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Loop so the bottom Lo ride you're
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ride 2025 is shaping up to be an
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incredible Year we're a month away
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probably from getting new salmon
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forecasts for the Puget Sound and the
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coast what what if we lost all of this
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what if we lost these opportunities what
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if we started losing opportunities in
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2026 and 20127 in 2028 what am I talking
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about you know if you're on my channel I
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don't sound like this I don't raise the
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alarm on stuff like this I don't talk in
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hyperbole usually I I joke around but
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I'm not you've never heard this you've
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never heard this from me maybe I'll lose
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some subscribers over this I don't know
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this this is not a drill this is not
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hyperbole you might not know this but
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Washington state has become the
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Battleground for a different
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conservation and Wildlife Management
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approach there are groups that want to
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move us away from a consumptive
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based approach to conservation and
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Wildlife Management what what is a
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consumptive based approach what am I
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talking about what I'm saying is you as
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the angler Hunter your license fees your
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guns and ammo purchase all this money we
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spend on enjoying the outdoors right
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participating and hunting and fishing
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and consuming the resource right um
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bringing home that Fresh Catch of salmon
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to eat um that that deer uh whatever
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right like that that's that that
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consumptive model that it depends on us
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going out and being part of the
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ecosystem Predator management right all
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of these different things the the
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there's a proposed move uh away from
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that and I shouldn't say proposed
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because it's it's it's really a lot more
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forceful than that the groups that are
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behind it are actively trying to move
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the needle and move the process so that
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Wildlife Wildlife Conservation
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management moves away from requiring
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consumptive use there is right now in
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the Washington legislative session uh an
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initiative going forward to evaluate to
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do what to do with the wdfw commission
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why what does that matter what does that
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have to do with all this well the
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commission is a nine member panel that
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basically sets the policy and oversees
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the work of the Department of Fish and
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Wildlife right have you ever realized
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something like far too late in the
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process where you realize man if I had
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just been if I had just been aware a few
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years ago I could have done something
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about I could have I could have made a
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difference maybe I wouldn't have changed
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the outcome but I would have wanted to
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try that that moment is right now um we
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can put our head in the sand and wake up
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a few years from now and go wow uh why
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why didn't why didn't we have this
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opportunity why didn't this River open
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why aren't we fishing in pet s or you
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could we could get on the horn right now
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and have H have a say and have an
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influence in the process and I promise
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you the thing you can do the thing you
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need to do will take a minute or less of
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your your time so just stick with me as
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I go through and explain what's going on
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it's going to just take a couple minutes
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and then what you have to do what you
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need to do what what we're asking you to
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do is very uh it's very simple and very
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won't take much of your time at all look
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and most of the angling Community is in
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the dark on this it's been a it's been
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an issue that uh The Hunting Community
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the Predator management Community has
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been primarily dealing with because
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that's who's been in the crosshairs of
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these groups right but that's only the
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beginning that's the that's uh uh and
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I'm not just using a slippery slope
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fallacy here the the the stated
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intention of these groups is to move
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away from the consumptive conservation
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model that has been wildly successful
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for the last century in North America
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and moved to something that has really
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not been tested at scale uh anywhere and
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does not depend on you hunting or
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fishing or paying any money into the
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system for it to work that that's what's
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on the table all right so let's get into
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the meat of this very recently an
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independ study was chartered um to to to
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to examine the way the commission worked
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and to come up with options of what to
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do about it going forward this is called
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this is the ruckles house report that
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the legislative session is is evaluating
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and there's essentially three options
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that have come out of that I'll call uh
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I'll call my option number one is reform
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the commission improve it introduce
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accountability make sure that the
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commission members in the appointment
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process follows the rule of law and and
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includes the stakeholders Hunting
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Fishing Community the the the tribal um
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co-managers right uh all of the
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constituency that care about about
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Washington wildlife and conservation
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right uh that's not happening right now
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that's Option One reform reform the
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commission option two status quo leave
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let it be it's working fine let let it
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be what it is no one wants this I think
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although even this is probably still
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better than option three which is
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abolish the commission and move the
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function to a single appointee in the
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cabinet of the governor this is what
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this is what those groups really want
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because they believe they can influence
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that single appointee and get everything
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they want without much trouble uh that
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they have to go through now working with
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a nine member panel so they can get
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exactly what they want they can make all
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the reforms and radically change wfw
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your hunting and fishing rights and the
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entire way that Wildlife is managed uh
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and test it out and prove it out um and
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then and then probably work on other
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states as well to follow that model so
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this is this is huge this is absolutely
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huge you think you lost hunting and
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fishing opportunities in The Last 5
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Years you know we stick our head in the
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sand watch in the next the next five
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unprecedented will absolutely blow us
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away and you know I'm sick to my stomach
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thinking about what could possibly
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happen here but we have we can actually
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do something about it now we can contact
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our local representatives and we can let
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them know that we want the commission to
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be reformed we want all the stakeholders
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and all the interested parties involved
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we want to remove politics from the
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science of conservation and Wildlife
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Management we want to continue with the
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model that has shown itself to be wildly
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successful for the last century in North
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America and it's the most successful
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model in the world and all you got to do
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is click on the link in the description
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of the video it will take you to H for
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wildlife which is an incredible group
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that helps put us just the the common
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Hunter angler uh interested citizen out
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there in contact with the correct
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representative and helps you draft a
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message in a very short amount of time
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again if if it takes you longer than a
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minute I'll be surprised and send it off
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and I've already done that I already got
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a reply back from my representative
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thanking me for reaching out okay this
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this is it's so easy to do it's vitally
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important and most most of the angling
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Community does not know what's going on
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and and that's that's a big problem we
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got to get the word out so another thing
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you can do in addition to following the
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link to to how for wildlife and and and
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filling out filling it out so that that
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your representative is contacted like
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this video and drop a comment in saying
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I I I followed it I did it engage with
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engage with the video in some way
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because that will increase its reach so
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more people will see this really
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important message if there was any time
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for us to Rally together and advocate
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for lifestyle of consumptive use of
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resources you know you know where you
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know where I'm at this with this with
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this whole p&w best life thing
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conservation is my number one thing and
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I believe in the stewardship model of
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conservation that includes consumptive
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use as part of that and if there was
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ever a time to step up to the plate and
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Tak an action it's now it's really easy
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it's really simple let's see if we can