Mark Cardall was a rancher and outfitter in the greater Yellowstone area. He shares his many encounters with Grizzlies and shares what it was like to raise a family in Grizzly Bear Country.
start hunting grizzly and for sure hunt wolf , back in 1990 i worked on dude ranch 3 miles from yellowstone WY small town called Wapiti we always se mouse, elk, muley deer, its sad that those days are over when you see so much wildlife
Really enjoyed listening to the stories. I use to ride horses when I was a young teenager but gave it up when I got a motorcycle. I'm now 66 years old and enjoy traveling on a big touring motorcycle to the western states, I live in Illinois. When I'm in bear country I usually stay in a motel, I do take camping equipment. I'll take short hikes to see attractions but not far from the parking lots. I have no desire to met a bear. I really enjoy running into an old timer at a rest area or a restaurant and swap some old stories. Again great video and old stories don't bother me at all.
Being Australian, I have had the opportunity to Visit Cody Yellowstone and the surrounding areas of Montana and Wyoming. I can't express how magnificent that part of the world really is. Great interview and some day I'd love too return.
We have a lot of bears here in NW Montana where I am at as well. He is 100% correct, a shot gun with 3" mag slugs is the best medicine for a bear when you are on the ground. Never met a bear yet that didn't run from a rider on horseback. I was told once that bears judge danger to themselves by size and a horse and rider are so much bigger than a bear it terrifies them and they run. What he describes about how your mind works in a bear encounter is true for pretty much any high stress situation e.g. combat when I was in the Marines, your first firefight your mind is all over the place and you don't know if you need to sh!t or go blind. After you have been through a few of them you learn to focus and do what is needed pretty much automatically. I read a book once called "Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why" and there is a part in there by a doctor who studied this type of extreme situation response in people and he says in the book it is because your brain forms shortcuts that help you process the situation automatically over time if you logically teach it the correct responses to the given situation. If you teach it the wrong ones you form shortcuts to automatic responses that can get you killed.
Grizzley’s are coming within 20 of my home town, Great Falls Montana. That’s 100 miles east of their normal range. We recently traveled through Yellowstone and didn’t see a single elk.
Hey Jerry, I'm from Great Falls, Woodland Estates. Unbelievable bears are that close, is it like towards Cascade? I don't live there now but that's interesting. Thanks
I enjoyed the talk . Montana and the eco system has changed not for the good either . It use to be remote now it over run by the two legged kind and all there stuff . Use to see huge herds of elk in Gallatin Canyon at the park boarder . Thankyou for your interview. Hollywood has ruined the areas . And what I see in Yellowstone they think it's a petting zoo .really .
Who pays when a bear, wolf(s) kill a cow or sheep weather on public lands or private...Who pays the rancher for his loss...and where does the money come from? Licence hunting fees?...What what wild animal (Elk, Moose, deer) is generating the most money in licence fees? What wild animal (calves) are killed the most by bear and or Wolves? How much money is generated from "seeing" wolves or bears in the wild?...WHO PAYS? AND when a bear of wolf is killed because it prayed on a cow or sheep...what is done with it? Is this ETHICAL and RELIGIOUS.....WHO PAYS?
Great question. Murky answers at best. Montana fish and game are and have always been very evasive about wolves and grizzlies. If you ask about numbers, especially evasive. 👎👎
I know everyone is on a Quarter Horse, but since I first came to horses, from field trialling pointing dogs, I have had Tennessee Walking Horses. When a person admires how well a particular Quarter Horse can move out on a walk, that is slower than any Walking horse. Mine have been wonderful big game hunting horses. Regarding Grizzlies, yes it would be nice if they were delisted, but Ulm Montana is not a hundred miles from Grizzly country. Ulm is not that far from the Rocky mountain front. A friend who grew up in the 60's and 70's saw his first Grizzly while fishing just outside of Chouteau MT ,as young kid. The bear stood up out of the willows to look at him.That is north of Ulm, maybe an hour away.
Mine that I was on were all Quarter Horses, The buckskin in the video is a Morgan, the Paint is a Tennessee Walkier. And we also had a half draft and another Tennessee walker back at camp. They all have their place. Walkers definitely earn their keep on long trails.
I've seen over a dozen grizzly in one day between there and cody. Last year a old man got mauled from new york 3 days before I did the peak he attempted. Grizzly rolling rocks for food. Up the greybull seen a cougar wolf moose grizzly elk and deer track all in one mud flat 20' across its a wild area. Been running them mountains solo or with my daughter since she was 8 she's been in the wildest places doing 30 miles on foot in a day up 13000 feet. We've slept under the stars on the border of Yellowstone listening to wolves howl at 10,000 feet I've never felt more alive then when I'm out there seen her do things most grown men either can't or won't do. Been trying to move there for years property is outrageous I can only afford to camp all summer.
I love the bridle horse pic in the background. You should do an interview of a great friend of miine in Meeteetse, Duaine Hagen. And B Joe Coy, Pete Dube, Scott Werebelow, John Winter. Duaine donates hunts for the Outdoor Dream Foundation every year. Then you also have Jake Clark, with Mule days In Wyoming.
Let me see what we can put together. Unfortunately my border collie and Aussi are kind of a duds but I’ll try to get with some people who are better on this subject than myself.
Bears even grizzlies use to live on the plains . The settlers and mountain men wrote about it .really .and elk herds use to be on the plains too . We rewrote everything .
This looks interesting I think I'll watch it, until @:25 "yellowstone ecosystem" (bye, click) Just my opinion but there's two kinds of cowboys those that "fold" under, To the oppression and fascism and lies by the socialist communist movement, Of the ice age, i mean, global warming, i mean climate change, i mean summer winter spring and fall seasons on earth activists. Of which they try to appease, and only succeed at destroying their own industry. And, real cowboys. Ranchers, farmers, (real land stewards) who aren't cowards in the face of those who's agenda is to End animal production for food. End keeping any animal in any habit, other than free roaming Farrel animals. Indigenous or not. But ultimately, to end human "over population" and make that number as small as possible. And imprison those populations in small contained city's, with either "little", or "no" contact (contamination) to the environment outside said city's. How would your eco-friendly grandchildren like to live in that situation? No more being outside riding on a horse across the range tending cattle. Wake up.
Certainly seems as if humans won’t be satisfied until all wild animals are gone. Killing for food, protecting lives, livelihoods I can understand. Killing for sport or to satisfy some fetish for dominance is a sure sign of some kind of character defect.
I take it you have never hunted? I Grew up hunting I've guided big game hunts It's in your blood can't explain it but I've always had a nack for finding big game. I don't hunt anymore mostly because I'm 55 single and have a daughter in school 7,th grade by the time she's out of school I doubt I will be able to do it. I miss it more than you could imagine
