Wes Larson on Respecting the Awesome Power of Nature
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Daily Stoic | Backyard Ventures
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🗓️ 29 March 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Ryan speaks with Wes Larson about how and why he dedicated his life to working with bears, the feeling of being alive that he gets when working up close with bears in the wild, what our inherent fear and fascination with dangerous forces can teach us about our relationship to nature, how we can better live with animals rather than dominating them, and more.
Wes Larson is a wildlife biologist and television presenter who has been studying and working with polar, black and grizzly bears for over a decade. During that time, he graduated with a masters degree from BYU where he studied wildlife conservation with an emphasis on both polar and black bear human conflict mitigation. His work has been featured by National Geographic, CNN and Al Jazeera, and he has published many scientific papers and presented research findings in various wildlife meetings around the world, including at the International Bear Association meetings in Ljubljana Slovenia. Wes is also the co-host of the Tooth and Claw Podcast, and his work can be followed on Instagram at @grizkid and @toothandclaspodcast.
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| 1:00.6 | Hey, it's Ryan Holiday welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast. I woke up this morning |
| 1:09.4 | The freeze had lifted in Austin and there was some weird scat on my deck look like a raccoon |
| 1:15.6 | It got into something and then relieved himself all over the deck just another fun little interaction with wildlife that |
| 1:23.4 | Happens out where where we live thankfully we locked up the chicken coop the |
| 1:28.0 | Animals were safe nothing got their head torn off |
| 1:30.9 | Which has been known to happen I remember when I first moved to East Austin got some chickens and there was a very gruesome scene one morning |
| 1:37.7 | And I had to go introduce myself to my neighbors say hi. I'm Ryan. I live next door |
| 1:41.8 | I need to climb up on your roof and grab a decapitated chicken off of it that a raccoon had left after they finished having their way with it |
| 1:51.6 | These are the kinds of encounters that I have thankfully there's not |
| 1:56.1 | Super big predators out where we live my donkey has survived an interaction with a mountain lion |
| 2:02.2 | We lost some goats to some wild dogs. That's actually the major predator out here |
| 2:06.5 | And then of course we've got hogs which we'll talk about in today's episode as sort of an invasive species |
| 2:11.8 | But thankfully not much in the way of a predator unless you I guess you're a rattlesnake or something |
| 2:17.7 | But in today's episode |
| 2:19.9 | My guest is Wes Lerson who has a master's degree from BYU where he studied polar bears and black bears |
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