Living With Bears: A Practical Guide to Bear Country
From the Publisher:
With over 900,000 black bears roaming North America today, people from Florida to British Columbia are encountering bears more often, and as a result, human-bear conflicts are on the rise. Colorado author Linda Masterson dispels myths, replaces fear with respect, and lays the foundation for improving human-black bear relations with an inside look at the fascinating world of these highly intelligent, adaptable and resourceful animals.

• Understanding Black Bears and Their Behavior
• Bear-Proofing Your Home
• Safe Trash Stashing
• Hiking, Camping & Playing in Bear Country
• Bird feeding, Bee-Keeping in Bear Country
• Gardening, Orchards & Farming in Bear Country
• Bear Behavior Modification
• Avoiding Encounters & Attacks
• Appendix: bear organizations, volunteer groups, state agencies, resources and index
• Case Studies from national parks, wildlife sanctuaries and communities in Colorado, Pennsylvania, Florida, Tennessee, Washington, Nevada, California, Minnesota and Canada.

This 256-page book ($20.00) is available at bookstores and gift shops. Autographed copies are available online at www.PixyJackPress.com.

Glacier Park Magazine
From the Publisher: is the quarterly journal of Glacier National Park and surrounding Montana wildlands. Showcasing the fauna and flora of the Park, the editors, writers and photographers strive to show readers the unique and wonderful world of the region known as the Crown of the Continent.

The magazine is also advertising free.
Its success is based solely on subscriptions and we have subscribers in almost every state in the union as well as Canada and Europe.
 
Printed on high-quality heavy gloss paper, it has more of a book feel than a magazine. The magazine also does something other publications do not — it gives back to the Park through donations to the Glacier National Park Fund. We are not, however, affiliated with Glacier National Park or the National Park Service.

THE BEAR BOOK

From the Publisher:
This is an anthology of stories, essays, reminiscences, advice, photographs, and facts about all eight species of bears, told by bear biologists, wildlife writers and photographers, conservationists, children, and others passionate about bears.  All of the proceeds from the book go directly to wild bear conservation.

http://www.beartrust.org/ for information on ordering the book

Food, Stories, and History Serve up Memorable Feast in Unique Cookbook

From the Publisher:
Yellowstone National Park is no ordinary place, and The Yellowstone National Park Cookbook is no ordinary cookbook. Author Durrae Johanek, driven by her twin loves of cooking and the park, serves up a unique gastronomical delight in this exceptional collection of recipes, all of which have unusual connections to the park. The recipes are interspersed with personal tales, park history, and profiles of those sharing their recipes. From favorite backpacking snacks offered by backcountry rangers to gourmet entrees from the park’s notable lodges, this book runs the gustatorial gamut from wolf project leader Doug Smith’s Lentil Soup to park biologist Cheryl Jaworowski’s Nut Mix. Park superintendent Suzanne Lewis takes time out of her busy schedule to share some of her best recipes, and park historian Lee Whittlesey remembers his Mother’s Chicken. Tour leaders, bear watchers, and geyser gazers offer park anecdotes along with their special recipes. Open the pages of this book and dig into Norris Egg Salad Sandwiches, Upper Geyser Basin Pot Roast, and Old Faithful Inn Delight Cake.

In all, The Yellowstone National Park Cookbook contains 125 unforgettable recipes, each one flavored by the wonder of Yellowstone.

The paperback book with a lay-flat binding is only $19.95 and can be found at most area bookstores or by calling Riverbend Publishing toll-free at 1-866-787-2363.

James Halfpenny's new book
"Yellowstone Bears in the Wild"

From the Publisher:
Book reveals the secrets of Yellowstone’s bears

Grizzly bears love to play, sleep, and eat small bugs, according to a new book about the bears of Yellowstone National Park.

Based on the park’s latest scientific research, “Yellowstone Bears in the Wild” by Dr. Jim Halfpenny provides an intriguing portrait of Yellowstone’s grizzly and black bears. From hibernation to hyperphagia, the book describes everything about the bears: how they live and what they eat, where they go and what they do, how they raise their cubs and how they interact with wolves and other animals, including people.

Like he did in his highly acclaimed “Yellowstone Wolves in the Wild,” Halfpenny brings the science to life with remarkable personal stories by bear biologists and bear watchers. In one story about curiosity and play, Kerry Gunther, the park’s bear management biologist and author of the book’s foreword, tells how a grizzly bear came out of the forest to play with a beach ball it had spotted in Gunther’s back yard. Gunther also provides a startling series of photographs of an adult grizzly bear climbing a tree, proving false the old adage that grizzlies can’t climb trees.

Most of the photographs are by Michael H. Francis, a professional wildlife photographer. Some of his images are quite unusual, such as a series showing a grizzly bear lying on its back and juggling a large bone with its upraised feet, and a black bear digging into a tree trunk so rapidly that wood chips fly as if from a chain saw. In a testament to the greater visibility of bears in Yellowstone today, all of the photos show wild bears in the park; there are no photos of captive bears.

In recent years thousands of Yellowstone visitors came to know female grizzly bear number 264. The book has a chapter on her life and she is featured in several photos. In a clever innovation that makes the book a memorable keepsake, 264’s actual footprints are imprinted on the book’s front and back covers.

 The book provides fascinating new information on many subjects, including bear sizes, predation, scavenging, hibernation, and eating ants, moths, worms, and other unusual foods. It explains “bear art,” a bear’s “personal space,” and bear “thinking.” The book also examines how bears are reacting to critical ecological changes taking place in Yellowstone, such as the precipitous decline of cutthroat trout and whitebark pine trees.

From claws and cubs to foods and fur, “Yellowstone Bears in the Wild” vividly presents the lives of grizzly and black bears in the world’s first national park. Anyone interested in bears or in Yellowstone will enjoy this remarkably entertaining and educational book.

    The 128-page hardcover sells for $29.95 and is available at bookstores and at Yellowstone gift shops and visitor centers, or by calling Riverbend Publishing toll-free 1-866-787-2363.