Introducing: Backwoods University with Lake Pickle

Backwoods University explores wildlife biology and the people who dedicate their lives to studying animals and their habitats. Guided by host Lake Pickle’s curiosity, you’ll hear insights from wildlife biologists and outdoorsmen, while gaining an intimate perspective on North American wildlife, habitat, and the impact humans have had on them. You’ll learn from the experts how to understand the wild. After all, you can’t love what you don’t understand. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Do you ever wonder what happened to the hundreds of
thousands of buffalo that used to call the eastern US home?
Or what caused the rise and fall of Bob white quail?
Or who in the world is Fanny Cook? And why
should we care? Welcome to Backwoods University, the latest addition
to the beargreas feed on Meat Eater's podcast network. I'm
your host, Lake Pickle at Backwoods University. We'll explore the

(00:25):
land and learn from the people who have dedicated their
lives to wild animals and their habitats. Where did grizzly
bears fit into the modern landscape? How did all those
exotic species of wildlife end up in Texas? What led
to the demise of the once thriving population of bison
east to the Mississippi?

Speaker 2 (00:41):
The most common evidence that we have a bison in
the east of the most common historical conductation with people
killing them.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
How one woman single handedly saved the natural resources of
her home state through introducing wildlife conservation. Could we bring
Bob white quail back if we learned how to better
manage the land.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
We need plants that are going to produce food. In June, July,
August September, et cetera. And so the plant community needs
to be diverse enough, that is, producing food twelve months
out of the year and cover twelve months out of
the year and thermal cover twelve months out of the year.
Monotypic plant communities can't do that. The question then becomes,
how do we get it? How do we create those

(01:22):
resources and conditions?

Speaker 1 (01:24):
Join me at Backwoods University to seek out a deeper
understanding of wildlife, wild places, and the people who have
dedicated their lives to conserving. Both pencils down, let's get outside.
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