a folks randy nibbig here with a bonus episode of loopholes on talk radio. This

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this interim bonus podcast if you want to call it that is to give you a kind of

quick overview of the changes that have really I'd say 2023 this

application season has some of the most dramatic changes of any season I've

seen in a long time any application season. Give you a few thoughts about where

we are with winter and Montana and Wyoming well I made well just start with

that. Montana and Wyoming are having a brutal winner we're talking like similar

to you know maybe not quite as bad as the winner of 2016-17 but really bad.

In Montana we had drought for three years 19 2019-20 and 21 so we lost a lot of

those falling crops so in many of our units here in Montana going into deer season

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