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MeatEater Conservation

Ep. 55: Walleye, Invasive Species, and Buck Castration

MeatEater Conservation

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness, Education

4.99.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

This week, Cal talks about invasive species, testing food on friends, "murder hornets," and the Argentine black and white tegu.

 

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0:00.0

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0:13.4

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0:19.6

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0:27.1

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0:31.5

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0:36.5

From Meadier's world news headquarters in Boseman, Montana, this is Cal's We Can Review

0:50.4

with Ryan Cal Calan.

0:52.8

Now here's Cal.

0:55.4

There's this old joke in regards to animal management that goes like this.

1:00.2

There's a town hall meeting in regards to predator management like coyotes or wolves.

1:05.6

Some folks in the room are wanting to shoot predators to control numbers, others are saying

1:10.2

let live, and some are offering other courses of action, a middle ground.

1:16.8

One of these folks introduces the idea of predator population control by castration.

1:25.0

If you are uncomfortable with castration, you could use any method of birth control

1:28.8

in place of it.

1:30.1

The well-meaning person in this joke lays out the fact that shooting coyotes or wolves

1:35.3

from helicopters or having trappers go out and place leg-hold traps or cyanide bombs

1:40.7

cost money.

1:42.0

And people who just don't like the idea of predator death will be appalled and angry.

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