![]() ![]() Everyone fled for the trees except Michele, who was unable to free herself from her sleeping bag. The small group built a campfire, but the bear returned later that night. Miles away at Trout Lake, Michele and her friends were repeatedly harassed by a different grizzly bear. Guests at the Granite Park Chalet heard their screams. Just after midnight, a grizzly bear knocked Julie Helgeson and her friend out of their sleeping bags. ![]() Both groups slept in the open, spreading their sleeping bags on the ground. Michele hiked with some friends to a good fishing spot at Trout Lake. It was Julie’s weekend off, and she and a companion walked into a small campground near the Granite Park Chalet. They were both young students working summer jobs at park concessions. On August 12, 1967, Julie Helgeson and Michele Koons went separately into the backcountry of Glacier National Park. To find more books that pique our interest, visit the Utne Reader Bookshelf. The following excerpt is from chapter 7, “Night of the Grizzlies” which it gives a great example of just how nature works and how we as humans, respond to it. National Parks Beyond the Nation (University of Oklahoma Press, 2016), edited by Adrian Howkins, Jared Orsi, and Mark Fiege, explains that the idea of national parks is an American invention of historic consequences and tells us much about the multifarious and changing ideas of nature and culture coexisting. ![]()
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