Diane K. Boyd
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard Oct 2024
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Totally. Yeah. Yeah. So anyway, you asked that.
Yeah. They just kill because they kill because they eat.
People are weird. Yeah. People are creepy. A little sign about their being weird. I love that. Yeah.
Well, off and on. So when I arrived there, I joined a team of young researchers. We were studying wolves and grizzly bears, and we helped each other with their work. So it was done and all that. And then when we ran out of funding, then I was up there alone for about three years. But other than that, there were people coming.
Well, I had two dogs. I wasn't totally alone. And people were coming and going seasonally. I had summer help and I had winter help, but certainly there wasn't people there on the shoulder season.
You know, it's interesting because it didn't. Really? Back when I was younger, I was a bit of a misanthrope and I liked being alone. And when I was alone, being alone is different than being lonely. It just is. Now as an older person, I feel different about people. I'm more engaged with people. I enjoy people. So, yeah, I get lonely now, but I didn't back then. I mean, how could you be lonely?
You're living in the majestic mountains and wilderness of Glacier National Park, and everything is new, and there's tracks to find, and on and on and on.
Well, that's why you're really good at what you do, because you're a social person. You like to engage in conversation, but I didn't used to be that way. You wouldn't have wanted to have interviewed me 30 years ago, let's put it that way. Really? Yeah. I bet we would have worked out. It would have been all right. It would have worked out. I'm more conversational now.
Yes. And it's sort of like, it's like when I go, I go up to my cabin for a visit. No, I no longer live there full time, but I live there a couple of months a year, maybe three, maybe usually two. When I go up, it takes me like three to four days to decompress and get back into the mode of, oh, I can't call. Oh, I can't go on the internet. Do I want to hook up this darling? No. No.
Go out and just sit outside and have a cup of tea and listen to the crick and then think about what you're going to do for the day. Go on a hike. But it takes me a few days now to get to that frame of mind. It doesn't. It's not instant anymore. So I've changed who I am.
I did that, but I bought stuff in town and I would buy a lot in November while I could still drive in because sometimes in the winter you couldn't drive in anymore. So I would stock up and buy, you know, three, four hundred pounds of dog food and Bulk supplies of flour and oats, and I canned. Back then, I actually did some canning. Now, I don't have time. I don't care about it.
I can buy canned peaches or whatever. And I never grew a food garden because of the bears.
See, I didn't want to attract grizzlies.
So I didn't grow food except lettuce.
They're always there, but you don't see them very often. So it's sort of like all the wild things that are up there are pretty wild. And there weren't a lot of people up there then. Now everybody's discovered Montana and there's people everywhere.
I mean, I've just come back from bird hunting. I just was 31 days on the road and I just got home three days ago and now I'm here. And I was out bird hunting with friends and I said, I told them, I said, so when I hunt with my pointers, I got a griffon and a wire hair. I said, don't talk. Don't call the dog's name. Don't holler about it.
Just watch and enjoy and smell and feel what goes on and trust the dogs. If you see them getting birdie, get ready. Because so many times you hunt with people and they're hacking their dog, they're calling, they're hollering, they're talking to you about something going on over here. Hey, did you watch the Vikings game? Well, nobody watches the Vikings game. Anyway, did you watch this or that?
It's like we're out there seeking a smart bird that has ears. Watch the dogs. So I feel that way when I'm out living in the wild, too, with hiking. I'm not going to see elk or bears or even fox if you're yammering away.
That's why I like being alone.
Yeah. Yeah, you know, and it's fun to interact. I mean, but even when I go to Yellowstone, I go to Yellowstone at least a couple times a year to watch wolves. I love the wolf watchers. They're so enthusiastic. But something's going on and you can't take a video because everybody's talking.
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