Grizzly Bears
Food Chain Radio Show #1182
Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist
Women and Grizzly Bears
Guest: Trina Bradley, VP, Marias River Livestock Ass., President, North Country CattleWomen, & Director of Montana Cattlewomen & Malou Anderson-Ramirez, B Bar Ranch, Partner and Guide, The Common Ground Project / Founder, Tom Miner Basin Association
Nature is the business of eat, or be eaten.
Michael Olson Food Chain Radio – Women and Grizzly Bears
Living, as we do – midst all our rules, regulations and traffic lights – city folk find it easy to forget this elemental fact.
The easiest way to tune-back-in to elemental nature, is to try to grow something. Any plant, animal, bird or fish will do. Once, what we are growing becomes ours, others will want it to be theirs, and so we call them “pests.”
Whether we can or cannot succeed at growing our crop depends on our ability to contend with the pests that want what is ours to be theirs. There are many different pests with which me must contend, but they are all alike in that they are hungry, smart, and determined to win.
One of the many pests with which I now must contend is the pocket gopher, and this furry little critter is indeed hungry, smart and determined to eat everything in my garden.
If you were to watch my competition with this pest, you would probably think it would make a very amusing social media video. Lots of laughs for everyone, except for me.
And so, when I ran across a conversation between two Montana cattle women about their challenges of living with grizzly bears, I just had to find out…
Leave a comment below: How does one contend when the pests in the garden are 1700-pound grizzly bears?
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