My heart is heavy right now. I am so very sorry for the loss of your beloved Taylen. I admire the passion and deep commitment you're demonstrating as you write about this. I know you will continue to do whatever it takes to seek a living resolution for both the people we care about and the wildlife we share our lives with. Growing up in the same gold rush country in the 1970s and now living in Montana makes this feel very personal to me. You have done exceptional reporting, research, and writing. I just wish you didn't have to address this situation at all.
Thank you, Marnie—believe me I’m with you on that last thought, I also wish I didn’t have this particular assignment, but it happened the way anything happens, I guess. I am really grateful to have had the opportunity to present the circumstances and the ongoing, bigger picture issues in a publication with the Time’s stature and circulation, and the reader responses were overwhelmingly pretty encouraging. Basically I’m trying to restore the idea that nothing in ecology happens in a vacuum, independent of the dynamics of the whole system, and that “balance” within that system on a sustainable basis in the modern era requires human intervention and guidance, even though “management” itself is admittedly a learn-as-you-go process. Welcome to the anthropocene, I guess…are you now living in Missoula also?
The learn-as-you-go 'hounding' conditioning process combined with predation permits is new to me and something I could really get behind, if it works. Yes, I moved to the Bitterroot Valley in 1994 and have been in Missoula for eight years.
My heart is heavy right now. I am so very sorry for the loss of your beloved Taylen. I admire the passion and deep commitment you're demonstrating as you write about this. I know you will continue to do whatever it takes to seek a living resolution for both the people we care about and the wildlife we share our lives with. Growing up in the same gold rush country in the 1970s and now living in Montana makes this feel very personal to me. You have done exceptional reporting, research, and writing. I just wish you didn't have to address this situation at all.
Thank you, Marnie—believe me I’m with you on that last thought, I also wish I didn’t have this particular assignment, but it happened the way anything happens, I guess. I am really grateful to have had the opportunity to present the circumstances and the ongoing, bigger picture issues in a publication with the Time’s stature and circulation, and the reader responses were overwhelmingly pretty encouraging. Basically I’m trying to restore the idea that nothing in ecology happens in a vacuum, independent of the dynamics of the whole system, and that “balance” within that system on a sustainable basis in the modern era requires human intervention and guidance, even though “management” itself is admittedly a learn-as-you-go process. Welcome to the anthropocene, I guess…are you now living in Missoula also?
The learn-as-you-go 'hounding' conditioning process combined with predation permits is new to me and something I could really get behind, if it works. Yes, I moved to the Bitterroot Valley in 1994 and have been in Missoula for eight years.