"Corky" Bryan - Hawaii Cattlemens Council

LW:I mean… you have trouble out here with people poaching your stuff.CB: There’s fifty thousand acres and if we just run those cattle on fifty thousand acres… so how do you getthem… he says when it starts snowing they all start coming home. That’s exactly what happened.LW:Really?CB:Yeah.LW:Wow, interesting.CB: I think we were only two or three short out of that whole bunch that went up there. But any way… youknow that all those kinds of stuff, it was just a great learning experience and… like I say I met some really,really great people. Never had any fun. (Laughter.)LW:Never. We can tell.CB:Work, work, work. You know.LW: Well what do you think is the essence of being a cattleman or what would you like to see… you knowwhat kind of… statement do you want to make about cattlemen?CB: Hmm… I don’t know. I think… well, number one it’s a tremendous life. And we’re… none of us get richdoing it. But… if you like your individuality, I think that’s a part of it. You like to have fun… ‘cause that’s a bigpart of it, too. We all have fun. You have great people… you know, country people are great everywhere… sothat’s part of it. You get to live in a place like this. And I could probably make more money moving to themainland or doing something like that but this is where I live. Let’s see… oh, we’re all naturalists… naturelovers, any way… I mean all of us… and so we get to do that. We get paid for it. You get up on the mountainin the morning and it’s unbelievable. I tell the cowboys that you guys should be paying us for this stuff.(Laughter.) Of course, that doesn’t go over very well. God, it’s cold up here. I said yeah, but look, you knowhow many people would pay money to come and do this? And to be here where you are and stuff like that.You know it’s hard… when you’re in that … but… it’s just amazing, and you know we get to see things thatpeople don’t ever get to see, do things that people don’t ever get to do… for me it’s just living a dream.