Ep. 443: Cal Talks New Year Conservation Landscape with Mark Kenyon
MeatEater Conservation
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4.9 • 9.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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In this episode, Cal sits down with Wired to Hunt's Mark Kenyon to take stock of the conservation landscape in the United States and look forward to the challenges and potential victories we can expect in the coming year.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:14.0 | From Meat Eaters World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana, |
| 0:18.3 | this is Cow's Week in Review with Ryan Cowell Callan. |
| 0:23.1 | Here's Cal. |
| 0:25.5 | Hey, special edition, Cal's Week in Review here in the new year. |
| 0:31.1 | I got an interview episode with the one and only Mark Kenyon. |
| 0:36.1 | Mark and I are here on the edge of a new year, |
| 0:41.3 | as are all of you. And we're staring into the future. And we're going to make some predictions |
| 0:46.3 | on what that brings or what we can see. What's going to happen? Mark, how, how's your new year treating you? |
| 0:58.0 | I'm excited about it. |
| 1:00.3 | There's a lot of exciting stuff on the horizon for me personally. |
| 1:05.6 | I got some cool stuff with the family coming up. |
| 1:09.0 | Lots of, you know, I don't know, the new year just comes in with a lot |
| 1:13.3 | of open runway, right? You can, you can pivot, you can do new things, you can, the possibilities |
| 1:18.5 | open up, even though really it's, it's no different than two, three months ago. It just seems to |
| 1:23.6 | because it's a new year on the calendar, it just seems like naturally, hey, new stuff, try it out. |
| 1:29.4 | So that's got me excited, I'd say. |
| 1:32.4 | And did you put 2025 to bed the way you wanted it to? |
| 1:38.3 | Like, give me like some peaks valleys of 2025. |
| 1:43.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:43.8 | You know, I feel pretty good about 25. I wanted to, you know, |
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