A collection of entertaining stories about these magnificent and often misunderstood creatures.
Readers learn of actual human-bear encounters, information about bears, survival strategies, and attack statistics.
A moment later, a small dark bear stepped out into the road and looked right at us. At which point all hell broke loose. There were bellows and roars and what sounded like an elephant bursting through the woods, and then mama bear was ...
[Redacted] reported the incident to fire guard Warren Phillips at the junction of the Logging Lake Trail and the trail to the patrol cabin at the foot of Logging Lake at 11:45 a.m. Phillips was packing supplies for the patrol cabin with ...
Tales of the Grizzly: Thirty-nine Stories of Grizzly Bear Encounters in the Wilderness
In Walking with Bears , biologist Terry DeBruyn cautioned against comparing a bear's vision to its other senses : " Bears supposedly have poor eyesight , and , compared to their keen sense of smell and acute hearing , I agree the bear's ...
See bear spray Person, Daniel, 63 Petron, Michael, 138 Phillips, Bundy, 234–36 Phillips, David, 282–84 Phillips, Jerry, 178 photography, wildlife, 88, 107–8 Piastuck, John, 252 pine nuts, 250,271 Platt, Brian, 301 playing dead, 28, 58, ...
This delightful book contains 11 short stories about true encounters with black bears in the Adirondack Park of upstate New York ... these stories will make you smile, chuckle, and sometimes even feel a little sad .
Combining breathtaking travel photography with compelling personal narratives, She Explores shares the stories of 40 diverse women on unforgettable journeys in nature: women who live out of vans, trucks, and vintage trailers, hiking the ...
Colorado author Linda Masterson dispels myths, replaces fear with respect, and lays the foundation for improving human-black bear relations with an inside look at the fascinating world of these highly intelligent, adaptable and resourceful ...
Strangely enough, most attacks are nonfatal. This book is filled with true-life episodes of close-calls, maulings, and deaths by all three North American bears: black, grizzly, and polar. These stories are not fiction.