1/2 #Bestof2022: Tales of Western Law and the TV show, "Yellowstone." @Brian Yablonski, @PERCtweets Property, Environment Resource Center, Bozeman, Montana.
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1/2 #Bestof2022: Tales of Western Law and the TV show, "Yellowstone." @Brian Yablonski, @PERCtweets Property, Environment Resource Center, Bozeman, Montana.
https://www.perc.org/perc_reports/volume-4-no-2-winter-2021/
Yellowstone,” starring Kevin Costner, is one of the most popular shows on television. The action-packed drama follows the travails of a prominent Montana ranching family as they confront an onslaught of challenges to their way of life. The show sparked renewed interest in the American West and a creative idea at PERC. After bringing together researchers, practitioners, and policy experts—and even some “Yellowstone” cast members—for a PERC workshop this past summer, this special issue of PERC Reports was born. In it, we use “Yellowstone’s” portrayals of the Rocky Mountain West to examine real-world western issues.
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS I In The World. I'm John Bachelors. To Montana, to Brian Yablonsky, the CEO |
| 0:10.7 | of Perk, the Property Environment and Research Center, to comment on a television show that |
| 0:16.0 | John in his ignorance is never seen. But Brian has helped me understand the popularity |
| 0:21.4 | of Yellowstone. Brian, a very good evening to you. Yellowstone is fiction. You are not. |
| 0:26.9 | Montana is not. What is the frame of Yellowstone, a contemporary Western? Good evening to you, Brian. |
| 0:32.5 | Hi, John. How are you doing? And good to see you from out here in a little snowy Montana. |
| 0:37.8 | I think you guys are getting more snow than we are at this point. So we're hoping for the next big |
| 0:42.1 | system coming through. But yeah, no Yellowstone is a, it is kind of the American, the American fiction, |
| 0:52.0 | nonfiction crossover show that is the most popular television show in Washington, |
| 0:58.3 | the country. And it stars Kevin Costner. He plays the role of rancher, multi-generational |
| 1:06.4 | Montana cattle rancher who owns the largest continuous ranch in the United States. By some accounts, |
| 1:12.9 | maybe the size of the state of Rhode Island. The ranch is in a beautiful place called Paradise Valley, |
| 1:19.2 | right outside Yellowstone National Park. And the plot for the last four seasons has been Kevin |
| 1:24.5 | Costner trying to preserve his cattle ranch from various forces such as developers who have an eye on |
| 1:30.9 | it and Native American tribes who about the ranch who have an eye on it and others who want to |
| 1:38.0 | unwind that cattle style of living. Let's tell some stories, Brian, because it illustrates that the |
| 1:45.7 | riders of this program are following the ironies of living in Montana compared to living in Connecticut. |
| 1:52.4 | In Connecticut, if I have cattle and they wander onto my neighbor's land, there's trouble. |
| 1:58.0 | Is that the same in Montana? In Montana, you have a different set of |
| 2:02.4 | walks here and I'm glad you brought up the riders. So Taylor shared in as the creator of the show |
| 2:07.8 | and he grew up on a cattle ranch in Texas. He lives in a ranch in Wyoming right now as well. So he |
| 2:14.3 | is intimately familiar with Western issues and how they might differ from Eastern issues. |
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