Andrews\' wonderful Down from the Mountain is deeply informed by personal experience and made all the stronger by his compassion and measured thoughts...
It is the heart of Down from the Mountain , a singular drama evoking a much larger one: an entangled, bloody collision between two species in the modern-day West, where the shrinking wilds force man and Bear into ever closer proximity..
That trouble is where Bryce\'s story intersects with Millie\'s.
There are obvious dangers, like poachers, and subtle ones as well, like the corn field that draws her out of the foothills and sets her on a path toward trouble and ruin.
But raising those cubs--a challenging task in the best of times--becomes ever harder as the mountains change, the climate warms and people crowd the valleys.
Millie is a typical mother: strong, cunning, fiercely protective of her cubs.
In searing detail, award-winning writer, Montana rancher, and conservationist Bryce Andrews tells us about one such grizzly.
As the grizzlies approach, the people of the region are wary, at best, of their return.
Descending into valleys where once they were king, bears find the landscape they\'d known for eons utterly changed by the new most dominant animal: humans.
Their range is diminished, but they\'re spreading across the West again. --Barry Lopez Winner of the Banff Mountain Book Competition\'s Mountain Environment & Natural History Award The story of a Grizzly Bear named Millie: her life, death, and cubs, and what they reveal about the changing character of the American West The Grizzly is one of North America\'s few remaining large predators.
Welcome and impressive work.
Andrews\' wonderful Down from the Mountain is deeply informed by personal experience and made all the stronger by his compassion and measured thoughts..
