Hey folks, Randy Noberg here. Welcome to Lootful Ponce Dock of Radio.

Hey folks, Randy Noberg here. I am about ready to record another episode of Lootful's

Hunth Talk Radio. Our guest on this episode is Arthur Middleton. If you haven't

followed Red, heard of Arthur and the work he and his team and his colleagues are

doing about large landscape ecology, specifically ungulates and predator prey relationships and

also extending into wildlife conflicts, public private land, landscape issues. You'll get a

chance to hear some of that, I guess, if you stay tuned here. The reason I'm so excited to

have Arthur is that he and I have had a chance to talk on prior occasions. His work takes

him to my part of the world and I'm fascinated by the work that he is doing and when I say

he I'm referring to him and his team and it just does such a great job of illustrating

the complexity of all of this and I'm as guilty as anyone else of seeking a simple

answer, trying to find, oh yeah that's okay, yeah that makes sense. Problem solved next.

None of the things related to wildlife and landscapes are as simple as we would want

them to be and I hope in this podcast based on how we've structured it or what I told

him, the path I want to follow, that we can start in a really wide sense and it's more about

the general concepts of ecology and how ecology is something that we can never just pick one

piece and say here's your answer, that it always depends on so many other things and as we start

there we can hopefully then get into a lot of really interesting issues using elk and

wolf relationships, using the Greater Yellowstone region as sort of the examples that we're going

to talk about but also in hopefully the discussion happens in a sense that whatever the issues

of wildlife and landscapes and habitat are in your backyard that you can see from this

discussion that it's not as easy as we would like it to be and hopefully when we wrap it up

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