Ep. 336: State of the Union, 2022

The MeatEater Podcast

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.9 • 37.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2022

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Steven Rinella talks with Whit Fosburgh and Janis Putelis.

Topics discussed: The TRCP turkey hunt; how Whit got hit by a car; how Steve passed out while his wife was giving birth; when a chinook helicopter causes turkeys to shock gobble; our own F-up with over-the-top headlines; MeatEater saves lives yet again; Danish scientists crack the code on growing morels; engineering to re-engineer; the issues that arise when you making rivers navigable; fixing the Federal appraisal process; unanimous MAPLand; the public's property rights; Recovering America's Wildlife Act not a slam dunk; ID spending half as much per grizzly as it does per kid in public school; good for the butterfly, good for the turkey and deer too; striped bass in steady decline for the past two decades; keep your blues; conservation that's durable; and more.

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1:36.1	Hey everybody, uh, joined today in the turkey woods.
1:39.0	Yeah, very near the turkey woods with uh with Fosbert president CEO of the theater roles
1:46.4	built conservation partnership. We're actually here on part of our fundraising mission.
1:52.5	We are where we have the turkey hunt giveaway. We just hung up with the turkey hunt giveaway people.
1:58.3	Yeah, so you guys are very generous and you know, basically allowing us to sweep stakes you off.
2:03.4	And two lucky winners came out here and hunted with you Steve and Yani and uh not fully successful,
2:11.4	but I think everyone had a great time and yeah, spectacled woods around here, Metcooks farm,
2:17.2	great place. We're still running an 80% success rate. Yep.
2:21.1	And just to give you an idea that you know in terms of what it did for us.
2:24.9	I mean we had we raised on this one 80 plus thousand dollars last year it was over 120.
2:32.4	Wow.
2:33.4	So we're making real money for conservation and uh,
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