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Welcome to Backwoods University, a place where we focus on wildlife, wild places, and the people who dedicate their lives to conserving both.

I'm your host, Lake Pickle.

On this episode, we're set in sail into uncharted waters.

Literally, we're going to learn about one of the most

recognizable but still unstudied areas. The Gulf of Mexico.

You all know what I mean.

Now, before we dive into the brackish water of this episode, I want to draw our attention back to part of a previous conversation that I had with Steve Ronella when we were just about to launch this podcast. It went like this. Talk about the podcast. What it's

going to be like? So, Backwood University, very wildlife biology-based, but also like the

influence of humans on these animals, positive or negative. Got it. But the influence is

usually very strong one way or the other. Sometimes it's great. Sometimes it's not so great. But that's what is kind of focusing in on.

Yeah. Nothing has escaped us.

No.

Nothing has escaped us. I mean, truly, that seems to be the case. And honestly, with many of the subjects in previous episodes, I've had at least some knowledge

or hunch of what our specific human influence was going in.

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