Welcome to Home of the Brave. I'm Scott Carrier. Some listeners have asked for more natural sound effects.

So here's the sound of a grizzly bear feeding on a carcass.

Maybe an elkarkas.

One thing we heard a lot while driving around talking to people about

grizzly bears was that they're seeing more bears now, a lot more bears now.

People who live in Jackson Hole, Pinedale, and Cody, Wyoming, people

who live in Paradise Valley, Livingston, and Bozeman, Montana, areas along the outer perimeter of the greater Yellowstone ecosystem.

The people who lived there said pretty consistently, they were seeing more and more

grizzly bears in the past five to ten years, not coming down into their

towns, but out in the country where they go to recreate or hunt and fish or coming onto their

ranches.

We met an elderly lady, 93-year-old Virginia Anderson, who lived

on a ranch in the Tom Minor Basin, just north of the park. Last year she had a grizzly bear

come into her kitchen.

She remembers it like a dream.

I was sitting at supper

by myself in the house and looked up and saw this sort of black blob sort of

of losing, big soft black, sliding it down the wall.

Because everything happens so close that you just look,

one moment you're just eating a sandwich in her cup and see, a bear.

And I just stood there staring, watching it come through and then I decided I better do something

and I ran away. And we met Ranther Peter Jehausky, 30 miles east of the park near Cody, who

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