Where the Grizzly Walks The Future of the Great Bear

Name: Where the Grizzly Walks The Future of the Great Bear
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ISBN: 9780762726028

ISBN-10: 0762726024

ISBN-13: 9780762726028

Edition: 2003

Authors: Bill Schneider

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Admired for its majesty and often feared for its strength, speed, and supposed aggressiveness, the grizzly bear was once unchallenged as the great apex predator of the American West. But by the 1970s, hunting and habitat loss had reduced its numbers in the lower 48 states to a mere 800 animals occupying just two percent of the bear's former range. Where the Grizzly Walks assesses the bear's current status and its uncertain future at the beginning of the 21st century. Focusing on the wildlife professionals who struggle to achieve a balance among the varied interests of government agencies, private landowners, politicians, and environmentalists, the author illuminates the enormous challenges…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press, The
Publication date: 12/1/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 280
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.088
Language: English



Foreword


Preface


Acknowledgments


Prologue: The Grizzly Landscape


Past and Present-Day Grizzly Bear Habitat Map


Grizzly Bear Recovery Zones Map


The Bear People


Acronyms for Dummies



The Passing of Old Ephraim


Chronology of the Grizzly Bear


A Few Bears I've Met: The grizzly is more than a bear



The Ninemile Grizzly


Living with Bears



Strange Bedfellows


The Governor and the Grizzly


Is One Too Many?



The Great Grizzly Gamble


An Unacceptable Species



A Most Delicate Balance


A Few Bears I've Met: If you don't have dreams, they can't come true



The B Team


Raising Grizzly Bears



The Hair of the Bear


Why Do We Need Grizzly Bears?



Minimal and Acceptable


A Few Ways to Die


The Bear Essentials of Hiking and Camping in Bear Country


A Few Bears I've Met: Bad things happen when you don't take your own advice



How Much Aversive Is Enough?


Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee Bear Pepper Spray Position Paper


A Few Bears I've Met: Just when you think you're in control, something reminds you that you aren't



Killing Trout to Save Bears


The Original


A Few Bears I've Met: Never depend on a bear to do what a bear is supposed to do



Ecosystem Thinking in Touristland


How Would We Notice?



Nibbled to Death


Management by Elimination


What Is the Greatest Threat to the Grizzly Bear?



The Bear Medicine


The Legend of the Medicine Grizzly



Running the Trapline


Thinking Grizzly


Epilogue: Reflections of Pages Past--What We Need to Do to Save the Grizzly Bear


A Few Bears I've Met: I heard the requiem sound


Bibliography


Index


About the Author