Growing up Grizzly : The True Story of Baylee and Her Cubs
by Concept and photos by Amy Shapira, Text by Douglas H. ChadwickFormat: Trade Book
Pub. Date: 2007-02-01
Publisher(s): FalconGuides
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Summary
Follow the true story of a young bear all alone in the Alaskan wilderness and the big-hearted grizzly family who embraced him as their own. Award-winning photographer Amy Shapira returned to the same remote cove in southeastern Alaska for six consecutive summers, capturing this incredible story as it unfolded. Through her photographs and text from noted biologist and author Douglas H. Chadwick, the heartwarming tale of Baylee, her cubs, and two-year-old Emmett comes alive for readers young and old.
Author Biography
Photographer Amy Shapira returned to the same remote cove in the Alaskan wilderness for six consecutive summers amassing over 7,500 images for this book. Several of her photographs have been featured on a PBS documentary and many have been published in magazines and newspapers. Amy is deeply dedicated to the protection, restoration and conservation of North America¿s grizzly bear habitat. She resides in Carbondale, Colorado with her husband Israel and their 3 dogs.
Douglas H. Chadwick is a biologist who has studied animals around the world. He has written nine books and hundreds of articles about nature for popular magazines such as National Geographic. Fascinated by grizzly bears for most of his grown-up life, Douglas and his wife reared two children in a remote cabin on the edge of Glacier Park, and had grizzlies for close neighbors for years. Today Doug still lives close to bears in Whitefish, MT.
Douglas H. Chadwick is a biologist who has studied animals around the world. He has written nine books and hundreds of articles about nature for popular magazines such as National Geographic. Fascinated by grizzly bears for most of his grown-up life, Douglas and his wife reared two children in a remote cabin on the edge of Glacier Park, and had grizzlies for close neighbors for years. Today Doug still lives close to bears in Whitefish, MT.
Table of Contents
| A Note from the Photographer | |
| Photographing a grizzly in the wild has always been my dream | |
| In the summer of 2000, I traveled to a remote cove in the Alaskan wilderness | |
| Glacial waters tumbled down from roaring waterfalls and filled the tiny inlet | |
| Snow-capped mountains, towering hemlock, and Sitka spruce surrounded the cove | |
| It was in this setting of rugged splendor that I took my first grizzly bear photograph and found a new consciousness and commitment to my life | |
| My dream became my passion; the bears and their habitat my sanctuary | |
| Each summer since, I have spent my days photographing Baylee and Mona, the two female adults who are full-time summer residents, their cubs, and their adolescent offspring | |
| I have come to know the bears as charming, fierce, loving, intense, comical, highly intelligent, and always majestic | |
| I have returned year after year to be in the presence of their wild, untamed spirit | |
| In the summer of 2002, Baylee (named in honor of a wildlife biologist’s eldest daughter) and her three cubs made their first appearance | |
| As it was my third trip to the cove, I had come to expect the unexpected | |
| Yet I was still amazed by Baylee | |
| She is a very unusual grizzly, and her adoption of Emmett (named by a local guide) quite remarkable | |
| I spent the next three summers under the spell of this mother bear, her three natural cubs, and her equally captivating adopted son | |
| It was a rare opportunity | |
| In the summer of 2005, Baylee appeared with her two new cubs | |
| She was as good-hearted and nurturing as ever | |
| James, Misha, and Eleanor remained nearby | |
| At times they played together, but most often they stayed apart | |
| Baylee had taught them well, and they were thriving | |
| Emmett, now an adult grizzly, had left the cove to venture out into the world | |
| Wanting to share these events with others, I turned to Douglas Chadwick—naturalist, prolific author, and friend | |
| Doug’s words and my images tell the story exactly as it unfolded | |
| My hope is that children and adults of all ages will enjoy this story of a most unusual grizzly bear family. nbsp; --Amy Shapira | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
Excerpts
Emmett wasn’t a little cub. He wasn’t a yearling cub either. He was two years old. That’s when grizzly bears usually leave home. Emmett was old enough to live on his own. But he didn’t seem to want to. Maybe he wasn’t sure what to do now that he was away from his old family and the place where he grew up. Sometimes he wore a goofy look on his face. Most of the time, he just looked lost and lonely.
Excerpted from Growing up Grizzly: The True Story of Baylee and Her Cubs by Douglas H. Chadwick
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