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Welcome to Meat Eaters 12 and 26 presented by Moultry Mobile and OnX Maps.

12 of Meat Eaters' biggest and baddest hunts from the last year released throughout

2026. These are long-form episodes so you get more of what you love.

The first one up is my baited bear hunt in Manitoba.

If you've ever wondered what a baited bear hunt is like, you'll love this episode.

My favorite part was watching a younger bear spend an hour trying to figure out how to get a creatively hung beaver carcass down from a tree.

Check it out now on Meat Eater's YouTube channel

and be on the lookout for more 12 and 26 in the coming months.

This is the Meat Eater podcast coming at you, shirtless, severely bug-bitten, and in my case, underwearless.

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Okay, everybody, we're joined today by author James McCommons.

We're going to talk about how America nearly wiped itself out of dozens of species of birds during the, during what we can think of as the dark days of American conservation, lost several of those birds to extinction,

and then brought a great many of them back from the brink of extinction.

The name of his book is The Feather Wars and the Great Crusade to Save America's Birds.

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