Bear in the Back Seat I Quotes

“The fellows had no previous experience with bears, so they ran off, trying to put as much space as possible between them and the bear. The men and the bear ran into a nearby building at the recycling center where the terrified cub climbed a metal I-beam as high as she could go, trying to find a safe place. None of the workers who’d seen the bear spoke English as their first language. The closest word any of them knew to describe the animal was raccoon. So they ran to their boss shouting, “Raccoon! Raccoon!!”
― Carolyn Jourdan, Bear in the Back Seat I: Adventures of a Wildlife Ranger in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

“A fed bear is a dead bear. Remember when you’re in the Park, it’s their home. We are only visitors.”
― Carolyn Jourdan, Bear in the Back Seat I: Adventures of a Wildlife Ranger in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

“…an area so biologically diverse that it was designated as a world environmental treasure by the United Nations.”
― Carolyn Jourdan, Bear in the Back Seat I: Adventures of a Wildlife Ranger in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

“They aren’t native to the area. These wild pigs are a cross between free-ranging domestic hogs and massive, wary Russian wild boars imported by a wealthy businessman for his private hunting lodge on Hoopers Bald, North Carolina in 1912.”
― Carolyn Jourdan, Bear in the Back Seat I: Adventures of a Wildlife Ranger in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

“It’s a rare type of synchronous firefly that lives in a few places around the world. Scientists from Tennessee used to travel to Asia to study them until they realized we had them right here! Nowadays in June, tens of thousands of people come from all over the world to see the show.”
― Carolyn Jourdan, Bear in the Back Seat I: Adventures of a Wildlife Ranger in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

“The technical term for a gang of skunks is a surfeit.”
― Carolyn Jourdan, Bear in the Back Seat I: Adventures of a Wildlife Ranger in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park