nervous and fly on their own. That's the ideal scenario. We worked the first patch of cover down to the blocker, and although birds flushed, no shots were made. With the exceptional one rooster that double backed and flushed directly in front of me, and of course I missed. I was behind him on the second shot, just like I was on the first shot, and you could say it was a gimme type of scenario. I gotta tell you, nothing feels worse than missing over a puppy. The second patch of cover, the birds, now educated to our presence, held very tight. But Snort broke out her previously undiscovered a game, and just like she's been doing on songbirds like western meadow larks and black cap chicken ease, she had her nose on a lot of pheasant butts. It was really something to see, really really cool. She made a couple of great retrieves and even hunted down and retrieved a crippled bird in thick cover in what I would call a veteran's pace. That old ditch chicken is shockingly white meat in my fridge A couple in the Brian for slow roasting. I gotta tell you, I used to hate cooking pheasants because I didn't have the patients to treat them right. I consistently dried them out. Now, however, it is a real treat. I typically just do a water and salt brine, let him relax for a full twenty four ideally forty eight to seventy two hours. The birds that aren't fully plucked, I make a very nice pacata out of them, and it is better than any and chicken you're gonna buy can't wait until next weekend. Moving on to the how do it work? Desk, the pus moth caterpillar has been showing up out of its normal range and educating the residents of eastern Virginia. The puss moth caterpillar is possibly North America's most toxic caterpillar, and its sting, which comes from toxic filled spines inside the tiny hairs that cover the caterpillar, is not pleasant. And when I say the hairs cover the caterpillar, I do mean from end to end and thick. In fact, one article described the pus moth as the quote toxic to pay and just like the two pays misguided humans wear to cover their bald spots. You don't want to touch this either. Sure, you may stare longer than you feel as appropriate, trying to make sure you've actually seen what you know you have seen. But what would cause someone to reach out and pet this is a mystery? How do it work? Water? Fire, air and dirt magnus? How did they work? Anyway? According to the MRK Manual, the trusted provider of medical information since eighteen and venomation causes intense throbbing pain, burning, and a rash with arithmatics spots which are itchy or painful, paink to red and commonly circular. More susceptible patients can experience swelling, nausea, abdominal pain, headache, lymphidenopathy, the sudden swelling of the lymph nodes, lymphidentitists, shock, and respiratory distress. Wound pain usually subsides within an hour, and the arithmatics spots disappear in a day. If for whatever reason, you reach out and touch the to pay, it would be a good idea to take tape and repeatedly stick it over the contact area to remove any hairs that you missed. The pus moth caterpillar produces two rounds of offspring, one in the spring and one in the fall. They're primarily found in the southeastern US. These encounters in Virginia are way out of the ordinary, and likely so are the people who voluntarily touched these things. Suffice it to say, if you pet the two pay what in who will? They say? You'll pay, but only for a day. Moving on to the North Dakota desk. You know North Dakota, that state that is between Montana and Minnesota, and that's likely where the Montanas will move now that this state is nearing big city COVID refugee capacity. North Dakota holds Guinness records for honey production, French fry, and pancake fees, as well as sim sultaneous snow angel making. And if you're a fan of the classic Coen Brothers movie Fargo, the wood chipper the big fellow was putting the little fella into at the end. That same wood chipper is on display at the Fargo Moorhead Visitor Center. You bet you? Oh yeah yeah. Another fun fact about Fargo. Marge, the central heroine and police officer played by Francis McDorman. Her husband Norm Gunderson played by John Carroll Lynch, was working on a duck painting submission for a stamp in the movie. Not the federal duck stamp, but a three cent stamp, don't you know? Yeah? Is that useful to you? Oh? Yeah, bet you? Yeah? Yeah. Anyway, North Dakota is also a great state to hunt in typically this year, in a move I have never in memory seen, North Dakota Game and Fish is offering refunds to nine thousand tagholders due to an outbreak of epizoodic hamorrhagic disease or e h D. North Dakota Game and Fish is asking tag holders to inquire as to deer die offs and numbers in the areas they intend to hunt before taking the refund, as deer numbers in certain areas are unaffected and would benefit from hunter harvest. E h D is caused by outbreaks of the Kuloquitus midge and that amongst the biting gnats that are commonly referred to as a no sum Wet springs that leave large still bodies of water into the typically dry months create prime breeding grounds for the midge, and they will continue to breed until freezing temperatures arrive. The biting midge will pick up the e h D virus through an infected host, then transmit that virus to the deer by biting it. White tail deer are the most susceptible to e h D, although antelope and mule deer can be affected as well. White tail are more susceptible do primarily two habitat preference. Antalopen mule deer are you know less known to hang out in midge territory According to Cornell University, the symptoms associated with the h D are fever. The virus damages the endothelium or the lighting of the blood vessels, causing small hemorrhages over the body. Hemorrhage of the heart and lungs can result in respiratory distress. There may be dental pad erosion or tongue ulcers, as well as bloody discharge from the nasal cavity. Ulcers of the stomach. Rumin and omass um may also be present. E h D and BT or blue tongue are commonly confused for each other. Blue tongue or BT is the rarer of the two. However, the symptoms for blue tongue are a bit nastier than e h D. It can affect domestic livestock. Sheep are the most susceptible. According to Purdue University, both e h D and blue tongue resulting dead deer and dead deer fast heading into the Bismarck Tribune. The last time this happened was in two thousand eleven. North Dakota game Fish offered refunds to thirteen thousand deer hunters. Only about three hundred hunters took the refund. I have two personal experiences with the h D. One I got permission to hunt a property for pheasants not too far outside a Red Lodge, Montana, and while walking a fence line, I got no pheasants, but I did hang up at least a dozen white tail bucks on that fence, all dead from e h D. I was told. A few years later, I had a mule deer tag and was hunting a bachelor group of bucks in eastern Montana. This was the first week of archery season. There were eight bucks in the group, and I watched all eight of those bucks die and not by my arrow, but by e h D over the course of that week. It is nasty stuff to be around. I find this article interesting as it highlights an interesting kind of game management tactic. If you think about it, North Dakota Game and Fish isn't closing the deer season or closing deer hunting in the units affected by e h D. They are only offering hunters the choice of voluntarily surrendering your deer tag in exchange for your cash back. Chances are the zone that you're wanting to hunt isn't going to be that great, and the deer can use a break, so let's give you your cash back. It is likely as not that the random draw of having a high mortality disease outbreak has consumed a large portion of the hunter harvest, So let's remove the hunters, but let's still give the hunters a chance to make The decision gives you a little insight as to how difficult game management is. Biologists look at past and current population data to determine what type of harvest is needed in a given area. They subtract from that vehicle mortality, wound loss, natural death and come up with a number of how many tags we are willing to issue for that zone. Then, well, mominature your steps in with the h D. This may be a good year to hang onto that deer tag. Continue to hunt, but really set your bar high. Plan on eating that tag unless than possible happens and Mr Big steps out. But keep in mind the deer that are left in those e h D affected areas may have the genes you want to have around for the next time e h D comes around. Moving on to the anthropology desk, this one referencing a recent article in hissed Ho titled Ancient Canadian settlement older than the pyramids. First, why are we always comparing things to the pyramids? Yes, they're big and have lasted a long time, but what are they really doing for us? You built a big, not all that attractive house designed in the vein attempt to take your riches to the afterlife, and we all have to look at it. On top of that, you're gone and the places crumbled and looks like hell. Why don't we reference the folks that had a different mindset? In other words, there are plenty of people that probably thought about building pyramids, but also thought, you know what, you can get a lot of good hunting and fishing and kayaking in in the time it would take to build a pyramid. And what the hell is the matter with your house's remains as well as your own just disintegrating into nothing. Don't inflict your taste on everyone else. That's just a rant for you anyway. A dig is currently underway on the British Columbia island of Triquette, where charcoal from an ancient heart has been dated to fourteen thousand years ago. What's more, the tools associated with this dig a hand drill for fire making and at laddle, you know, which is like a spear flinger and fish hooks suggests this was an established camp and not the site of a far flung wanderer. Another exciting point is that there was a lot of ice on the North American continent fourteen thousand years ago, which is why there's been a generally accepted theory that the first people's in North America got here by a land bridge that connected what is now Siberia to Alaska only about twelve thousand, five hundred years ago. However, recent finds, some of which we've discussed here on the Weekend Review, like the hunting site at Cooper's Ferry, Idaho, which inexplicably had a point that matched points in Japan, a spear tip and a mammoth bone on the Washington coast that was found in and this site in Triquette upset that theory. These sites are all much older. They suggest that people got here earlier, and by sea, and by sea. We're sure as heck aren't talking Christopher Columbus either. That dude was great at getting headlines, but way way too late on the North America game, and let's face it, was a pretty damn poor player at that. The location of Jaquette Island, about a hundred and fifty miles northwest of vancou is an important site for the Health Suck Nation, as the timing fits the narrative of their oral history and may help them in negotiations of territorial rights with the Canadian government. It's not gonna be hard to argue who got there first. Another thing I like to think about when contemplating the diaspora of people's from this time, their tools, their abilities, their inabilities, and the big question of why did they feel like pushing themselves to a new continent? Pick just one issue that causes people to move. Population density, too many people putting too much pressure on the resources of the area. Well, here's some fun numbers for you. The Earth had possibly as few as four million people twelve thousand years ago. That's roughly forty nine million miles squared per million people. Right now, Los Angeles, California roughly has four million residents spread out over just five hundred square miles. Let's say, just for fun, you were traveling with a family unit of eleven individuals twelve thousand years ago, you could have had roughly four point five million miles squared per eleven person family group. Of course, some of these completely made up familial home ranges would have been completely uninhabitable because they are either covered in ice or water. But hey, you know, space is space looking out at space, so there so many activities. Next up at the anthropology desk, the ancient Nasca Lines. The famous yet mysterious Nasca Lines are a series of over three hundred geoglyphs in Peru. A geoglyph is a design or motif made out of rocks or something permanent. Scientists recently discovered a new one in the Peruvian desert of a cat, which, as far as outdoor cats go, is about as good as as you can get. Moving on to the crime desk, and what is the biggest poaching case in Nebraska state history. As of this recording, over one hundred people from twenty one states have been linked to one outfitter for their involvement in wildlife crime crimes including illegal baiting, out of season, illegal means of take, the shooting of non game animals, tag fraud, violations of the Lacy Act, and so much more. So far, and we do mean so far as the process is ongoing, thirty people have pled guilty and have been ordered to pay a collective total of five hundred and seventy thousand, four hundred and fifty three dollars in fines and restitution. The co owner and chief operator of Hidden Hills Outfitters was sentenced to thirty months in federal prison in ordered to pay two thousand, three d seventy five dollars in restitution to the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission. He will not be allowed to hunt, trap, or engage in any related business for fifteen years after his release as part of the plea agreement. The investigation was a joint effort by Nebraska Game and Parks officers and the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Together they uncovered a minimum of ninety seven animals that were transported over state lines, including thirty four mule deer, thirty white tailed deer, twenty seven turkeys, and six antelope. Hunters are cheering, as wildlife crime can so often fail to get the full attention of the courts, This five year investigation started with a tip from an unnamed concerned citizen one phone call. Well done, Nebraska Game in Parks. If you want more on this story, you can get it at the Meat eater dot Com from that well, Rit Kristen Schmidt. Sticking with the crime beat, we'll call this one the buck stops here, and this one may have you looking twice at four good horned bucks this season. Just last week, a Colorado woman was gordon the stomach by a neighborhood mule deer buck while walking her dog. She sustained cuts to her head, arms, and legs and was hospitalized. The seventy three year old who allegedly raised a day's old fawn in her home has been sighted and find one thousand dollars for illegally raising and feeding wildlife. The investigating Colorado Parks and Wildlife officer was reportedly approached by the buck, who now had the victim's blood on its antlers. The officer killed the habituated buck. A neckruptcy of the animal determined it had been eating unnatural foods. Just another reason to not feed wildlife. They will attempt to kill your neighbors, and maybe stay off the unnatural foods. That's all I've got for you this week. Thanks so much for listening. As per usual, let me know how I'm doing, and most important, what is happening in your neck of the woods by writing in to a s k C. A L. At the meat eater dot com that's asked Cal at the meat eater dot com. Thanks again, I'll talk to you next week. M

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