Matt Skoglund
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
We're able to pull it together and get across the finish line.
But if we didn't get that, like if we had, if we'd waited a year, two years, there's, we wouldn't be sitting here.
Like it was, it was, we found a needle in the haystack in 2018 and we're damn grateful for it.
When we got the land under contract at the end of May with the closing date in September, I went into what I called sponge mode, just trying to absorb and learn as much as possible.
And I got to visit different ranches, got to visit one of Ted Turner's ranches.
And this great rancher, he actually has bison and cattle on different pastures up in Malt, Montana, north of Laurel.
And, um, he connected me with a fencing guy that he had trained on his fencing.
And that's what we put on our place.
And it's awesome.
Our, so our fencing people look at it and they're like, this keeps Buffalo in like, are you like, cause it's, it just looks super weak.
It's, uh, our perimeter fence, five wire, high tinsel prong, all wildlife friendly.
So pronghorn can go under deer, elk, and moose can go over and the middle wire is hot.
Um, and it's ultimately a psychological barrier.