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The MeatEater Podcast

Ep. 145: A Life of Service

The MeatEater Podcast

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.937.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2018

⏱️ 140 minutes

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Summary

Missoula, MT- Steven Rinella talks with Idaho Department of Fish and Game Director Virgil Moore, the author and poet Chris Dombrowski, and Janis Putelis of the MeatEater crew. Subjects Discussed: open season on pine squirrels in Idaho; Steve's Mexican roadkill bonefish encounter; managing deer for opportunity versus quality; the unfortunate reality of why Idaho's winter steelhead season has been closed; the ongoing fight around grizzly bear delisting; multi-state game and fish agencies working together; caribou flirting with the U.S. border and conservation triage; the surprising issues attached to public apathy; counting wildlife; legitimate and illegitimate gripes about fish and game agencies; preference points as a pyramid scheme; and more.

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0:00.0

This is a meat eater podcast coming at you shirtless severely both bitten and in my case underwearless meat

0:15.5

We can't eat our podcast.

0:17.8

You can't predict anything.

0:19.6

Alright Virgil let's just start out and have you just get right into it introduce yourself

0:30.2

right off for anybody even says anything interesting.

0:32.6

Thanks Steve.

0:33.6

I'm Virgil Moar I'm director at Idaho Fish and Game.

0:37.8

It's a greatest job in the world.

0:39.6

That's the top dog individual.

0:42.6

Well I have my house crosses but yeah in our agency the director oversees the

0:49.4

operations of the entire agency.

0:52.4

And you guys in the crowning achievement of your career right is this passage of the new

0:57.5

Pine Scroll season?

0:58.7

Well I won't say it's a crowning achievement.

1:01.4

Can you explain it real quick?

1:03.8

Yeah a couple of years ago one of our commissioners just asked the question can we kill Pine

1:09.4

Scrolls you know they're commonly known as Red Scrolls and the answer was they're protected

1:15.5

wildlife and then he goes why?

1:19.1

I don't know it's always been that way.

1:22.4

Yeah this came up because I was just talking about how last night we were eating some

1:27.7

Pine Scrolls for dinner and I was saying how everywhere that I've ever lived lists the

1:35.8

Pine Scroll or Red Scroll as a non protected non-game species.

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