bears

The full three volumes of a comprehensive work on the relationship between humans and bears.

Looking at Leanne Allison and Jeremy Mendes’s interactive documentary Bear 71 (2012), Katey Castellano shows how the environmental humanities can be employed to rearticulate scientific data as innovative multispecies stories.

Aimee L. Schmidt and Douglas A. Clark examine the response of local people and agencies to a polar bear-inflicted human injury in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, showing how human-bear conflict is often widely publicized and controversial, and how it shapes public expectations around bear management.

In this special “rant issue,” Rhubarb discusses the idea of industrial collapse, Phil Knight tells of a lone hiker killed by grizzlies, and Jeff Juel reports on planned drilling in the Hall Creek area of the Badger-Two Medicine, home to the grizzly bear, the grey wolf, bald eagle, and other endangered species.

This film documents the effect of chemical and pesticide residuals on the Inuit community of Greenland, where they are carried by oceans and snow. It also examines the situations of those around the globe who must use these pesticides to survive.

Wild Earth 12, no. 3, features essays on a cultural transformation towards sustainability, commerce and wilderness, the role of literary intellectuals in conservation, and the preservation of wildlands in Mexico.

In this issue of Earth First! Journal Christopher Genovali of the Raincoast Conservation Society sheds light on the disturbing absence of grizzly bears in British Columbia, Erica Sweetwater discusses wolf reintroduction in the Adirondacks, and Errol Schweizer interviews Chellis Glendinning on environmentalism and sovereignty.