Ep. 107: Face to Face with Wyoming Grizzly Bears

Cutting The Distance

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Wilderness, Sports

4.9 • 6.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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If you came face-to-face with a grizzly bear, how would you react? With the ever-growing presence of grizzly bears in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming, folks in the outdoors are having more encounters each fall. Dirk catches up longtime friend Ron Niziolek and talks elk hunting with grizzlies in Wyoming's backcountry.

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0:00.0	And we're back with another episode of Cutting the Distance Podcast. I'm Dirk Durham and today I have a man on the podcast
0:21.0	someone who I admire a whole bunch. He's a family man. He's probably one of the toughest guys I know
0:31.2	for backcountry hunting.
0:34.2	Probably the most fearless guy, I know,
0:36.3	for backcountry hunting and very talented
0:39.0	and an accomplished bow hunter.
0:41.6	Welcome to the show. Ron, is it Nizholic? How do you how it's that's it? It's kind of spelled like
0:48.8	Niziolek, but it's Nizioic. Yeah, Niziolek. Yeah, nizioizholic yeah thanks for coming on today
0:56.4	good see you again yeah I've known Ron for a number of years I think we kind of got
1:02.2	really good well acquainted back in the days back when I was co-founder of a magazine
1:08.2	the Elk Hunting magazine called Extreme Elk.
1:10.0	And Ron came aboard to edit articles and to write articles for us on there and got acquainted with them and got to know about all of his backcountry experiences in the beautiful state of Wyoming.
1:25.0	And I will, I'll kind of say one thing that always kind of stood out is
1:30.0	barren counters. You always, you know, you always had a good El-Kuntin story, but it seems like there was always some bear encounters of or one from one way or another, you know, every few years, you know, whether it was black bears or grislies mostly grislies but yeah there's there's
1:46.0	definitely been a few through the years but this year was just a little ridiculous to put it mildly
1:57.8	yeah lots of bears. Yeah. Yeah, you know ever since you know a few years ago then they got those things delisted and then we all thought we were going to get a bear hunting season and then that got
2:06.2	shut down so I think we've all been kind of sitting here holding our breath hoping that we
2:11.6	get a grizzly bear season, you know, even if it is a very limited opportunity,
2:17.7	because I know Wyoming and Montana, the grizzly populations have exploded and which triculate Idaho pretty well.
2:25.7	So what's your take on this on on the whole grizzly hunting season?
2:31.5	Should we should we open that up and get that thing going?
2:34.7	Absolutely, it's what should be done, but you know any more it seems like
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