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Cal of the Wild

Ep. 100: Beavers, Wisdom, and 100

Cal of the Wild

MeatEater

Education, Sports, Wilderness

4.89.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

This week, Cal talks about adventurous beavers, old banded birds, and finally gets to some listener emails specially curated for episode 100.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

From Meadiegers World News Headquarters in Boseman, Montana, this is Cal's We Can Review

0:14.9

with Ryan Cal Calan.

0:17.2

Now here's Cal.

0:20.0

Beaver walks into a bar or subway or other and there's no joke that's all.

0:26.0

Just a beaver walks into the subway in Toronto, which resulted in the subway stop of Royal

0:31.4

York being shut down temporarily by the Toronto Transit Authority or TTA.

0:37.9

Anti-discrimination lawsuit pending.

0:41.2

Tis the season to find beavers in abnormal places.

0:44.9

Adult beavers kick their young out of the dens in the spring to disperse to new locations

0:49.8

with high water runoff associated with melting snow and rain.

0:54.2

That's right, you can't blame this young beaver for hanging out in the subway, but you

0:58.7

can blame its parents.

1:01.1

Years ago, while bird hunting a large piece of high, dry, block land management out in

1:06.4

eastern Montana, I was shocked to find a beaver carcass laying underneath the tall sage

1:12.4

right in amongst the prickly pear cactus.

1:15.3

Miles from Consistent Water seemed wildly out of place and kinda conjured up the images

1:21.6

of lone cowboys crawling through the high prairie, being beat down by the sun and

1:26.3

search a water.

1:27.8

Cool clear water.

1:30.2

More recently, my girlfriend and I headed out on a mission to retrieve a supposed road-killed

1:38.2

beaver near Three Forks, Montana, which on one hand I suppose you could call odd, but

1:43.9

if you think about the history of beaver and the Three Forks of the Missouri, it's kind

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