The USDA is getting assist from Hollywood to maintain wolves away from cattle : NPR

JUANA SUMMERS, HOST:

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has been experimenting with nonlethal methods to maintain wolves away from livestock in Oregon.

AILSA CHANG, HOST:

That’s proper. But they don’t seem to be utilizing fences or traps. What they’re utilizing are drones.

SUMMERS: OK, so this is the way it works. They use drones with thermal cameras to identify wolves at evening. When they discover one closing in on cattle, they shine a light-weight on it and blast loud, scary sounds – suppose gunshots, fireworks, folks yelling.

CHANG: Yeah, and just lately, they upped their yelling sport by going to Hollywood.

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ADAM DRIVER: (As Charlie Barber) You’re precisely like your mom. Everything you are complaining about her, you are doing. You’re suffocating Henry.

SUMMERS: That is Adam Driver in “Marriage Story.”

CHANG: Yep, that film the place he and Scarlett Johansson just about scream at one another all through your complete film.

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SCARLETT JOHANSSON: (As Nicole Barber) But I’m not like my mom.

DRIVER: (As Charlie Barber) You are. And you are like my father. You’re additionally like my mom. You are all of the dangerous issues about all of those folks, however principally your mom.

SUMMERS: The concept is to make the animals affiliate people with hazard and unpredictability so that they keep away from livestock.

CHANG: And the combat scenes work as a result of, yeah, they’re loud, chaotic. And let’s be trustworthy. They’re type of traumatic, even if you happen to’re not a wolf.

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DRIVER: (As Charlie Barber) You used me so you may get out of LA.

JOHANSSON: (As Nicole Barber) I did not use you.

DRIVER: (As Charlie Barber) You did, And then you definately blamed me for it. You at all times made me conscious of what I used to be doing improper, how I used to be falling brief. Life with you was joyless.

SUMMERS: It’s little bit of an odd pairing – wildlife management and Oscar-nominated performances, however in line with The Wall Street Journal, early outcomes counsel it’d really be working.

CHANG: Maybe not precisely what director Noah Baumbach had in thoughts, although.

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