The story of a grizzly bear named Millie: her life, death, and cubs,
and what they reveal about the changing character of the American
West.
An "ode to wildness and wilderness" (Outside Magazine), Down from the
Mountain tells the story of one grizzly in the changing Montana
landscape.
Millie was cunning, a fiercely protective mother to her cubs. But
raising those cubs in the mountains was hard, as the climate warmed and
people crowded the valleys.
There were obvious dangers, like poachers, and subtle ones, like the
corn field that drew her into sure trouble. That trouble is where
award-winning writer, farmer, and conservationist Bryce Andrews's story
intersects with Millie's.
In this "welcome and impressive work" he shows how this drama is "the
core of a major problem in the rural American West--the disagreement
between large predatory animals and invasive modern settlers"--an
entangled collision where the shrinking wilds force human and bear into
ever closer proximity (Barry Lopez).
"Andrews's wonderful Down from the Mountain is deeply informed by
personal experience and made all the stronger by his compassion and
measured thoughts . . . Welcome and impressive work."--Barry Lopez
Don't miss Bryce Andrews' powerful new memoir, Holding Fire.