Haunted by Alaska: Bjorn Dihle on Life, Bears, and Mystery (ep. 195)
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring
Zack Williams
4.6 • 853 Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2025
⏱️ 117 minutes
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Summary
Bjorn Dihle has lived his entire life in southeast Alaska, hunting and fishing from the Tongass National Forest to the northern Brooks Range and beyond. He is a family man, a wilderness and wildlife guide, a conservationist, and a contributing editor at Alaska and Hunt Alaska magazines. Bjorn is the author of the books Haunted Inside Passage, Never Cry Halibut, and A Shape in the Dark: Living and Dying with Brown Bears. Listeners might also know his work from his riveting story in Outdoor Life, entitled The Infamous and Murderous Sheslay Free Mike, about a mysterious and thoroughly-unhinged trapper that haunted the wilds of the Taku River country in the 1970s and 80s. Join us for an episode that veers from the usual nuts and bolts of life, hunting and fishing and conservation, and into the shadows of the paranormal, the places out beyond the light of the campfire, where anyone, and anything, might be lurking and watching.
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| 0:00.0 | I think that what's missing right now in hunting and conservation for a large part of us is what Richard Nelson was doing and writing about. |
| 0:16.6 | And it was this deeper connection to things like he would never consider himself a sportsman. |
| 0:23.6 | You know, he was in it from the toes to the top of his head. |
| 0:29.1 | You know, we got a balanced development with conservation. |
| 0:31.6 | And, you know, there's definitely some projects that I think need to go forward. |
| 0:37.1 | And then something like the Ambler Road is just like it's a few people are going to profit |
| 0:41.6 | and then a lot of people are going to lose out. |
| 0:43.4 | And the Alaskans are going to lose out on it. |
| 0:45.3 | But these are foreign-to-owned mines. |
| 0:47.1 | These are not American minds. |
| 0:49.4 | You know, we're going to build this road for them. |
| 0:52.1 | And, you know, it's reckless progress versus balancing development with conservation. |
| 0:57.7 | It's like if you had Theodore Roosevelt around today, it'd be really nice because he would just squash it. |
| 1:03.1 | Hey, everybody. |
| 1:04.6 | Hal Herring. |
| 1:05.6 | Thanks for being here. |
| 1:07.1 | I came here today to talk about something, a very serious challenge that's coming in. |
| 1:11.6 | If you haven't listened to episode 189 of the podcast yet, I hope you will. |
| 1:17.5 | But if you don't, I'll give you a nutshell of it. |
| 1:20.3 | The politicians in Utah are once again trying to conduct a huge land grab on the American public lands. |
| 1:27.9 | You may decide that you've heard this tune played too many times, but I'm here to tell you |
| 1:33.2 | that this is the slickest snake oil campaign that I have seen from the land grabbers, and I've |
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