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Most Recent Report: Ticks
Date: June 25, 18
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“The Beaty Butte Wild Horse Training Facility is a grass-roots non-profit organization started by local ranch families who have joined forces to help the Bureau of Land Management maintain sustainable numbers of wild horses on a local range called Beaty Butte by offering the horses for adoption through a locally-run training program. The upcoming First Annual Beaty Butte Mustang Adoption Event will be the program’s first offering of trained Beaty Butte Mustangs to the public. It also marks the official debut of this unprecedented team effort to keep a vast southern Oregon desert landscape thriving.” Those words emanate from a wonderful cowgirl named Andy Reiber. By her own admission, she has been handicapped by Lyme’s disease for years. She says it has seriously impaired her life. So a heads up to all of you outdoorsmen wandering around in the wilderness.
More than 300,000 new cases of Lyme disease, the most common tick-borne illness in the United States, are diagnosed each year. But there may be hope. In a new interview with CMRubinWorld, Dr. Brian Fallon, Director of the Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases Research Center at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center reveals that despite the challenges to find a cure for this complex, debilitating disease, precision medicine and biotechnology are accelerating the discovery of new tools with which doctors will be able to diagnose it and treat patients. “Through rapid genetic sequencing, scientists can identify many different strains of Borrelia burgdorferi (causative agent of Lyme disease) as well as new tick-borne microbial infections. In the meantime hunters and fishermen, if you’re in the underbrush, where long sleeves and long pants and when you get out check for ticks.
Sportsman’s Spotlight
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TARGETED LISTENERS:
PRIMARY ~ People who Hunt and Fish in the Northwest, from the novice to the guide.
SECONDARY ~ People who might gain a better understanding of the outdoor sportsman through interesting stories and antidotes.
PROGRAM MISSION:
To entertain and educate, thus creating a desire to go fishing, hunting and explore the outdoors. In these short radio vignettes we take the listener on an audio adventure far away from their current environment, to a place they would rather be… The great outdoors!
THE HOST:
Passion defines the work of David Sparks Ph.D., a veteran of television and host of Sportsman’s Spotlight. David's resume includes features on the Outdoor Channel (winner of eight Telly Awards), host and producer of ESPN’s Ultimate Outdoors, Jeep National Trails and a bevy of network television including PM Magazine, NBC game shows and stints guest hosting the Oprah Winfrey Show. During David’s tenure with ESPN’s Ultimate Outdoors, he acquired hunting and fishing tips from the “Master” internationally famous outdoorsman/guide Wayne Pearson . “On location” took on a whole new meaning as the pair hunted game in various locations around the U.S.; from upland birds in the Dakotas to gators in Louisiana but it was David’s riveting quest for the great marlin in Puerto Rico and sword and sailfish in Venezuela that endeared him to his fans. In addition to his wealth of television work David Sparks earned his doctorate in biomedical engineering at Northwestern University and taught at the University of Washington.
Watch out! David's enthusiasm for hunting and fishing is contagious, humorous and .....sometimes cantankerous but one thing for certain with Sparks it’s always entertaining and the spotlight is always on you the outdoorsman.
THE MARKET:
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State
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% of population that fishes
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Number of Anglers
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% of population that hunts
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Number of Hunters
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Idaho
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20%
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206,000
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11%
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122,000
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Oregon
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17%
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455,000
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8%
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218,000
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Washington
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14%
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641,000
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4%
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179,000
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State
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Average dolla spent per Sportsman per year
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Idaho
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$1,392
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Oregon
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$1,763
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Washington
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$1,850
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IDAHO
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OREGON
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WASHINGTON
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Wildlife-Associated
Recreation Expenditures in Idaho
(Total: $923 million)
Fishing Expenditures in Idaho
(Total: $283 million)
Hunting Expenditures in Idaho
(Total: $260 million)
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Wildlife-Associated Recreation
Expenditures in Oregon
(Total: $2.0 billion)
Fishing Expenditures
in Oregon
(Total: $497 million)
Hunting Expenditures
in Oregon
(Total: $374 million)
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Wildlife-Associated Recreation
Expenditures in Washington
(Total: $3.1 billion)
Fishing Expenditures
in Washington
(Total: $905 million)
Hunting Expenditures
in Washington
(Total: $313 million)
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*National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, 2006 (FHWAR) http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/fishing.html
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