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Author Doug Peacock has been writing about and defending grizzly bears for the past four decades. He lives just north of Yellowstone National Park. Read his latest at dougpeacock.net.

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The NRA and the Safari Club Are Gunning for Grizzlies

IN THE CROSSHAIRS

The gun lobby and big-game hunters are teaming up to get the bears off the endangered species list. But that's just a first step toward stealing public land.

Doug Peacock | Published Mar 12, 2018

Jim Harrison and the Art of Friendship

True Friend

The late, great author was generous with his time, his money, his talent, and his friendship. He made life better. He cannot be replaced.

Doug Peacock | Published Apr 02, 2016

Grizzlies in the Crosshairs

TROPHY HUNTING

A government proposal to remove the grizzly bear from the list of endangered species would surely condemn the species to almost certain slaughter.

Doug Peacock | Published Mar 19, 2016

Do Killer Grizzlies Deserve Death?

Dangerous Ground

Federal officials defied their own rules in killing the mother bear behind this month’s Yellowstone tragedy. The lives of the endangered species are about to get even cheaper.

Doug Peacock | Published Aug 22, 2015

What It Takes to Exterminate the Grizzly

DOUBLE BLIND

Yellowstone grizzly bears face the two greatest threats to their survival in our lifetime: global warming and the U.S. government. Between them they could wipe the bears out.

Doug Peacock | Published Nov 23, 2014

Who Will Save the Wolverine?

Melting

How one bureaucrat’s climate denial overruled wildlife scientists and put the Northern Rockies species on the road to extinction.

Doug Peacock | Published Jul 20, 2014

American Wilderness Faces a Firing Squad

Embattled

On the even of the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act, conservative congressmen, theorists, and even Outside magazine seem eager to destroy what’s left of the wild in America.

Doug Peacock | Published Jul 06, 2014

This Land Is Your Land—Wanna Bet?

Embattled

A month after tangling with Cliven Bundy, the BLM confronts a Utah county commissioner planning an ATV rally in a canyon full of archeological significance.

Doug Peacock | Published May 06, 2014

Who Got to America First

Pedestrians

At last, archeologists have resolved the debate over the first Americans (hint: they walked). Then they screwed up a perfectly good answer to an ancient puzzle.

Doug Peacock | Published Mar 27, 2014

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