About this item
As majestic as they are powerful, and as timeless as they are current, bears continue to captivate. Speaking of Bears is not your average collection of stories. Rather, it is the history, compiled from interviews with more than 100 individuals, of how Yosemite, Sequoia, and Kings Canyon National Parks, all in Californias Sierra Nevada, created a human-bear problem so bad that there were eventually over 2,000 incidents in a single year. It then describes the pivotal moments during which park employees used trial and error, conducted research, invented devices, collaborated with other parks, and found funding to get the crisis back under control. Speaking of Bears is for bear lovers, national park buffs, historians, wildlife managers, biologists, and anyone who wants to know the who, what, where, when, and why of what once was a serious human-bear problem, and the path these parks took to correct it.
About the Author
Rachel Mazur, Ph.D., is the author of the biography, Yosemite Maasai (2021) ; the middle-grade series, The Nature Club (Wild Bear Press, 2019) ; the non-fiction book, Speaking of Bears (Globe Pequot, 2015) ; the picture book, If You Were a Bear (Sequoia Natural History Association, 2008) ; and many articles for scientific and trade publications. She is passionate about writing stories to connect people with nature - and inspiring them to protect it. Rachel lives with her husband and two children in Port Angeles, Washington, where she works as an ecologist for the National Park Service.
