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Lauren Tarshis I Survived the Attack of the Grizzlies 1967

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Lauren Tarshis I Survived the Attack of the Grizzlies 1967

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In Lauren Tarshis, "I Survived the Attack of the Grizzlies, 1967", Mel, Kevin, and Pops all go to Glacier National park and meet up with Aunt Cassie along the way. The night before Aunt Cassie came in, Mel came face to face with a bear, but that wasn't the first time she would encounter a bear. They meet a guy named Steve, who teaches them that the reason the bears are interacting with people was because there was trash everywhere. Later, Mel gets chased by a bear and comes close to death. After that moment, they made sure no more trash made it in that park.

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The historical context of this book took place in 1967. During that time everyone was leaving trash around the national park. That eventually led to bears being around people. Those bears where attacking people and someone was killed. After the attacks, a leave no trace rule was made to keep people and animals safe.

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This book really made me think about how littering doesn't only affect the ecosystem, but it also can affect you. Just think about if nobody littered, then everyone would be safe and not even have to worry about bears. It also made me think about the bear. They don't need to be eating trash. Things like plastic and aluminum could really hurt them. All in all littering can affect anyone.

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This picture shows bears are attracted to trash. Humans that leave trash in the open or litter, could cause bears to come around, and the bears could harm that person. Also, if we do not do something about this bad things will happen.

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This is an example of the moment when Mel gets chased and the bear is outside their cabin. The bear broke a window and did lots of damage because it wanted food from Mel.

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This picture helps show the theme because litter was being left in Glacier National Park which caused a bear attack. Now there are rules against litter in all parks to help prevent bear, and other animals, to be harmed, or harm humans.

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"We should have known to stay away. My dad shouldn't have died that day. And those bears shouldn't have died, either"(Tarshis 63).

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Since the opening of Glacier National Park in 1910, there were no reported fatal bear attacks until one summer night in 1967, when two grizzlies, in two remote areas of the Park attacked campers and killed two young women. The dramatic and tragic story of that night, and how it eventually influenced the fate of the grizzly bear in the continental United States, is the subject of a the historical documentary, Glacier Park's Night of the Grizzlies.

The story began on the afternoon of August 12, 1967, when seven young park employees set off on long hikes for overnight camping. That night, Julie Helgeson, at a campsite near Granite Park Chalet, was attacked and killed by a grizzly; Roy Ducat was severely mauled. That same night Michele Koons was also killed by a grizzly while camping at Trout Lake; Paul Dunn and three other campers escaped by climbing trees. For everyone involved, it was an unforgettable night of crisis, intense fear, bravery and, ultimately, grief. But it was also a night that marked a watershed moment for bear management, a night that many would later say, "changed everything."

In the documentary, Ducat and Dunn share gripping on-camera interviews, along with other witnesses, family members, journalists, biologists, and many others. With the cooperation of Glacier National Park, co-producers Gus Chambers and Paul Zalis compiled dozens of hours of interview footage, archival material, photographs and still-camera re-creations. The film, directed by three-time Regional Emmy Award winning Chambers, provides a 360-degree account of the events of that summer in Glacier, framed by the overriding story of the grizzly bear and its survival in the 21st Century.

For co-producer Chambers, it's a 43 year old story with implications that are urgent today. "The problem started with people feeding bears and leaving garbage out," he said. "That's still an issue, and if people don't learn from this historic event, more people and more bears will die."

"The events that night are at the dramatic center of the film," said Zalis, who wrote the script. "We were challenged not just to tell the human stories - a near mythic tale of a terrifying night - but just as importantly, to tell a bear story that furthers understanding of the species and hope for its continued survival, "said Zalis.

"Bears and humans co-evolved," Doug Chadwick, author of True Griz, comments in the film. "The challenge," Chadwick says, "is as grizzlies are learning to adapt to us, we have to learn about grizzlies. "The night of the grizzlies was the night that we learned the hard way...how little we knew about grizzlies."

Grizzly bears are at the pinnacle of the animal world, the most powerful omnivores on the continent, but paradoxically in post-World War II America, were too often viewed as relatively safe, tourist spectacles. The film relates what happened in Glacier National Park in the summer of 1967 as almost inevitable, as was the immediately ensuing years when grizzlies were hunted to near extinction.

Glacier Park's Night of the Grizzlies not only de-constructs what happened that night, but also seeks an understanding of what a grizzly bear actually is, relating a broad historical perspective about bears, bear stories, the idea of wilderness in the American psyche, and ultimately, the sweeping changes in wildlife management culminating with the landmark Endangered Species Act.

For grizzly bears it is a success story, though still a tentative one as human development expands and wildlife managers struggle to protect precious habitat and preserve our natural heritage.

Veteran film and television actor - and Missoula native - J.K. Simmons ("Law and Order," "Spiderman," "Juno," "Up in the Air") narrates the documentary.