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Saving Grizzlies: The Fight Against Extinction and Habitat Loss

August 25, 2025 by Jack Eidt 1 comment

In this episode, we explore the precarious existence of grizzly bears in the United States, focusing on their survival challenges and the intricate interplay between human development and wildlife conservation. With insights from experts and advocates like Doug Peacock and Terry Tempest Williams, we discuss the pressing issues of delisting, trophy hunting, and the impact of climate change on grizzly bear populations. Join us as we examine the role of grizzlies in our ecosystem and the urgent need for coexistence to ensure their survival and ours.

Film, Wildlife

The Bear: Grizzly King and the Wilderness Homeland

March 3, 2016 by Jack Eidt 0 comments

Watch the 1988 French film The Bear, by Jean-Jacques Annaud, the story of an orphaned cub and a grizzly in the end of the 19th Century wilderness of British Columbia. The story is based on the 1912 book by James Oliver Curwood.

Coastal First Nations, Canada, British Columbia, conservation

Wildlife

Bear Witness: First Nations Protect Grizzlies in British Columbia

December 31, 2013 by The Outpost 1 comment

A documentary film, Bear Witness, chronicles the efforts of Canadian Coastal First Nations to protect grizzly bears from sport hunters on the British Columbian coast.

Grizzly Bears rarely pose dangers to humans in the wild

Wildlife

George Wuerthner: Habitat Conservation, Not Hunting, Saves Grizzly Bears

January 4, 2013 by The Outpost 2 comments

Wildlife Agencies advocate hunting helps grizzly recovery. The best available science, however, suggests predators including bears, wolves, mountain lion and coyotes have intricate social interactions that are disrupted or damaged by indiscriminate killing from hunters and trappers. Habitat protection is the main way to protect the fledgling population of grizzly bears as well as avoid human-bear conflicts.

screenshot from Santa Ana Mtns Wild Heritage Project

Eco-Cultural-Travel, Wildlife

Santa Ana Mountains: Vestige of Wild Coastal Southern California

May 5, 2012 by Jack Eidt 0 comments

Following the footsteps of Willis E. Pequegnat, a biologist from the 1930s who explored the wild Santa Ana Mountains in Orange, Riverside, and San Diego Counties, this video field journal logs the wonders and threats to this thriving resource.

Rituals and Traditions

Shoshoni: Grizzly Bear Song

September 6, 2011 by The Outpost 1 comment

Shoshoni Elder Oldhands performs a song given to him by spirit to bring awareness to the struggle of our relatives the Bear Nations, to stay alive in an ever shrinking World. It was the Bear people that showed us how to use the Earth’s Medicine. It is their Wisdom that can save us. All My Relations

Myth, Rituals and Traditions

Bear Dancing into Autumn: Hunting the Big Dipper

September 5, 2011 by Jack Eidt 1 comment

In a blending of an Iroquois and Cree legend, with autumn approaching, four brothers had the same dream for four nights. They saw a vision of themselves tracking and killing the monster bear. Believing the dream to hold the truth, the brothers followed it into the sky.

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