Ep. 088: Conservation Through Eradication

The MeatEater Podcast

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.9 • 37.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2017

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

The Delmarva Peninsula, MD- Steven Rinella talks with wildlife biologist Steve Kendrot of the Chesapeake Bay Nutria Eradication Project, along with Janis Putelis of the MeatEater crew. Subjects Discussed: back nipples; all about nutria; why an airport needs a wildlife biologist; high-quality muskrat pelts; nutria of the Pacific Northwest; emergent marshes and the changing landscape of the Blackwater Refuge; public backlash over lethal wildlife management techniques; Mute swans as the big bastards of the marsh; defending sentient life; the value of trappers to conservation and their communities; the Delmarva fox squirrel as a bad mofo; and more.

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0:00.0	This is a meat eater podcast coming at you shirtless severely vote bitten in my case underwear
0:15.3	list.
0:16.3	We eat our podcast.
0:18.3	You can't predict anything.
0:20.3	All right Steve I want you to do two things but you got to do it in the order in this order.
0:33.6	Explain like what is a nutria and where they from and all that and then explain who you
0:41.5	are and where you're from and all that.
0:43.6	All right yeah sure a nutria is a big semi aquatic rodent that's native to South
0:50.1	America.
0:51.9	One time it was highly prized for its fur and it was introduced throughout the world in
0:57.8	fur farms and things like that to create an economic resource for rural folks.
1:06.1	And similar to mink ranches and that sort of thing.
1:08.8	It's intermediate in the size between a muskrat and a beaver for those familiar with our
1:13.7	North American semi aquatic.
1:15.4	How many pounds?
1:17.1	The average is probably between 15 and 17 pounds for an adult man.
1:21.6	Yeah they're big yeah.
1:23.5	And you know I guess if I were to equate it to a compare it to something.
1:27.6	Probably a raccoon.
1:29.6	Yeah raccoon bigger than a wood chuck.
1:32.8	Similar size to a raccoon.
1:35.3	I think the biggest female that we caught was about 21 pounds and you know when they're
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