Down from the Mountain

<p><strong>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. </strong></p><br/><p>An ode to wildness and wilderness (<em>Outside Magazine</em>) <em>Down from the Mountain </em>tells the story of one grizzly in the changing Montana landscape.</p><br/><p>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.</p><br/><p>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.</p><br/><p>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).</p><br/><p>Andrews's wonderful<em> Down from the Mountain</em> is deeply informed by personal experience and made all the stronger by his compassion and measured thoughts . . . Welcome and impressive work.--Barry Lopez</p><br/><p><strong>Don't miss Bryce Andrews' powerful new memoir <em>Holding Fire</em>. </strong></p>