00:00:01 Speaker 1: Despite the political backlash against it, The Endangered Species Act, ensuring that other species have a basic right, the fundamental right to exist, is one of America’s very best ideas. I’m Dan Flores, and this is the American West. How the Endangered Species Act saved the West and America. Here’s an inconvenient truth. Climate change is not the first time humanity has participated in remaking the Earth. 00:00:55 Speaker 2: Are resorted to a hail Mary to save it. 00:00:58 Speaker 1: In nineteen seventy three, more than half a century ago as I write this, the…

This Week in History: As we prepare for the semiquincentennial celebration of the Declaration of Independence, Americans reflect on the meaning of our liberty and independence. — Happy birthday to actor/director Mel Brooks, who turned 100, on Sunday! — In June, 1786, Bishop Alexander Macdonell and more than 500 other Roman Catholic highlanders left Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario. — June 30th is the anniversary of the tragic death of 19 hotshots in the Yarnell Hill Fire in 2013. — June 30, 1908: A giant fireball, most likely caused by the air burst of a large meteor, flattened…

Full Disclosure: After a conversation I had with Gene Kelly of American Gunsmithing Institute (AGI), he offered me this course at no charge in exchange for an honest review in a written article for SurvivalBlog. There were no other strings attached, and I was not pressured in any way about the outcome of this review. He did not ask for a preview of the article, nor was he offered one before publication. This review is my own opinion of the course after having spent time taking it and passing the tests involved. My Background I have been interested in firearms…

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Armed Citizen® Today On the evening of June 21, a family in Medford, Ore., allegedly discovered a man who had broken into their home, and one of the residents shot the intruder. The family was able to exit the home safely, and police went inside to find the suspect still there, suffering from gunshot wounds. They transported him to the hospital and discovered that he was from out of state and had been staying in a nearby hotel room before the incident. (kobi5.com; Medford, Ore.; 6/22/26) From the Armed Citizen® Archives – February 1987 Shu Kun Lee was alone in…

Anyone who has ever hunted or who appreciates fine firearms has desired a double rifle. While a double rifle is the classic dangerous game gun, most of us don’t have the need for the elephant-stopping cartridges for which they are chambered for or can afford the cost, which can run well into the five-figure range. Pedersoli brings the double rifle into both affordable and practical territory with their Kodiak Survivalist Compact Express Rifle chambered in .44 Mag. As Pedersoli notes, the Kodiak Survivalist Compact Express Rifle combines “old-world detail with serious performance,” like many of the company’s other products. Designed…

I have a love-hate relationship with Mel Gibson’s film, “The Patriot.” On the one hand, it’s a highly entertaining movie about a topic virtually untouched by Hollywood. On the other, the movie is so replete with historical inaccuracies that one viewing is enough to send even the moderately educated history enthusiast into violent, mouth-frothing convulsions. But, the simple fact is that “The Patriot” is likely representative of the general view of the American Revolution. Though Americans live, work and play in a nation that directly resulted from the events of 1776 and beyond, 250 years removed, the actual details of…

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00:00:05 Speaker 1: Welcome to this bonus drop episode of Backwoods University. I’m your host, Lake Pickle, and on today’s episode, we’re going to take a sharp topic turn and discuss a place and a subject that we have yet to cover on this show, the anti poaching in the continent of Africa. Now, I will give you a little bit of foreshadowing. We’ll be taking a deeper dive into Africa and its wildlife and its wild places further down the line, because I am so fascinated by that continent and all the diverse wildlife that it has in it.…

00:00:10 Speaker 1: From Meat Eaters World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is Col’s Week in Review with Ryan cow Calahan. Here’s cal The Conservancy of Southwest Florida announced a record hall of invasive pythons. Biologists from the conservation group removed one hundred and seventy seven pythons totaling eight thousand to eighty pounds of pure serpent mass during the previous breeding season of November twenty twenty five to April twenty twenty six, and they did it all in a two hundred square mile area in Collier County. The group says it’s quote the greatest biomass of invasive Burmese pythons…