Bryce Andrews
Autor de Badluck Way: A Year on the Ragged Edge of the West
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Bryce Andrews is the author of Badluck Way, winner of the Barnes Noble Discover Great New Writers Award and a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. He farms and ranches near Arlee, Montana, and works with the conservation group People and Carnivores.
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He switched careers and became a biologist.
His work took him to the Mission Valley of western Montana on the Flathead/Salish reservation. The surrounding Mission Mountains are rugged and beautiful; they also have a high population of wildlife, including grizzly bears. When the bears leave the mountain slopes and come into the valley, they are inevitably the losers in human/grizzly encounters, even though the Confederated Tribes that own a great part of the land in the valley, revere the great bears.
Andrews began by addressing the problem of bears destroying a local dairyman’s corn crop, a necessity for the energy needs of the dairy cows. He researched and then devised a new way of configuring the standard electric fencing to better discourage the bears.
During this time, he became very familiar with one female grizzly who had been shot in the face with a shotgun as she came too close to humans. Over the course of several months he had to watch this poor bear become a walking skeleton that was unable to care for her cubs.
It is a truly sad story; although Andrews’ new method of bear-discouraging fencing showed a lot of promise, saving the dairyman’s corn crop was not enough to save the dairyman’s future on his land. Ultimately the land would be subdivided, perpetuating a guarantee of more grizzly/human conflict.
I’ve lived in the Mission Valley (my son was born there) and thought the author’s descriptions of the beautiful places, the people and the conflicts were very well done.
My only gripe was that the audiobook reader consistently mispronounced several of the place names. Nothing says "I don't really care" like mispronouncing place names.… (más)