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[sil.]

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[music]

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I came back in 1968 after the said offensive.
But I got to a lot of places in Vietnam

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before the war did and it
wasn’t a terrible place.

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I, I love the people, I love the country. It’s a wonderful
country. There were tigers there, there were bear there.

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I was a medic

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and was under the illusion that
at least I’m doing some good

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along the way.

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But after the offensive

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it was all together too much.

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I was (inaudible) case
when I got out of there.

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[sil.]

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When I started filming

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grizzlies in 1975, whole
time, that time I had,

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I had to move to either glacier, Yellowstone national park essentially
because those were the only places you had any bears left.

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I came up here late in September
from the north cascades

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and uh… I walked up to the Apcar(ph) mountains and
I stood on the top of the highest peak there.

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I spotted 114 grizzly bears and I looked off at a distance
there in the top of the mountain was a fire lookout.

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So the next year, I put one application
for one job in the whole world

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and it happened to be Huckleberry lookout and
they were stupid enough to give it to me.

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I’m not, how to take the greatest

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chances that I can take. I’m simply out
to finish this project with the grizzly.

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It’s, it’s a great hunk of my life when
I’m close to wrapping about in some way.

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But that involves an element of risk.

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[music]

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My range was filled with

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dangerous encounters with bears.
Sometimes a bear was ferocious

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and even a little unnatural. It gets
curious but it’s also very practical.

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I work out all my fears and my dreams and
then when I get out there in the real world,

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I, I don’t have to bother with them much. A couple
of times a week, sometimes I’ll dream of bears.

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The grizzly

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especially among the plains Indians, there
is always something more than a bear.

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The symbol more than
anything else of courage,

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of power, a sort of awesome being
who was sent down on earth

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to humble men, to make men humble.

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I have a relationship with this one bear.

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I’m very drawn to the bear. He’s my most important
grizzly bear but he’s also the most dangerous animal,

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I know and uh… he’s the one
that keeps destroying my gear.

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He’s the one that ate my T-shirt for example.
He’s the one that ate my sleeping bag.

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He’s the one that, he essentially chewed the pieces, everything
that smelled of me while ignoring lots of other things.

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And the, the quintessence of

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the grizzly year for me comes when I go out and I see
this one animal. Some years, I don’t feel, maybe,

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sometimes I but I make sure he’s there.
If I ever get mauled

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or seriously hurt or killed by a
grizzly, it would probably be by him

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and yet uh… the high point of
my year comes when I find him.

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I personally think that, that’s the way, he wants to
go. I mean, his idea of going is being mauled by a big

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alpha bear and you know,
that’s end of the chapter.

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No. I think so. I sometimes think that.
You know,

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it’s an hour and 15 minutes. You know,

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Doug is one of the that have,
have a baby on the, on the trail,

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you know with the Indian woman.
Just fall behind,

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squad have their kid and then catch up. It is true.
No, it’s not true. This is gonna… One of these.

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Yeah, but he was joking. It was a lot
different. He’s changed quite a bit.

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I don’t think he’s changed
since Laurel was born to me,

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he’s changed. Oh, yeah, of course he has.
You want to be talking about the dead man.

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But he ain’t back yet. Come on.
He’s not here.

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No. He’s not here. How late is he? Oh, God.

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It’s the most dangerous time of year.

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No he’s, he’s coming up. He’s fine. For
him not to… to get out without seeing.

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When I and he were sitting in
the cabin and he told me that,

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how much, he, he was, how he fell
in love with you and I just,

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I knew that this guy, you know, from
that point on, I knew that you know,

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he had a real strong appreciation of love for
life. Even though he acts like a madman.

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I didn’t know that. And we worry about him. Oh, God, I couldn’t believe it and this
year… Yes, you were sitting right there and he was going… There he is. All right.

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Oh, finally. Great.

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Oh, glad to see you.

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Hi, hi. I had a little trouble with a bear.

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[music]

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Get that boy a beer.

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[music]

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I guess the uh… incredibly
hypocritical for me

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to uh… go out and pretend that I’m making

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a film that’s gonna better fit and help grizzlies and invade
their last territory, the last few bears we’ve got left here

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and also carry a big piece just
so if things don’t go just so so,

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is not my turf. Uh… blow him away with
a 44 magnum. I, I don’t think that be.

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Going to be poor manners.

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You don’t have the option of blowing the bear
away and therefore you have to deal with the bear

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and that teaches you a lot. You learn a lot
about bears. You learn a lot about yourself by

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having this tear down grizzly.

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[sil.]

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I always thought, I was too active to take a job as a
fire lookout but it turns out it was a perfect job.

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It’s just contemplated
enough to suit my needs.

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I get a lot of reading and writing done. We get
looked down in the backs of bears and eagles

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and if you like your own company, it’s like getting children
to buy your patch and you know, it’s run by grizzly bears.

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[music]

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In past year, they had a lot of trouble.
They had a lot of trouble with people

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that uh… didn’t like bears
applying for jobs as fire lookouts

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and lookouts would often quit and leave because
they were afraid of bears. Go back to Chicago.

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[music]

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Mostly, it was a quiet.

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Once the radio got turned off, there was
nothing making a sound for 20 miles

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in any one direction and at night, you could
see little lights. You can see their lights

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of (inaudible) from the falls 50 miles away. But
you look out and on one side of the lookout

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was dark as far as the eye could
see and all that space has very,

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very stronghold of wilderness
its left in the lower 48.

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Stronghold of the last grizzlies anyway.
And all that,

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that darkness uh…, it mean a lot to me.
Setting that blank spot on the map.

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The absolute void of any
human activity whatsoever.

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[sil.]

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Welcome to Montana. This way,

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I got my pickup, it wouldn’t start.
Sorry, I’m late.

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[sil.]

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My windshield wiper. Hi, hon. Hi.
Hi. This is Dane Williams

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from New York. Hi. Hi. You get arrested
right in the bug grizzly bears.

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But I’m gonna take her up the mountain some place.
Who is this? This is Laura. So this is home.

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Yup. Come on in. Okay.

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I bought a dead drunk from a
bar in Tusa at 400 bucks.

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And you’re still living in it right. Here, this way, I
ran into irrigation out, out of Santa Fe, one night.

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We dug in too? No, no.

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Lisa was up with the grizzly hill when
she was eight and a half months pregnant

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and I thought, she was seven and a half months
pregnant. I mean, I almost blew it altogether.

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We, we were gonna have Laura with a midwife in a little
birthing room. We never made it. We had her on the roads.

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We’re not here and one day later
it bounce here, it comes.

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I’m reading a book. I’m on month sticks.
No. We got down in the grizzly hills with

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bouncing on the roads from here to Great Falls
brought out a labor. But I’m still on month six,

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trying to figure out what’s going on there. It,
we… we went into last minute breathing exercises

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and they seem to work and that’s
what we got. When was she born?

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On the 7th of October. My favorite time of
year. Libra. Is that what she is? I think so.

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At the moment, she doesn’t have my horoscope but I
don’t care. What is your horoscope? It’s all bad.

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It’s something one would prefer not to have as far as I can
tell. What is it? Well, I have this woman worked it out

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for me once and she same to tell another woman who is a
friend of mine about my horoscope and she broke down in tears

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and was sobbed, I’m sorry, I’m sorry and I never
found out the particulars but it’s like I say,

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it’s something one would
prefer not to have, I think.

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When was the first time, you ever saw a
grizzly close up? Well, it was in Alaska

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and I was a punk kid packing a 44 magnum on my hip
and we hiked across some sort of open country

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and all of a sudden, at about a hundred yards away,
grizzly sees us, stands up and immediately just charges.

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It doesn’t hesitate, nothing. I took my
44 magnum and I got him all ready to go

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and I’ve been reading all these horror stories about
griz and all these macho books and talked all kinds of

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and I knew after about two seconds, I wasn’t gonna shoot the bear anyway.
The bear keep coming. The bear kept coming up to about 15 feet away,

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then it sort of lifted up its front paws,
not really rear but sort of lifted up,

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caught our scent and veered
and ran away just as fast.

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After that I quit carrying guns in
grizz country. What would you do

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if a bear charged you? You got to stand your ground because
there is nothing else you can do. There is no trees to climb.

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There aren’t? No, and bears do this to each other
all the time. Most charges are bluff of course,

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you never know until, until it happens.
But if you stand your ground,

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the odds are the bear will stop and bear
turn off. People that killed by bears uh…

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that happens because they try to run away, are they… Well,
that’s where a lot of people get hurt because they,

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they move too quick when they should be stand in
their ground and they trigger the predator instinct

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because the grizzlies are predators part of the years and
part of that instinct is there. So if you get charged by cubs

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and she’s only 40 feet away and you make a move for a tree, she’s
likely to conclude that charge but if you, if you stand there

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and just stand your ground
like another dominant bear,

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99 times out of hundred, she won’t. So you grab your
arms out. I guess, I do because I think I make sure,

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I look larger, that’s all.

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What is this supposed to… Is this supposed
to help or what? Yeah, just, just,

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I think this helps. Smoke is a
natural uh… is a natural scent and,

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and they just don’t pick up on other
smells as much if you smoke your clothes.

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I think it sort of, I think it sort of hide
your camouflage is your human scent which is,

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the main things bear key off of, they key off movement.
Their hearing is a lot better than ours but their nose

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are just unparalleled in the animal kingdom.
They can smell a human being mile away.

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It’s true. Well, what’s uh…

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what happens if we’re up there sleeping and a bear comes along? We got
to hear the bear coming and we got to… If we knew the bear is coming.

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Yeah, he makes a lot of noise too and, and… And then
you climb a tree? No, I usually make a little noise

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and talk to him and it keeps him at bay.
But he, he’s a dominant bear.

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He never runs away very far. So all we can
do is if we hear some alerting brush,

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I’ll wake up and I’ll get up and I’ll walk around and
I’ll talk to this animal. Try to keep the fire going

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most of the night. It’s, it’s not a time of the
year when you get much sleep up there. It’s…

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Well, I don’t know, if I want
to stay up there tonight.

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I don’t blame ya. Neither do I.

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Well, I have to stand my ground
for grizzly. We’ll, okay. Honest.

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It’s just gonna be a sort of tense night.
It maybe a sleepless night, that’s all.

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We’ll make up for it later. And I think it could be beautiful
tomorrow if it snows. It’s better to have snow than rain.

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Rain is miserable up there.

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[music]

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[sil.]

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Here. See, see that large fur tree on there, the largest
one. Right there. Yeah. Yeah. Now look right over the top

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of it just over the top
of it about ten feet.

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You’ll see, there are
three bears, two kind of…

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I see it. Okay, got them. Those are
grizzlies. There are two band color

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and the mother is white brown. I don’t see the mother.
Okay. She’s brown. Just keep looking in the area.

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Yeah, I can see them right there.

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Yep. That’s great. They’re actually one

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and a half years old.
There’s three all together.

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Brown and two light. I see three
light ones. Oh, do you? Yeah.

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Oh, my God,

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there is three of them. Oh, you
know, it’s possible there is three.

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I just, all I’ve seen is two so far.

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[sil.]

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The three yearlings are all to the
right and the mother to the left.

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Yeah, it was the mother, I saw.

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They are a beautiful family.

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[sil.]

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[music]

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It’s a really gorgeous family.

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Hi grizzly bears. I’m
really glad you’re still

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around whether should they’ve left.

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[music]

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Beautiful.

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And so quite…

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Look at the two cubs call each other.

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[sil.]

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They did hear us.

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I’m on this ridge.

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[music]

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No, they’re not.

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They’re coming up here. No.

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[music]

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They don’t know

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we’re here but they did hear us. They
can’t even smell us. Just stay here,

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until we see,

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what they’re gonna do.

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[sil.]

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There is another one.

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Okay. Now watch this confrontation.

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I can’t see the (inaudible) anymore. Once
you sees him, he’s likely to charge.

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And she will try to kill him. There is
the cubs. You see there on the side.

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Yeah.

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[music]

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Maybe listening to them. Yes,
that’s what you’re supposed to do.

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[music]

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That was a lot of drama,

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isn’t it? It’s a, it’s a really tense time

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of the year. It looks like
it’s gonna snow tonight.

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There is one down the water. Yeah.

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[sil.]

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The wind is rising. It means
that fly is coming in.

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[sil.]

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[music]

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They are coming back. What? Is it coming
back? No, I think that’s another sound.

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I don’t think it will be back tonight.
He was, he was on his way out

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and he just comes through here just to
bother the bears. But it’s, this for me,

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there is hardly a greater even when a
helicopter, it all goes back every time,

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I see one. I have the same feeling when they were
machinegunning me in Vietnam. What helicopter was doing that?

00:26:25.000 --> 00:26:29.999
It was one of our helicopters there.
One of,

00:26:30.000 --> 00:26:34.999
one of our helicopters. Sure, they shoot anything up
there. They were just shooting, because we were moving?

00:26:35.000 --> 00:26:39.999
Yeah, because us, something to shoot at. They
don’t uh… those boys up there don’t care.

00:26:40.000 --> 00:26:44.999
So they do all kinds of things.
Mountain yard babies,

00:26:45.000 --> 00:26:49.999
water buffalo, green (inaudible)
medics all the same.

00:26:50.000 --> 00:26:54.999
And I get that feeling any time, I see a helicopter. The one
place, I hate most of all this year, helicopters in wilderness

00:26:55.000 --> 00:26:59.999
in a wild place like this.
And if I were armed,

00:27:00.000 --> 00:27:04.999
I would probably shoot at the son of a bitch.
I probably, I probably would shoot him down.

00:27:05.000 --> 00:27:09.999
It’s something I… It’s almost an automatic reaction to
the sound of the blade. It’s, it’s visceral, look at me.

00:27:10.000 --> 00:27:14.999
I’m shaking right now.

00:27:15.000 --> 00:27:19.999
[sil.]

00:27:20.000 --> 00:27:24.999
I was in the hospital during the offensive.

00:27:25.000 --> 00:27:29.999
I had extended my tour twice.

00:27:30.000 --> 00:27:34.999
They should have gotten me out of country
about two months before I actually left.

00:27:35.000 --> 00:27:39.999
By the time, I got back
out of country side,

00:27:40.000 --> 00:27:44.999
the offense started to catch up with the countryside.
They came back in cities and hit the outline areas.

00:27:45.000 --> 00:27:49.999
I watched everything that I
believed really tried to do

00:27:50.000 --> 00:27:54.999
which build dispensaries and hospitals.
Rebuild a couple of villages.

00:27:55.000 --> 00:27:59.999
Everything was burnt to the ground.
Everything was level.

00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:04.999
Unfortunately, our sergeant got a hold of
the radio when I was in the wrong stopping.

00:28:05.000 --> 00:28:09.999
Called air strikes on the VC who are hurting
villagers across the river and they killed

00:28:10.000 --> 00:28:14.999
a couple hundred civilians and they
were all women and children, old men.

00:28:15.000 --> 00:28:19.999
So I sat there and, and pieced together
bodies for four days and after four days,

00:28:20.000 --> 00:28:24.999
I didn’t have anything left.
Just the craziness.

00:28:25.000 --> 00:28:29.999
I was out of the country within 48 hours.

00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:38.000
[sil.]

00:28:40.000 --> 00:28:48.000
[music]

00:29:00.000 --> 00:29:04.999
My mother picked me up at this little airport
in the middle of all these cornfields

00:29:05.000 --> 00:29:09.999
and uh… started to drive me back home
and the first thing I remember is,

00:29:10.000 --> 00:29:14.999
I hadn’t gone that fast in two years. She was driving
probably 50 miles an hour and I was terrified.

00:29:15.000 --> 00:29:19.999
I was holding on to the dashboard. I made her
drive 30 miles an hour all the way home.

00:29:20.000 --> 00:29:24.999
That was my first recollection. I guess, I didn’t have much to
say to anybody. I couldn’t really talk to anybody. You remember

00:29:25.000 --> 00:29:29.999
your first conversation with your father?
I just gave my father.

00:29:30.000 --> 00:29:34.999
We didn’t, I, I couldn’t say anything.
I was a break. He was just

00:29:35.000 --> 00:29:39.999
really overpowered to see me home.

00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:44.999
[music]

00:29:45.000 --> 00:29:49.999
I, I went a couple of years

00:29:50.000 --> 00:29:54.999
without a serious conversation
with anybody in a way.

00:29:55.000 --> 00:29:59.999
It wasn’t like you are deaf
anymore but no longer concerned.

00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:04.999
I am a really marginal part
of the human race right then.

00:30:05.000 --> 00:30:09.999
[music]

00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:14.999
That’s when I first started hanging out
with grizzly bears at Yellowstone.

00:30:15.000 --> 00:30:23.000
[music]

00:30:25.000 --> 00:30:29.999
But the therapy, the therapy
that works for you was

00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:34.999
to be in the mountains. To go back out and crawl back
into the brush. It’s just something that works for me.

00:30:35.000 --> 00:30:39.999
It helps if I have other things around
like grizzly bears that force you to take

00:30:40.000 --> 00:30:44.999
uh… a less myopic view of yourself.
You can’t, you can’t take yourself

00:30:45.000 --> 00:30:49.999
too seriously being
confronted with big bears.

00:30:50.000 --> 00:30:54.999
Self-indulgence is just totally
impossible in grizzly country.

00:30:55.000 --> 00:31:03.000
[music]

00:31:40.000 --> 00:31:44.999
Oh, Christ.

00:31:45.000 --> 00:31:49.999
That’s him no question.

00:31:50.000 --> 00:31:54.999
He’s a big, big stocky bear

00:31:55.000 --> 00:31:59.999
but as a funny looking bear.

00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:04.999
[music]

00:32:05.000 --> 00:32:09.999
He’s the one that I come to see every year.

00:32:10.000 --> 00:32:14.999
[music]

00:32:15.000 --> 00:32:19.999
Why is this bear special anyways?

00:32:20.000 --> 00:32:24.999
I back him (inaudible)one time and he
let me buy. He didn’t have to do that.

00:32:25.000 --> 00:32:29.999
But then he came back and simply
noticed, he ripped my T-shirt

00:32:30.000 --> 00:32:34.999
and sleeping bag. So he’s always here. He’s got a
relationship with me. He doesn’t especially want me around

00:32:35.000 --> 00:32:39.999
but he tolerates me part of the time.

00:32:40.000 --> 00:32:48.000
[music]

00:33:15.000 --> 00:33:19.999
I don’t know if he knows any other
human being but I think he knows me.

00:33:20.000 --> 00:33:24.999
And my position is a little
better when he’s around.

00:33:25.000 --> 00:33:29.999
Yeah, I could because he makes me like a lot
more insecure but much more interesting.

00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:34.999
[music]

00:33:35.000 --> 00:33:39.999
That bear might come up
and, and nose around.

00:33:40.000 --> 00:33:44.999
And I don’t know what he’ll do.

00:33:45.000 --> 00:33:49.999
If he knows we’re here, he
might, he did one time.

00:33:50.000 --> 00:33:54.999
[music]

00:33:55.000 --> 00:33:59.999
Is that, you’re back there on the ridge

00:34:00.000 --> 00:34:04.999
and that was the night… The bear allowed
me to pass. The bear allowed you to pass?

00:34:05.000 --> 00:34:09.999
Mm-hmm. But then that night was a night… All night long, I got
back up to the top. I knew, I was gonna see that bear again.

00:34:10.000 --> 00:34:14.999
So I build a little tiny fire at the top. Within
20 minutes, I could hear crunch, crunch, crunch

00:34:15.000 --> 00:34:19.999
here comes this big bear. I get a fire burning a
little bit. I take, I take some bear grass plumes

00:34:20.000 --> 00:34:24.999
which don’t burn very well. Lace them with toilet paper, get them
burning like a torch, walk off to the side of the hill and say,

00:34:25.000 --> 00:34:29.999
hey grizzly bear why don’t you back off a little
bit or something like that. And the bear does.

00:34:30.000 --> 00:34:34.999
But then 20 minutes later, he’s on another side of the
mountain. Here he comes again, crunch, crunch, crunch,

00:34:35.000 --> 00:34:39.999
I get more bear grass burning. Go up, he does
this till two in the morning. Two in the morning,

00:34:40.000 --> 00:34:44.999
he finally leaves me alone and I go
to sleep. You were able to sleep?

00:34:45.000 --> 00:34:49.999
I was so tired.

00:34:50.000 --> 00:34:54.999
No the pattern goes down.

00:34:55.000 --> 00:35:03.000
[sil.]

00:35:05.000 --> 00:35:09.999
How’s that? Perfect.

00:35:10.000 --> 00:35:18.000
[sil.]

00:35:25.000 --> 00:35:29.999
Well, I think the bear realizes this,

00:35:30.000 --> 00:35:34.999
if your personal fight, you know. No one
else involved. Nothing to do with you.

00:35:35.000 --> 00:35:39.999
[sil.]

00:35:40.000 --> 00:35:48.000
[music]

00:36:00.000 --> 00:36:04.999
I don’t know. I just uh…

00:36:05.000 --> 00:36:09.999
I keep getting those images of big uh…

00:36:10.000 --> 00:36:14.999
a big claw coming through the roof,
you though. I just can’t sleep.

00:36:15.000 --> 00:36:19.999
I mean, if you’re in a tent and you hear, you hear the
bear, you probably hear the bear from pretty far away,

00:36:20.000 --> 00:36:24.999
walking down. On a calm night, they make a lot
of noise, yeah. Can you hear them breathing?

00:36:25.000 --> 00:36:29.999
Only, well yeah, but only when they
get 10, 15 feet away. Oh, God.

00:36:30.000 --> 00:36:38.000
[sil.]

00:37:25.000 --> 00:37:33.000
[music]

00:37:50.000 --> 00:37:54.999
I think, I know this bear. His name,

00:37:55.000 --> 00:37:59.999
1976 was happy bear when
he was a four year old.

00:38:00.000 --> 00:38:04.999
And he would play all of the time.

00:38:05.000 --> 00:38:13.000
[music]

00:38:30.000 --> 00:38:34.999
Few animals play like, that’s how they
(inaudible) this. And nobody knows they do it.

00:38:35.000 --> 00:38:43.000
[music]

00:38:55.000 --> 00:38:59.999
I’ve seen him every year
now and for eight years.

00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:04.999
He’s almost my age. Get him right up there.

00:39:05.000 --> 00:39:13.000
[music]

00:39:35.000 --> 00:39:39.999
Joy, bear jump with joy.

00:39:40.000 --> 00:39:48.000
[music]

00:39:50.000 --> 00:39:54.999
[sil.]

00:39:55.000 --> 00:40:03.000
[music]

00:41:30.000 --> 00:41:34.999
[sil.]

00:41:35.000 --> 00:41:39.999
There is bearskin all over that snow field.

00:41:40.000 --> 00:41:44.999
Huge bearskin.

00:41:45.000 --> 00:41:49.999
Yeah, a full bear that pranks around it,

00:41:50.000 --> 00:41:54.999
biggest bearskin I’ve ever seen.

00:41:55.000 --> 00:41:59.999
You begin down the bear?

00:42:00.000 --> 00:42:04.999
No, I don’t know, that’s theirs.

00:42:05.000 --> 00:42:09.999
I don’t even know.

00:42:10.000 --> 00:42:14.999
I don’t go down there.

00:42:15.000 --> 00:42:19.999
It’s first time.

00:42:20.000 --> 00:42:24.999
It’s just doesn’t belong to us. No.

00:42:25.000 --> 00:42:29.999
Because you went down there?
Probably. It’s partly,

00:42:30.000 --> 00:42:34.999
because I haven’t been doing a great job.
Appalachian isn’t as clean as it used to be.

00:42:35.000 --> 00:42:39.999
And I got to stop this stuff.
So. In bringing new people.

00:42:40.000 --> 00:42:44.999
Yeah, I haven’t been great the last few years. I’ve
been treading off. I’ve been trying to publicize bears

00:42:45.000 --> 00:42:49.999
and I’ve been coming here more than I should have and
it’s a real delicate balance. There is no way to know

00:42:50.000 --> 00:42:54.999
when you’re really tread in too heavily. My
feeling is maybe I’ve treaded too heavily

00:42:55.000 --> 00:42:59.999
and it’s time for me to back off. It’s time to
say farewell to these bears for a good while.

00:43:00.000 --> 00:43:04.999
This is it. I miss this place

00:43:05.000 --> 00:43:09.999
because it is a special place.

00:43:10.000 --> 00:43:18.000
[music]

00:43:30.000 --> 00:43:34.999
If someone that you knew
well was, was hurt by a bear

00:43:35.000 --> 00:43:39.999
would it change your feelings
at all about grizzlies? No.

00:43:40.000 --> 00:43:44.999
Well, suppose, it was someone who umm… knew
what they were doing, who did everything right,

00:43:45.000 --> 00:43:49.999
who hung up their food, who, who know, who knows
how to camp and despite all the precautions

00:43:50.000 --> 00:43:54.999
just by some freak… Well, I think
that person would also be aware

00:43:55.000 --> 00:43:59.999
of the fact that once you go into grizzly country, you are
automatically entering a system where man is not to dominate animal

00:44:00.000 --> 00:44:04.999
and in the configuration of, of things
that are really possible out there

00:44:05.000 --> 00:44:09.999
is a possibility that the grizzly bear can tear up
your camp for no fault of your own or tear you up.

00:44:10.000 --> 00:44:14.999
It’s, it’s an element of risk and it’s an element of that
I struggle very hard to try to protect in wild places

00:44:15.000 --> 00:44:19.999
because we don’t need our wild places all safe
and tamed. We need a few untamed last vestiges

00:44:20.000 --> 00:44:24.999
that we can go into and enter the
conditions uh… with which that

00:44:25.000 --> 00:44:29.999
our first white ancestors hit this
continent with 400, 500 years ago.

00:44:30.000 --> 00:44:34.999
I think, it’s something which by its very
definition is, is uh… is uncontrollable.

00:44:35.000 --> 00:44:39.999
I think, it’s unmanageable. I think it’s, I
think it’s uh… uncompromisable wilderness

00:44:40.000 --> 00:44:44.999
and there is nothing we can do. If we want to have that great
bear out there, I think, we have to accept him just as he is

00:44:45.000 --> 00:44:49.999
with all his cantankerousness with
that indominantable quality about him

00:44:50.000 --> 00:44:54.999
and we can’t have the bear on our terms. He’s not going to be
non-aggressive. He’s not gonna be shy. He’s gonna be exactly

00:44:55.000 --> 00:44:59.999
what he is which is a risky proposition.

00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:04.999
This won’t be a grand wine but
it will be a good little wine.

00:45:05.000 --> 00:45:13.000
[sil.]

00:45:30.000 --> 00:45:34.999
It looks a little thin. But what the hell.

00:45:35.000 --> 00:45:39.999
[sil.]

00:45:40.000 --> 00:45:44.999
Last night. Is the end of our ordered bear,

00:45:45.000 --> 00:45:49.999
ordered life.

00:45:50.000 --> 00:45:54.999
But it’s a nice good one.

00:45:55.000 --> 00:46:03.000
[sil.]

00:46:05.000 --> 00:46:09.999
Want to put ears on him?

00:46:10.000 --> 00:46:14.999
Yeah.

00:46:15.000 --> 00:46:19.999
See old friends, we didn’t
get to see last time.

00:46:20.000 --> 00:46:24.999
[sil.]

00:46:25.000 --> 00:46:29.999
Last night,

00:46:30.000 --> 00:46:34.999
I was sad. I was getting
bumped up the last time,

00:46:35.000 --> 00:46:39.999
I worked out.

00:46:40.000 --> 00:46:44.999
I miss this place already.

00:46:45.000 --> 00:46:53.000
[sil.]

00:47:05.000 --> 00:47:09.999
I don’t know if you’re coming for that. I just try to
hook up my radio. Couldn’t get it work. Like my God,

00:47:10.000 --> 00:47:14.999
you know. I’m only two weeks late. You
better get job, before it gets snowed in.

00:47:15.000 --> 00:47:19.999
Yeah, you bet. We got a real hot spot gear.
I figured, we’ll just load up until

00:47:20.000 --> 00:47:24.999
you’re full and go on own.

00:47:25.000 --> 00:47:29.999
Okay, this one ought to be about the same weight.
That’s what I’m hoping. That’s a heavy son of a bitch.

00:47:30.000 --> 00:47:34.999
Yeah, I took them last week. Seen
any grizzlies up here this year.

00:47:35.000 --> 00:47:39.999
Not too many. But he wasn’t disappointed. No, I
know, I know that. That’s not his favorite thing.

00:47:40.000 --> 00:47:44.999
Me too. I was up at the same
where the helicopter was.

00:47:45.000 --> 00:47:49.999
Boy, they just disappeared in a hurry.

00:47:50.000 --> 00:47:54.999
That’s why I’m gonna call a park on
this year. They got no business doing

00:47:55.000 --> 00:47:59.999
surveys by helicopter, that
just drives bears just crazy.

00:48:00.000 --> 00:48:04.999
Because I’ve been doing this season job

00:48:05.000 --> 00:48:09.999
so bloody long, it’s been… Hard
to be off like. In eight years,

00:48:10.000 --> 00:48:14.999
since I’ve been working more than
six months out of a whole year.

00:48:15.000 --> 00:48:19.999
I’m right down to the point where I consider
poor and excessive. He told me last.

00:48:20.000 --> 00:48:24.999
You may have to get a real job. Yeah. It’s true.
I got a little girl to support, you know.

00:48:25.000 --> 00:48:29.999
Baby needs new shoes and all that. I’ll
probably wrap it up with bears this year,

00:48:30.000 --> 00:48:34.999
I think. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I’m trying to put on doing is
working on a book. Oh good. If I can get advance on a book,

00:48:35.000 --> 00:48:39.999
I can, I can live through the
winter and spend the winter right.

00:48:40.000 --> 00:48:44.999
Yeah. I think I’ll go down there as owner. Sit
down in front of a typewriter and bang away.

00:48:45.000 --> 00:48:49.999
I knew, it was coming sooner or later.

00:48:50.000 --> 00:48:54.999
[sil.]

00:48:55.000 --> 00:49:03.000
[music]

00:49:30.000 --> 00:49:38.000
[sil.]

00:49:55.000 --> 00:49:59.999
The CD and the carpet,
it’s broken the picture.

00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:04.999
God damn it. It will be
taken care of today.

00:50:05.000 --> 00:50:09.999
Look at this.

00:50:10.000 --> 00:50:14.999
[sil.]

00:50:15.000 --> 00:50:19.999
Wood rats. There is so much trouble when they’re
looking for a place to live for the winter.

00:50:20.000 --> 00:50:24.999
And they are so big. You’re afraid to go to sleep at night
because you know one is gonna run across your face.

00:50:25.000 --> 00:50:33.000
[sil.]

00:50:40.000 --> 00:50:44.999
Can you get a screw for this? Can you get a
screw for this? Yeah, I will some day, hon.

00:50:45.000 --> 00:50:49.999
[sil.]

00:50:50.000 --> 00:50:54.999
What are you gonna do with that? We’re
putting it in a closet. You watch her.

00:50:55.000 --> 00:50:59.999
All right. Okay.

00:51:00.000 --> 00:51:04.999
Did the wood rat get in the closet? Thank God, they
didn’t get in the… There are some on your new pant.

00:51:05.000 --> 00:51:09.999
Oh nuts. Nuts. Okay. Some days they’re.

00:51:10.000 --> 00:51:18.000
[sil.]

00:51:40.000 --> 00:51:44.999
He’s thunder bear, he’s thunder bear.
He’s coming at you, charge, charge.

00:51:45.000 --> 00:51:49.999
[sil.]

00:51:50.000 --> 00:51:54.999
Here he comes. Look at him.

00:51:55.000 --> 00:51:59.999
[sil.]

00:52:00.000 --> 00:52:04.999
Thunder bear mauls much.

00:52:05.000 --> 00:52:13.000
[sil.]

00:52:20.000 --> 00:52:24.999
I’m sorry wood rat. You need a new home.

00:52:25.000 --> 00:52:29.999
What do you think Pam like?

00:52:30.000 --> 00:52:34.999
Serials or ham?

00:52:35.000 --> 00:52:43.000
[sil.]

00:53:00.000 --> 00:53:04.999
We got the only human beings
who cannot touch their elbows.

00:53:05.000 --> 00:53:09.999
Hi. Hi.

00:53:10.000 --> 00:53:14.999
Tuck fingers together.

00:53:15.000 --> 00:53:19.999
Bone sticks from the yard.

00:53:20.000 --> 00:53:24.999
Oh, yes, you’ve got a lot of friends

00:53:25.000 --> 00:53:30.000
to palm nails.

00:53:35.000 --> 00:53:39.999
Rainbow peak. Beautiful.

00:53:40.000 --> 00:53:44.999
You’re not too great
with split heavily logs.

00:53:45.000 --> 00:53:49.999
You work and I supervise?

00:53:50.000 --> 00:53:54.999
Sure. I love to do this.

00:53:55.000 --> 00:53:59.999
I’m no good at it. I have no finesse. Yeah,
but you can’t go too far wrong either.

00:54:00.000 --> 00:54:04.999
We had to grab mom and dad and put one.
We had no money.

00:54:05.000 --> 00:54:09.999
And one old friend of my mother’s say, I think she said well,
at least, it’s nice to see you and where do you live now?

00:54:10.000 --> 00:54:14.999
And I said well, in the winter, we live in
around Tusa and as close to the Mexican borders

00:54:15.000 --> 00:54:19.999
we can get and in the summer, we go up to
Montana, you know and live with the grizzly bears

00:54:20.000 --> 00:54:24.999
and she was saying, just in her mouth, it was
like, oh, how ever do you manage two homes

00:54:25.000 --> 00:54:29.999
and I was, my mouth was just hope ready to
say, oh, no I trust the help implicitly.

00:54:30.000 --> 00:54:34.999
You know, they, they never steal. And then
before I could even get the words out,

00:54:35.000 --> 00:54:39.999
she was like, aw, you know, you live in a
tent right? I’ve been issued an ultimatum.

00:54:40.000 --> 00:54:44.999
Yeah, I got a couple. I can’t
(inaudible) no more forever. Maybe.

00:54:45.000 --> 00:54:49.999
Maybe, you’re too. Maybe,
one, two, three months.

00:54:50.000 --> 00:54:54.999
Yeah, I have this one, yeah. Live in, you will live
inside. No, all my life I have been a sub-adult.

00:54:55.000 --> 00:54:59.999
You know, I never really wanted to grow up. I
really wanted to camp out all my life. And not

00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:04.999
and live on 3000 bucks a year and migrate seasonally.
I’m still gonna migrate seasonally but uh…

00:55:05.000 --> 00:55:09.999
there is a time maybe. You know,

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the whole way that we’ve been able to live
like this is, he doesn’t have a regular job.

00:55:15.000 --> 00:55:19.999
Well, I mean, he’s a fire lookout and you
know, he’s a GS3 and earns $3700 a year

00:55:20.000 --> 00:55:24.999
and he spends the rest of the time filming grizzly
bears which if he had a regular job with real money,

00:55:25.000 --> 00:55:29.999
so we could have a house. He wouldn’t be
able to do this. So it’s real. And you know,

00:55:30.000 --> 00:55:34.999
as I’m sort of asking him all,

00:55:35.000 --> 00:55:39.999
okay, it’s been wonderful for seven
years but now, I want a house

00:55:40.000 --> 00:55:44.999
and I want all these and you have
to earn more than $3700 a year.

00:55:45.000 --> 00:55:49.999
Ever since I started filming,
I had a certain sense of

00:55:50.000 --> 00:55:54.999
a last autumn for the bears. I feel that
every time I run that movie camera,

00:55:55.000 --> 00:55:59.999
what I’m getting is historical record. It’s essentially,
it’s, it’s a document that’s set in the past

00:56:00.000 --> 00:56:04.999
and I know that I’m wrapping up something
here too after eight years of filming

00:56:05.000 --> 00:56:09.999
and I’m done with something but also I’m leaving
something behind which will never be there again.

00:56:10.000 --> 00:56:14.999
And I see teal a little plan together
and I realized that our two daughters

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will probably have a chance to grow up on the fridge
of what’s left of the wild country south of Canada

00:56:20.000 --> 00:56:24.999
and, and this is really a question
more than anything else because

00:56:25.000 --> 00:56:29.999
I, I have a feeling that maybe, they’re gonna be
about the last of their generation to see that.

00:56:30.000 --> 00:56:34.999
That’s a comment.

00:56:35.000 --> 00:56:39.999
Once, and how can you, how can
you go after the damn thing,

00:56:40.000 --> 00:56:44.999
that’s the end. I mean, don’t you
have some, some hope down in there?

00:56:45.000 --> 00:56:49.999
You know, I got to be strong. I’ve got uh… It’s, I feel
that our odds of making that precise of the same is,

00:56:50.000 --> 00:56:54.999
our ability to give a little bit of
grace to those last few bears out there

00:56:55.000 --> 00:56:59.999
and leave the country big enough, just big
enough to support maybe one last grizz.

00:57:00.000 --> 00:57:04.999
I feel that indeed, our odds are
precisely the same. And I feel that’s,

00:57:05.000 --> 00:57:09.999
that’s what we’re fighting for. That’s worth
everything. What else are we gonna do?

00:57:10.000 --> 00:57:14.999
If I didn’t have a place

00:57:15.000 --> 00:57:19.999
to go that felt as wild as country
has to be to support a grizzly,

00:57:20.000 --> 00:57:24.999
I will not, I wouldn’t, I can’t imagine living in this
world without knowing that place is there somewhere.

00:57:25.000 --> 00:57:29.999
Even if you don’t get to it. It’s
big when we were 74, one last

00:57:30.000 --> 00:57:34.999
epic journey went to grizz country. If that’s the
only trip if I ever take and it’s only in one’s mind,

00:57:35.000 --> 00:57:39.999
it’s still good enough.

00:57:40.000 --> 00:57:44.999
Okay. Hi grizzly bear.

00:57:45.000 --> 00:57:49.999
Look at that grizzly bear.

00:57:50.000 --> 00:57:54.999
[music]

00:57:55.000 --> 00:57:59.999
That magnificent critter.

00:58:00.000 --> 00:58:04.999
Thank you bear.

00:58:05.000 --> 00:58:13.000
[sil.]

00:58:15.000 --> 00:58:19.999
Uh… let me just make a few comments about the common reason
most of us are gathered here tonight which really is wildlife,

00:58:20.000 --> 00:58:24.999
which is animals and why animals seem
so central to many of our battles.

00:58:25.000 --> 00:58:29.999
One of our primary task, I feel is identifying
exactly why we need such things as wild

00:58:30.000 --> 00:58:34.999
and dangerous beasts? I mean, one criticism which
has been leveled of the environmental movement

00:58:35.000 --> 00:58:39.999
which sticks a lot of the time is that it
has no visceral attachment to the earth.

00:58:40.000 --> 00:58:44.999
They want to save an animal here, a plant
here and they really doesn’t know what for?

00:58:45.000 --> 00:58:49.999
[music]

00:58:50.000 --> 00:58:54.999
All we’ve got left so of Canada, what the American
Indian coexisted for at least 10,000 years of habitat

00:58:55.000 --> 00:58:59.999
is a couple of isolated non-claves is still contain it big
mega faunas such as my bears and the other big carnivores.

00:59:00.000 --> 00:59:04.999
And all the rush, we’ve transformed
in a human and economic landscapes

00:59:05.000 --> 00:59:09.999
and I think this is a
pretty risky proposition

00:59:10.000 --> 00:59:14.999
because we all sprang from that habitat and
quite simply that which evolves doesn’t persist

00:59:15.000 --> 00:59:19.999
unless the same forces that
created it also continue.

00:59:20.000 --> 00:59:24.999
Me and these forces uh… include these large
animals who’s future existence on earth

00:59:25.000 --> 00:59:29.999
is totally dependent upon us now.

00:59:30.000 --> 00:59:38.000
[music]

00:59:40.000 --> 00:59:44.999
I see the grizzly bears as something to be learnt
from. I think it’s a great deal about with strength.

00:59:45.000 --> 00:59:49.999
I think it’s a great deal about to
be learn from the grizzly bear.

00:59:50.000 --> 00:59:54.999
The grizzly bear can be anything. It ought
to be a symbol of free men and women

00:59:55.000 --> 00:59:59.999
who themselves need to resist the
temptation to be tamed into submission

01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:04.999
and passivity when it comes to the bomb.

01:00:05.000 --> 01:00:09.999
[music]

01:00:10.000 --> 01:00:14.999
The bear can be there wild
enough to resist being tamed

01:00:15.000 --> 01:00:19.999
and the submission as often we.

01:00:20.000 --> 01:00:28.000
[music]

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[sil.]