T BCA BO ULE HED SC IDE INS Photo: Joe Riis Start of fall marked by grizzly lecture & pre-hibernation bear safety t’s officially fall in Southwest Montana. you’re just fishing, or even if you work here,” says – Make sure your bear spray is EPA-approved: go.nps.gov/yellbearsafety. And while that means football Sundays, Superintendent Dan Wenk. “No matter who you don’t depend on personal defense products to stop Learn about bears living in an entirely differ- evenings in front of the fireplace, and are or what you are doing, you should always a charging bear. ent region! As part of its continuing “Wilderness one too many pumpkin spice lattes, fall carry bear spray and know how to use it.” – Make sure your bear spray hasn’t expired and...” presentation series, the Montana also means active, hungry bears. So for those still hitting the various trailheads And if you’re faced with the unfortunate cir- Wilderness Association’s Madison-Gallatin Though the trails are seeing less traffic in the greater area, here are some tips for bear cumstance of a charging bear: Chapter will present free lecture “Grizzly Bears than they were this summer, recreation- spray use courtesy of our friends at Yellowstone – Remove the safety clip. in the Gobi Desert,” on Monday, October 2nd alists are still heading into the moun- National Park. – Aim slightly down and adjust for crosswind. at the Story Mansion beginning at 7pm. Douglas tains to absorb a few more outings before the first – Keep bear spray readily accessible in a quick – Begin spraying when the charging bear is Chadwick will lead this community forum and heavyI snowfall. draw holster, not stored in your pack. 30–60 feet (10–20 yards) away. discussion. Chadwick is a wildlife biologist and Launched in 2016, Yellowstone National Park – You don’t have to be a good shot, just put up a – Spray at the charging bear so that the bear natural history journalist. The Story Mansion is continued its “Bear Doesn’t Care” campaign dur- cloud of spray between you and the charging bear. must pass through a cloud of spray. located at 811 S Willson Ave., in Bozeman. ing this year’s outdoor season. The series encour- – Use an inert can of bear spray to practice – Keep spraying until the bear changes The Madison-Gallatin Chapter of the ages locals and visitors to always carry bear spray removing it from your holster, removing the safety direction. Montana Wilderness Association educates and because a bear isn’t concerned with titles — tab with your thumb, and firing. Practice firing – If the bear continues to charge, spray into its face. inspires people to protect special wild places in whether you’re a hiker, backpacker, angler, pho- inert bear spray with the wind at your back, into a – Leave the area promptly Park, Gallatin, and Madison Counties in tographer, wolf watcher or geyser gazer. head wind, and with a cross-wind so that you For further information about bear safety in Southwest and South-Central Montana. Learn “A bear doesn’t care how far you’re hiking, if understand how bear spray is affected by the wind Yellowstone and its surrounding woodlands, visit more at www.wildmontana.org. • Contents Community/Literature .2A Theatre . .3A Calendar . .4-5A Community/Art . .6A Film . .7A Community . .8A EcoZone . .1& 2B, 3B Bi$Zone . .4B RollingZone . .C Molly Morkoski Missy Andersen Eryn Bent EndZone . .1 & 4 D Bozeman Symphony’s Piano Recital Series Wild Joe*s – Oct. 13 @ 6pm Poolside stage Bobcat Schedule . .2 & 3 D MSU Reynolds Hall Kountry Korner Norris Hot Springs October 7 @ 7:30 pm October 15 @ 5:30 pm October 13 @ 7pm ­Page 2a­•­The BoZone •­ocToBer 1,­2017 Elk River presents an Noon Notes, One Book One Bozeman evening w/ Gretel Ehrlich return to Library The Bozeman Public Library lost friends, future readers, or a ture from the University of Texas at Elk River Arts & Lectures’ 2017 widely anthologized in many “Best offers more than just a vast selection computer program that may or may Austin, where she currently teaches fall series will open with a lecture by of…” volumes. of books, periodicals, and movies to not understand them. Hall explores literature and creative writing, and a giant in American literature, the An advocate for northern people its many pass-holders — it also hosts how the chasm between computer supervises a poetry workshop at the award-winning, best-selling author a number of fun and engaging and human — shrinking rapidly Austin State Psychiatric Hospital. and filmmaker Gretel Ehrlich on events open to the public. Here’s a with today’s technological advances She is the author of the Thursday, October 5th at 5:30pm. look at what’s coming up. — echoes the gaps that exist novels Speak and The Carriage House, Ehrlich has written more than 15 The next Noon Notes @ the between ordinary people. Though and her poems have been published books that span genres. Her efforts Library will take place Monday, each speaks from a distinct place in The New Republic, Southwest Review, encompass journalism and essay, October 2nd at 12pm. This edition and moment in time, all five charac- and other journals. memoir and poetry, fiction and film. will feature Intermountain Opera ters share the need to express them- One Book One Bozeman 2017 is a Her account of being incapacitated performers from The Tender Land. selves while simultaneously wonder- community partnership between by a lightning strike, A Match to the Baritone Joseph Beutel, mezzo- ing if they will ever be heard, or Bozeman Public Library, Country Heart, was a New York Times bestseller. soprano Sarah Larson, and stage understood. Bookshelf, and MSU Library. Events Ehrlich’s work has been widely director Steven Daigle will present “Speak may not be the first sci- are funded by the BPL Foundation. recognized with a range of honors, a program on opera in general with ence fiction novel to counterpoise Yoga for All abilities continues including the prestigious American focus on The Tender Land and Aaron hubris, ingenuity, loss and progress,” through October. This twice weekly Academy of Arts and Letters Award Copland. Joseph and Sarah will writes Katy Waldman of The New event is held every Tuesday from for her book of essays on life in rural sing selected arias and duets from York Times Book Review. “But the deli- 11–11:45am and 12–12:45pm in the Wyoming, The Solace of Open Spaces. various shows. cacy with which it juggles those con- Large Community Room. The class- New England PEN gave her This popular chamber music cerns, allowing each its crystalline, es are taught by certified yoga the Henry David Thoreau Award series is held the first Monday of utterly persuasive and transfixing instructors Brooke Russell and Jen for Nature Writing for This Cold every month from noon–1pm and is moment in the air, speaks to Hall’s Brick, in the morning and after- free and open to the public. It is uncommonly deep and complex noon, respectively. The morning sponsored by the Montana intellectual engagement with class tends to have more kids follow- Chamber Music Society, the her themes.” ing Books & Babies, but all are wel- Montana Arts Council, and hosted Louisa Hall grew up in come to either class. Open to all affected by by the Bozeman Public Library Philadelphia. After graduating from ages and abilities, instructors focus climate Foundation. Please visit www.mon- Harvard, she played squash profes- on the basics of yoga, breathing, change, tanachambermusicsociety.org sionally while finishing her premed- and mind/body connections. Please Ehrlich has /concerts-noonnotes.htm for ical coursework and working in a bring your own mat and any props traveled more information. research lab at the Albert Einstein you choose to use, blocks or straps. since 1993 One Book One Bozeman Hospital. She holds a PhD in litera- Announcing the Virginia City by dogsled 2017 comes to life this Ski Lift Chair Raffle! with Inuit month with Speak, the Bridger Bowl has gener- subsistence new novel by Louisa ously donated one of the hunters in Hall, as the featured Virginia City lift chairs to northwestern work. Events will be raffled with all proceeds Greenland. include a public lec- to benefit the Library. She has been ture with the author Tickets are $25 each, or 5 a rancher on Tuesday, October for $100. Winner will be and a 24th from drawn on the evening of Heaven, an account of her years of farmer, splitting her time between 6:30–8:30pm. Hall October 7th at the Library travel in Greenland in the context of Hawaii, Wyoming, and now will guide a poetry Gala. Winner need not be that icy land’s culture and history. Montana. workshop the follow- present to win. Tickets can She’s also received awards from As part of the lecture series, ing afternoon, be purchased at the PEN USA and the Whiting Ehrlich will spend time with students Wednesday, October Bozeman Public Library, Foundation. Her writing about the at Park High, as well as give a free 25th from 12–1pm. upstairs at the Reference earthquake and tsunami-devastated public talk. The talk will take place Speak features five Desk. Own a piece of his- Tohoku coast of Japan, Facing the upstairs at Elk River Books, 120 N. seemingly unrelated tory! Wave, was nominated for a National Main St., in Downtown Livingston. stories that come The Bozeman Public Book Award. Elk River Arts & Lectures is a together to illustrate Library is located at 626 She has been the recipient of a nonprofit organization that seeks to the eternal search for E.