Diane K. Boyd
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard Oct 2024
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But it's fascinating and full of facts about the world of bird migration and how they get places and like a particular important flat in China that was critical habitat for a group of birds suddenly gets developed. And it's like the wintering ground for half a million of these birds or whatever it was. And certainly, where do they go?
Or the stars or whatever.
I just heard a lot of stuff. I've had, I remember, yeah, one winter night I was at my little remote cabin and it was at Moose City and it was stormy and it was like November and it was stormy and I went outside to use the outhouse and I heard this calling and it was dark and stormy and I was calling and calling and got closer and closer and I put my bright flashlight straight up
And there was a flock of snow geese. I'd never seen snow geese up there, never. And they were circling around, and they were lost in the storm. And there's no lights up there except for my house light and my flashlight, and they were circling around the meadow. And I listened to that haunting call, and I thought, how are they going to survive it? This is the valley bottom.
Are they going to try and go up over the mountaintops?
in the storm are they gonna crash land in the meadow for the night anyway i got to thinking about them i thought why how did they get here they got blown off course i just shut my light off and i don't know what happened to him never saw him again wow but i think about these birds a lot of them die migrating yeah they don't have a good ending you know there's birds that fly across the entire ocean it's mind-boggling mind-boggling they sleep while they're flying
I know. I wished I could do that when I was driving. I try sometimes.
Yeah, they just put out those big old wings.
Yeah, for months or years.
I mean, it's crazy, right?
There you go.
Yeah, I got to see albatross one time when I was down, I think, where was I? I was down, I think it was New Zealand, but they were amazing. I like the comments.
So it would be interesting to me. I would hope the day would come with wolves and other large carnivores where people learn about the science and they get just as excited as this instead of the wolves have killed all the deer now.
Yeah.
Yeah. So a couple of things. I, as a wolf conservationist, I guess I'd say, and researcher. And a wolf lover. And manager. Well. Don't you love them? I love wolves. I love dogs. I love foxes. I love white-tailed. I love wildlife. That's better. And I'm.
kind of in the middle, but obviously I'm passionate about wolves and I lean towards whatever we need to do to ensure that they continue as a species. I'm not saying they're going to live in Iowa and Texas. I'm just saying there's places that they can live where they more likely belong. I'm just going to put it that way.
But I am not in favor of reintroductions and I was not in favor of the Yellowstone and the Central Idaho reintroductions, which usually surprises people because I promote wolf conservation. But I felt that wolves were coming down on their own from Canada. And before those wolves were ever reintroduced by 1995, we had like eight packs of wolves in the state of Montana, 70, 75 wolves.
And you can Google that with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service early reports. They were making it. And I feel like some of these places where reintroductions are happening are Because of ballot box initiatives like Colorado, wolves were already starting to get to Colorado.
And the people who are wolf proponents say we want them reintroduced because they'll never make the great desert across Wyoming. They'll all be killed. They can't make it. Well, a few of them have. And they even made pups in 19, I think it was 2020 or 2021. And then this wolf was, did I tell you about the wolf from Michigan?
Yeah, the wolf that was killed, trapped in Colorado this year that came from the Great Lakes. My God, how did it get there? But it did. So I feel sort of that Colorado is on the cusp of natural recovery. If it's going to be one year or 10 years or 50 years, it's a time issue. And I think the same was true for Yellowstone and Central Idaho. They were already getting to those places.
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