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  • The people who love bears too much (Long but interesting)

    09/06/2009 3:35:43 PM PDT · by jazusamo · 24 replies · 1,588+ views
    Alaska Dispatch ^ | September 6, 2009 | Craig Medred
    Charlie Vandergaw and a conditioned grizzly at his Yentna River cabin. (Photo: Alaska Department of Fish & Game) No filmmakers ever showed up to glorify bear worshipper Donna Munson in the years before her horrible, bloody August death. Lacking the Hollywood connections of her Alaska counterparts -- Charlie Vandergaw and Timothy Treadwell -- she was easily dismissed by many as just some crazy Colorado woman who fed and mothered bears for at least a decade until one killed and ate her. "At 74," the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel reported last month, "Donna Munson showed signs of dementia, suffered from...
  • Wild in Alaska: Charlie Vandergaw Shares Home With Grizzlies

    09/02/2009 10:18:29 AM PDT · by jazusamo · 63 replies · 2,586+ views
    ABC News ^ | September 1, 2009 | Kimberly Launier & Jay Schadler
    Alaska is a land of contrasts. Thirty minutes in a bush plane will transport a visitor to another world, somewhere over the rainbow-trout streams. Glaciers of turquoise ice float next to forests in this wilderness. Bear country, as nature intended -- and then altered by man. It is a fitting place for eccentric bear enthusiast Charlie Vandergaw to play by his own rules. "That's what I like about Alaska, because I can live like I want to live. Fish or hunt, and you don't have to answer to anyone out here. You're not controlled by other people," Vandergaw said. But...