331 | A Portrait of the American Mountain Goat

The Hunt Backcountry Podcast

by Exo Mtn Gear

Sports, Sports:wilderness, Health & Fitness, Wilderness

4.4 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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"During three decades of field studies of North America's large mammals, the environmental and logistical challenges of none — not deer, elk, moose, pronghorn, bighorn sheep, or bears — compared with those I encountered learning about the mountain goat. The chasms and ramparts, the remoteness and weather are both physically and mentally taxing. Other field biologists have discovered the same, some under the harshest of conditions or across expanses of time." This quote comes from the book, "Life on the Rocks: A Portrait of the American Mountain Goat," written by today's podcast guest, Bruce L. Smith. Bruce has spent countless hours, days, weeks, and months studying mountain goats over his decades-long career. In today's episode, we speak with Bruce about the majestic mountain goat, to learn more about their history, habitat, behavior, and future conservation. Read Mark's latest SEAK Adventure article: "On Hunting, Mountain Goats, Comfort & Complacency": https://exomtngear.com/blogs/article/on-hunting-mountain-goats-comfort-complacency "Life on the Rocks" Book: https://amzn.to/3FVczpe Bruce's Other Books: https://amzn.to/3hqFRkW Bruce's Website: http://brucesmithwildlife.com/ Search the Podcast Archive: https://exomtngear.com/podcast Contact us to share your question or topic suggestion for the podcast: [email protected]

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0:00.0	Well, welcome to episode number 331 of the Huntback Country Podcast.
0:27.3	Today my guest is Bruce L. Smith. He is the author of a book on mountain goats that I have
0:33.9	absolutely enjoyed and it is called Life on the Rocks. I speak with Bruce today about
0:40.9	mountain goats, just to better understand the species, their history, their current population,
0:47.9	habitat, behavior, and much more. One thing I find fascinating about mountain goats is that
0:54.1	they do live such a remote and removed life. We don't encounter them much. Most hunters themselves
1:00.8	aren't very familiar with the species and so there's this mystique about them that I have so
1:07.1	enjoyed learning more about as I prepared to hunt them for the first time this coming fall.
1:12.4	And so in this conversation with Bruce we really dive into the species and even if you've never
1:18.8	been interested or considered a mountain goat hunt before I would encourage you to tune in and hear
1:25.4	more about these fascinating animals I know that you'll learn something from it. As always guys
1:31.4	we appreciate you tuning in and if you have any questions, comments, or feedback for us send an
1:36.9	email to podcast at exomountaingear.com. Right now though let's get into this conversation. Here's Bruce.
1:54.6	Bruce, welcome to the Huntback Country Podcast. I'm very excited to chat with you today.
1:58.8	Thanks for the invitation. I had picked up your book, Life on the Rocks, which subtitle a portrait
2:07.5	of the American Mountain Goat. And it's one of a handful of books that I've been looking at
2:13.9	on mountain goats and it is both very informational as well as just a gorgeous book. It's filled with
2:22.2	photography, it's full color and you did both the writing and the photography and you have a vast
2:30.0	decades really of experience with mountain goats that we'll talk about. So that's how this episode
2:35.1	came together but yeah to go ahead and kick it off. If you can just share kind of any personal
2:39.6	introduction or background or whatever you want to share to give the listeners and context for who
2:44.3	we're talking to right now. Sure. For those who don't know me at all, I was raised in the Midwest,
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