Alaska's Bears (eBook)

Grizzlies, Black Bears, and Polar Bears, Revised Edition

Bill Sherwonit (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2016 | 2. Auflage
108 Seiten
Turner Publishing Company (Verlag)
978-1-943328-56-7 (ISBN)

Infos

A handy guidebook to the bears of Alaska, this informative book provides details on bear behaviors, yearly cycles, ecological niches, relations to humans, and more.

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Alaska is truly bear country. It is the only one of America’s fifty states to be inhabited by all three of North America’s ursine species: black, polar bear, and brown bear (also known as grizzly). Alaska’s Bears is a handy guidebook to the bears of Alaska, a book that slips easily into a jacket pocket or a day pack, and that provides entertaining armchair reading when you’re not in bear country.
Here in one compact edition is a book that can help you understand Alaska’s bears and their natural histories. Learn about their appearances, behaviors, yearly cycles, ecological niches, and relationships with humans. Find full details on how to visit Alaska’s prime bear-viewing and get tips for traveling safely through bear country. Complementing Bill Sherwonit’s text are photographs from longtime Alaskan Tom Walker, a premier wildlife photographer who has spent hundreds of hours in the company of bears.

Autor

For more than three decades, Anchorage-based writer Bill Sherwonit has written extensively about wilderness, the natural history of animals and plants, wildlife management, connection to place, conservation issues, and notions of wildness. He’s contributed stories and photos to a wide variety of national publications and is the author of over a dozen books about Alaska, including To the Top of Denali and Animal Stories. He also teaches nature and travel writing in his adopted hometown of Anchorage. www.billsherwonit.alaskawriters.com. Tom Walker, a full-time freelance writer and photographer specializing in natural history and wildlife, is regarded as one of Alaska's premier nature photographers. His work has appeared in numerous national, local, and international publications. This award-winning photographer is active in local and national conservation issues. In 2002, Alaska's Governor appointed him to the Citizens Advisory Committee for the Alaska Interagency Kodiak Brown Bear Management Team and helped draft the first comprehensive brown bear management plan for the Kodiak Archipelago. www.tomwalkerphotography.com

Inhalt

BEAR COUNTRY
Map

THE POLAR BEAR
Home on the Ice
Map
A Diet of Seals
Mothers and Their Dens
Future of the Polar Bear

THE BROWN BEAR/GRIZZLY BEAR
Surviving Winter
Life as a Cub
Opportunistic Omnivores
Social Life
Future of the Brown Bear

Tips for Traveling in Bear Country
Is it a Brown Bear or a Black Bear?

THE BLACK BEAR
A Creature of the Forest
Building Fat Reserves
Into the Winter Den
The Long Sleep
The Young Bears
Future of the Black Bear

VIEWING ALASKA’S BEARS
Prime Viewing Sites

SUGGESTED READING
INDEX

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.6.2016
• Illustrationen: Tom Walker
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Schlagworte: Alaska • alaskan wildlife • appearances,behaviors,yearly cycles,ecological niches • arctic ecosystem • bear behavior • bear country • biology of bears • biology of wildlife • Black • black bear • Brown • BROWN BEAR • conservation • Country • Field guide • Grizzly Bear • Guidebook • nature reference • North America • North American mammals • Pacific Northwest • Pacific Northwest U.S. travel • Pacific West United States travel books • Polar • Polar bear • relationships with animals • safe travel • Species history • ursine species • Wilderness • Wildlife Photographer
• ISBN-10: 1-943328-56-0 / 1943328560
• ISBN-13: 978-1-943328-56-7 / 9781943328567