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The Lost Grizzlies: A Search for Survivors in the Colorado Wilderness

10 best books like The Lost Grizzlies: A Search for Survivors in the Colorado Wilderness (Rick Bass): Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild, A Field Guide to Western Birds: A Completely New Guide to Field Marks of All Species Found in North America West of the 100th Meridian and North of Mexico, The Blue Bear: A True Story of Friendship and Discovery in the Alaskan Wild, The Wild Muir: Twenty-Two of John Muir's Greatest Adventures, Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness, Travels in Alaska, The Wolverine Way, Crossing Open Ground, The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder, The Forgotten Pollinators

Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild
AuthorEllen Meloy
Long believed to be disappearing and possibly even extinct, the Southwestern bighorn sheep of Utah’s canyonlands have made a surprising comeback. Naturalist Ellen Meloy tracks a band of these majestic creatures through backcountry hikes, downriver floats, and travels across the Southwest....
A Field Guide to Western Birds: A Completely New Guide to Field Marks of All Species Found in North America West of the 100th Meridian and North of Mexico
AuthorRoger Tory Peterson
ISBN0395911745
"The Birder’s Bible" for more than 60 years, Roger Tory Peterson’s classic Field Guide to Western Birds includes all species found in North America west of the 100th meridian and north of Mexico. Featuring the unique Peterson Identification System, Western Birds contains 165 full-color paintings...
The Blue Bear: A True Story of Friendship and Discovery in the Alaskan Wild
AuthorLynn Schooler
ISBN0060935731
With a body twisted by adolescent scoliosis and memories of the brutal death of a woman he loved, Lynn Schooler kept the world at arm's length, drifting through the wilds of Alaska as a commercial fisherman, outdoorsman, and wilderness guide. In 1990, Schooler met Japanese photographer Michio Hoshino,...
The Wild Muir: Twenty-Two of John Muir's Greatest Adventures
AuthorLee Stetson
ISBN0939666758
Here is an entertaining collection of John Muir's most exciting adventures, representing some of his finest writing. Each included adventure has been selected to show the extent to which Muir courted and faced danger, i.e. lived "wildly, " throughout his life. From the famous avalanche ride off the...
Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness
AuthorDoug Peacock
ISBN0805045430
For nearly twenty years, alone and unarmed, author Doug Peacock traversed the rugged mountains of Montana and Wyoming tracking the magnificent grizzly. His thrilling narrative takes us into the bear's habitat, where we observe directly this majestic animal's behavior, from hunting strategies,...
Travels in Alaska
AuthorJohn Muir
ISBN0781201543
In the late 1800s, John Muir made several trips to the pristine, relatively unexplored territory of Alaska, irresistibly drawn to its awe-inspiring glaciers and its wild menagerie of bears, bald eagles, wolves, and whales. Half-poet and half-geologist, he recorded his experiences and reflections...
The Wolverine Way
AuthorDouglas H. Chadwick
ISBN0979065976
Glutton, demon of destruction, symbol of slaughter, mightiest of wilderness villains… The wolverine comes marked with a reputation based on myth and fancy. Yet this enigmatic animal is more complex than the legends that surround it. With a shrinking wilderness and global warming, the future of...
Crossing Open Ground
AuthorBarry Lopez
ISBN0679721835
As an collection of journalistic pieces and essays, Crossing Open Ground is slightly less consistent in its overwhelming awe than Lopez' other works. His earlier, more explicitly journalistic pieces seem less impressive than the later works, which tend to be the ones that spend more time drawing...
The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder
AuthorDavid Quammen
ISBN0743200322
In 1981 David Quammen began what might be every freelance writer's dream: a monthly column for Outside magazine in which he was given free rein to write about anything that interested him in the natural world. His column was called "Natural Acts," and for the next fifteen years he delighted Outside's...
The Forgotten Pollinators
AuthorStephen L. Buchmann
ISBN1559633530
Really good.

I had read about this years ago, and finally got around to it, expecting something fairly academic.

I was surprised then to see the vivid, kind of aggressive cover as various pollinators come right at you. This is accompanied by several other illustrations that are surprisingly...
The Company of Wolves
AuthorPeter Steinhart
ISBN0679743871
As wolves return to their old territory in Yellowstone National Park, their presence is reawakening passions as ancient as their tangled relations with human beings. This authoritative and eloquent book coaxes the wolf out from its camouflage of myth and reveals the depth of its kinship with humanity,...
Pieces of White Shell
AuthorTerry Tempest Williams
ISBN0826309690
This unusual book is an introduction to Navajo culture by a storyteller. Steeped in the lore of the Navajo reservation, where she worked as a teacher, the author came to see Navajo legend and ritual as touchstones for evaluating her own experience. She presents them here as a means for all people to locate...
The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West
AuthorEdward Abbey
ISBN0452265622
The Journey Home ranges from the surreal cityscapes of Hoboken and Manhattan to the solitary splendor of the deserts and mountains of the Southwest. It is alive with ranchers, dam builders, kissing bugs, and mountain lions. In a voice edged with chagrin, Edward Abbey offers a portrait of the American...
Conifer Country
AuthorMichael Edward Kauffmann
ISBN0578094169
Conifer Country is an innovative natural history and hiking guide that uses conifers as a lens to explore the astounding plant diversity in the Klamath Mountains of northwest California and southwest Oregon. Educator, plant explorer, and author Michael Kauffmann introduces readers to the magic...
Being Caribou: Seven Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd
AuthorKarsten Heuer
ISBN1594850100
What began as a wildlife research project became much more as the author and his wife learn to hear the earth, pay attention to their dreams and slowly change, beyond their expectations, into being caribou.
Both gripping adventure and stark portrayal of an Arctic cosystem threatened by oil development....
Ravens in Winter
AuthorBernd Heinrich
ISBN0679732365
The author starts with reports that he has heard, that ravens share their food. And he wonders, "why?" Why, indeed. He formulates dozens of hypotheses that could explain this sharing. And yet, he is not even sure whether or not they truly do share their food.

So the author begins a long, painstaking...
Decade of the Wolf: Returning the Wild to Yellowstone
AuthorDouglas W. Smith
ISBN1592288863
Rear cover notes: "In Decade of the Wolf, project leader Douglas W. Smith and acclaimed nature writer Gary Ferguson describe the journey of thirty-one Canadian gray wolves that were released in 1995 and 1996 into Yellowstone National Park and the people who faithfully followed them. With recently...
The Last Wild Wolves: Ghosts of the Rain Forest
AuthorIan McAllister
ISBN0520254732
"As if appearing in a dream, a stream of wolves emerged from the forest edge." So begins this exhilarating journey to one of the planet's most spectacular regions—Canada's North Pacific coast, our largest intact temperate Rain Forest and one of the last places where wolves live wild and undisturbed....
Birder's Handbook: A Field Guide to the Natural History of North American Birds
AuthorPaul R. Ehrlich
ISBN0671659898
This is the most complete and authoritative reference book about the birds of North America -- up to date and in field-guide format.

The Birder's Handbook is the first of its kind: a portable library of fascinating information not included in your identification guide. For each of the 646 species...
Savage Dreams: A Journey into the Landscape Wars of the American West
AuthorRebecca Solnit
ISBN0520220668
In 1851, a war began in what would become Yosemite National Park, a war against the indigenous inhabitants that has yet to come to a real conclusion. A century later—1951—and about a hundred and fifty miles away, another war began when the U. S. government started setting off nuclear bombs at the...
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