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TRUE GRIZZ by Douglas H. Chadwick.

My interest in the great bears only expanded as the years went by. And the more time I spent observing the animals, the more I found myself wondering whether people - whatever their stated intentions - would ever really allow beasts of such dimensions to be restored, and if so, how? I wound up making a sort of subcareer out of looking for answers. I imposed upon resource managers in their offices and researchers deep in the field, sought out the salmon streams and other settings where bears were said to have grown fairly used to observers, and got to know a couple of bear movie stars and asked their trainers for insight. I even went to circuses and watched bicycling bears. For the most part, I just kept roaming where grizzlies do.

Toward the end of the 1990s, I was still out traversing wildlands from southern Yellowstone to the edge of the Arctic, when I found what I realized was some of the most inventive, revealing work being done on these animals anywhere. It was a high-stakes wager on the true nature of grizz, crucial to the species' recovery, and it was taking place at home in northwestern Montana, more or less in my backyard. Reply