EPISODE 282: Grizzly Ban and Predator Management with Bart Lancaster

Gritty Podcast

Brian Call

Outdoor, Sports & Recreation

4.4 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2017

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

While hanging out in British Columbia with @bartlancaster on our Mountain Goat hunt the subject of BC's impending Trophy Grizzly Bear Ban was a recurring topic of discussion. Bart lives and breathes in the Canadian bush and he has first hand experience and knowledge about predator populations in the backcountry and their impact on ungulate species. Bart loves grizzly bears and wants them on the landscape in healthy numbers. But he also wants healthy moose, caribou, elk and deer populations too, which means predators should be managed. And Bart believes we should not favor certain species when it comes to wildlife management; we should manage for ecological balance--and that includes the real and honest impact that humans have on the wild, of which we are a part.

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0:00.0	This is Mark Levisa and you're listening to The Gritty Bowman.
0:03.1	Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
0:05.1	Someone tell me where the Humane Society of the United States has ever bought one acre of habitat
0:11.1	where they have ever funded one project that got rid of invasive wheat species.
0:17.0	Where they've ever funded one project that got rid of the Asian carp in the Illinois River.
0:21.5	I mean pick whatever it is.
0:25.0	They've received, they've got net assets in the hundreds of millions and they've never done anything.
0:30.4	I did this whole series of posts of the hierarchy of dead animals on Instagram, on social media.
0:35.7	So I had like a picture of chicken, no one cares.
0:38.2	Like a chicken, a picture of chicken, a picture of fish, like cut up fish, no one cares.
0:44.0	A picture of an actual fish.
0:45.7	Still no one seems to give a picture of a dead turkey.
0:49.2	No one seems to care.
0:50.2	It seems like a bear meat.
0:52.2	And I showed some bear meat.
0:54.2	It was just in a bag.
0:55.2	What about that?
0:56.2	And I'm like now we're getting weird, right?
0:58.2	Well it's just meat.
0:59.2	But it says bear on it.
1:00.2	It says bear meat.
1:01.2	We care about wildlife.
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