Author Description

Robert Nevens, Sr. presents his real-life captivating stories exploring Yellowstone backcountry and photographing Grizzly Bears in the Wild. Travel alongside of Robert and his camera lens, from the very beginning to his ongoing 14 years of passion to hike, locate and view grizzlies in Yellowstone and bordering forests. Yellowstone grizzly bears are a complex iconic national species, encircled by a complex and precarious future. Nevens explains in depth the current natural, human, and political threats firmly aligned against a tenuous grizzly bear population. The author's current research and insight of state grizzly bear wildlife management policies, management capture bear mortality, and statistics reveal an alarming mortality trend for GYE grizzly bears and wolves. The author reveals the mysterious, and little to unknown September 30, 2019, disturbing event of the live capture and agonal death of an ESA protected grizzly bear in an unmarked state bear trap. The Trapping Death and the Cause of Death are both astonishing "First Ever” events that had never happened before in recorded grizzly bear history. Learn and see what took place in part that night, and thereafter, several hundred feet from the author’s cabin door. From the sighting of his first grizzly bear, to the harrowing experiences of facing a grizzly bear at arm's length and a charging grizzly, his accounts with real time photos, will leave the reader on edge. Robert’s solo ventures are memorable, often challenged, but always rewarding. His experiences, close calls, mishaps, humor, aiding other hikers, along with the risks and rewards of hiking in grizzly bear country; are all interwoven into an eye opening, one-of-a-kind book about Yellowstone grizzlies.