The Bears of Grand Teton

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Sue Consolo-Murphy is retired from Grand Teton National Park and John D. Rockefeller Jr. Memorial Parkway, where she worked as chief of science and resource management from 2003 to 2019, after decades with the National Park Service at various locations. She was the 2013 recipient of the National Park Service Director’s Award for Excellence in Natural Resource Management and was a 2008 honoree of the Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee’s award for significant contributions to grizzly bear recovery.

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Sue Consolo-Murphy’s autobiographical narrative traces the history of bear management in Grand Teton National Park and the Jackson Hole area, considering in particular bears’ interaction with livestock.

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1. A Bear Beginning
2. Where Bears Belong
3. Bear Management in the Early Park: 1929–1950
4. Boom Times and Missing Grizzlies: The 1950s–1970s
5. Making the List: The 1980s–1990s
6. The Life of a Bear
7. Dump Days
8. Berries and More
9. Bears and Livestock, Part 1: Sheep
10. Bears and Livestock, Part 2: Cattle
11. Wake-Up Call for a New Century
12. Bear Danger
13. Guns, Snares, and Bears
14. The (Not-So-) Forgotten Parkway
15. Science and Teton Bears
16. Bears in the ’Hood
17. Making a Difference
18. Celebrity

19. The Unknowable Bears

    Notes
    Bibliography
    Index