The Home of Bergie Solberg
Along with several buildings that had been there for years, Bergie lived in a mobile trailer that had been barged in and pulled up on shore at high tide. It was close to level but not quite but that was OK.
I do not think she received many visitors because she had gone to the trouble of baking a cake for me. The pan was a little rusty and the cake stuck to the bottom of it but it was delicious. I did not drink coffee or tea or goatsmilk so Bergie runmmaged around and found a can of pop for me. It had been there for some time as it was a bit corroded as well.
Bergie kept goats. They provided two things for her...goatsmilk for nourishment and cougar pelts for money. She laughed as she told the story with the scandinavian accent she must have inherited from her father. She told me she had heard the dogs out barking the other morning so she went outside and found a cougar after her goats. Then she said she chased the cougar up a tree and then she said she went back into her house, got her gun, and came back and shot the cougar! In that order!
For Bergie, cougars had one purpose and that was to be shot, skinned and sold in order to make money. To her the Coast Mountains were simply one big cougar ranch. But for Jamie Stevens, the local conservation officer, cougars were to be protected and their greatest predator in the area was Bergie, the Cougar Lady, so Bergie and Jamie had a running battle for years.
