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Inclusive conservation leadership is vital to the future of our hunting and fishing heritage. In February, Artemis hosted a leadership training series aimed at furnishing more women with the skills needed to step into leadership roles. Whether you're interested in serving on a state Fish and Game commission or a non-profit board, we aim to bring you the tools you need to be successful. 

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This week... hide tanning! Charlotte Sykes is a hunter from England who started keeping all her game hides the same year her husband decided he'd eat only game meat. Charlotte's journey has fledged into a business, Buckskyn, where she sells goods made from the hides she tans herself. Join us this week for a chat on how to get into hide tanning, an overview of the at-home process - plus springer spaniels, salt-marsh lamb, and more.

3:00 "Salt-marsh bred lamb"... the most delicious?

5:00 Kale, cabbages & brassicas all winter long

8:00 English springer spaniels on either side of the Atlantic

11:00 The year we only ate game

14:00 Learning curve of tanning hides

17:00 The play-by-play of hide tanning, starting with post-harvest

19:00 "You've got to be quite happy to put a bit of grunt behind it."

22:00 Meat prep room in your next house, anyone?

24:00 Can you sub anything for the tedious task of working a hide over a fleshing beam? Enter... YOUTUBE. (Spoiler: It's a pressure washer.)

27:00 Pickling stage

30:00 A non-traditional use for a sander!

31:00 One hide = three weeks start to finish

33:00 Traditional tanning vs commercial tanning products

35:00 Buckskyn - Charlotte's deerskin/hide accessory business, where each product comes with a hunting/harvest story

37:00 The ABCs of sewing with hides

40:00 Fleshing rabbits

44:00 Navigating the bullet hole

50:00 First trout!

52:00 Find Buckskyn on Insta; or online at Buckskyn.com

53:00 Artemis blog post, "What About the Hide?"

54:00 Matt Richards book on hide tanning: The Ultimate Guide to Skinning and Tanning

58:00 Artemis 'Go Confident' as an Advocate -- another program off the ground, which is off to a hot start

1:00:00 Past life: living in an Airstream by the river

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This week we join Mary Lynn and five other women in the field on a rabbit hunt in east Tennessee. Follow along with us as we traverse quicksand, manage a hypoglycemic hound, and battle a bull for a downed rabbit. This episode is short and sweet and puts you right there in the middle of the action with us!

00:50 When your front-seat beagle leaves the truck before the rest of the pack

2:14 The dogs pickup rabbit scent

4:06 Wresting your rabbit from hounds

4:50 The challenge of dealing with game that’s not quite dead

5:51 Raising meat rabbits in the Peace Corps

7:12 Doc gets ‘sugar fits’ and needs treats to stay in fighting shape

9:00 A water retrieve by a dog that’s not meant to bring things back

10:30 Female rabbits move differently than males

11:30 Trying to find a rabbit in a haystack (and all the other things that get collected on a farm)

13:13 Robin’s rabbit – right into the bull pen

14:47 Mary’s favorite way to cook a rabbit – buffalo rabbit wings

15:34 When your hunting dog ends up on a boat in the middle of the lake

16:31 Canine first aid (bring Blu-Kote)

17:38 Hunting pants signal to the dogs that fun is about to happen

19:04 Back at the truck reflecting on the hunt

19:53 Getting started hunting with small game

20:36 Light ‘em up kennels

22:08 – STUCK in the mud

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Linda White had zero experience with trapping when she started dating a trapper. She approached his passion with an open mind, and the more she learned, the more trapping became Linda's passion, too. Linda is a trapper in New York, and she and her husband also manufacture a line of scent and lure products through their company, Sawmill Creek Baits and Lures. On this episode, we discuss Linda's journey to becoming a trapper, and the hits and misses along the way.

1:00 Trapper Girl Inc.

2:00 Food freezer vs. furbearer freezer(s)

4:30 Reel Camo Girl & Kids for Catches

7:00 Bear-trapping is on the books in Maine

10:00 Conquering(/understanding) your own first impression of trapping/trappers... "Everybody has a right to explain themselves. So let's talk about it."

14:00 What IS a good death? 

19:00 Seeing local changes in duck and rabbit populations after beginning to trap in a new area

20:00 Checking a coyote trap that's come unanchored

24:00 Being involved enough in a hunt/harvest that you seek to change it, to improve the process or our behaviors toward it

25:00 Did you catch our episode with Vanna Boccadori?

27:00 Foothold trapping 101 & lures and the senses engaged

35:00 Knowing a species well enough to get it to place a paw on a trap requires a major time investment

37:00 Transitioning from suburban, townhome lady to someone who can distinguish dog tracks from coyote tracks

41:00 Getting into the bait and lure business, and learning at trade shows and demos

43:00 Learning from failed trap sets

44:00 Reading the snow for what's happening among nearby wildlife

49:00 Canada Goose (the apparel maker) stops sourcing new fur for it's high-end jackets

50:00 Domestic vs. international fur markets

57:00 What attracts an animal to a trap is often a process of trial and error (p.s. try the snow angel!)

59:00 Find Linda on Facebook or Instagram

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Holly Heyser works in waterfowl conservation by day -- but she might be best known in the sporting world for her words (To the Bone) and her amazing photos (Hunt Gather Cook). This week we talk about applying the Golden Rule to hunting -- how can we kill the way we'd like to be killed? We talk about hunting with dogs, the merits of the ambush versus the chase, and judging our hunts by the humaneness of a kill.

2:30 Nilgai in the freezer... you need SPACE

7:00 Matching your workout regimen to match your desired quarry

8:00 Hunting over golden retrievers

11:00 California Waterfowl

12:00 Hunter Angler Gardener Cook blog by Hank Shaw, where Holly is the chief photographer

13:00 To the Bone: a new blog launched by Holly and Hank

14:00 And the cookbooks! Everyone... Holly is one half of a wild-game empire

15:00 Hunt Gather Cook Facebook group

16:00 Holly's NorCal Cazadora blog (and word-sparring with Philip Loughlin of the Hog Blog)

19:00 "Killing How I'd Like to Be Killed" from To the Bone

20:00 A bear hunt with houndsmen; Putting yourself in the mindset of your prey... do you prefer the ambush? Or the chase, with a possible chance of escape?

24:00 CWD Chronicles... find it in your Podcasts app

28:00 "Killing isn't fair."

29:00 "Hunting Philosophy for Everyone" by Nathan Kowalsky

31:00 A not-so-perfect dispatch of a hen teal; And still choosing those imperfect kills over conventionally raised livestock

34:00 Hunting birds over dogs vs. hunting large mammals over dogs

37:00 "I don't judge myself, ethically speaking, by how challenging a shot is. I like to judge myself by the humaneness of my kill."

44:00 Measuring cortisol (stress) levels in deer under different kinds of duress

49:00 Two mergansers entwined in death

54:00 Do we feel differently about killing hogs than deer? What about fish? (Is it the eyelashes? An animal's ecological role?)

55:00 "Woman the Hunter" by Mary Zeiss Stange

1:00 Feelings/emotions do have a role in harvest

Holly will be traveling with Hank to Pheasant Fest, the big annual gathering of Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever, in Omaha March 11-13. If any listeners wanted to connect with her there, pick a bone, whatever, she'd love to say hi.

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Last year marked the start of Artemis's "tactics" courses, where we hosted a virtual bootcamp for hunters interested in new disciplines. Our first event, Turkey Tactics, was a hit. We brought in four turkey hunters with more than 100 years of turkey hunting experience between them for our first webinar, Patt Dorsey, Mary Lynn, Kathy Stephens and Emily Ledergerber. We're sharing that audio with you today. Many of the women who participated in Turkey Tactics went on to bag their first turkeys, and we were tickled to share in their success. On the horizon in 2022: spin-fishing and deer hunting tactics courses. If Turkey Tactics or any of the Artemis programming has meant something to you, please consider giving to Artemis. Your support makes programs like this possible. 

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Wildlife biologist Amber Kornak had just started working on a bear study in Montana when she was abruptly attacked by one of her subjects - a large, male grizzly bear. Kornak stopped the attack when she deployed her bear spray, but she had to walk several miles out of the woods before making it to a hospital. The bear had chomped on her skull, and Kornak permanently lost hearing in one ear from the encounter. On this episode of Artemis, we talk about preparation when traveling in the backcountry. No amount of preparation can prevent what happened to Kornak, but being prepared did help ensure she escaped the encounter alive.

3:00 #bearpawproblems - freezer, kitchen table, reading nook, dog turds

7:00 A life/career focused on big-game species 

11:00 Coat color variations in black/grizzly bears

15:00 A grizzly attack

21:00 "Excuse me... I just got attacked by a bear. Could you take me to the hospital?"

26:00 Later meeting the bear that chomped on your skull

28:00 Two cans of bear spray if you're by yourself in bear country & bear spray versus firearms

31:00 "The majority of time black bears run away... but not always."

33:00 Protecting your soft bits

34:00 Bear 399 near Yellowstone

42:00 Staying aware in bear country when you've lost hearing in one ear

43:00 Critter gitter

46:00 Grizzly vs. hunter conflicts over game carcasses 

47:00 Pssst... grizzlies DO climb trees

49:00 ESA-delisting of recovered species 

53:00 The role of hunting pressure in managing human-bear conflicts

59:00 Being afraid vs. being prepared

1:03 Artemis's "Go Confident as an Advocate" course

1:06 Let's hear it for gravity-assisted activities!

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This week we hop on the horn with our Artemis ambassadors in Louisiana, Emily Heiman and Hannah Gray to talk about what it's like to be sportswomen in the state dubbed a 'sportsman's paradise.' We hear about kayak fishing (and kayak-specific bass tournaments), deer hunting, duck hunting, roadkill salvage, and the numerous names Louisianans have for their fish.

3:00 Louisiana gets its first case of CWD (pssst... in case you missed it, we have a special series airing right now called the CWD Chronicles)

5:00 Management changes on the horizon when CWD enters the landscape

7:00 Louisiana duck-hunting feuds, ya'll

9:00 If you build a blind on public land, is it yours exclusively?

10:00 Hunter harassment laws

15:00 Private lands access, permission for bucks vs. does

18:00 Offer to be helpful to private landowners in return for hunting permission, or share some meat, especially with the elderly

20:00 "I love roadkill"

22:00 Cooking ducks whole? Nuh-nuh

24:00 Changes to bag limits... hunters across the migration corridor are affected by any new regulatory change

28:00 Kayak-fishing... AND, kayak-specific bass-fishing tournaments

30:00 Duck-hunting from a kayak

36:00 Bass-fishing kayak tournaments -- judging is by length vs. weight, handling fish, and taking a picture against a ruler for the judges

38:00 Bream fishing (aka bluegill and friends)

39:00 Trash-laden fishing spots + impromptu clean-up

44:00 Trash stewardship among hunters/anglers

46:00 Getting into hunting as an adult (YouTube, books, friends, trial & error... a diverse information diet helps tremendously)

48:00 Being invisible to a doe = magical feeling

51:00 Taking time to fish solo on a family vacation

53:00 Rod-snapping perch (and STILL getting the fish)

54:00 Artemis events in Louisiana... what are you interested in? Find us in the Artemis Louisiana Facebook group , or drop us a note at [email protected]

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Some state game departments, like Dr. Lindsey Long's, employ veterinarians to help monitor and assess the health of wildlife populations. Dr. Long tells us about her day job as a state wildlife vet, but also about the rest of her life -- becoming a hunter, becoming a bird dog owner, and what it's like to sedate a giraffe. Plus, canning meat, de-feathering ducks, and what happens when your dog gets caught in a head snare.

3:00 Pressure-canning your own meat... "I grew up in a canning family"

9:00 State wildlife agencies have veterinarians on staff... but why?

11:00 Michigan Ice Fest on the Upper Peninsula + ice climbing 101

13:00 Artemis episodes with the U.S. Women's Spearfishing Team: Kelsea Albert; Melody Engle

16:00 Vegetarian to vegan to hunter

17:00 The moment it all clicks for a bird dog... #magic

19:00 Llewellin setters

23:00 Wildlife health: "How do we maintain healthy populations now and into the future?"

29:00 Healthy habitat isn't always enough to sustain healthy wildlife... there's more to the story

36:00 Anesthetizing a giraffe

41:00 The intimacy of handling a wild animal while it's alive but sedated for science purposes

48:00 What are your local wildlife grappling with? Mange, hoof disease, CWD... a lot of useful tips on wildlife health come from hunters

51:00 Duck fat over butter, baby 

53:00 Best ways to de-feather ducks quickly... got a tip? Share it with us in the Artemis Facebook group 

56:00 Artemis episode on ruffed grouse

58:00 When your dog gets caught in a neck snare... pack those wire cutters

59:00 Artemis Ambassador applications for 2022 are open for a couple more days, closing on Feb.7

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