Hawks Rest: A Season in the Remote Heart of Yellowstone
"Wildness is something best measured in the dark. On black, moonless nights when the horizon goes limp, and every scratch and thud and snap of branch outside the tent touches off spot fires in your brain. Sort of like now. The sow grizzly is back again, circling, gulping down the dark and blowing it out again through her nose.'' So begins Gary Ferguson's tale of his three-month odyssey at Hawks Rest in the heart of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
Beginning with a hundred-mile hike to reach Hawks Rest, Ferguson recounts his adventures in Yellowstone observing grizzly bears, tracking wolf packs, and encountering other wildlife in what is now the largest intact ecosystem in the temperate world. Along the way he meets an intriguing array of backcountry hikers, park rangers, elk hunters, outfitters, and wildlife biologists all grappling with the challenges of preserving this magnificent slice of wilderness.
Personal, poignant, and often gripping, Hawks Rest celebrates ''this profusion of things fierce and vast and thrilling'' as it chronicles the stresses that threaten America's most beloved wilderness lands.
- 240 pages
- 5 3/4'' x 8 3/4''
- Softcover
- © 2003
"Mournful and defiant as a wolf howl…an eloquent tribute to a threatened place and its lone protectors."—Los Angeles Times
"A sharp and ironic sense of what it's like to live in the American outback, twenty-first-century style."—Natural History Magazine
"Dazzling…an Edward Abbey-esque book, full of snappy vignettes and chiseled writing."—San Francisco Chronicle
"[Ferguson evokes] feelings of solitude, timelessness and aching beauty in the smallest details…"—The Oregonian
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