Charmin Knapp Russell

author of the book Kill the Cowboy		Hear Charmin Russell.
Most people won't ever see wolves, and although they'd like to imagine they could hear the howl, most will never hear the howl of a wolf, but that doesn't matter.

As our world becomes more industrialized, as most of our lives are more alienated from the land, we need even more to keep a psychic sense that we are- that there's land out there, that there's wilderness out there and that we're stewards of it, that we're protecting it.

There's a whole visceral thing about hunting and protecting your land and, I think, of just taming the land, you know, of making it safe for cows. In my family, I have great uncles who were- who were big lion hunters, and they were the Lee brothers. And, you know, there's just this whole masculine thing about hunting down another predator and of killing them and eradicating them.

I think there's- there's a shift in how we see the natural world. There has to be a shift of controlling the world and taming the world and of the poisoning and moving streams around and just that control - 'I can control it'. What's happened is that science has shown us that's not true. When we try and control those things, sometimes we- we destroy them.