Bears of Grand Teton

Sue Consolo-Murphy is retired from Grand Teton National Park and John D. Rockefeller Jr. Memorial Parkway, where she worked as chief of science and resource management from 2003 to 2019, after decades with the National Park Service at various locations. She was the 2013 recipient of the National Park Service Director’s Award for Excellence in Natural Resource Management and was a 2008 honoree of the Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee’s award for significant contributions to grizzly bear recovery.

"In this engrossing narrative, Consolo-Murphy covers the region's history, including local Native Americans and their relationships with bears, on to early outsiders and those who established the park. . . . Readers will gain valuable insights into these remarkable animals in a book suitable for pleasure reading and research."-James Pekoll, Booklist “A masterpiece of well-researched history, colorful lore, pioneering science, and the savvy of personal experience. Sue Consolo-Murphy, uniquely qualified to write this book by virtue of her decades of productive work on behalf of the region’s bears, has given us the authoritative and richly textured tale we’ve long needed. From here on out, anyone hoping to come to terms with Teton bears should start by reading this book.”-Paul Schullery, author of The Bear Doesn’t Know “This book is a delight to read. . . . It is a story of bears and people and how we can live with them.”-Christopher Servheen, retired grizzly bear recovery coordinator for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service “A wonderful look at the black and grizzly bears of Grand Teton National Park. It is a fascinating story of expansion and change, with grizzlies such as famous 399 and her offspring going south to colonize new lands.”-Robert W. Righter, author of Crucible for Conservation: The Struggle for Grand Teton National Park

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments 1. A Bear Beginning2. Where Bears Belong3. Bear Management in the Early Park: 1929–19504. Boom Times and Missing Grizzlies: The 1950s–1970s5. Making the List: The 1980s–1990s6. The Life of a Bear7. Dump Days8. Berries and More9. Bears and Livestock, Part 1: Sheep10. Bears and Livestock, Part 2: Cattle11. Wake-Up Call for a New Century12. Bear Danger13. Guns, Snares, and Bears14. The (Not-So-) Forgotten Parkway15. Science and Teton Bears16. Bears in the ’Hood17. Making a Difference18. Celebrity19. The Unknowable Bears NotesBibliographyIndex