Diane K. Boyd
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard Oct 2024
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Well, that would be good. And some ranchers do. But many people have been in this business four or five generations on their family ranch. And they've had bad experiences with hunters that come in and cut their fences, shoot their cows, leave their gates open. And they just say, I'm done. I'm closed. And they get really angry.
I just hunted on a guy's ranch about a week ago up in north central Montana. And he owns 60 sections. That's 60 square miles of land, which may not be a big place in Texas, but for most of the rest of the world. That's huge. It's huge. And he gave us permission, but... He had to tell us all the challenges he's had and why he had a big sign, don't even ask, basically. Right.
But I know he was going to let us because some other friends of mine had hunted there. But he had all these heartburns over things that had happened to him. Hunters gave him a really bad taste in their mouth at night.
I, as a single individual person, can't do a lot about it, and I'd like to see, you know, hunting organizations, many really good ones, help promote better hunter behavior and better hunter-landowner relationships. You would be very generous to do that, but most people will not give an easement.
That happens.
It's just like any other group of people. Like anything else. Exactly. Yep. Exactly. And I know in my business with wolves, I've always tried to be very transparent. I'm very honest. And if somebody asks me a question, I'll give them the best information I have. If I don't know an answer, I'll say, I don't know. But, you know, you could call so-and-so who's maybe had the experience with that.
I got nothing to hide by being dishonest or trying to sell somebody. It's like hunting impacts of wolves on hunting animals. You look at populations and they go like this all the time. And sometimes wolves cause it, sometimes not. Sometimes it's winter. Sometimes it's accumulation of lions and bears and wolves. But it's like the stock market. People want to see it do this.
Exactly. Yeah.
We're facing interesting times.
I think the hardest thing is so much social media. Everything goes on instantly and whether it's true or not.
And that film or the video ran viral big time. But there's no one species that's going to make or break the world except maybe people.
But in terms of the impacts, no. And it's been shown since that video came out, the movie, that that might be true in a short time period in small places. But it's not the global picture for Yellowstone Park. Wolves have not saved the planet. They just haven't. It's just not that simple. Right.
I think, yes. So you can go either way. And I think people who are out on either extreme... can actually make people in the middle more involved with conservation efforts. Like that guy with the movie. Well, it's a rosy story, and pieces of it may be true in certain places for a temporal or spatial time period.
But then there's the guy in, where was it, Daniels, Wyoming, who roared over that wolf in the snowmobile and crippled it. You heard about this, didn't you?
And then he brought it back. Crippled. To the bar.
And had it in the bar so people could be entertained for an hour before they took it out back and shot it. Now, that's a pretty horrific thing, whether it's a deer or a moth lion or an owl. Or any animal. It's horrible. Any animal. But that horrific act got a lot of people in the middle fired up to become more strong conservationists. So I'm sorry that that happened.
But on the other hand, it brings a lot of awareness to people who are not aware of the level of capacity of people to be stupid. Right.
That's evil.
Right.
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