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Otlewski Into The Portal

Why do threads about players going elsewhere always devolve into an argument about how terrible the other place or program is based on personal bias that most likely has zero to do with the actual situation.
 
billingsgriz said:
Sorry you don't understand the quality of habitat that the grizzly and wolf needs to live that exists in abundance in Montana but does not exist any longer in Colorado. The US Fish and Wildlife service also had at least discussed transplanting several wolverines from Montana to Colorado to try to re- establish the biggest abd most ferocious member of the weasel family into the Colorado Rockies. Why does the grizzly and wolverine live and thrive in Montana and not Colorado or for that matter New Mexico, Utah , Arizona, Nevada and California ? Because Montana has more and better wilderness habitat than Colorado and those other Western states. The California state flag features a grizzly bear 🐻 hearkening back to The Lone Bear Republic. Yet the Sierra grizzly in California has also been
extinct for 100 years. Grizzlies also used to roam Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, West Texas, and parts of Northern Mexico--they don't anymore because there is no to little suitable wilderness habitat for them in those states but a lot of suitable wilderness habitat for them in Montana !!!.

" Yellowstone" is also in Wyoming, yet Taylor Sheridan chose Montana, didn't he ? His new series could have been " Aspen," " Vail," " Durango," or " Santa Fe," and filmed 🎥 in Colorado, New Mexico or Utah, yet he didn't. Why ? Montana mystique--all Western states have proud histories and beautiful scenery, Montana just has more of it, the most in The Lower 48. I remember a " Yellowstone" episode where John Dutton ( Kevin Costner) tells his ranch foreman Rip Wheeler ( Cole Hauser) that they have a problem grizzly killing cattle on their ranch, The Yellowstone. The image of wild, huge, ferocious grizzlies roaming the land apoeals to audiences. Yet, that conversation couldn't accurately happen in Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon or California because the UM mascot, Montana state animal, and North American apex predator, outside of zoos, no longer lives in any of those states.
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So Colorado is wasting their time then with their wolves cus they're all gonna head off to Montana anyway, right?
 
Golden Colorado is the perfect college town in Colorado. It is right between Denver and the Mountains, a river also runs through the middle of town that is popular for floating in the summer. The college football coach in Golden has also beaten North Dakota State when they were ranked #1, beat South Dakota when they were ranked top 10 in the playoffs and beat EWU by like 40 points when they had Walter Payton award winner and future Super Bowl mvp Cooper Kupp. The new staff in FC and even Deion in Boulder aren’t nearly as accomplished as coaches.
 
alabamagrizzly said:
No, they came from Oregon and BC.
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Okay, but at least some of the Oregon wolves trace back to Montana--no kidding--and remember Montana borders BC as well as Alberta and Saskatchewan, so griz, wolves, and wolverines, amongst other critters, are constantly moving back and forth across the US.Montana/Canadian ( Alberta, BC) border, one of the prime reasons Montana's wilderness is so hospitable: a huge pool of genetic diversity both in Montana, and across the border in Canada 🇨🇦: the NCDE ( Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem) is more genetically diverse and healthy visavie the Yellowstone GYE ( Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem) which is an isolated island in and around Yellowstone National Park in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho that is isolated and doesn't have the genetic diversity of Glacier, The Bob, and SW Alberta and SE BC in the NCDE.
 
Wolf777 said:
Reading any thread on egriz invokes some level of understanding of the schizophrenic mind.
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Wolf777 said:
Sitting in traffic for hours to go ski or tour the park or spend time in Estes. No thanks. I could see the appeal for a young college aged couple though. I’m sure they will enjoy it for a year or two.
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Depends on which mountain you’re going to and if you’ve rented a VRBO for a couple days. Typically that’s what I’d do then you don’t have to stress about traffic. That or head over to either winter park or steamboat, both of which have zero traffic and are well off the beaten path. Steamboat is sweet, and strawberry hot springs is top flight. I’ve also had some killer days in the I70 corridor, and Estes is such a blast. To each their own though. Big towns aren’t for everyone. I get that. Those ski hills though 🤯, while they’ve got their flaws they’re totally world class. Have to have the epic or icon pass though, and have to strategize to avoid the traffic for sure.
 
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BadlandsGrizFan said:
But if Colorado is for you….just stay out here for another decade or two. Montana is essentially in the same phase as Colorado in the 80s right now.
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God damnit I hope not. While I love Colorado I chose to live in Montana to avoid the crowds and enjoy the wide open spaces. Colorado is great, but for me Montana is perfect. Sadly you’re probably right though. My in laws have had a lake house on whitefish lake since the 60s and it’s sad the amount of change that’s taken place in that corner of our state . I love whitefish, and spend a couple months a year there. But it’s nothing like it was even in the early 2000s. The pace of change is only accelerating too. Sad
 
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