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Part highlight reel, part blooper episode: Artemis's end-of-year special is back. Hear the most memorable clips from our THIRD year on the airwaves. As always, thank you for being here.   1:00 Artemis's Women in Conservation Leadership series aired this spring, an 8-episode dive into the stuff strong leadership is made of 4:00 Check out Artemis's field episodes: A rabbit hunt with Mary Lynn and turkey camp in South Carolina 6:00 This year we brought you field events, book clubs, tactics courses, a year's worth of podcasts, and more. If Artemis has meant something to you, please share the show with a friend or leave us a review wherever you listen. If you're able to donate, all financial contributions are put toward expanding access for women in sporting.

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Artemis is revisiting one of its most popular series ever: A deep dive into ungulate biology with the scientists of the Montieth Shop. Mule deer are remarkably faithful to the geographies they were raised in... until they're not. Ungulate ecologist Rhiannon Jakopak talks with us about rogue individuals, migration fidelity, the rose petal hypothesis, and more. Plus, the emotions of harvesting your first animal (slash ANY animal). 

4:00 From vegetarianism to wildlife science to becoming a hunter with your sci-pals in tow

6:00 Taking a life... you process it while you're literally processing it. The complicated feelings are normal; they don't need to go away

12:00 Those hunting mentors who make you feel encouraged, not pressured

14:00 A first-time mule deer harvest: Watching an individual deer for weeks before getting a shot on it at 28 yards.... and just like that, a life is changed

17:00 Knowing your local mule deer as individuals... so much so that you recognize certain animals in friends' harvest photos

19:00 Transition from bow- to rifle-hunting... there's a different feel to the hunt

23:00 The Rose Petal Hypothesis - this idea that female deer establish home ranges that are adjacent to and overlapping those of the female parent and sisters in a manner that looks like the petals unfolding on a rose

24:00 Mule deer have high fidelity (faithfulness to preferred geographies) and philopatry (those places near where they were born/reared)

28:00 Because of high site fidelity/philopatry, mule deer are especially slow to fill habitat vacuums... if we inadvertently remove them from a landscape, it can take a long time for new deer to show up

31:00 Combining knowledge from the science world with the place-based experience of hunters, ranchers, and other intimate land users

32:00 Rogue deer do colonize new habitats! They completely buck the fidelity/philopatry pattern, especially with their winter range

36:00 The first year of an animal's life is crucial for establishing the behaviors that'll govern behavior later on - rogue deer go rogue as yearlings

39:00 Mule deer have generally low fawn survival... but they also typically have two fawns per year

41:00 Scientist #facepalm: when all 50 collared fawns in your study die

45:00 Why is it so fun to pick on bird people? Jokes aside, they have some SOLID science on taught vs. inherent migration

48:00 Do relatively common species lose their mystique for us? Heck no. Next time you see a deer on the side of the highway, ask yourself how many mountain ranges it crossed in the past year

52:00 Those big antlers on your buck? They're a symbol of an intelligent species on healthy, connected habitat... be reverent, everyone!

57:00 How do we tell compelling science stories?

1:02 We're in an unprecedented era of everyone caring how we communicate/reach each other

1:06 The good news: Everyone cares about mule deer. The bad news: We disagree what's going on with them

1:08 Scientists as arbiters of information for policymakers

1:13 MontiethShop.org - a place to get involved and be in the loop on new science; Also @Monteith.Shop on Insta

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This week we're revisiting one of Artemis's best-loved series of all time - Chasing Ungulate Tales with the scientists at the Montieth Shop at the University of Wyoming. You've heard it before: "If we kill the animals with the biggest horns, aren't we selecting for smaller horns over time?" This week we take a deep dive into that question with ungulate biologist Tayler LaSharr in the third episode of our special series with The Monteith Shop. We'll also talk about her research into how mule deer behaviors are affected by harsh winter events. 

2:30 Squirrels... the gateway drug to hunting?

4:00 A Wyoming antelope hunt with all the science gals, creeping in for that 150-yard shot

7:30 Autopsy is to human what Necropsy (NEE-kraap-see) is to animals

9:00 Antelope heart pastrami (!!!) - get the how-to right here

10:00 Jess's Wyoming tag line-up: Three antelope, three elk, three deer, and one bear

13:00 Research deep-dive: The effects of hunter harvest on horn size in sheep. It started with a paper that used Boone & Crockett data to assess changes in horn size over time

14:30 Bighorn sheep harvested by hunters anywhere are required to be checked into a Fish and Game station… which means there's a treasure trove of data on size/ages of in every state

16:00 Horn size is a function of age + nutrition + genetics

19:00 Mom's nutrition affects her son's antler size

21:00 Does the removal of big males (by hunter harvest) change a population's genetics over time? A lot of it has to do with the average age of rams being harvested in different years

23:00 Alberta harvests sheep by a different standard -- the four-fifths curl. When you have management scenarios where harvest is determined by horns and not age (the annuli), there is evidence that it leads to decreased horn size over time. For example, if a five-year-old grows fast and gets to that four-fifths curl before other individuals his age, he stands to be harvested sooner from his population and may not have adequate chance to breed and pass on his genetics

25:00 How do you age a bighorn sheep? 

27:00 One hedge against the overharvest of big-horned young animals is a conservative tag system... it's still a once-in-a-lifetime hunt in many states

29:00 "Evolution reverse" is this theory (/misunderstanding) that hunter harvest of big-horned animals selects out those traits in a population over time. In reality, it's way more complicated than that... management strategy plays a big role in how traits persist over time. Many factors are involved, and broad generalizations generally don't hold up all the time.

31:00 Changes in game management aren't often reflected in an animal population for years/decades

37:00 Rhiannon Jakopak's digest of Tayler's horn size work in layman's terms

38:00 Connecting sheep scientists with sheep hunters

40:00 The Wyoming Range Mule Deer Project  - a long-term study following deer individuals throughout their lives AND their offspring

42:00 Looking at the after-effect of harsh winters on mule deer. Differences in behavioral strategies? Migration routes? Reproductive strategies/mothering behavior? What allowed them to survive when other deer succumbed to winterkill?

48:00 Fish and Game departments have to balance immediate hunter desire against the long-term, ever-changing health/hardiness of game populations

57:00 The genesis of an ungulate biologist! 

59:00 Check out more of the Monteith shop at UngulateCompendium.org

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Artemis is revisiting its best-loved series of all time: A deep dive into ungulate ecology with the scientists at the Montieth Shop. This week we're surfing the green wave! Seasonal mule deer migration is based on food availability. Deer move across the landscape to maximize their access to high-quality food resources. We're joined by migration ecologist Ellen Aikens  to learn more about Wyoming's mule deer populations and how they're challenged by drought, climate change, and energy development. 

PLUS: Artemis's long-time partner, South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks is offering an incredible giveaway that includes a guided pheasant hunting trip in South Dakota, a travel voucher to get there, and a $4,000 gift card to Scheel's. Don't miss out! 

3:00 - Artemis's first guest to connect from overseas! Plus, moving to Germany during the pandemic

6:30 - Animal research: A generally rewarding endeavor with LOTS of challenges

8:00 A new scientist asks her peers/mentors, What's one of the most important fields to be savvy in? "GIS/remote sensing" comes up again and again

11:00 GPS collars let us see where an individual animal is going, year after year -- it's a bonafide jackpot of data. This field is called "movement ecology"

12:30 Marcia's sage advice: "Do what you enjoy doing until you don't enjoy doing it anymore. Then go do something else."

13:30 Sampling the field April-August to survey which plants are available and when. Documenting the seasonal change from green to brown was revelatory! Plus, KNOWING the place.

17:00 Dynamics in plant growth and seasonal transition influence how animals move

18:00 To study mule deer you need to become versed in the world they live in

20:00 "The green wave" - this idea that for deer and other species, young/emergent plant species are the most nutritious growth. That stage is staggered across an elevational gradient -- and this is the 'green wave' -- moving to find that nutritious feed

22:00 Most mule deer move from a low-elevation winter range to a higher elevation spring/summer range. This is colloquially called 'surfing the green wave'

24:00 Migration isn't a continuous line from Point A to Point B. Mule deer spend about 90% of their time on migration at stopover sites, foraging and eating

27:00 What makes a good stopover? It totally depends. Elevation plays a big role. They're generally places that are more lush than the surrounding area.

30:00 Fall migration: A combination of fleeing cold/snow, plus finding the lushest feed given the season... the "residual greenness"

33:00 Drought has an effect on how well mule deer can surf the green wave, which is shorter; Energy development also affects that migration

35:00 Mule deer in the West have high fidelity to their migration routes

38:00 Mule deer DO move through energy development sites... but they're not able to use those areas to the degree they would if there was no resource development there

39:00 A high-quality study would collect data BEFORE an energy project, DURING it, and AFTER reclamation

45:00 Being migratory is key for mule deer in the Wyoming Range. There ARE resident deer populations, but it's a small fraction (

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We're revisiting Artemis's most-downloaded series ever, Chasing Ungulate Tales, featuring scientists from the Monteith Shop, an ungulate research lab at the University of Wyoming. This week we're joined by Rebecca Levine, whose research is focused on understanding the thermal ecology of moose. More than half of southern moose populations in the Lower 48 are in decline. We talk parasite loads, chronic wasting disease, the mysterious moose of New Zealand's fjordlands, and what habitat a moose needs to stay cool. Also: bear spray works for moose, too. 

PLUS... Artemis's long-time partner, South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks is offering an incredible giveaway, which includes a guided pheasant hunting trip, a travel voucher to get there, a $4,000 gift card to Scheel's, and loads of other gear. Check it out and be sure to enter. 

4:00 When do you get to call yourself a 'hunter'?

5:00 In the southern half of moose's range, about half of populations are in decline

7:00 Why is heat stress so particular to moose versus other cervids? The skinny: They're big, they're dark, and they don't sweat.

10:00 How do moose find those spots to cool off in?

12:00 Collaring MOOSE... it's a PROCESS. But the video collars? SO COOL

15:00 Moose = tick paradise

16:00 Moose are intermingling with more ungulates that they ordinarily may not have overlapped with, which is one vector for parasite spread

18:00 Preg-checking a female moose

21:00 Twin prevalence in moose

24:00 Different subspecies of moose and their historic ranges... they're unique in that moose are circumpolar. They're in Russia, China, Canada, Alaska, etc.

28:00 Moose are relative newcomers to Wyoming/Utah/Colorado

32:00 Moose reach heat stress above 55 degrees... and they indulge in a number of behaviors to mitigate heat -- bedding down in marshes, traveling to higher altitudes, etc

36:00 Chronic wasting disease effects all cervids, including moose

37:00 Wyoming Chronic Disease Management plan

44:00 Bilingual fishing/game regs - Kansas just did this, and the results are great

46:00 Monteith Shop on Insta (@Monteith.shop)

47:00 Funding is a limiting resource on the production of high-quality science

47:40 Monteith Shop website, UngulateCompendium.org

52:00 Moose encounters in the Brooks Range... MONSTERS RISING FROM THE WILLOWS! Bear spray doesn't help you feel brave in that moment

53:00 "Don't run" is the general advice for wildlife encounters... EXCEPT with moose

54:00 National Park Service project to preserve big-horn sheep in Grand Teton National Park

55:00 Charismatic megafauna vs charismatic megafauna... eliminating mountain goats to preserve bighorn sheep

56:00 Three hours to go a mile in canyon/bog/swamp... great chance for a somewhat scary moose encounter! Also, that moment when your scientist friend hears something and says, "Hmm... that sounds like a large mammal."

59:00 Two cans of bear spray deployed... which totally got the target animal, but also the person in flight

1:01 Bear spray is oil-based, and thus very sticky

1:04 In 1910 moose were introduced into New Zealand's fjordlands. The population never really took off... the last sighting was in 1980, BUT, it's led to a Sasquatch type of fervor, with the occasional wingnut moose sighting in that area. #moosetrivia

1:06 Moose = swamp donkeys

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Karlin Gill grew up among her family's outfitting business... in Karlin's words, "Food is our love language." Hunting was always a part of her life, but hunting and foraging came to take on new meaning for Karlin as an adult as she grappled with Crohn's disease. This week we talk about actually wanting to eat what you hunt -- making exquisite food from the wild. Plus: Big bucks, missing the shot, field to fork, and TWO giveaways on the table. 

 

2:00 Tanner crabs from Alaska & transporting your bounty on a passenger flight #carryoncrabs

4:00 Growing up in a subsistence-centric household

6:00 Artemis's foraging outing was a huge success!

7:00 Wanting to eat the bounty you forage/harvest (versus choking it down)

9:00 New to foraging? Start with something easy to identify: Pawpaws, acorns, etc.

10:00 Acorn flour, acorn milk (and mushroom flour, ya'll)

14:00 A hunting season where you just can't get into the deer

18:00 I like big bucks and I cannot lie #buckfever

21:00 National Deer Association's Field to Fork program

24:00 TWO GIVEAWAYS, everyone! First, Artemis is teaming up with Prios for the month of November to offer a full outfit of swag. Check out the Artemis Instagram or Facebook feeds for all the details on how to enter. Also, Artemis's long-time partner, South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks is offering another giveaway, including a guided pheasant hunting trip, a travel voucher, and a $4,000 gift card to Scheel's. Don't miss either chance! 

26:00 Crohn's disease

27:00 Safari Unlimited hosts an incredible dinner for Artemis's deer camp... "Food is our love language"

31:00 Being a hunter's ed instructor, and generally having a love for outreach/education

37:00 White belly dance

40:00 Hits and misses... the only way to never miss is to never shoot

44:00 Why can't we easily pop the deers raiding our gardens.... WHYYY!?

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Ashley Peters works at both The Ruffed Grouse Society and The American Woodcock Society -- groups that aim to preserve upland bird habitat across the country. Members of both groups are heavy on sporting tradition (cue the bird dog talk), and part of Ashley's job is to build bridges outside that arena. On this episode we talk about forest health, disturbance, people management, and the future of our forests.

 

We have a giveaway going for the month of November! It's from Prois, and we're giving away a full outfit -- a Trial Pack, Torai Pants, Torai Jacket, Cap, AND a Tintri 2.0 shirt!! Check out the Artemis Instagram or Facebook feeds for all the details on how to enter.

 

4:00 Crop-share/produce share arrangements

6:00 Combining fish/game with what's in season around us (even acorns)

9:00 Connect with Ashley @grouse.lady, or listen to her previous episode of the Artemis podcast

12:00 When do adult-onset hunters finally identify as just "hunters"... ?

14:00 The culture of sporting dogs is a source of camaraderie among grouse conservationists

15:00 The crop: A peek into what your grouse has been eating

19:00 Bird digestion 101: Sooo... what's the point of the crop? 

25:00 Grouse rely on a mosaic of different forest types to hack it year round

28:00 Disturbance (logging, Rx fire) can be a boon to long-term forest health

32:00 It's more difficult to restore a species that's gone from a landscape than it is to prevent its demise

38:00 Conservation best practices are always changing, but how well we talk to each other will always be paramount

43:00 "Wildlife management is people management"

45:00 The Women's Forest Congress

49:00 All of us influence the future of our forests

53:00 Bird dogs make our forays into the forests more colorful

59:00 Pudelpointers as bird/family/companion dogs... zeroing in on your breed? Try a NAVHDA hunt test

1:05 Her Upland Grouse Camp

1:08 Upland hunting might be the most baby friendly

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After Tanya Dowdy and her husband sold their veterinary practice, she started working at a tackle shop. That led to a boater safety job, requiring Tanya to get her captain's license. Before she knew it, she was elbows-deep in Reel Chica Charters, which takes anglers of all abilities on fishing trips off the coast of South Carolina. Tanya is on a mission to make angling and boating more accessible to everyone -- especially women. 

3:00 A freezer portrait from a woman who gets to fish 12 months of the year

5:00 From a family business to working in a tackle shop... then an invite to get your captain's license... then, "Why don't you do fishing charters?"

8:00 The process of getting your captain's license

13:00 Girl meets redfish

16:00 What to expect on a fishing charter

17:00 The smell of "pluff mud" -- sulfurish and smells like home

23:00 Charters can tailor a day of fishing to most experience levels on board

25:26 Pssst... we're doing another giveaway! This time it's from Prois to give away a full outfit! Yes, that’s correct, we are giving away a Triall Pack, Torai Pants, Torai Jacket, Cap, AND a Tintri 2.0 shirt!! Check out the Artemis Instagram or Facebook feeds for all the details.

27:00 When a rodmaker asks you to join a photoshoot in Alabama, you say YES (St. Croix Rods)

29:00 The catch of a lifetime

32:00 Conflict over redfish breeding and easy catching conditions

33:00 "Covid did crazy things for the fishing and water industry."

35:00 Be a conscious angler/guide with responsible fish-handling

37:00 Ventilating a fish

39:00 Sharks... the 'tax collector' of the seas

42:00 SaferBoater.org ... We all have to do driver's ed for cars, but no so for boats! (That said, it's still a good idea)

50:00 Getting a kid his first saltwater fish... "This is why I do this and I love doing this."

54:00 Find Tanya on Instagram or at Reel Chica Charters

58:00 Companies buoying female charter captains (and anglers): Aftco, St. Croix Rods, Z-Man Fishing, Eye Strike Fishing, Rheos glasses, Shimano

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Bethany Bethard grew up knowing that her grandfather was a hunting fiend, but hunting wasn't a big part of her own upbringing. As an adult, though, she got curious and started getting in the field more. Bethany is a homeschool mom of five kids, and a military spouse, and she's adamant that just because you're a mom doesn't mean you don't get to have your own identity. Plus: Hunting military lands, representation in the field ("You can't be it if you can't see it"), Oklahoma elk hunting, jerky methods, and bison.

Pssst... we're doing another giveaway! This time it's from Prois to give away a full outfit! Yes, that’s correct, we are giving away a Trial Pack, Torai Pants, Torai Jacket, Cap, AND a Tintri 2.0 shirt!! Check out the Artemis Instagram or Facebook feeds for all the details.

3:00 Oklahoma IS an elk-hunting destination... check our our episode with Alyssa Bowen to hear more about it

5:00 Hunting on military property... like public lands with way more rules

7:00 Making time to hunt with five kids in the mix

8:00 Aaaand a deer-hunting fail with young kids

10:00 Absorbing family hunting knowledge, but not having it as a regular part of your upbringing

12:00 Jerky making au natural

18:00 Tracking down your family's sporting history

19:00 "Just because we're a mom doesn't mean we lose our identity."

22:00 Incorporating indigenous heritage into a modern sporting tradition

25:00 "The Time of the Buffalo" by Tom McHugh

27:00 Using homeschool to follow family passions/interests

30:00 Representation in the outdoors matters... "You can't be it if you can't see it"

34:00 'Earn a buck' regulations... you have to harvest does before you're issued a buck tag

38:00 Bison hunting

44:00 Hunting is a service to family

47:00 Striving to be a well-rounded hunter

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Outsiders might think of Long Island as a suburb of New York, but it's also a remarkable place to be a hunter and angler. Two years ago, bow-hunter Jacqueline Molina was featured in the New York Times as part of a growing movement of women taking to the woods on Long Island, which struggles with deer overpopulation. That exposure led her and some friends to start a women's hunting group. This week on the program: Blowfish, pandemic hobbies, Euro mounts, and solo hunts. Plus, don't forget to take the Artemis podcast listener survey for a chance to win a $100 gift card to Isle Royale Outfitters.

2:00 Fishing for blowfish... the other "chicken of the sea"

6:00 Long Island Babes and Bucks @longislandbabesandbucks Email: [email protected]

8:00 Long Island... sportswoman's paradise!

11:00 The DIY approach to teaching yourself how to hunt

12:00 Sitting in the tree stand with your nursing school books on your lap, trying to turn pages as quietly as possible

14:00 Look at Hunter You from three years ago... have you changed?

18:00 In case you missed Ashley's Artemis deer camp report from Tennessee... it's still there!

21:00 Pandemic hobbies... how about turning those skulls into art?

24:00 See Jacqueline’s work on her Instagram @jmolina319

26:00 How-to on Euro mounts - use a salon product that seems to make bone shine bright

31:00 "Deer Overpopulation Meets Its Match: Women Who Hunt" New York Times 

36:00 Hunting headspace... especially if you're solo

39:00 Going into a hunt thinking you won't see anything... then... EVERYTHING

43:00 Hunting snacks & snack faux-pas (and tuna hearts)

48:00 Matthews V3 bow

49:00 Retire and old bow, lighten the draw weight, and save it for those super-frigid days

 

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