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There are some bare patches on the southern slope, and white phlox flowers are already in bloom. Bees are at work on them. The season is short here; by September the snow will start again. The window of survival is very narrow on the Lolo. It nearly slammed shut on Lewis and Clark. We add a few more rocks to the cairns and take our leave...
...walk backward, stepping in its own tracks when it is aware it is being followed. A creature that descends into the earth to sleep for six months of the year, where the mother gives birth to two fist-size babies, even in the midst of her sleep beneath the snow, in January, with the embryos having delayed their implantation for months, waiting to see if there will be enough resources to support them. Are there enough resources to support them? The last unprotected roadless lands in the national forests have been charted as possessing less than two-tenths...
...tracks of the bear and her cubs on this mountain. After much struggle, we have succeeded in negotiating a compromise with the Forest Service--on these 100 acres at least--and we hope to persuade it also to log this area only in the winter, when the snow is down, the ground is frozen and the bears are asleep...
...freak Memorial Day blizzard falls, nearly a foot of new snow. I hurry out into the forest, searching. After a few hours, I discover a set of fresh bear tracks. The bear is just ahead of me and is moving slowly, unconcerned, though the wind is not in my favor. Trees are snapping all around me under the heavy load of wet snow, a sound like occasional artillery in some newly announced or perhaps ancient and ongoing war. But I am not asking for the return of 100,000 grizzlies to the American wilderness, I'm looking for just...
...director of theater going into film," he says, "is you only have to achieve something once." He still directs plays back home, but he's become a convert to film, enchanted with the ability of movie vets like Hanks and Newman to stay in character through rain, sleet or snow: "It could be 5 a.m., pissing down rain and minus 30 degrees--they've still got their fingers on the triggers. They are able to fire whenever required...