Acknowledgements & References

Black Bear Gaze

This project would not have been possible without the generous contributions from those who shared their stories and caribou expertise. We’d like to thank everyone who took the time to talk with us, who shared their insights, and gave us permission to use their interviews on the map. This project has truly been a community effort.

  • Rich Flinn
  • Debbie Ackley
  • Bob Case
  • Larry Jeffries
  • Bryce Comer
  • Rich Landers
  • Mary Harding
  • Wayne Wakkinen
  • Greg Johnson
  • Gregg Servheen
  • Dave Boswell
  • Brad Smith
  • Craig Anderson
  • Ward Tollbom
  • Jon Nylund
  • Sandy Lange
  • Ray Kresek
  • Ernie Johnson & Whitney Palmer

We’d like to extend our gratitude for the encouragement, professional support, and critical guidance–all of it depthless and ongoing–from Jennifer Ladino and Scott Slovic of the University of Idaho’s Department of English. We are also grateful to the Confluence Lab (Jennifer Ladino, Erin James, and Teresa Cohn) for buying us the game cameras to document what isn’t there.

Our hearts go out to our unoffical yet integral research partner, Michael Decker, for keeping us on track and inspired in the wild Selkirks.

We are grateful to the expert staff of the Center for Digital Inquiry and Learning (CDIL)—Kevin Dobbins, Kit Stokes, Olivia Wikle, and Evan Williamson—for helping us achieve our digital dreams.

Special and spatial thanks to our Fall 2021 nonfiction workshop (Scott Slovic, Michael “Frosty Diamonds” Bishop, Big Deck) for love, community, and revision in the time of COVID-19.

We are also grateful to Jack’s old Jeep, War Pig, the Rocinante of this mad quest, for getting us safely into and out of the mountains without issue.

Finally, to the Gray Ghost who is now with Animal Master at Caribou House.

Conservation Northwest: https://www.conservationnw.org/our-work/wildlife/mountain-caribou/

Mountain Caribou Initiative: https://www.facebook.com/mountaincaribou/

Idaho Governor’s Office of Species Conservation: https://species.idaho.gov/wildlife-species/woodland-caribou/

Idaho Fish and Wildlife: https://www.fws.gov/idaho/articles.cfm?id=149489582

Selkirk Conservation Alliance: https://scawild.org/south-selkirk-mountain-caribou/

Restoring the Kootenai: https://www.restoringthekootenai.org/OtherFWProjects/Caribou/

Idaho Conservation League: https://www.idahoconservation.org/blog/keep-hope-alive-for-caribou/