Staying Safe in Bear Country  (or, making sure bears are safe from you)

Know the Difference — from Bear Smart Society, a primer on the difference between black bears and grizzlies

How to use bear spray (video) — from Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks

About bear resistant products — from the Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee (they certify products)

Camping in bear country — from Parks Canada

Securing Food, Garbage, and Gear — from Bear Smart

Storing food in bear country — from the National Parks Service

Recommended distances between your food, campsite, and cooking area — from Gallatin National Forest

Bearwise — an organization that helps people live alongside black bears, great information for your home, in the outdoors, bear spray basics, and much more.

Other Books You Might Like

About Bears

Bears Without Fear by Kevin Van Tighem

Black Bears: A Natural History by Dave Taylor

Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future by Gloria Dickie

Bear Attacks: Their Causes And Avoidance, 3rd edition by Stephen Herrero

Down From The Mountain: The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear by Bryce Andrews

One of Us: A Biologist’s Walk among Bears by Barrie K. Gilbert

Animals and the wildERNESS

Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada by Michelle Good

Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell about Fear by Erica Berry

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong

Being a Beast: Adventures Across the Species Divide by Charles Foster

Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet by Ben Goldfarb

Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans De Waal

The Animal Mind: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Animal Cognition, 2nd ed. by Kristin Andrews

Writing True Crime

A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder by Mark O’Connell 

Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in an Era of Reckoning by Sarah Weinman 

The Devil’s Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea

Beowulf

“Grendel and His Mother,” in The Source of Self-Regard by Toni Morrison

“Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics,” a 1936 lecture given by J.R.R. Tolkien 

Beowulf: A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley

Beowulf: A New Verse Translation Bilingual Edition by Seamus Heaney 

On Cancer and FEAR

The Undying by Anne Boyer

Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag

Nerve: A Personal Journey through the Science of Fear by Eva Holland 

The Science of Fear: Why We Fear the Things We Shouldn’t—and Put Ourselves in Greater Danger by Daniel Gardner 

I made this page for readers of How to Survive a Bear Attack. I’ll keep the list updated. Feel free to send suggestions using this contact form.