....This is the video I should have posted...
It's a neat video Lloyd. I have a good friend that ranches up in the mountains near Yellowstone, and he has many similar accounts. From bold park, thirty miles away, wolves, sitting at the edge of fields like dogs while he ran tractors, to luckily MT allowing pest control, to the elk being heavily killed off and chased out of their area, to ending up being able to get over the counter tags to hunt them.
They are around, but I haven't seen any for maybe the last four or five, years when I visit. Put some hunting pressure on them, and they act like part of the wild, part of the food chain, otherwise they had a stretch where they were aggressive, indiscriminate killers of lamb, calves and young game, without fully consuming them for the food. And, they were much harder on nesting upland birds.
My friends live a bit over thirty miles from paved road, and almost forty miles from a grocery store. We've visited a time or two in mid winter, very doable, but not exactly easy. A little rant disclaimer swtching on, a petrified brain just can't comprehend what it's like to assume there's a charging station, but there are none to be found, and no reception to call tiple a.
