Bethany Brookshire
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard 10 Jan
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But what I would also say is that doesn't mean you need to hate them.
That doesn't mean that we need to respond to every bee or spider or rat by saying, kill it with fire.
It means we need to think about it.
Why is that beehive there?
Or yellow jackets are the animal with which I'm a little more familiar.
They tend to thrive in abandoned areas.
So, for example, if you have abandoned a car in your lawn, you will sometimes get a hive of yellow jackets up in there, right?
Or, you know, dead trees.
They are cavity dwellers.
They sometimes often dig into the ground.
I've had a bunch of yellow jacket nests in my property.
And when we see these animals in these places, we need to understand why they're there, what they're doing, and what they want, right?
Otherwise, our first response is going to be, okay, we're going to kill it with fire.
Okay, we're going to spray it with poison.
We're going to do all of these things.
And then when they come back, we're going to get even madder.
It doesn't help us long-term understand why animals end up where they do.
And that's one of the other things that I really loved about learning from indigenous peoples was that they relied so heavily on traditional ecological knowledge, right?
A deep understanding of their environments derived from literally thousands of years of observation.
And their response when seeing an animal where they don't necessarily want it is not kill it with fire.
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