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This week we 'pick' the brain of morel expert Kristen Blizzard (see what we did there? Pick the brain? Har, har.) Kristen and her husband run ModernForager.com, an online resource for foragers across the country. Kristen tells us about everyone's favorite -- the morel -- plus other mushrooms you can easily add to your repertoire with a little extra know-how. We also discuss how to harvest for success in the kitchen. The culinary possibilities are endless!

3:40 - Harvesting arnica when the mushrooms aren't in

5:00 - Kristen and Trent Blizzard run ModernForager.com

9:40 - Mushrooms totally have a terroir, a sense of flavor imparted by the place they were harvested. It's simply lovely.

12:30 - What apple is to tree, mushroom is to mycelium. The mycelial network is everywhere! Under every forest floor. They're tree-like. 

14:30 - "The Wood-Wide Web" – check it out

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/04/the-wood-wide-web/478224/; https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/from-tree-to-shining-tree

21:00 - Morel hunting wonderfully overlaps with spring bear season. Wild mushrooms complement wild game so beautifully.

23:00 - Adding a new mushroom to your foraging repertoire is a big deal! On posting a mushroom pic to an online forum, and having multiple different (very confident) answers on what it is

24:00 - Coral mushrooms are very hard to tell apart. Some cause gastric upset, others are fine. (Corals = mushroom jerky)

26:00 - Safe foraging is like any hobby: The more you do it, the better you get. Don't eat random mushrooms. Work on your ID skills

28:00 - People from Michigan = Michiganders

30:00 - Burn Morels vs. Anywhere Morels: You're collecting in a 5-gal. bucket versus just trying to find enough for dinner

32:00 - Do the time to find your spots, then those mushrooms come back over and over again. Black morels come out at higher elevation. The blonde ones often show up lower.

33:00 - Porcinis (boletes), chanterelles, and oyster mushrooms

39:00 - Start with a good mushroom book, then build your know-how. Chanterelles, for example, have a white interior. Less-edible look-alike have an orange-colored interior.

40:00 - Different geographies come with different look-alike of edible mushrooms. If you're foraging in California, waaaay more look-alike mushrooms than, say, in Colorado

41:00 - Timing of mushroom season is somewhat correlated to moisture... you can find mushrooms in the Pacific Northwest at Thanksgiving that might only be found in spring in Colorado

43:00 - On harvesting mushrooms sustainably - it's a hot topic! Cutting versus pulling is less important than protecting the environment where mycelium thrive

45:00 - On etiquette, pick what you'll use, and maybe consider leaving some for other pickers

46:00 - "Shrub" = A mushroom-infused drinking vinegar. Chanterelle shrub... fruity and delicious. Matsutaki shrub... cinnamon and socks. Pick your flavor, everyone!

48:00 - Mushroom confit

50:00 - Mushroom ice cream (candy caps, everyone! The maple flavor is astounding.)

51:00 - Chanterelle sorbet, chanterelle-apricot jam... the possibilities are truly endless

52:00 - Different mushrooms keep differently. Some don't keep their flavor when dehydrated, so try cooking and freezing those. It varies by the species.

53:00 - SAFETY... it's pretty intuitive, right? Don't eat something unless you know what it is. Apart from that, walking in circles looking at the ground is a great way to get lost. A GPS app helps.

58:00 - Check out the Modern Forager harvesting bag ... and LOTS of tips on how to harvest for success in the kitchen

1:05:00 - Getting started? Join a mycology society (yes, they actually exist) and meet some geeky mushroom people. Second thing: Find those mushroom groups on Facebook. They're great. (And all the #humblebragging totally tells you when certain mushrooms are in.) Lastly, get a mushroom book. The David Arora guide is a staple. Plus, "All That the Rain Promises and More"

Vicky Mullaney is a chef and author of the Lodge at Black Pearl Cookbook, which is filled with fish and game recipes from her family's waterfowl hunting lodge on the Chesapeake Bay. In this episode, we talk about what it means to raise a family in the field, and how that helps keep family close into adulthood. Plus, tips on cooking waterfowl (duck spring rolls, ya'll!) and shotgun savvy.

BOOK GIVEAWAY! Visit our new Facebook group, The Artemis Podcast, to enter. And for a limited time, all cookbook purchases will benefit the Artemis sportswomen's programs. Visit lodgeatblackpearlcookbook.com to learn more.

3:00 - Anyone else do a Covid freezer clean-out? Amazing what you find in there. Especially if you share freezer space with family

5:20 - Vicky is the chef and manager at her family's waterfowl hunting lodge on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay.

8:00 - Waterfowl hunting... the beauty of the birds is just phenomenal

10:00 - Those early mornings in a fishing boat or a duck blind? It can be cold. Bring a thermos, layer up, be comfy to enjoy it.

11:30 - Hunting offers kids so much in the way of life skills: You need to show up, be patient, be quiet, build your own blind, train your dog -- these lessons add up to meaningful character. It's not easy, but it's huge.

14:30 - Raising your kids outside means they don't fall into that group of people who don't know things like the fact that pickles are cucumbers. Put up a bird feeder. Ask them to find a white rock -- all of this gets kids in the habit of paying attention to what's round them

20:00 - Ages and stages: Is it easier to get kids out when they're little than trying to teach them as teenagers?

23:00 - The burden of getting little kids out definitely falls on parents. You need to pack more, never run dry on treats, etc.... but eventually, the kids learn to do it all! 

26:00 - It's exciting out there for kids! Example: There's only one way to learn what happens when you feed a Labrador retriever a bucket of slugs. 

27:00 – The Lodge at Black Pearl - with recipes like duck spring rolls and French onion soup, game-style

27:30 - Cooking ducks (and other game) -- don't overcook it. That's where game meat starts tasting 'gamey'

30:00 - Goose leg confit... [we're doing an Italian lip-smacking gesture over here]... low and slow, baby

34:30 - "If you shoot it, you eat it" household rule... this has led to some interesting eating! Ask Vicky about turtle recipes. Or the time her son shot a squirrel before school and had to clean it before getting on the bus.

39:00 - www.blackpearlcookbook.com (This is a book not sold on Amazon, everyone!) and on Insta @blackpearlcookbook

40:00 - Hunting keeps a family close, even into adulthood

45:00 - If you're totally new to shotgunning, it's worth spending the $50 for a lesson at a clays course to learn how to mount the gun, move to target, etc. 

51:00 - Cooking rockfish (or any fish!) - sometimes simple is hard to beat

Anna Borgman went to culinary school before she became a hunter. She studied the relationship between how an animal was raised to how it tasted on the plate. The same is true for game -- a sense of place imparts itself onto every animal harvested. This episode, we talk about the art of butchery, and delve into some practical tips -- like which knives you need and how to handle silverskin.

2:30 - May 29 "So You Think You Wanna Fish?" webinar with Artemis

8:00 - Shooting stars! Paint brushes! Lupine! Oh, my! That lovely point when you know your local wildflowers by name... it bolsters your sense of place

10:00 - iNaturalist citizen science app; plus Seek app, which uses your phone to identify plants

10:30 - Anna of Forage Fed teaches butchery and does game processing, and she's also into how food systems work

13:00 - Portland Meat Collective with Camas Davis - whole animal butchery for chefs

15:00 - Cricket protein farming... yup.

16:30 - Entomophogy = bugs for food

17:50 - Butchery versus meat-cutting

20:00 - Why does meat look different on older vs. younger animals, or how does meat quality change depending on how an animal has been raised?

20:30 – Fred Provenza’s work on how animals meet their own nutritional needs instinctually

25:00 - How animals are fed affects so much else... land use, public land health, etc.

28:00 - There's no single right way to butcher an animal. The two golden rules, however, would be 'clean' and 'cold' -- below 45 degrees is ideal

30:00 - Gloves can help you handle that meat without your hands going numb.

31:00 - You don't need an expensive knife. You just need a sharp knife. Anna uses the Victorinox ones... totally affordable.

32:00 - Knife arsenal: you need a boning knife (maybe two, depending on stiffness preference), a paring knife, and a butcher knife. A grinder is also pretty handy

34:00 - Being a woman at 'sausage school' and laughing like a teenager at all the punny jokes

35:00 - Cleaning silver skin, which is the connective tissue that lines muscles (it also dulls your knives and clogs your grinder)

40:30 - Subbing whitefish in a crabcake recipe

42:00 - Meat color/toughness has to do with how muscles are used for movement (and something called myoglobin)

49:00 - Good books to start out with: Adam Danforth's books on beef and other animals; MeatEater's guide to field processing 

53:00 - You can't mess it up. Really! Just get in there and cut up the animal. You get better every time.

56:30 - In the field, try to keep your knife hand clean. One hand for pulling hide and swatting hair, one for clean meat-handling.

57:30 - a bone dust scraper

59:00 - dry-aging & flavor

1:06:00 - Bear fecal plugs, ya'll

1:07:00 - Find Anna at forage-fed.com, or @annaborgman on Insta

Reactivation: When a hunter leaves the sport, and then (hopefully) comes back. This week we hear from Montana hunter Alex Stokman, who started hunting as a biologist in Florida, and then didn't pick it up again until after she'd had three kids and moved West. Stokman is an avid hunter now, but it hasn't always been easy splitting time between #momlife and the sporting field. (For example, her kids are savvy to her attempts to pitch 'new hikes' that double as scouting trips.) Family obligation is just one of a myriad of reasons people step away from the sport. This week, we talk about what helps them come back.

2:30 - R3 = Recruit, retain, reactivate

6:20 - Other R3 episodes: Episode 3 with Sam Pedder, Episode 10 with Nicole Qualtieri

7:00 - Venery Montana – inspiring and educating new hunters

8:00 - Adult-onset hunting genesis story: it started with a boyfriend

9:00 - Florida's game department -- they had check stations with volunteers and game commission employees who would gut your deer for you so biologists can take a closer look

10:30 - Alex can gut a deer in like 30 seconds. It's a good skill! 

13:00 – Day trip hunting in Minnesota during grad school

14:00 - A lot of people get into hunting, and then their passion for it ebbs and flows depending on what else is going on in life -- and that's totally normal.

17:00 - On leaving hunting and then coming back to it... when's a good time? Weaning your youngest certainly frees you up!

17:30 - Landing that first invite to join a hunting party

20:00 - Intrapersonal/interpersonal constraints to sticking with hunting and finding your group

22:00 - On being included in a hunting group as a guest versus a part of the group

23:00 - There's a switch in your personal hunting journey, that point where you become the driver of your own hunts, versus a passenger on others

25:00 - Asking someone, versus the 'figure it out' method to learning - sometimes you need both

26:00 - There's a difference between hunting and identifying yourself as a hunter

35:00 - Recruitment of women hunters is on the rise, but retention and reactivation is faltering. Do women prioritize time differently? 

39:30 - Do women hunters spend less time in the field than men? Do they have to negotiate for that field time, say, by trying to convince the family to "hike" an area that might double as a scouting trip...?

40:00 - Master Hunter program by One Montana

44:00 - What can we do to improve reactivation? Invite people back. Say, 'Hey, welcome! We missed you!' 

48:00 - Would more family-friendly activities boost female hunter retention?

48:40 - RMEF kid activities 

49:00 - On teaching kids... you can teach kids, but do parents have enough experience to sustain that original thrust into the sport? And vice versa, you can teach parents, but are they competent/confident enough to teach their kids?

51:50 - "Did I bash the hunter ed course?"

53:00 - rendering elk/bear fat into soap

Hunting while pregnant is... totally awesome! No, really. This week on the show we're joined by two Artemis ambassadors who are both growing tiny humans while still enjoying time spent in the hunt field. Emily Ledergerber and Kyla West share their experiences, tips and tricks, and what they’ve learned.

1:30 - Hunting while pregnant... this topic is totally overdue for discussion (Har har, see what we did there? #punforthewin)

4:30 - Timing your due date so it (hopefully) doesn't overlap with hunting season

8:00 - Pack-raft turkey hunting, baby!

10:00 – The daughter of a bowyer, Emily grew up shooting bows, but she didn't become a bowhunter until her 30s -- it was a fortuitous family hobby!

11:30 - Emily's blog post on Artemis about Hunting While Pregnant... "Don't pass on your first day something you wouldn't pass on your last."

13:00 - Pace yourself. You're tired, moving slower, maybe even feeling sick... take it easy out there.

15:00 - Snacks in EVERY pocket. Your husband's pockets... AND

16:00 - ...STAY HYDRATED. You need more water when you're pregnant. 

18:30 - Packing all the snacks and all the water is good practice for parenthood, too

19:30 - Maternity hunting clothes... uhh, nope. But we have some tricks!

22:00 - What if we bought a couple sets of maternity hunting gear and made it like a lending library for our friends having babies!?

23:30 - First Lite has a stretchy hunting jacket that totally doubles as maternity wear

25:00 - Pregnancy cankles... you're not too young to own some compression socks

25:20 - Sockwell compression socks

27:00 - All your organs get smushed around... and so when you have to go, you have to GO.

35:00 - Bowhunting form and gun recoil 

36:00 - Can babies hear shotgun sounds? Lead-free ammo, also a plus.

39:00 - If your body's asking for sleep, listen to it

"Glassing is the art of sitting on a high spot and looking for wildlife." That gem of wisdom comes from Artemis co-founder Jess Johnson, who shares some of her best game-spotting tricks with us in this episode. Plus, what you need to know when scoping out your optics. (See what we did there? #opticspun)

3:00 - Quarantine Us: Dishes = low priority; Mud season = meh; Comfy overalls = a harbinger of changing standards of what you will and won't wear in public 

10:00 - What is glassing? It's the art of sitting on a high spot and looking for wildlife... OR, hunting with your eyes, not with your feet

10:30 - How do you pick a glassing spot? Let's talk about mule deer for a moment. 

12:00 - Wisdom from Brad Brooks of Argali - Mule deer know their home ground... they come back to it time and time again. 

13:00 - Look for the best vantage point... look for a high spot without tree obstruction. Spots that overlook basins are winners.

15:00 - Good glassing involves sitting and waiting. Get comfy.

16:30 - Mule deer feed in the morning... then they mosey around. Moving mule deer = easier to spot than bedded deer. Best times to glass are early mornings and 3 p.m. onwards. 

20:00 - Improving your eye for game: Investigate every twig/rock... look closely. And if you see nothing, wait and look again. Movement is a giveaway.

24:00 - Glassing is sort of like Where's Waldo... your eye gets sharper at finding the details that clue you into game the more time you spend out there. 

28:00 - Go glassing in the off-season. Bring coffee/donuts. Again on being comfy.

32:00 - Optics... they're particularly useful in Western hunting. It's probably not the equipment to skimp on.

34:00 - Jess uses Mavens

35:00 - Optics specs - magnification by objective size. Higher magnification means your field of view gets smaller.

38:00 - Glassing arm exhaustion is a real thing. Prop yourself up on something... Jess has a winning ball cap trick.

39:30 - Binoculars vs. spotting scopes

42:00 - Other good makes: Zeiss, Vortex, Swarovski, Maven

43:00 - The app-adapted scope is a pretty fun luxury

45:30 - Know how to fit your binos to your face and how to adjust them

Maggie Heumann is many things -- Artemis founder, podcast host, outdoor gear hocker, fisherwoman -- AND... entomologist. This week we're talking bugs in the field. From finding a treasure trove of bug artifacts at an estate sale to inadvertently having a sleeping bag full of fleas, there's a lot to know about our six-legged frenemies. 

1:25 - 'Bugz with Magz' webinars

3:30 - Maggie's quarantine: Knitting, bread-baking, watching bug videos. Yep.

5:25 - Maggie's Instagram... sweet entomology finds from an estate sale.

8:30 - Big snow year = big skeeter year... womp womp. But on the flip side, drier years often mean more ticks/fleas

9:30 - Mosquitos are attracted to the output of CO2 (= breathing) and lactic acid. They're remarkable at sensing people from afar

12:00 - Skin-liquifying bug enzymes

13:00 - Colors. Mosquitoes love them!

14:30 - Black flies, horseflies, deer flies

19:00 - Anytime it's above 50 degrees, it's mosquito-hatching time

20:30 - Caterpillars... A good rule of thumb: If it has really vibrant colors or spines, probably not a good one to handle.

21:30 - Ants... geography makes a big difference. Fire ants in the Southeast are worth steering clear of.

22:30 – E.O. Wilson discovered imported red fire ants as a youngster... and he went on to be a big bug guy ever since.

23:00 - With ants, wasps, bees, hornets -- the biggest concern is allergies. Keep antihistamines and antiseptics in your first-aid kit. If you're not allergic, try not to itch! It further distributes the insect's poison on your skin.

24:50 - Dip spit may, or may not, alleviate the pain of a sting. 

25:00 - Bees/wasps/hornets -- they're bugs with four wings. The two-winged bugs are the flies.

25:30 - Fleas! Fleas don't just live on your dog and cat... they love to live in your house. No wings, but those buggers can jump.

26:30 - White is a bug-neutral color for the most part... except when it comes to fleas. Don't wear white socks. Get colorful socks!

28:00 - A cautionary tale of tossing white ankle socks on a sleeping bag in flea country

31:30 - Moving on to ticks... not actually insects! As larvae they have six legs, but when they molt they become 8-legged. (Chiggers and mites: also arachnids.)

33:30 - It's worth dumping some time on YouTube to see how ticks find their hosts. Check this one out.

35:00 - The signature 'bullseye' of Lyme disease is only specific to one tick... you can still get it without experiencing that.

37:00 - Lyme disease is still concentrated in the East/Northeast. Out West though, there's Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever in the way of tick-borne illness

38:00 - Scorpions... most of the time they're harmless. Painful bite, nothing more.

39:00 - Handling tick- or flea-laden game

41:00 - Send us your pictures of bugs on game! [email protected]

41:30 - Black widows, brown recluses, hobo spiders -- those are the big arachnids to know

43:00 - Chiggers don't actually burrow into you

45:00 - Deet... really bad for your outdoor gear, really great for keeping bugs away. But maybe not for everyone.

45:30 - Alternative bug sprays: IR3535 - a new insect repellent from Europe, Picariden, and essential oils (lemon, citrus, catnip oils), or Thermacell fan

Peeing, pooping and periods. Oh yeah, we're "going" there. The founder of Kula Cloth, Anastasia Allison, joins us to talk about how to do all three of these things comfortably in the backcountry. Do you 'drip dry,' or 'shake it off'? What about if you pop a squat and notice a trail cam pointed at you?

1:30 - 'Snain' - snow up high, rain down low
4:00 - unannounced sunrise concerts in the backcountry, courtesy of a packed in keyboard and violin
4:45 - going from working in parks, to becoming a police officer, to entrepreneurship - Kula Cloth is a non-microbial cloth that helps you "go" wherever you need to
8:30 - On stealing toilet paper from another camper's backpack, and realizing you don't actually know HOW to go potty in the woods
11:45 - PEEING. Drip dry? Or, the 'aggressive shake-off'?
12:00 - It's important to stay dry and clean in the backcountry. Otherwise you're looking at chafing, UTIs, or plain old discomfort
13:00 - When peeing, be mindful of water sources nearby. Try to be 200 ft away
13:30 - How to pee? There are all kinds of ways. There's the trusty 'ol squat, or if you're in a climbing harness or drysuit, products like the SheWee or TinkleBell or SheFly pants.
14:45 - Even if you shake off after peeing, you're probably still going to have some residual moisture
16:00 - Description of a toilet bag
17:00 - Kula Cloth and other pee cloths are there to help you pat dry
18:00 - Caring for a pee cloth on a long backpacking trip
23:45 - POOP. That moment when you ask for the trowel and everybody knows where you're going
25:00 - You should be packing out toilet paper. Is it awkward shoving it in a clear ziplock bag and toting it to and from camp? Yes. One tip: Cover your poo baggie with duct tape.
26:00 - Digging a 6- to 8-inch hole sounds super easy, but it doesn't feel quick when you really need to go. You can pre-dig a hole as soon as you set-up camp.
27:00 - Nobody wants to show up to a campsite with a bunch of small rock shrines, which are actually just small poop temples for people who didn't bother to dig a hole.
28:00 - Toilet paper doesn't just disappear, especially in desert and alpine environments
28:30 - "Blue bag" areas - places where you're regulated to pack out your poop. (Also a good idea to be blue-bagging in snow-camping situations.)
30:00 - Blue-bagging can feel a little weird. It's like picking up dog poop, but you are the dog.
30:30 - go2 Outdoor Essentials
32:00 - "CuloClean" squirt nozzle for water bottle
33:00 - On husband-wife intimacy when it comes to poo in the backcountry
38:00 - Burning toilet paper - yay or nay?
39:30 - PERIODS.
40:30 - Menstrual cups, like Diva Cup and Pixie Cup. If you've ever thought of trying one, the ease of having your period in the backcountry is a huge perk.
41:45 - If you use tampons/pads, you're going to need to pack out the spent ones, preferably keeping them alongside your food so they're not a wildlife attractant.
47:30 - South entrance to Yellowstone... the notorious sign, "Bears and Menstruation." It's scaring everybody!
48:30 - What's the evidence on bear attacks being correlated to periods? Not much.
48:45 - "Night of the Grizzlies" book
50:00 - Worst thing ever: Popping a squat and then seeing a trail cam pointed at you
57:00 - Knockin' rainbows on the Snake for a Fish and Game bounty
1:00:01 - Toilet paper shortage has been serendipitous for Kula Cloth

Turkey season is nigh! Patt Dorsey from the National Wild Turkey Federation shares her turkey savvy with us -- from what makes a good roost tree, to all the quirks a biologist would care about, like the bird's laser-like vision, or a hen's ability to store semen for later use.

1:30 - Nicole Qualtieri's article on turkey and bear hunting quarantine ethics

3:00 - Sautéed turkey breast with morels... mmm

5:30 - Why would you want to hunt turkeys in the first place?

6:30 - If you celebrate holidays like Thanksgiving, chances are you know your way around a turkey. It can be a good first quarry for new hunters. Field dressing a turkey is a lot more intuitive for some people than, say, an elk.

7:00 - 'Bird brain' doesn't apply to turkeys. They outwit people all the time.

8:00 - Spring is breeding season, which means toms are on the prowl for hens, calling them in

9:00 - What is it about that naked-looking waxy head and bright red snood? #sexyandyouknowit

11:00 - Turkey biology. Did you know hens can store semen for later use? And other details.

13:00 - Fall vs. spring turkey hunting. Totally different

15:00 - Topographical clues for good turkey country

17:00 - What makes a good roosting tree? 

18:45 - NWTF turkey video with veterans hunting, "Beyond the Strut - Montana"

19:40 - Turkeys have phenomenal eyesight

23:00 - Diaphragm vs. box vs. pot calls

25:00 - Being patient is more important than being a great caller

30:00 - Stay safe out there

35:00 - How you field dress depends on what you want to do with your bird

36:00 - Wild turkeys... not the same as your store-bought Butterball. Treat the meat differently, it's going to be a bit more tough.

38:00 - Share turkey feathers for traditional handicrafts

Feeling confident and safe in wild spaces means knowing how to respond appropriately in encounters with some of our more intimidating wildlife. Kyla West, Artemis Ambassador and Wildlife Conflict Specialist for the state of Washington, dishes on animal behavior and what backcountry travelers should know to stay aware. We’ll touch on moose, mountain goats, bears, cougars, and wolves and share some of our favorite encounter stories. 

2:30 - Time on your hands? Sourdough is in right now. 

5:30 - On being a 'wildlife conflict specialist'

6:20 - Animals should know you're coming. Don't be a ninja out there. Be a Sasquatch!

8:45 - Look for clues a carcass is near. See carrion birds like eagles and ravens? 

9:30 - Common problem: Off-leash dog agitates bear, dog decides to run back to owner, owner now sees bear coming in. Yipes!

11:00 - Are we having more predator encounters? Not necessarily. Our ability to share encounters is quicker than ever.  

14:15 - Other tips: Know when animals are moving around on the landscape, like dawn and dusk; Carry bear spray; Know your animal sign, like scat and scrapes

15:00 - Bear spray vs. firearm

17:00 - Greater Yellowstone Coalition has a practice bear on wheels for spray practice

23:30 - Moose are maybe the only exception to the 'don't run' rule 

27:00 - Why so many mountain goat selfies?

28:00 - "Hey, Goat. How's your mom?"

30:00 - Urine: an inadvertent salt lick

33:00 - Bears... in a nutshell, avoid carcasses and leash your dogs. If you do have an encounter, don't run. That's what prey does.

35:00 - Get scrappy with a black bear, play dead with a grizzly bear... and BEAR STORIES! 

52:00 - Some of us go from bear avoidance to trying to find bears when the hunt is on. 

53:00 - Cougars & wolves, unlikely encounters... but possible, none the less

55:00 - Want to train yourself up on cougar behavior? Get a house cat.

55:30 -  The cougar who played with a cardboard box

1:06:00 - Wolf encounters 

1:13:30 – Appreciate the moment, but keep wildlife wild

1:17:00 - What's your signature song... like, if you want to let an animal know you're there?

1:25:00 - An 'Arteman' joins the fan club!