The community is invited and encouraged to attend. at Cumberland Gap National Historical Park is scheduled for April 6 and is considered the “One Stop Bear Fact Shopping” event that will include hands-on activities, exhibits and renowned speakers. Would you like to hear Carey Jones read a story from Bear in the Back Seat?Ĭlick on the link below to listen to The Great Skunk Rodeo.Photo by Cumberland Gap National Historical Parkīack the B.E.A.R.S. It takes place in the same Smoky Mountain world as Jourdan’s other national bestsellers Heart in the Right Place, Medicine Men, and Out on a Limb.
For over thirty years, Kim DeLozier acted as a referee in the wild, trying to protect millions of park visitors from one of the densest populations of wild black bears in America - and the bears from tourists who get too close. You’ll love seeing Kim and a fellow ranger tested as they bravely take on the task of relocating 77 live skunks by sedating them with darts from homemade blowguns, especially when the pickup truck load of stinkers wakes up while still in transit.Īn hilarious, heartwarming, and heartbreaking memoir by the chief wildlife ranger in the #1 most popular family vacation destination in the USA, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. In Kim DeLozier’s world, when sedated wild black bears wake up unexpectedly in the back seat of a helicopter in mid-flight, or in his car as he’s driving down the highway, or in his office while he’s talking on the phone, it’s just another day in the park.
Named A Top 10 Must-Read Books That Could Save Our National Parks and the Environment along with John Muir, Henry David Thoreau, Lewis & Clark, Bill Bryson, and Ken Burns.īear in the Back Seat I is the first volume in a series of true stories from “n extraordinary landscape populated with befuddled bears, hormonally-crazed elk, homicidal wild boars, hopelessly timid wolves, and nine million tourists, some of whom are clueless.” Named A Top 50 Must Read for the 100th Anniversary of the National Park Service. #9 Wall Street Journal best seller (December 2013)
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