Essay What Does it Mean to Be Wild?: A trip to a bear den with wildlife biologists yields more questions than answers by Emily Arntsen – 8.17.2023 – 20 min. read In the doldrums of late summer, when the Book Cliffs are thirsty and barren, black bears clamber down to Green River, Utah, to feast […]
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