"THE GRIZZLY MAN", environmental activist and chronicler of the fight to keep the Griz alive and ecologically functioning in the lower 48 States, Doug Peacock is described and evaluated in a probing and deeply moving essay by his good friend, Award winning Outdoor Writer Rick Bass( you can read the article in its entirety by clicking on the link below).................Here is an overview sampler of this great article about a man, his passion and pursuit of justice and tolerance for our nations top carnivore, the Grizzly bear-------"Doug Peacock has barely hunted, or even fired a gun, since his days in Vietnam"........ "He experienced enough killing there, he says, to last several lifetimes"..............."He was 27 when he came home, racked with PTSD, back before there was a name for it — his Army medical papers described his condition as: Occupational and social impairment . . . due to such symptoms as: depressed mood, anxiety, suspiciousness, panic attacks, sleep impairment "......................" Peacock thought he was alone back then; he didn't know that every soldier experienced some version of this".......... "Once home, he wandered the West — Utah, Arizona, Wyoming — in solitude for weeks at a time".... "Eventually, he found his way into Yellowstone country, just a day's walk from the sagebrush prairie we're traversing this morning"........ "In the small number of grizzly bears that were holding on there, Peacock found something worth living for"................. "He began to follow those bears — tracking them year after year, getting to know them, filming them"........................ "Over the years, he came to understand them in ways few others, if any, had before".................. "Now no one knows wild grizzlies better"...................... "Other researchers fly over them in airplanes, and many good scientists sit in front of computers doing the important work of spatial modeling and scat analysis".......................... "But for nearly his entire adult life, Peacock has been out with the bears — in their country, watching and learning".......... "It's the one animal out there that can kill and eat you anytime it chooses to — even though it seldom does," he says"....................... "It stands as an instant lesson in humility."

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The Grizzly Man's Last Stand

Mens Journal; article by Rick Bass

Doug Peacock-Photograph by Tom Robertson

Peacock, lounging with a buffalo skull in Yellowstone, 1977. Courtesy Doug Peacock

Grizzly-courtesy of Doug Peacock

Filming bears in Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia, 1988 Courtesy Doug Peacock

Preparing an old Bolex camera Courtesy Doug Peacock

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Doug Peacock Quotes

* "The whole concept of 'wild' was decidedly European, one not shared by the original inhabitants of this continent. What we called 'wilderness' was to the Indian a homeland, 'abiding loveliness' in Salish or Piegan. The land was not something to be feared or conquered, and 'wildlife' were neither wild nor alien; they were relatives"

* "It ain’t wilderness unless there’s a critter out there that can kill you and eat you"