DESERT WILDLIFE CONSULTANTS

After a few days on the Alcan Highway, we made it to Dawson City, Northwest Territories, and met two French Canadians getting ready to set sail down the Yukon River. We asked for a ride, and and hour later started off on ten days heading down the big river. We visited backwoods homesteads where people were raising children, ate black bear stew, played with huskies (winter transportation), and spent a lot of time watching the wilderness and wildlife go by. We camped on sandbars hoping to avoid grizzly bears. Bears always were in the back of our minds, and we saw tracks, but we didn't see any great bears along the river... When we graduated in the fall of 1986, we accepted a pair of research positions out of the University of Georgia doing fieldwork on barrier islands (National Park Service areas) off the coast of Georgia and North Carolina. I was doing wildlife biology (small mammals and birds) and Liz was doing botany -- we thought life would be good... We made the best of a..

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