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Bear Grease

Ep. 134: Mississippi River - The Greatest Flood (Part 3)

Bear Grease

MeatEater

Wilderness, Sports

4.87.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Bear Grease, Clay Newcomb and John Barry, author of Rising Tide discuss two Civil War veterans who pioneered the doctrine of controlling this great river, Charles Ellett and Andrew Humphries. They’ll show us how their obsession and rivalry shaped the way we manage the river and how that led to one of the most costly natural disasters in American history. We learn about Mark Twain, America's most celebrated writer, who was obsessed with being a riverboat captain on the Mississippi River. He bottled American culture in his writing and sent it to the world. We’ll also learn about the great Mississippi River flood of 1927. We're continuing down the river on the third episode of this series on the Mississippi River. Like William Faulkner, we're in pursuit of understanding the world. We really doubt you're gonna want to miss this one.

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0:00.0

Last summer you might have heard that first light was making waterfowl gear.

0:03.9

They put it on some pretty slick field hunting patterns, but folks here that hunt the

0:08.4

dark flooded timber my home state of Arkansas started grumbling right away.

0:13.1

They wanted some timber camo.

0:15.8

Well grumble no more.

0:17.2

They just released cash camo, specifically formulated for hunting ducks in the flooded

0:22.3

timbers of the southern half of the Mississippi flyway.

0:25.6

The cash river is a river here in Arkansas.

0:28.4

The pattern was designed using the same nature based algorithm used in their other patterns,

0:33.6

but emphasizes micro break up elements and high contrast textures that are most visually

0:38.9

disruptive when you are up close and personal with green heads in the woods.

0:43.0

I'm proud to say that this pattern was tested and tweaked for two seasons in Arkansas and

0:49.0

it looks incredible.

0:50.5

Plus first light donates a portion of every sale of duck hunting gear to delta waterfowl

0:56.3

to support their mission of conserving North American duck and goose populations.

1:01.1

Head to first light dot com slash cash that's spelled C-A-C-H-E like the river in Arkansas

1:08.9

to give it a look.

1:11.8

For anybody new to this channel I want to take a minute to explain what you're seeing

1:16.4

here.

1:17.4

We actually have two podcasts on this bear grease feed and really almost three.

1:22.2

We have our documentary style bear grease episodes like this one and then every other

1:27.2

week we have what we call the bear grease render which is me and a group of friends discussing

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