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The MeatEater Podcast

Ep. 079: From Taxes to Trout

The MeatEater Podcast

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.937.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2017

⏱️ 131 minutes

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Summary

Steven Rinella talks with fisheries program manager Mike Ruhl, the pizza magnate Jimmy Doran; and Janis Putelis of the MeatEater crew.

Subjects Discussed: therapeutic wheat cutting in Montana; the end of establishing new non-native populations of sport fish; funding wildlife management; a brief history of the Dingell-Johnson and Pittman-Robertson Acts; the user-pay system; Pennsylvania: the 'huntin'est state'; managing native trout; 'horn-nose chub mussels'; managing ecosystems as a whole; slow-burning emergencies; John Mcphee's Annals of the Former World; the New Jersey cat lady rears her head...for the last time?; and more.

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0:00.0

This is the meat eater podcast coming at you shirtless severely bugged

0:13.8

in my case underwearless meat and pork, the meat eater podcast. You can't predict anything.

0:37.2

All right, before we get to started, Jimmy Dorn, your fresh from the wheat fields of Montana,

0:43.6

yes, I'm just back just just the other day. You go every year in cut wheat every year and my

0:48.9

friends wheat farm, yeah, two a couple weeks of harvest and just had a little break came back

0:55.0

to the bar for a couple days, take care of the restaurant and end of the month stuff and then

1:00.8

right back to go. We just switched over from cut and winter wheat now we're moving on

1:04.1

to spring wheat, which is still a little bit high in moisture, so it's worked out perfect.

1:07.8

How, like, how, why did you why and how? How many years have been cut and wheat for?

1:11.6

This is my four third year. Okay. And it was one of my best friends, his family. I met him actually.

1:17.4

We worked at a restaurant together here in Seattle and his his family runs a big wheat operation

1:25.3

on North of Great Falls. Dan Er, there's really fantastic people in the gas boat is and we just went

1:31.5

through a deal and he had his father actually unfortunately passed away to pretty young age and kind

1:36.1

of, you know, it was kind of a it's like just kind of all hands on deck kind of things. So I went

1:40.6

back and helped out and just love it. I mean, it's driving a big old con by the

1:44.5

trust chopper. What kinds of raccoons and anloves? Yeah. Yeah, definitely. A little bit of wheat,

1:49.6

the raccoons get the way occasionally. But yeah, they trust me driving really huge,

1:54.9

cool, super expensive pieces of equipment. I just love it. Tell me how, like, give me the,

1:59.4

what's the volume again? Like, how much wheat you cut? How quick? I can't really break it down.

2:03.8

How much how quick? I mean, we fill a lot of semis. It's, we can fill up like a 750

2:10.1

bushel hopper in minutes. I mean, it's 45 foot header, moving it, let three out of 45

2:17.8

foot swap 45 foot swap at a time. Yeah. See you to mow along so fast. That way it'd be quick.

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