Diane K. Boyd
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard Oct 2024
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Yeah, and I have no idea what it was. But I've never had that feeling around wildlife. I tend to think it was human. I don't know if we... Oh, you feel like it was human out there? Yeah. I don't know if we can smell and not register in our forebrain what we detect. Maybe it's really primitive. I don't know. I'm just saying I had it happen twice.
Yeah, and I think that's because we're all raised in an urban environment, more or less, nowadays. And so having lots of people around is normal, but to have one person in a pretty remote area, we don't experience that very often anymore.
I have a chapter in my book, early in the book, where I describe an event that I've basically been a real private person all my life until this book came out. And once I wrote this book, I had to bring up stories that are very personal to me. And I had an event one night that was terrifying, probably the most terrifying thing that's ever happened in my life. It involved humans.
So, yeah, I totally get that. People in places where they shouldn't be. What happened? Do you want to read it? Do you want me to spoil it? You want me to do the spoiler thing?
Okay. I'll just give you the elevator speech part of it. Okay. So I was in my cabin at night. And the dogs started growling. I had very big dogs. I always have dogs. And I looked out my window, and it was winter, and it was cold, and I could see a couple of guys out there lurking around. And I was in the middle of nowhere. And then it kind of digressed from there. So I...
For the only first and only time in my life, I pulled a gun on these guys.
Yeah. I was in danger.
Well, they came to pay me a visit.
They called me by name, which was really freaky. So you think somebody in the woods walking around scares you? Wait until you see somebody who you don't know who it is and they call you by your first name. That's freaky.
I didn't find out because I pulled a gun on them.
I drove them off. And it was terrifying to me. It was not terrifying at the moment because I was absolutely focused, like predator focused, calm. But after they left, I started to shake. Yeah. Yeah. Kind of after the adrenaline surge happened.
They were drunk.
Yeah, it wasn't good. And so how did they know who you were? Do you know? Oh, it's a long story. I was working up there. I was kind of a novelty, a young blonde woman. I was only about 25, living alone, studying wolves. And at the time, there were other people coming and going, studying wolves. But at that winter, I was alone. And I had been working—it's a long story—
I was working behind the customs station right on the Canadian border, and they were hauling logs down out of Canada, bringing them to the customs station. They would have to transfer the logs to an American truck, and then the Canadian trucks would go back. And I temporarily took a job as the knot bumper at the log deck landing, which means my job was to run a chainsaw, trim off the branches.
Trim the length of the log to exactly fit the log bed. Anyway, so I was around. So these loggers knew who I was. And I was, you know, I was cordial enough. But it was two of those guys.
Yeah. And I don't, I never told the story until I wrote this book. And I just thought. It's a part of me that's very personal. It's a part of me that I learned from. It's never happened again. And I had one old logger, old Bob. He saw me on the road the next day. I was pretty shook up. And he stopped. We chatted often. and he had seen a wolf. He'd taken a picture of it.
So anyway, we chat, and he says, so I hear you had some visitors last night. I looked it up, because he's up in his log truck. I said, yeah. He says, you don't have to worry. That won't happen again. He's kind of like watching out for me.
Yeah, because we had kind of befriended each other because he'd spotted this wolf and he'd taken pictures of it. Anyway, yeah.
The logger network, the CB radios. I don't know. I didn't tell anybody. But he knew right away.
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