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Beaver State Podcast
by Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
The Beaver State Podcast is a show produced by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife's Information and Education Team. This show is about fish and wildlife management, hunting and fishing and wildlife viewing in Oregon.
Episodes
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Beaver State Podcast: Fishing the world with Luke Ovgard
Luke Ovgard grew up fishing around Klamath Lake, but his fishing interests quickly outgrew even the legendary Klamath Lake redband trout that prowl the region. Luke's passion for fishing didn't necessarily mean catching bigger and bigger fish, in fact, it meant catching all kinds of fish,...
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Beaver State Podcast: Hunting and fishing as a group activity
Hunting and fishing as a group activity might not be everyone's first thought as a place to start, but for many people, especially the growing numbers of women who are participating in hunting and fishing, Facebook groups, meetup apps and community education events have offered an opportunity to…
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Beaver State Podcast: The Trees with Casey Clapp
Oregon is not made up of just Douglas fir and Ponderosa pines, even though these are two of the most prevalent trees on their respective sides of the state. Portland-based arbocultural educator Casey Clapp talks to us about trees as habitat, their historical significance on the landscape before...
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Beaver State Podcast: Hispanic Heritage in the Great Outdoors
The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife's Recruitment, Retention and Reactivation Coordinator Antonio Salgado works with many different community groups teach hunting, fishing and outdoor recreation classes in Spanish. But often works most closely with Oregon-based Hunters of Color, a group...
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Beaver State Podcast: Salmon Sharks with Lynn Mattes and Dr. Alexandra McInturf
Every year in late summer and early fall, ODFW receives dozens of messages about miniature Great white sharks washing up on Oregon beaches. Turns out these are juvenile Salmon sharks, a relative of white sharks but not the same thing. To find out more about Salmon sharks and why they might be...
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Beaver State Podcast: Helping wildlife move in an increasingly fragmented Oregon
The needs of humans and the needs of the wildlife that surround us are intensifying. Habitat loss and fragmentation due to human development keep wildlife from finding food, water and shelter. These factors also make adhering to daily, seasonal and life history needs extra challenging and inhibit...
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Beaver State Podcast: Crows and Ravens with Dr. Kaeli Swift
Dr. Kaeli Swift is a researcher and renowned science communicator who loves to unwrap the fascinating world of Corvids for her followers on social media. We caught up with Dr. Swift in Seattle before she left for a new research project she's conducting on the island of Tinian. Dr. Swift talked to...
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Beaver State Podcast: Bay clamming with Mitch Vance
We go bay clamming with Shellfish Program Leader Mitch Vance during a minus-2 tide at Yaquina Bay to illustrate how many different types of clams you can find as well as some of the barriers to entry and challenges to be prepared for. We also talk about how you don't need a minus-2 tide to find…
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Beaver State Podcast: Book Club - "Fuzz" by Mary Roach
In this second installment of the Beaver State Podcast Book Club, we convened at the ODFW office in Clackamas to meet with Northwest District Watershed Manager Steve Niemela, District Biologist Dave Keiter and District Public Information Officer Beth Quillian too discuss author Mary Roach's book...
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Beaver State Podcast: How ocean conditions affect salmon and steelhead with Dr. Laurie Weitkamp
You know when the salmon and steelhead runs just aren't living up to expectations and someone tells you it's because of ocean conditions? Pretty frustrating, right? The National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration's Dr. Laurie Weitkamp recently conducted a five-week study of the North Pacific to...
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Beaver State Podcast: Illustrating the science of how life begins with Katherine Roy
Children's author and illustrator Katherine Roy has tackled topics like sharks and elephants in books but more recently she has turned her brushes and words loose on the topic of reproduction in her latest book, "Making More - How Life Begins." We talked to Katherine for this episode about how a...
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Beaver State Podcast: Ocean Acidification and Hypoxia
Oregon was one of the first places in the world to observe the direct impacts of ocean acidification when the oyster hatchery production collapsed in 2007. Dr. Caren Braby, former Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Marine Resources Program Manager and Laura Anderson, former ODFW Commissioner...
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Beaver State Podcast: Book Club - "The Feather Thief"
We read Kirk Wallace Johnson's "The Feather Thief" for this inaugural episode of the Beaver State Podcast Book Club, and we really enjoyed it. It's a fantastic crime story, a first-rate science explainer about the Age of Exploitation and peek behind the curtains of a small group of fly tyers who...
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Beaver State Podcast: Counting Oregon's Trumpeter swans
Trumpeter swans may be recognizable by their loud, old-car-horn honking calls, but Oregon's largest waterfowl species is still considered cryptic, because they tend to hang out around another large, white swan called Tundra swans. This makes counting Oregon's Trumpeter swans challenging. To add…
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Beaver State Podcast: A father and son steelhead adventure
Dishaun and Caleb Berry are your typical father and son anglers who love to spend a day fishing together. But they grew up in very different eras. Dishaun, who founded Get Hooked LLC, a project that teaches at-risk and inner city youth how to fish and enjoy the outdoors, started out fishing piers...
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Beaver State Podcast: Nicole goes hunting
Welcome to the 4th season of the Beaver State Podcast! In this episode, Tim and Nicole talk about Conservation Leaders for Tomorrow, a program that provides natural resource professionals training in the diverse values and important roles of hunting and its impact on conservation. Tim went…
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Bonus Episode: The Beaver State Podcast Book Club
So, how does this book club work? We'll be reading four books a year, or one book each quarter to be discussed in a podcast episode during that quarter. We'll have guests that relate to the topics in the book as well as a special representative of the podcast audience to join us to discuss the...
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Beaver State Podcast: The most-famous fish from Oregon
In this last episode of Season 3 of the Beaver State Podcast, we delve into the stories of Oregon's native minnows, especially the Oregon chub, arguably one of the most famous fish in the world as the first fish ever delisted from the federal Endangered Species List. We also touch on the...
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Beaver State Podcast: What is the Salmon and Trout Enhancement Program?
The Salmon Trout Enhancement Program, or S.T.E.P, has been around since the early 1980s, an effort by the Oregon State Legislature to put Oregonians more closely in touch with the management of natural resources, chiefly by way of allowing volunteers to help raise more fish. Like many programs,...
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Beaver State Podcast: Exploring Oregon's best waterfowl destinations
Sauvie Island may be the undisputed heavyweight of Oregon waterfowl hunting locations, but it isn't the only sweet spot in the state. Summer Lake, Klamath, the high desert, the Columbia and Willamette rivers and coastal estuaries all offer excellent waterfowl hunting opportunities if you're up…
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Beaver State Podcast: How to make friends with crows
Jaklyn Larsen doesn't like the term "social media influencer," but when a crow decided to befriend her, she documented it on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok, making Clumsy famous and giving us a peek inside that strange and fantastic two-way relationship that some corvids have with humans. In this...
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Beaver State Podcast: Veterans in the Outdoors
Brandon Harper and Justin Stubbs are U.S. Marines. They're veterans who've decided to work in the world of hunting and fishing education at ODFW, which has put them in a unique position to help other Oregon veterans who don't have a lot of resources available to them due to the lack of military...
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Beaver State Podcast: The Fish Chief
Mike Harrington is the newest Fish Chief, or Fish Division Administrator. He's the person who heads up ODFW's Fish side of the house, as opposed to the wildlife side of the house. His path to becoming Fish Chief has taken him all over the country and the state of Oregon, giving him a diverse...
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Beaver State Podcast: The Psychology of the Great Outdoors
Conservation is our overarching goal at ODFW, but getting folks out to interact with the state's fish and wildlife is also an important part of what we do. That might be through hunting, fishing or wildlife viewing. Underlying all of those things is the notion that being out in nature is just...
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Beaver State Podcast with Nevada Wild Podcast: Living in a Bear's World
Tim Akimoff and Beth Quillian teamed up with Ashley Sanchez and Aaron Keller, hosts of The Nevada Wild Podcast at the 6th Annual Human-Bear Conflict Workshop in South Lake Tahoe, Nevada. We take you on a journey around North America to look at solutions to human-caused problems for bears in…
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Beaver State Podcast: A Song of Crawdads
Perhaps a "Game of Thrones" and a "Where the Crawdads Sing" mashup was overreaching for this episode of the Beaver State Podcast, but we're going to run with it, because Oregon's native Signal crawdad is losing its battle against more aggressive non-native crawdads brought into the state, some as...
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Beaver State Podcast: Oregon Wildlife Foundation with Tim Greseth
The Oregon Wildlife Foundation has been raising money for fish and wildlife conservation projects in Oregon for a long time. An integral partner of ODFW, the foundation has put money into land purchases like the Lower Deschutes River Wildlife Area, an important habitat for mule deer and bighorn...
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Beaver State Podcast: Chronic Wasting Disease with Dr. Colin Gillin
Chronic Wasting Disease affects members of the Cervid family such as deer, elk and moose. It is an always fatal, infectious disease caused by a protein called a prion. It is spread by nose-to-nose contact between animals and through urine, feces, blood and saliva. CWD has never been detected in...
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Beaver State Podcast: DIY Sage Grouse Hunt on Steens Mountain
This is a slightly different episode from our usual format. We take you on a Do It Yourself sage grouse hunt on Steens Mountain after stopping in Hines to talk to District Wildlife Biologist Lee Foster about hunting the legendary mountain landscape and about sage grouse behavior. If you've ever...
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Beaver State Podcast: So, you want to be a fish biologist - SE Oregon Edition
Dave Banks is the ODFW district fish biologist for the SE District, which covers like 21 percent of the state. It's mind-bogglingly large and can take hours and hours to drive across. But that's the way Dave likes it. He's a Great Basin kind of guy, so managing fisheries in the driest part of the...
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Beaver State Podcast: How we built a new fishery to take pressure off the nearshore reefs
Generally called long-leader fishing but perhaps more appropriately called long-dropper fishing, ODFW staff and partners created this fishery several years ago to take pressure off the nearshore reefs and specifically yelloweye rockfish. By going a bit farther out and using gear that keeps bait…
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Beaver State Podcast: Finding your voice as a hunter with Amy Patrick
Amy Patrick is the policy director for the Oregon Hunter's Association. As such, she represents a lot of voices who are very passionate about the outdoors broadly and specifically about hunting. But many of us have forgotten everything we learned in that high school civics class we took 30 years...
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Beaver State Podcast: Rocky Mountain G.O.A.Ts
Oregon's Rocky Mountain goats were extirpated from the state, like many other animals, in the 19th Century. Just a few years ago, Rocky mountain goats from re-established populations in the Elkhorn Mountains were released near Mt. Jefferson, completing a remarkable comeback for a very unique...
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Beaver State Podcast: Fishing Oregon Hawaiian Style with Pono
Kameron "Pono" Kadookak is Hawaiian but has spent much of his life fishing Oregon waters. Partly because his father raised him up to follow in his footsteps and partly because fishing runs in his veins. He's also spent time fishing in Hawaii, where he learned traditional methods of using...
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Beaver State Podcast: Snorkeling Oregon Rivers
Snorkeling in cold water isn't for the faint of heart, but it's also not that difficult with a few pieces of gear and some knowledge about how to stay safe. Snorkeling Oregon's rivers opens a window on a world very few people see. Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife biologists spend a lot of...
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Beaver State Podcast: Where the pronghorn antelope play
Pronghorn are incredibly unique, and not just because they're the last-surviving member of the family Antilocapridae. They're the fastest land animal in North America. They have one of the longest land migrations of any animal in North America. Their eyesight is Swarovski-esque. They're not...
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Beaver State Podcast: Studying cougars in the central coast range
When mid-coast district wildlife biologist Jason Kirchner starting seeing high numbers of cougar harvests and mortalities in the central coast range in Oregon, he wanted to know more about the population of cougars in his district. To do so, he'd need to capture and collar as many cougars as...
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Beaver State Podcast: The ban on hunting cougars and bears with hounds
Oregon voters passed Measure 18 in 1994, effectively ending the practice of using hounds to pursue cougars and bears for sport. In this episode, we talk to ODFW's Wildlife Division Deputy Administrator Kevin Blakely and Carnivore Coordinator Derek Broman about the evolution of wildlife…
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Beaver State Podcast: Why does the controlled hunt draw take so long?
The Controlled Hunt Draw has many moving parts. While a lot of it is accomplished through Boolean logic that applies to the business rules around things like preference points and non-resident tags, much of it is data entry and other human-oriented tasks that take many hours of application and...
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Beaver State Podcast: Angler Education with Amanda Boyles
A podcast in which we explore the origins of the saying, "Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime." We also talk to ODFW's Angler Education Program Coordinator Amanda Boyles about the process of teaching someone to fish and the...
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Beaver State Podcast: Hunter Education with Jered Goodwin
Oregon's Hunter Education Program has been around for a long time. The early focus was on firearm safety, but today the program's many priorities have broadened out to encompass safety but also rules and regulations, game tracking, ethics, survival and many other aspects of being in the outdoors....
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Beaver State Podcast: Access and Habitat with Travis Schultz
The Access and Habitat Program has been around since 1993. The legislature established the program as a funding mechanism to provide grants to private landowners, timber and agriculture corporations, sportsmen groups, natural resource agencies, and others for projects designed to increase public...
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Beaver State Podcast: To all the trout I've loved before
Trout is a classic first fish for many people. Whether that's a trout stocked in a lake by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife or a wild trout in a rainforest creek, trout make up a lot of our fishing memories. Many anglers oriented their calendars around the April 22 trout opener, but...
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Beaver State Podcast: North Bank White-tailed deer with DeWaine Jackson
The North Bank Habitat Management Area rises out of the North Umpqua River on dramatic cliffs before rolling out into oak savannahs, hardwood and conifer forests, rocky outcrops, grasslands and ash wetlands over its 6,581-acres that are set aside by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management for the...
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Beaver State Podcast: How to choose a hunting or fishing companion Main1
This is an episode you might want to share with those folks who are interested in tagging along on a hunting or fishing trip but who might not know the protocols yet. We talked to long-time hunting and fishing buddies Jay Remy and Chris Martin about how they navigate group dynamics and personal...
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Beaver State Podcast: Conservation psychology with Dr. Kathayoon Khalil
Zoos and aquariums are often the first places kids encounter some of the critters they will ultimately be fascinated with the rest of their lives. Dr. Kathayoon Khalil is a conservation psychologist who studies these interactions and works to improve the relationship that humans have towards…
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Beaver State Podcast: Phytoplankton with Micah Rogers
Micah Rogers spends a lot of time looking through a microscope at the tiny world of phytoplankton, those microscopic, plant-like critters that make up the base of the marine food web. The reason she does this is to make sure none of those microorganisms is in such prevalence that it indicates a...
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Beaver State Podcast: Salamander stories with Chris Cousins
Herpetology is the study of amphibians and reptiles, and herping is the practice of going out to find amphibians and reptiles, Chris Cousins explains in this episode of the podcast. Cousins is a PhD candidate at Oregon State University, where he focuses much of his attention on some of Oregon's...
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Beaver State Podcast: Repairing culverts to give fish access to more habitat
The Oregon Department of Transportation is the largest owner of stream crossings in the state of Oregon, and much of their culvert infrastructure is in need of repair. So, ODOT and ODFW developed the Culvert Repair Programmatic Agreement to address fish passage during temporary repairs to failing...
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Beaver State Podcast: A debunking of some of the top misnomers and myths
It's April Fools! The perfect time to debunk some of the misnomers and myths around fish and wildlife management. This episode looks back at some of the persistant misinformation and incorrect assumptions about ODFW and some of the more complicated natural resource issues by revisiting some of…
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The Beaver State Podcast is a show produced by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife's Information and Education Team. This show is about fish and wildlife management, hunting and fishing and wildlife viewing in Oregon.
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