Episode Transcript: #2213 - Diane K. Boyd
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What's up? How are you?
I am great. Long flight in from Montana, but I'm great. Thank you.
Well, it's very nice to meet you. And I really enjoyed you on Steve Rinell's podcast.
Oh, good. Oh, good. You got to watch it.
Yeah, Steve. Well, Steve made the introduction.
Yeah, he told me I have to have you on because he knows how fascinated I am by wolves.
So I'm really excited to talk to you.
Thanks. And I'm excited, too, because I thought, well, we're both hunters.
We're both dog lovers. You got an interest in wolves. It's all good.
How did you start getting interested in wolves and start working with wolves?
Well, I grew up in Minnesota and probably tell from the Fargo accent.
But I grew up in Minnesota and back in the 60s and 70s when I was thinking about a career,
Minnesota was the only state in the lower 48 that had wolves, with the exception of a few, like 25, maybe an IRL.
A couple here or there in Wisconsin.
And so I was interested from the beginning with that.
And then when I went to the University of Minnesota, Dave Meech, who was like the god of the wolf world, his office was on my campus.
So I just stopped by and kept bugging him.
I wouldn't go away like a good parasite. Persist, persist, persist.
Why wolves? Why were wolves so interesting to you?
You know, I'm just I'm kind of a wildlife person.