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 suite of obstacles and solutions biologists are working on to keep habitat viable in Montana's Big Hole Valley. Plus -- trout-smoking, whale-butchering, and saving all those beaver and muskrat glands. Pssst... Artemis Ambassador applications for 2022 are still open! 

 

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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