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Ep. 411: Boned from the Right, Boned from the Left

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The Wolfman's Poisoning, Not Predatory Control

In Alaska's Wolfman, he goes from being just a gun hunter to doing wolf control with guns. And I think he's getting into poisons even in the 1950s. They were trying to stabilize food resources and get them set up to be reindeer herders. But they would bring in these reindeer herds and they would just get decimated by wolves. The practice of poisoning wolves was eliminated but they'll still use this little gun.

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