Lyle Braddock

with numerous part-time jobs

**Lyle Braddock** (May 31, 1991) is a graduate student at SWU who is pursuing his master’s degree studying bear ecology.

## Early Life

Lyle was born and raised in the small, sleepy town of Fowl Lake to parents Isabel MacKay and Desmond Braddock. He attended the local university for his undergraduate degree in Ecology. After graduating he applied for a master's position at SWU in his mother's home town of Lower Duck Pond. In 2015 he was accepted into the SWU Natural Resources Conservation program to study the local bear population.

## Research

Lyle is currently pursuing his Master's Degree researching the ecology of the *King's Falls Brown Bear (KFBB)*. As the only brown bear population known to have increased in numbers since the 1800s the KFBB is a sub-species of great importance to furthering bear conservation efforts world wide.

The project is currently overdue by 4+ years due to a number of complications and increases in the scope of the research. The field work is dangerous and highly demanding resulting in a high "turnover rate" for field technicians. Additional funding has been obtained through a number of agencies including the NSF, EPA, DoD, DoH, CIA, and the government of Paraguay. With this new funding has come a number of additions to the project, most of it [REDACTED].

## Personality

Lyle is best described as an anti-establishment, hippy type who has very strong opinions (aka kind of a dick) on environmental justice. He is a nice person but can be judgmental of those who don't care for the earth as much as he does. Having been a student for most of his life, Lyle has not had to face reality and can be uncompromising to a fault. The compromises he has made for the sake of funding his research (taking money from the Department of Defense for example) and "saving the bears" run counter to his morals and self-image, leading to denial and a growing identity crisis.

## Current Life & Interests

To pay for his tuition he works a number of part-time jobs, including the Goose Mountain Ski Resort, the Smiling Mandala Co-op, Cafe, and Kratom Bar, and the Miriam F. Platt Nature Center.

Lyle is into the outdoors, board games, and gardening. He only eats meat he has farmed or hunted himself. He tries to be as zero-waste as possible so he bikes frequently, grows his own food, brews cider and kombucha, and has backyard chickens. He lives on Elk Ave with his roommate Jerry. He is currently on parole for an illegal (but successful) environmental protest. He loves all animals but dislikes the local raccoons which steal the bait from his bear traps.

## Trivia

* Owns a black cat named Jiji and a lama named Alfonso.
* Was crowned the 2020 Moth Bash Moth King

## References

1. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/HaveWeMet/comments/f1zoyz/hair\_help/fh9l5ij/
2. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/HaveWeMet/comments/e1im6d/looking\_for\_an\_apprenticeship\_will\_work\_for\_free/f8ppbi6/
3. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/HaveWeMet/comments/f764ac/well\_ladies\_and\_gentlemen\_ive\_returned\_and\_i\_have/fib3eiw/
4. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/HaveWeMet/comments/e6k364/daily\_discussion\_december\_05\_2019\_tell\_us\_about/f9rsoef/
5. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/HaveWeMet/comments/cyt1zn/ive\_been\_stuck\_in\_this\_tree\_for\_a\_week\_send\_food/?utm\_source=reddit&utm\_medium=usertext&utm\_name=u\_99headhunter99&utm\_content=t3\_ep581u
6. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/HaveWeMet/comments/f8fmyc/moth\_bash\_followup/