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🗓️ 14 April 2025
⏱️ 130 minutes
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Steven Rinella talks with Scott Fitzwilliams, Ryan Callaghan, Brody Henderson, and Janis Putelis.
Topics discussed: Will it become illegal to launch a vessel off a public roadway for water access in North Carolina?; a proposal to haze mountain lions with hounds in California after the the mauling death of Taylen Brooks by a mountain lion; anti-deficiency; the economic activity generated by a forest; having to fire folks whose salaries you're not even paying; the redundancy in governments; what happens to public lands when there's no one left to manage it?; public lands as a great experiment in democracy;
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0:00.0 | turkey season is here and it's time to break out those calls every serious turkey hunter knows every bird is a little different and you never know what will get them going you may need a trusty old box call light purrs from a pot call or maybe some sweet yelps from diaphragms to seal the deal on that old gobbler but sometimes the hardest part isn't calling them in. It's finding them in the first place. |
0:21.7 | That's where our locator calls come in. |
0:23.7 | From crow calls to Al Hooters, |
0:25.5 | we've got everything you need to get those shot gobbels out of those old Tom's |
0:29.2 | unwilling to give up their position. |
0:31.8 | Get fully geared up this season with the best tricky calls in the game. |
0:35.3 | Check out the full lineup at Phelpsgamecalls.com and make every call count. |
0:49.3 | This is the Meat Eater podcast coming at you, shirtless, severely bug-bitten, and in my case, |
0:55.6 | underwearless. |
0:56.3 | We hunt the meat eater podcast. |
0:59.0 | You can't predict anything. |
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1:20.6 | Join today by Scott Fitzwilliams. Scott is here for a very important, sorry, a very important, not important, |
1:29.6 | a very important discussion about our public lands, our U.S. National Forest system. |
1:37.9 | Scott got on our radar, I guess it was, well, here, I'll tell you the exact date. |
1:43.0 | Scott got at our radar in late February, 2025, when in our community, in our circle, |
1:50.7 | there was circulated a headline, White River Forest Supervisor, Scott Fitzwilliams |
1:57.8 | resigns amid slashing of agency workforce, and the follow-up sentence. Fitzwilliams resigns amid slashing of agency workforce and the follow-up sentence. |
2:04.3 | Fitzwilliams guided the 2.3 million acre forest for 15 years, helping manage soaring visitation |
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