Around the world, bears are objects of reverence, fascination and deep misunderstanding. Can humans learn to live with them safely?
Once, on an Alaskan mountain ridge, I led my 10-year-old son on a porcupine chase through a thicket of alders. We broke out on a glacial stream, where a silverback grizzly, a mere 30 yards away, was prospecting for salmon and splashing in our direction. The wind was behind the bear, blowing our scent away.
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