Grizzly Bears and Us ｜ Official Podcast Trailer ｜ Working Wild University
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Grizzly bears are returning to the American West - and with them comes one of the biggest conservation questions of our time.
After decades of recovery, grizzlies are expanding into working ranches, rural communities, and landscapes where people make their living. What happens when one of North America's most iconic predators comes home?
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AI GeneratedWorking Wild University explores the complex and often volatile relationship between humans and grizzly bears in the American West. The series examines the tension between conservationists and landowners, seeking a \"Radical Center\" to manage wildlife conflicts and ensure a sustainable coexistence in a shared landscape.
Wildlife officials report grizzly bears are showing up in places they haven't been seen in years.
Now the drug is quickly losing its effect. Number 36 will not hold still much longer.
Conversations about grizzly bears, it's a pile of rag soaked in gasoline and it's just waiting
for someone to throw a match on. They can be like a protector, they can be a relative,
but they're also wild animals. They're unpredictable. All of a sudden this big 700 pound
dark grizzly bear comes charging out at me. That was a close call. The events are nightmare in
character. My nightmare as a kid was very different than yours because I was privy to
all of the details of this. It was shocking, it was it was vitriolic. You know people are like oh
let's talk about livestock conflicts with grizzly bears. We live here too. We work outside.
We're raising beef to feed a nation. We're not raising beef to feed grizzly bears.
We can live with grizzly bears but we have to be able to manage them.
These problems will not stand still for politics or for partisanship. The time has come
for man to make his peace with nature.
There's this extreme fear, hate and then there's this like extreme love and I want to cuddle it
and those are both equally dangerous and the truth's in here
and the Radical Center may be the majority of us at some level.
This is Working Wild University, a show where we explore what it means to share the working
landscape with people and wildlife from the crossroads of culture and science. I'm Jared
Beaver, wildlife extension specialist and assistant professor at Montana State University.
And I'm Hallie Mahold. I work with landowners dedicated to keeping the working lands of the
American West whole and healthy at Western Landowners Alliance. Whether you're here for
the bears, here for the people, or a little bit of both, we're embarking on a journey driven by
curiosity. We can't do this kind of landscape scale conservation without looking at it ridge
top to ridge top and so we bring people in and they can, I love bears, I hate bears. It doesn't
matter but we still find a way to be able to talk about it. So join us as we explore the future of
both grizzly bears and people sharing an ever more crowded landscape. I think that the people
in this region are the ones who are going to be writing the next chapter of the story. All that
and more this season on Working Wild University. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.