Ep. 079: From Taxes to Trout

Published: 2017-08-28 20:23:00

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Steven Rinella talks with fisheries program manager Mike Ruhl, the pizza magnate Jimmy Doran; and Janis Putelis of the MeatEater crew.

Subjects Discussed: therapeutic wheat cutting in Montana; the end of establishing new non-native populations of sport fish; funding wildlife management; a brief history of the Dingell-Johnson and Pittman-Robertson Acts; the user-pay system; Pennsylvania: the 'huntin'est state'; managing native trout; 'horn-nose chub mussels'; managing ecosystems as a whole; slow-burning emergencies; John Mcphee's Annals of the Former World; the New Jersey cat lady rears her head...for the last time?; and more.

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Referenced Books

Annals of the Former World

by John McPhee

Mike discusses this book during a conversation about geological time and extinction. He explains that John McFee wrote three books about geology that were eventually published together as 'Annals of the Former World.' He mentions a key quote from the book: 'if he had to sum up his trilogy in one sentence, it would be that the peak of Mount Everest is marine limestone.' The book is used to illustrate the vastness of geological time compared to human history.

Referenced at 00:00:09

An Entirely Synthetic Fish

by Anders Halverson

During a discussion about rainbow trout stocking and Rio Grande chub, someone asks 'have you ever read the book arguing that that lays out a really lucid argument that the rainbow of describing the rainbow trout as a synthetic fish and entirely synthetic fish.' The response mentions 'Tealverston' as possibly associated with the book. The book apparently discusses the history of rainbow trout and how they've been spread around, describing them as a 'make believe fish' or 'synthetic fish.'

Referenced at 00:00:09