Ep. 011
The MeatEater Podcast
MeatEater
4.9 • 37.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2015
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Cazenovia, Wisconsin. Steven Rinella and Janis Putelis join Doug Duren at his family farm. Subjects discussed: the leveling of Wisconsin by glaciers, and how Wisconsin's Driftless Area was spared; why Latvians love the Driftless; managing for whitetail deer on private land; generational differences in hunting deer; earn-a-buck programs as a way of changing public attitudes about harvesting does; animism; letting bucks walk past unscathed; Doug's giant famous buck; perspectives on whitetail overpopulation; Doug's penchant for fact-checking people's claims right in front of them; red oaks vs. black oaks; agricultural land management as it relates to wildlife management; magical antlers; the demonization of trophy hunters; the joys of hearing a John Deere tractor; and the only kind of giant buck Steve is interested in shooting. Guests in Episode #11: Doug Duren Watch Hunts on the Duren Farm in Volume 2 (Big Bucks and Small Game: Whitetail Deer) and Volume 6 (Opening Day: Wisconsin Whitetail (Parts 1 + 2) Janis Putelis Hunt to Eat Enjoying the podcast? Please take a minute and subscribe to us on iTunes (best for iOS devices) and on Stitcher (best for Android devices).
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| 0:00.0 | This is the meat eater podcast we're recording just outside of Kazan over you Wisconsin |
| 0:06.9 | In the driftless area of Wisconsin moments ago I was asking my friend here who's who's joining us today along with Janus Putellis |
| 0:15.8 | That's a confusing sense. I'm joined right now by Janus Putellis and Doug Dern and moments ago |
| 0:21.9 | I was asking Doug Dern if he had heard the term driftless area of Wisconsin as a child or if it was just some kind of new marketing |
| 0:29.6 | scam and the answer is yes, but it really has become more prevalent in the last |
| 0:37.8 | You know 10 to 15 years. Yeah, so |
| 0:42.2 | The word that term comes from is you know during the ice ages glaciers level to Midwest |
| 0:47.3 | You know, it's why it looks the way it does flat |
| 0:50.3 | homogenous |
| 0:51.6 | But the glaciers missed this spot. They like spread apart and split apart |
| 0:55.8 | They saw Doug standing there |
| 0:59.8 | In all his hugeness and the glaciers just didn't want to tangle with him and went around the driftless area and left it much |
| 1:06.6 | Topography like we're pissing distance from a |
| 1:10.3 | Brooktrout stream. Oh, yeah |
| 1:12.9 | beautiful Brooktrout stream |
| 1:15.1 | We're a thousand yards |
| 1:17.3 | If for where we just killed a turkey this morning. Oh, I would say we're 500 yards from there from where we killed a turkey this morning |
| 1:23.6 | We're way closer where Doug is down to a lot of nice box |
| 1:30.0 | Well, yeah, in fact, I |
| 1:32.0 | Wanted down that's hanging on the wall over there, which probably doesn't work on a podcast, but |
| 1:39.1 | It actually died right down here by the barn. Is there an on all that story? Yeah, so yeah, we're in Doug |
| 1:44.4 | Like Doug Dern's family for several generations has had this farm here |
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