Synopses & Reviews
Walking the Big Wild is the story of Karsten Heuer's extraordinary 18-month journey of hiking, skiing, and paddling across 2,100 miles of mountains, forests, and rivers from Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming to the Canadian Yukon. Accompanied by occasional human companions and a remarkable border collie named Webster, Heuer encountered immense challenges: storms, avalanches, floods, and grizzlies. At the end of the journey, Heuer proved that there is nearly continuous wilderness that can support wildlife along the length of the Rockies and is salvagable if the right decisions are made now.
Review
"[Heuer] is an engaging guide to both the idea and the terrain. When he gets up north into pristine wilderness...the book gets downright thrilling. And for wildlife, Heuer has taken a step a hike, if you will in the right direction." National Geographic Adventure
Synopsis
* Karsten Heuer walks with North American mammals from Yellowstone to the Yukon (Y2Y) to document the animals that use this natural corridor and learn its importance
* Preserving the Y2Y corridor has become one of the most critical environmental issues of our day
* Winner of the Banff Book Award for Mountain Literature
* Grants will fund a multi-city author tour for lectures and presentations related to the Y2Y initiative
Walking the Big Wild is the story of Karsten Heuer's extraordinary 18-month journey of hiking, sking, and paddling across 2100 miles of mountains, forests, and rivers from Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming to the Canadian Yukon. Accompanied by occasional human companions and a remarkable border collie named Webster, Heuer encountered immense challenges: storms, avalanches, floods, and grizzlies. At the end of the journey, Heuer proved that there is nearly continuous wilderness that can support wildlife along the length of the Rockies-and is salvageable if the right decisions are made now.
Synopsis
When a nature biologist wants to learn whether North American mammals are, as he suspects, genetically wired to roam over hundreds of miles of wilderness and civilization, there's only one thing he can do to prove it follow them.
That's what Karsten Heuer did on foot for more than 2,000 miles from Yellowstone National Park to the Yukon. His adventure is amazing; what he discovered is enlightening.
Synopsis
Walk wild Route Y2Y with wolves, bears, the author, his dog, and other creatures on one of North America's last migratory corridors.
About the Author
Karsten Heuer has worked as a wildlife biologist and park warden in Banff National Park in the Rockies, in Inuvik in Canada's far north, and in the Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa. With his wife Leanne Allison, he recently completed the "Being Caribou" project, a 1,000-mile journey traveling on foot with the migrating Porcupine Caribou herd in northern Canada and the U.S. Heuer was awarded the 2003 Wilburforce Foundation Conservation Leadership Award.