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Doug Peacock
Biography
A Michigan native, Doug Peacock served in Vietnam as a Green Beret medic.
After his service, he worked as a seasonal ranger for the National Park Service in Glacier National Park
and settled near Yellowstone National Park in the “Paradise Valley.”
In 1969 he met and befriended writer Edward Abbey, author of numerous environmental novels, including the iconic novel The Monkey Wrench Gang. The central character of this novel was George Washington Hayduke — and was loosely modeled after Peacock. But Peacock didn’t need Edward Abbey to make him an environmental pioneer. His book, Grizzly Years is a wilderness love story, and launched a successful career as writer and defender of wild places. The author and subject of countless articles (please see the bibliography below), Peacock has been featured in numerous films and documentaries and has garnered much attention for the environmental movement.
He is considered by many people to be the spiritual leader of the wilderness movement in the U.S. Peacock is probably the world’s most articulate and experienced advocate for the grizzly bear. He is the author of Grizzly Years, Walking It Off, and his recent book, The Essential Grizzly. He was just awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in nonfiction for 2007 for his environmental writing!
Books
The Essential Grizzly: The Mingled Fates of Men and Bears, with Andrea Peacock. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, May 2006.
Walking It Off: A Veteran’s Chronicle of War and Wilderness. Spokane, WA: Eastern Washington University Press, September 2005.
Baja! with Terrence Moore. Boston: Bulfinch Press, November 1991.
Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness. New York: Henry Holt and Company, July 1990.
Anthologies
“Counting Sheep,” in Puro Border: Dispatches, Snapshots and Graffiti from La Frontera, edited by Luis Humberto Crosthwaite, John William Byrd and Bobby Byrd. El Paso: Cinco Puntos Press, 2003: 229-235. Also published in Counting Sheep: Twenty Ways of Seeing Desert Bighorn, edited by Gary Paul Nabhan. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, August 1993: 251-259.“Field Report: Yellowstone Bison Slaughter,” in Wild Earth: Wild Ideas for a World Out of Balance, edited by Tom Butler.
Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, March 2002: 272-284
“Why We Need the Yaak Wild,” in The Roadless Yaak: Reflections
and Observations About One of Our Last Great Wild Places,
edited by Rick Bass. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, August 2002: 163-173.
“Closing the Loop,” in Backcountry Pilot: Flying Adventures with Ike Russell, edited by Thomas Bowen. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2002: 165-173.
“My Friend Ed,” in When in Doubt, Go Higher: Mountain Gazette Anthology, edited by M. John Fayhee. Boulder, CO: Mountain Sports Press, April 2002: 321-333.
“Headwaters,” in Where We Live: The Best of the Big Sky Journal. Bozeman, MT: Spring Creek Publishing, 1997: 136-150.
“Trial on the Mountain,” in Echoes From the Summit, edited by Paul Schullery. San Diego: Harcourt Brace & Company, September 1996: 27-32.
“The Wind Rivers,” in Northern Lights: A Selection of New Writing
from the American West, edited by Deborah Clow and Donald Snow.
New York: Vintage Books, November 1994: 372-388.
“Across the Divide, 1990,” in The Great Bear: Contemporary
Writings on the Grizzly, edited by John A. Murray.
Anchorage: Alaska Northwest Books, March 1992: 119-127.
Introductions
“Notes from the Arroyo.” Forward to The Best of Edward Abbey. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, July 2005: ix-xiii.
Forward to The Lobo Outback Funeral Home by Dave Foreman. Boulder, CO: Johnson Books, February 2004: vii-xi.
Forward to Ghost Grizzlies: Does the Great Bear Still Haunt Colorado? by Dave Petersen. New York: Henry Holt, 1995: xiii-xviii.
Preface to Bison: Distant Thunder, by Douglas Gruenau. New York: Takarajima Books, November 1995: 5-10.
Periodicals
“Can the grizzly survive success?” Los Angeles Times (April 3, 2006): B13
“The Grizzly Detective.” Backpacker 33.1 (February 2005): 48.
“How to win a standoff with a grizzly.” Men’s Journal 14.1 (February 2005): 64.
“Blood Brothers: A bear expert's risky research ends in disaster. Should anybody get so close to grizzlies?” Outside 29.1 (January 2004): 18.
“All-You-Can-Eat Wilderness.” Backpacker 32.8 (October 2004): 19.
“Cabin Fever: Find Primal Pleasures in the Wilderness Hideaway of Your Dreams.” Backpacker 32.5 (June 2004): 22.
“After the War.” Mountain Gazette No. 96 (August 2003): 22.
“My Friend Ed.” Mountain Gazette No. 81 (July-August 2001): 34.
“River of No Return Wilderness.” National Geographic Traveler 18.7 (October 2001): 50.
“The Voices of Bones.” Outside 25.2 (February 2000): 63.
“Dirtbag Justice.” Patagonia catalog (Winter 2000): 77.
“Belize, Please… Kayaking, Camping and Playing Robinson Crusoe in the Cays.” Islands 19.2 (April 1999): 120.
“The Newest Place on Earth.” Audubon 101.2 (March-April 1999): 26.
“Land of the Spirit Bear.” Amicus Journal 20.4 (Winter 1999): 18.
“Desert Solitary.” Audubon 100.2 (March-April 1998): 92.
“Making the West Safe for Grizzlies.” Audubon 99.6 (November 1997): 46.
“Yellowstone Bison Slaughter: Field Report.” Wild Earth 7.2 (Summer 1997): 6.
“The Yellowstone Massacre.” Audubon 99.3 (May-June 1997): 40.
“Chasing Abbey.” Outside 22.8 (August 1997): 78.
“The Landscape of Hope.” Patagonia catalog (Winter 1997): 18.
“The Last Wilderness.” Outside 21.8 (August 1996): 39.
“Once There Were Bears: The Rise and Fall of the California Grizzly.” Pacific Discovery 49.3 (Summer 1996): 8.
“Walking Point in White Bear Country.” Pacific Discovery 47.1 (Winter 1994): 20.
“Alpha Males.” Patagonia catalog (Spring-Summer 1992): 120.
“Baja: Creation of a wild and dramatic peninsula.” Alaska Airlines 16.4 (April 1992): 27.
“The Mushroom Chronicles.” Outside 17.6 (June 1991): 118.
“The Trespasser.” Elements premier issue (Autumn-Winter 1991): 12.
“A Practical Guide to Grizzly Country.” Backpacker 18.6 (October 1990): 85.
“Grizzly Years: Excerpt.” Buzzworm 2.4 (July-August 1990): 75.
“Peacock’s Grizzlies.” Patagonia catalog (Fall 1989): 72.
“I Take My Kids Out to Teach Them Real Life (Why Kids Need Wilderness).” Backpacker 17.4 (June 1989): 24.
“Peacock’s War: Journals 1966-1988.” Smart No. 3 (May-June 1989): 87.
“A Lonely Desert Rendevous.” American West 23.4 (July-August 1986): 62.
“Loaded for Bear.” Readers Digest v. 126 (March 1985): 110.
“A Gathering of Grizzlies.” American West 21.6 (November-December 1984): 18.
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