In the Footsteps of Montana Pronghorn with Vanna Boccadori
Montana biologist Vanna Boccadori had seen pronghorn migration data from GPS-collared animals, but it was only when she put her own footsteps onto their trail did she understand the migration better. Vanna talks about the pronghorn migration and the...
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Show Notes
2:00 Freezer picks: Backstrap, meats, fats... beaver/muskrat glands, which function as a sort of currency among trappers
4:00 Liver conundrums... how do you make it tasty? Try braunschweiger.
6:00 Harvesting kidney fat to render into tallow for soapmaking
8:00 Caught between the old ways and the new
9:00 Helping butcher a whale in Barrow, Alaska
11:00 Always be growing your hunting skills... what can I learn next? Smoking fish; mastering a recurve, building a cabin, "hand skills," etc
14:00 Montana pronghorn
17:00 What the data from collared animals teaches us about pronghorn in southwest Montana; migration & fawning grounds, summer range, barriers to movement, etc
19:00 Fencing improvement projects for pronghorn
23:00 When a biologist follows in the footsteps of one of her collared pronghorn... "it was incredibly informative"
26:00 Pronghorn prefer to go under fences versus hopping them
29:00 Migration bottlenecks & identifying areas in need of conservation efforts
31:00 Migration knowledge passed from does to fawns
36:00 GPS data... how long are antelope stalled at a fence line?
38:00 A helping hand from private landowners
41:00 Breaking down the migration (some days they're booking it)
50:00 Let's hear it for biologists!
52:00 Barred owl sighting
54:00 Trout smoking 101
55:00 Artemis gets a grant to build leadership skills in sporting women who want to serve on boards/game commissions!
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