EP 150 - Mother Nature the Wildlife Manager

Hunt Talk Radio

Randy Newberg

Sports, Education, Wilderness, How To

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2021

⏱️ 126 minutes

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In this episode of Leupold's Hunt Talk Radio, Randy shares a mic with seasonal guests Jim Heffelfinger and Johnathan O'Dell. As scientists and biologists, they manage wildlife at the mercy of Mother Nature. Topics covered include drought impacts, disease impacts on big and small game, hunting the Pleistocene, nutrition cycles, waterfowl diseases, too many quail, season setting, man made water sources, predation in drought years, desert adaptations, rabbit and hares, and many more topics about hunting and wildlife in the desert.

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0:00.0	Hey folks, Randy Newberg here with another episode of Loopwood's Hunt Talk Radio.
0:05.7	I'm in Arizona doing my annual deer and have a Lena camp with a bunch of my buddies.
0:13.9	And every time we come down here we invite some of our friends and you've heard Jonathan O'Dell,
0:22.4	Jim Heffel finger, you've heard them on many podcasts with us in the past because
0:26.8	they have a lot of information. They're scientists, biologists, and their historians,
0:34.5	they read there, well read guys, they're smart guys, and every time I'm with them, I end up saying,
0:42.0	really? I didn't know that. Or are you for sure? So they've offered to jump in here for an hour or two
0:51.1	and talk about a whole bunch of things. I'm just looking at my list of stuff I want to talk about.
1:00.0	They're having a really bad drought here in Arizona which kind of seems
1:06.0	expected in a desert environment, but it's drier than normal. So we're going to talk about that,
1:12.0	we're going to talk about wildlife diseases, nutrition cycles, how seasons are set, how diseases
1:24.6	are spread. I got a whole list of things here. I want to talk about predation.
1:32.8	Oh, we decided not to hunt rabbits here because there's a really bad disease in their rabbit
1:38.4	and hair populations, hair being jack rabbits. I'm interested in where that came from and how that
1:45.7	plays out. But like always, whenever we have podcasts, it seems to take multiple different angles
1:54.6	and tangents. I don't know where those are going. But anyhow, let's talk about the companies that
2:00.9	make this possible. Very thankful for Lupold. Go to Lupold.com, check out all their cool stuff.
2:09.2	They support hunting, they support shooting, they support conservation, they do it all in a big
2:15.0	way. Remember is there's a new VX3 HD scope coming out. I think it's going to be ready February
2:23.2	1st. It's an upgrade to the VX3. Which is the scope at that price range in that class.
2:33.5	So Lupold.com, go there. Nozzler, family owned business and Bendoorgan. He heard John Nozzler
2:41.6	on our podcast last summer. Really a cool story, how they got into the bullet business.
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