Download PDF by Rachel Mazur: Speaking of Bears: The Bear Crisis and a Tale of Rewilding

By Rachel Mazur

ISBN-10: 1493008226

ISBN-13: 9781493008223

As majestic as they're risky, and as undying as they're present, bears proceed to captivate readers. Speaking of Bears isn't really your ordinary selection of tales. relatively it's the historical past, compiled from interviews with over a hundred contributors, of the way Yosemite, Sequoia, and Kings Canyon nationwide Parks, all in California’s Sierra Nevada, created a human-bear challenge so undesirable that there have been ultimately over 2,000 incidents in one 12 months. It then describes the pivotal moments in which park staff used trial-and-error, performed examine, invented units, collaborated with different parks, and located investment to get the quandary again lower than control. talking of Bears is for undergo enthusiasts, nationwide park buffs, historians, flora and fauna managers, biologists, coverage and grant-makers, and a person who desires to recognize the who, what, the place, whilst, and why of what as soon as was once a significant human-bear challenge, and the trail those parks took to right it.

Although those Sierran parks had the various worst black undergo difficulties within the kingdom, hosted a lot of the examine, and invented the majority of the technological strategies, they weren't the single ones. therefore, intertwining tales from numerous different parks together with Yellowstone, the good Smoky Mountains, and Banff-Canada are incorporated. For an individual looking recommendations to human-wildlife conflicts in the course of the international, the lessons-learned are valuable and extensively applicable.

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