View from the North 40: You can temper steel with fire, too

Horses are psychic — if you don’t believe it, just watch them be jerks about it.

I just spent three days researching, reading, interviewing and writing about livestock predation due to grizzlies, wolves, mountain lions and coyotes — which is the technical way of saying I was drowning in the details about large, wild meat-eaters making a meal out of livestock.

The day I finished with the project, my horses spent the entire time I was out feeding them, in the dark, spooking around in their pen — even leaving their food, which they never do. Well, no. Never is strong language and, strictly speaki...