Comments on: A Sad Update

By: joerg

joerg — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:17:34 +0000

i just finished reading “grizzly heart” and wanted to get more information about the whole project. then i stumbled over this article and found my self crying on my couch. cant say what me real felings are, because i think i would get arrested for them. but grief and anger are pretty close to it. i felt so close to all the bears which where discribed so wonderfull by charlie and maureen. btw thanks for that wonderfull book and all your work!!!
i know some time has passed but ireally would like to know how the story when out and what you guys are doing now. is that project still alive? are people able to help there from outside with spending money or doing what ever to help?
if there is a chance let me know. i´m still stunned after reading theese dispicable news, even if there are nor “news” anymore.

i´m not an english native speaker, but i hope my feelings and thinking became clear.

By: Sunny

Sunny — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 07:42:16 +0000

After seeing the photo of Charlie sitting by a stream with Biscuit, I stumbled into cloudline and found myself reading the journals of Kamchatka late into the night and early morning.

They were filled with love and humor when it came to the cubs, tempered with the humility and honesty of their woes with a rugged cabin, horrid weather, travel difficulties and red tape.

I followed their story and that of their bears through the years and into the early morning. I felt like I had watched the bears grow up and looked forward with edge-of-my-seat eagerness to each new year’s worth of chronicles.

2003 was heartbreaking. So much anticipation, potential, and love coming to an almost unbelievably cruel and bitter end. Only having known the bears for a day, the devastation at never seeing Biscuit with her cubs, she who had already shown she would be a wonderful mother from when she was a cub herself, was heartwrenching. I can only imagine Charlie and Maureen’s pain, having known the cubs for so many years.

Thank you for this amazingly personal insight into not just bears, but how close and peaceful and fulfilling that human relationships with these magnificent creatures can be. Your story is one that will resonate with me for life. It goes beyond human-bear relationships. It’s a step towards reconnecting with a more natural relationship with the world and everything in it. Rebuilding the bridges is difficult work, but thank you Charlie and Maureen for showing us how to start.

By: Mike Malheiro

Mike Malheiro — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:19:28 +0000

Ahhh man once again proves why he doesn’t deserve to share earth with the animals. I can only hope we are destroyed before we kill everything first.

By: Kate Malheiro

Kate Malheiro — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:32:24 +0000

This is totally unacceptable behavior by man. I am truly saddened to hear of this!

By: Maria Sutherland

Maria Sutherland — Thu, 21 May 2009 14:01:58 +0000

While on holiday in Fernie, Canada I had the pleasure of reading Grizzly Heart it was in the Condo we were staying in .I could not put the book down and was deeply moved by it.I have been trying to find the follow up books to find out what happend to the bears.I am very glad to have found this website it has all I have been looking for.

By: Penny Normandin

Penny Normandin — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:33:36 +0000

I’m not surprised at what people are capable of. The word Human is a misnomer for people. I hope people can learn to live with animals, but think most can’t be bothered. A lot of misconceptions are still held by the authorities, trickling those beliefs down through the public.